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Crystal Healing
New squidoo lens about crystal healing and the chakra system http://www.squidoo.com/crystalartsandhealth
Using Crystals and Yoga Meditation to Detox Stress http://chakrayoga.suite101.com/article.cfm/using-crystals-and-yoga-meditation-to-heal-and-detox-stress
Happy Mabon!
Summer Solstice to Mabon http://www.brighthub.com/society/religion-spirituality/articles/78877.aspx
Samhain: Honouring the Ancestors http://www.brighthub.com/society/religion-spirituality/articles/79124.aspx
Yule: Celtic Festival of Rebirth and Light http://www.brighthub.com/society/religion-spirituality/articles/79323.aspx
Lunar Crystals
The moon represents emotion and powerful instincts, patterns, ancestral and karmic inheritances. For all moon signs it is recommended to meditate with a bloodstone at the full moon to uncover hidden unfulfilled desires that are controlling your life.
It is possible to reprogram patterns of behavior and facilitate healthy sources of nurturing.
Moon in Capricorn
Snow Quartz – Supports and encourages letting go of burdens and emotional baggage. Links to inner wisdom. Gives insight to areas of over compensation due to feelings of inadequacy.
Positive qualities – Diligent, responsible person who does what is right, garnet helps foster these traits, solid and dependable. Quests towards the spiritual.
Herbalism
http://herbalmedicine.suite101.com/article.cfm/herbal-remedies-for-frostbite-and-poor-circulation
Arnica (Arnica Montana)
Been used for centuries for oedema (fluid retention) and swelling, bruises, cuts, arthritis, sore muscles and joints, sore throats, swollen insect bites, and phlebitis. Has been approved by the European Commission for fever and colds, inflammation of the skin, cough/bronchitis, inflammation of the mouth and Pharynx, Rheumatism, common cold, blunt injuries and to prevent infection. Caution: Do not take internally or put on open wounds.
Yoga
http://hatha-yoga.suite101.com/article.cfm/yoga-practice-routine-for-office-workers Shavasana (corpse pose)
- Pose of relaxation.
- Benefits of this pose is that it develops the awareness of the body.
- Useful in management of blood pressure, peptic ulcer, anxiety, cancer, psychosomatic diseases and neuroses.
- Revitalizes entire system.
- Lie flat on the back. Separate feet slightly, place hands by the side of the body with palms facing upwards. Legs back and head should be in alignment.
- Relax whole body, keep eyes and mouth closed. Breathe naturally through the nose.
- Feel the body becoming looser and lighter with each exhalation. Keep awareness on the breath and physical body.
John Keats
http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/famous/keats/john.html
Ode to a Nightingale
John Keats
My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains
My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk,Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains
One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk:
'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot,
But being too happy in thy happiness,--
That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees,
In some melodious plot
Of beechen green, and shadows numberless,
Singest of summer in full-throated ease.
O for a draught of vintage, that hath been
Cooled a long age in the deep-delved earth,Tasting of Flora and the country green,
Dance, and Provencal song, and sun-burnt mirth!
O for a beaker full of the warm South,
Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene,
With beaded bubbles winking at the brim,
And purple-stained mouth;
That I might drink, and leave the world unseen,
And with thee fade away into the forest dim:
Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget
What thou among the leaves hast never known,
The weariness, the fever, and the fret
Here, where men sit and hear each other groan;
Where palsy shakes a few, sad, last gray hairs,
Where youth grows pale, and spectre-thin, and dies;
Where but to think is to be full of sorrow
And leaden-eyed despairs;
Where beauty cannot keep her lustrous eyes,
Or new love pine at them beyond tomorrow.
Away! away! for I will fly to thee,
Not charioted by Bacchus and his pards,But on the viewless wings of Poesy,
Though the dull brain perplexes and retards:
Already with thee! tender is the night,
And haply the Queen-Moon is on her throne,
Clustered around by all her starry fays;
But here there is no light,
Save what from heaven is with the breezes blown
Through verdurous glooms and winding mossy ways.
I cannot see what flowers are at my feet,
Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs,But, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet
Wherewith the seasonable month endows
The grass, the thicket, and the fruit-tree wild;
White hawthorn, and the pastoral eglantine;
Fast-fading violets covered up in leaves;
And mid-May's eldest child,
The coming musk-rose, full of dewy wine,
The murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves.
Darkling I listen; and for many a time
I have been half in love with easeful Death,Called him soft names in many a mused rhyme,
To take into the air my quiet breath;
Now more than ever seems it rich to die,
To cease upon the midnight with no pain,
While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad
In such an ecstasy!
Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain--
To thy high requiem become a sod
Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird!
No hungry generations tread thee down;The voice I hear this passing night was heard
In ancient days by emperor and clown:
Perhaps the self-same song that found a path
Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home,
She stood in tears amid the alien corn;
The same that oft-times hath
Charmed magic casements, opening on the foam
Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn.
Forlorn! the very word is like a bell
To toll me back from thee to my sole self!Adieu! the fancy cannot cheat so well
As she is famed to do, deceiving elf.
Adieu! adieu! thy plaintive anthem fades
Past the near meadows, over the still stream,
Up the hill-side; and now 'tis buried deep
In the next valley-glades:
Was it a vision, or a waking dream?
Fled is that music:--do I wake or sleep?
Horizon’s Place And Time Meet by Cara E. Moore Chapbook
Poem from this collection http://www.gaias-garden.co.uk/library/ACheerfulCanvas.html Amazon link
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Horizons-Place-Time-Meet-Collection/dp/0955539404/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1272790461&sr=8-1-catcorr For Ebook download Direct Link: http://store.payloadz.com/go/?id=25453
Music
Vocal training
http://www.mostentertaining.com/tutors/cara/ Cara E. Moore http://www.reverbnation.com/controller/audio_player/detachable_player/artist_487603?autoPlay=true
Patsy Cline
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patsy_Clinehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PA7rxBWBxsY&feature=fvw
You Belong To Me
Written by Pee Wee King, Chilton Price and Redd Stewart
(As recorded by Jim Reeves, 6/25/57) See the pyramids along the Nile
Watch the sunrise on a tropic isleJust remember darlin' all the while
You belong to me
See the market place in Old Algiers
Send me photographs and souvenirsJust remember when a dream appears
You belong to me
I'll be so alone without you
Maybe you'll be lonesome too, and blueFly the ocean in a silver plane
See the jungle when it's wet with rain
Just remember 'til you're home again
You belong to me
Fly the ocean in a silver plane
See the jungle when it's wet with rain
Just remember 'til you're home again
You belong to me
(Repeat last verse)
are you getting better now? Pei Pa Koa (www.geocities.jp/ninjiom_hong_kong/index_e.htm ) is one of the few Chinese natural cough remedies that have been scientifically studied. it's something like herb plus honey, and it's sweet, thick and black in color. If you have a cough, look for it! It used to be one of my favourite natural cough remedies.
ReplyDeleteif your cough persists, seek professional help such as traditional Chinese medicine physicians - I have had very good experiences with them.