Sucker MDs

September 28, 2009 | Filed Under Consider this, Do your research!, Health, Moment of Truth, Pay attention | 3 Comments 

I just finished watching Healing Cancer and it relit the torch of my passion for natural living and healing.  My life experiences have granted me a fundamental distrust for at least two things: the medical establishment and the government.

“You can fool some of the people all the time,
and those are the ones you want to concentrate on.”
- George W. Bush

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We Think Radio: for the love of living

July 29, 2009 | Filed Under Health, Listen | Leave a Comment 

DATE: July 29, 2009
TIME: 8pm/9pm CST/EST
WHERE: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/TheThinkMovement
CALL-IN #: (347) 237-5362

TONIGHT’S TOPIC:  How long do you really want to live?  Tune in and join the discussion on why so many people maintain lifestyle habits they know aren’t beneficial.  Is it that they truly don’t want to live a long life?  Or maybe it’s something they think is unattainable because of their family’s history.

Go ahead…laugh

February 25, 2009 | Filed Under Great ideas, Health | Leave a Comment 

Interesting concept. I’d definitely like to try Laughter Yoga. I know that I’m certainly prone to the contagion of laughter. Anyone else in San Antonio curious?

See the change: Pollution Tourism

July 21, 2008 | Filed Under Health, Plain cool | Leave a Comment 

At first glance, it seems like an odd idea. Pollution tourism? But think about it…with the green movement in full effect, pollution tourism not only makes a lot of sense; it’s quite a brilliant idea. Come see some of the wrongs created by humans and their austere customs…or former austere customs if all goes right with the trip to some environmentally hazardous place where tourists learn about the current problem of the place, what went wrong, and perhaps how to avoid the problem from happening elsewhere. Take a visit to the Berkeley Pit in Butte, Montana to see one of the largest highly toxic Superfund sites or to the Eastern Garbage Patch in the Pacific Ocean to see a whirlpool of plastic trash. Take a look at Eric Smillie’s “Beautiful Messes: A Travel Guide to Man-made Disasters“.

Environmental NGO Blacksmith Institute works to decrease human health risks from environmental pollution in some of the developing world’s most highly polluted locations.  Their site lists the top ten polluted cities in the world and tons of information for pollution tourists.

A little bit of random

July 21, 2008 | Filed Under Do your research!, Health, Pay attention, Random | Leave a Comment 

• The Dark Knight broke box office records this past weekend…rather deservingly. Fantastic. Heath Ledger was awesome. Does the film’s genre exclude him from being able to get an Oscar?
• We take for granted the emotional contributions and instability of great actors.
• We’re not saving the Earth!! We’re saving our selves! If we continue to decimate the planet, we won’t be able to live here. We need the delicate balance this planet provides to support our lives. If we weren’t here, life on Earth would flourish. Get it right. Semantics are everything.
• Finally took a gander at the Fast Food Nation movie. The book is definitely better, but the movie has a lot to offer for those with time constraints or for those looking for a supplement to the book. Keep this in mind while watching the movie: it’s a fictional story based off true information. With that, what’s in your meat? Educate yourself on food-related issues; they affect you whether or not you choose to know.
• Heat waves are no good.

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Safe water shortage…solution

July 18, 2008 | Filed Under Give time/money, Great ideas, Health, Plain cool | 3 Comments 

The UN established Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) as part of the Millennium Declaration adopted in 189 nations and signed by 147 state and government heads in 2000. Those eight goals are as follows:

• Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
• Goal 2: Achieve universal primary education
• Goal 3: Promote gender equality and empower women
• Goal 4: Reduce child mortality
• Goal 5: Improve maternal health
• Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
• Goal 7: Ensure environmental sustainability
• Goal 8: Develop a Global Partnership for Development

One company that understands the roles of corporate social responsibility and social enterprise is working to address a few of those MDGs. The name is Vestergaard Frandsen and they offer several innovative life-saving and quality-of-life-enhancing products that would make any social entrepreneur or human rights activist proud.

The product I fancy most at the moment is the LifeStraw, available for individual or family use. LifeStraw Personal filters a minimum of 700 liters, while the LifeStraw Family filters a minimum of 15,000 liters of water. It would take 40 faucet-mount Brita filters to treat the amount of water just one LifeStraw Family can. And how much is it? $15, half of the cost of one Brita filter. Awesome.

At any given moment, about half of the world’s poor are suffering from waterborne disease, of which over 6,000 – mainly children – die each day by consuming unsafe drinking water.

Today, more than one billion people of the world’s population are without access to safe drinking water, causing lack of safe water supply to rob women and young girls of dignity, literacy and time.

Safe water interventions have vast potential to transform the lives of millions of people. Water filtration tools not only provide safe drinking water but also have a positive health impact on the most vulnerable populations, including young children, pregnant women and those with debilitated immune systems.

Go here if you’d like to help end the safe water shortage by donating a LifeStraw Family. Read more about the LifeStraw here. Discover other portable water systems here.
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Did you know?: The Avian Flu

June 9, 2008 | Filed Under Do your research!, Health | Leave a Comment 

Human-to-human contact discovered in November of 2007.  Two of the three that caught it from an infected human died, and none had any known direct contact with sick/dead poultry. 

Check out PandemicFlu.gov/AvianFlu.gov for US government information.  Flu Wiki and Nature also have some valuable info.

Great words…

January 30, 2008 | Filed Under Health, Moment of Truth, Pay attention, Rewritable words | 1 Comment 

All I need…

November 28, 2007 | Filed Under Health, Moment of Truth, Pay attention | 2 Comments 

Two cheers for the truth! Love and fear. Everything is a derivative or aberration of one of the two. It’s insane how we–as a collective–don’t know, understand or recognize this truth. The fear and hate perpetuated in our society is the result of the absence of love or what we understand as love. I dislike/fear you because you don’t show me love and in your inability/masked unwillingness to do so you, in response, dislike/fear me because the energy I’m emitting isn’t one of love, but fear. It’s a cycle.

Deal with your stuff, that emotional toxicity that reeks from your being, doing, and saying. Stop projecting and exteriorizing. Release others from the shackles of your own insecurities. Be happy. Make the choice and don’t give your power away. We give our power away by reacting, by getting angry. It’s easy to pull a puppet’s strings unless the puppet ceases to be a puppet by not submitting to the movements of puppeteer’s desires…and how willfully we submit. Maintain.

Cheers.

“Healing fails to occur because it is much easier to injure another than to heal oneself.”
- Vernon Howard

“Because these individuals themselves are not spiritually pure and clean and cannot rise up high to feel high. So their mentality is to push and artifically repress good people so they feel great. They’re not actually doing anything to spiritually progress and mature, but they are doing a lot to hold you down and that’s how they get their feeling of greatness. The petty tyrant in your neighborhood does the same thing. The bully in school does the same thing.”
- Michael Tsarion, 2012: The Future of Mankind

The Path of Wisdom

November 26, 2007 | Filed Under Consider this, Health, Inspiring, Learn something, Rewritable words | Leave a Comment 

I started reading this book a while back called Chance and Choice and found it thoroughly fascinating.  The good news is it’s online for free.  Print it out, read it, and open your world.

1. Know your body.
2. Create your body energy.
3. Create your meaning in life.
4. Participate in a global network of friends where your meaning can be fulfilled in history.

I dig it.  It’s a challenging read but well worth the effort.  Truth…the highest good.

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