How “humane” is this elephant?
Preserving Tomatoes, the Amish Way
Nice to know for gardeners and those who like to buy lots when the price is low.
Paying Attention
How many ways do we have of saying this?
Stay in present time.
Concentrate.
Ignore distractions.
Pay attention.
Stop dwelling on the past.
Focus.
Don’t get pulled off purpose.
Stay the path.
Discipline yourself.
And how many mental techniques and administrative tools have we developed to helps us remember and do the above?
And why is all the above it necessary?
Quite simply it is because your attention is pulled out of present time and into the past by losses and moments of pain and unconsciousness.
For instance, have you ever had a disagreement or argument with a person and walked away without resolving it, continuing to stew on it?
Ever had someone say something unkind or unpleasant to you and thought about it on and off for days?
Let’s look at how this plays out in real life. Let’s say arbitrarily that you have 1000 units of attention you can apply to thinking or any other task you are doing, like driving your car.
Let’s assume that when you have an argument, disagreement or loss you lose just one attention unit from your potential maximum that you have to focus on things. Just one in a thousand. Not a lot. Just .1 of a percent.
After you look over your past life you might be forgiven for wondering how you can still function at all, considering you’ve most likely had more than 1,000 times in your life when you have hit your arm, bumped your shin, taken the skin off your knee, been invalidated by another in school, jilted romantically, not gotten the exam result, job or promotion you expected, been rebuffed by a partner… …the list of ways you can experience loss is almost endless!
In fact, one researcher estimated that the average person has only 30% of their attention units still in present time. That 70% of the average person’s attention units were encysted or trapped in past losses.
That’s a pretty sobering thought, when you consider the average person drives around with only 30% of their available attention units available to them. On the same roads as you and me!
Sort of goes some way to explaining some of the things you see when out and about. That and a lack or personal ethics. But that’s another story for another day.
You may have even seen somebody do something pretty wild and wondered to yourself, or even out loud, “What in heaven’s name does he think he’s doing? Where IS he?” Meaning he is not here, accurately observing his environment as it is in present time.
Truth is, he actually IS someWHEN else as well as someWHERE else. Too many of his attention units are not here in present time, where he is now. They are stuck back in time and at a place where he experienced a loss.
This all seems pretty grim until you learn there is a way you can recover these attention units from the past and place them at your disposal in present time.
In a simple exercise, done at home, in your own time and at your own pace that takes just 15 minutes a day. From a book that costs less than $50 including postage.
Contact me if you would like to naturally and comfortably have more attention units in present time.
Simon lets Max Fox sing for him from audience and scores Golden Buzzer
Great song, great voice and a bit of courage land a great result!
Incredible Slipcasting Ideas & Crafts
Some creative ideas for you or the next school holidays…
From Twigs To Family
Turning a Simple Egg Into a Masterpiece – The Art of Pêssanka Eggs.
Unvaxxed Spreading Truth
NEW: Bill Gates blames anti-vaxxers for killing hordes of people outside the US.
“Vaccine skepticism in the US kills more children outside the US because it transfers that skepticism.”
He claims:
• 4 out of every 1,000 kids in the U.S. die when they get measles
• But that number skyrockets to 200 per 1,000 in “the countries we work in”
Whole Plant Powders vs Extracts
I had a discussion with a supplier on the subject of powders vs extracts and while I do respect the role of extracts in providing large quantities of a given nutrient that is often more advantageous in remediation of acute conditions, there is another side to the story in general purpose nutrition that I thought you may care to read.
G’day Annie,
Thank you for the lovely acknowledgement!
In my top products I mix over 200 ingredients of the over 400 I stock.
That means in a 6.45 kg batch for a great many of those ingredients I use 10 grams or less.
To use a 10:1 extract means for comparison of the specific nutrient in that extract I need to use only 1 gram in a 6.45 kilo mix.
A 6.45 kilo mix yields 16 x 400 gram tubs, each of 40 serves.
That is 640 individual 10 gram serves per batch.
So there is a strong chance that, despite my best mixing efforts, most individual serves would contain zero of the extract.
The other point I take into consideration is that we presently know so little about our primary food sources that if we use an extract rather than the raw plant we are most likely missing out on a great many nutrients we as yet know nothing about. For instance do you know there are over 40,000 phytochemicals in foods? Of which we know something about 10,00 of them! So just there that means there is more we do not know than there is that we do know!
Then there is the synergistic effect of nutrient combinations. For instance antioxidants taken in combination have a multiplicative beneficial effect on the body.
And lastly, there is the extraction process itself. That may leave chemical residues in the extract.
Hope that helps.
HHS investigating EVERY hidden Big Pharma incentive to doctors to push vaccines and ELIMINATING THEM
“We’re scanning every corner of the health care system for hidden incentives that corrupt medical judgment. What we’re finding is alarming. Doctors are being paid to vaccinate, not to evaluate. They’re pressured to follow the money, not the science.
We’ve recently uncovered that more than 36,000 doctors had their Medicare reimbursements altered based upon childhood vaccination rates. That’s not medicine. That’s coercion. It’s immoral. It has no place in a constitutional democracy or in a system that claims to protect children.
Medical decisions should be made based upon one thing and one thing only. The well being of the patient. Never on a financial bonus or a government mandate. Patients deserve honest, uncorrupted advice from their doctors. Doctors deserve the freedom to use their training and to follow the science and speak the truth without fear of punishment.
Doctors should be guided by medical judgment and their Hippocratic oath, not by financial incentives or government mandates. That’s what this policy change is about. And it’s just the beginning.“