April 28, 2003

From the Inside Out

BE THE LIGHTHOUSE ...
NOT THE RESCUE BOAT

In our zest for evolving beyond the current reality, and our very sincere desire to assist everyone on this journey, we often lose sight of some very Universal truths. Each of us choose our own life experience. And each of us make these choices based upon what we need in order to learn or achieve so that we might take our personal steps in Soul evolution.

Love clouds many issues, but it is necessary for each of us to realize not only the infinite Soul of self, but also the infinite Soul of all others. There are many times during this process that each of us will falter, will feel enormous pain, and may even lose our way.

Where there is love there is the natural instinct to rescue. But at times we must resist that instinct. There may be those who gasp in dismay at my words. Is it love to stand aside and allow a loved one to suffer? Is it love when we do not race down into the trenches to pull our friend out of the mud? Yes … there are times when taking no action is love.

If you, as a Soul, need to experience a period of great turmoil, a turmoil that will force you into the depths of yourself to find your own answers, a friend would be empowering you by standing beside you and supporting you and loving you — but not rescuing you.

If you take the hand of a friend and pull them out of the mire they’ve created for themselves, you have robbed them of an opportunity. By remaining in the mire, they will find strength. They will find personal power. They will learn to trust themselves, to turn to their own inner voice. Please understand that if you see a loved one in physical danger, or in harm’s way to the degree that intervention is called for, do not hesitate.

Emotional detachment, something each seeker must learn, calls for a delicate balance of offering support, serving humanity, and offering your belief in a person to the degree that they realize you believe they can rise above all circumstances. As we watch the daily chaos and suffering on Earth it is difficult to believe that we are not victims. But we are not.

Emotional detachment allows for a different perspective when evaluating the reality we, as a human society, are creating. When we accept and then begin to understand that our creations, what we experience daily, are created from a base, a foundation, that lies within us, we begin to understand how to create different experiences.

To rescue someone from his or her own creation/experience is to rob them of the opportunity to understand why they are creating the experience they are creating. Our experiences are the gifts we receive from ourselves, with the intention of out-picturing what resides within us.

By taking the deep internal beliefs that we carry, the spirit within us creates an external picture/experience. This creation is a mirror that shows us what foundation we are creating from. If the foundation is fear, doubt, pain, our external world will reflect this foundation back to us. Because all creation must have a foundation on which to build, Universal Law dictates that the foundation must be within us for the simple reason that like attracts like.

The greatest gift we can give each other and ourselves is the gift of allowing our spirit to express, via our external experiences, the truths that reside within us and within our personal energy fields. By doing so, we bring to our attention deep, unhealed wounds and/or beliefs, whether they be from this lifetime or from the past.

As we work through our experiences, gaining understanding, conquering fear and pain, we heal that which causes us to create pain and suffering. As we heal pain and suffering, we give ourselves the very real possibility of creating a world based on joy and Soul-wisdom.

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Yes You Can!
FEND OFF 'SENIOR MOMENTS'

A cup of blueberries a day may keep "senior moments" away, new findings suggest. A team of Massachusetts and Florida researchers has shown that the fruit reduces aging-related damage in rat brains, and can also prevent mental decline in mice genetically engineered to develop Alzheimer's-like plaques in their brains.

The findings, along with early results from a human study, suggest a healthy diet can go a long way toward preventing the mental decline that often accompanies aging, Dr. James A. Joseph of the Center on Aging at Tufts University in Boston and USDA Human Nutrition Research told Reuters Health.

Cell-damaging products of normal metabolism known as free radicals can injure tissue, an effect known as oxidative damage. Antioxidants — found in several fruits and vegetables, including blueberries — help prevent this damage, which has been implicated in a number of conditions including cancer, Alzheimer's and heart disease. Oxidative damage is also a factor in aging.

Aged rodents that consumed the human equivalent of one cup of blueberries a day showed less oxidative damage in tissue from two distinct brain regions, Joseph and his team found. To evaluate whether this effect might extend to behavior, Joseph and colleagues David Morgan, Gary Arrendash and David Diamond from the University of South Florida, put mice through a three-armed maze. Half of the mice were genetically engineered to develop Alzheimer's-like plaques in their brains, while the rest were not. In each group, half of the animals were given blueberry-based pellets. Testing began when the mice were young, before the genetically modified animals had developed plaques. The study lasted a year.

The mice with pseudo-Alzheimer's that didn't eat blueberries performed worse and worse on the maze over time. But the genetically modified animals given blueberries showed no decline; they performed just as well as normal mice, even though they still developed plaques.

Joseph said he believes the berries' brain-protecting power goes beyond its known antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects. Blueberries seem to "directly influence the way neurons communicate," he told Reuters Health. Preliminary results from a new study, he added, show that people who ate a cup of blueberries a day appeared to be protected from aging-related mental decline.

The next steps, the Boston researcher said, will be to do more tests in transgenic animals, evaluate which chemicals in blueberries find their way into the brain, and study how the fruit might be protecting the brain.

~Anne Harding, Reuters Health

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Photo: Chamarel /VirtualTourist

East of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean lies the island country of Mauritius. Near the small village of Chamarel are colored dunes of volcanic ash which nature displays in an orderly pattern —- a fascinating phenomenon that is well worth a visit. "Terres des 7 Couleurs" (Earth of the Seven Colors) is a mythical place and a rare geological curiosity, for the sand colors do not mix together. These undulating and vividly contrasted layers of earth are just a short drive away from the Chamarel waterfalls that emerge from the moors and primeval vegetation in startling beauty.

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THAT SHINE

"One World Healing"

A spiritual site devoted to awakening and awareness. Following a life-after-death experience and many encounters with be-ings from other dimensions, author Lauren Zimmerman, created 'OTHER WORLDS,' a series of 4 books. Her work offers insight into greater realities, with the goal of assisting Humankind's evolution.
www.OneWorldHealing.com

Fascinating Facts
THE WONDER FROM DOWN UNDER

Tea tree oil comes from the Australian paperbark tree and has been used traditionally as a folk remedy by Australian aborigines. This natural oil is obtained by steam distillation of the foliage and branches of Melaleuca alternifolia (the Latin name for the tea tree). There are close to 300 varieties of Melaleuca alternifolia, but only one produces the medicinal oil. Tea tree oil became popular in the 1920s after Australian servicemen reported its therapeutic uses. In 1922, the Royal Society of New South Wales reported that the oil was a particularly effective antiseptic.

Tea tree oil has been used to treat mouth ulcers and abscesses, conjunctivitis, acne, boils, impetigo, psoriasis, dandruff, vaginitis, thrush, septic wounds, cuts and abrasions, carbuncles, and ringworm. It is also said to ease the pain of burns and hemorrhoids and help rid the hair and body of lice and ticks. According to naturopathic and homeopathic doctor Asa Hershoff, DC, of California, tea tree oil has antibacterial, antifungal, and antiviral properties and stimulates the immune system. "It's a reliable antiseptic," says Hershoff, author of "Homeopathic Remedies: A Quick and Easy Guide to Common Disorders and Their Homeopathic Treatments". "There just aren't that many substances that have all the therapeutic applications that tea tree oil does." And though tea tree oil is slower to show benefits than benzoyl peroxide, says Hershoff, it results in less itching, scaling, and irritation.

California aesthetician Brenda Harper says she believes that tea tree oil should be in every medicine cabinet. She uses it regularly with clients who suffer from acne, with "wonderful results," she says. "Used in conjunction with glycolic acid, which is an exfoliant, tea tree oil helps destroy the bacteria that can cause acne flare-ups," she explains. Harper says that a severe case of acne will respond to daily treatments within 6 months. She recommends dabbing tea tree oil on the affected areas, waiting 15 minutes, and then applying glycolic acid. Make sure the skin is perfectly clean before beginning, she adds.

Tea tree oil can also be used preventively, Harper says. "If you're acne-prone, apply it regularly to keep breakouts from occurring." For occasional flare-ups, an application of tea tree oil should show results within a day. "Just make sure that you don't pick at your skin," Harper warns. "Too often, people can't keep their hands off their face and they wind up making the situation worse, or causing scarring or hyperpigmentation, which will then call for peels to even out the skin tone."

~Carol Sorgen, WEBMD, MSNBC.com

 

Why does Swiss cheese have holes in it?

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Laughing It Off
NO MORE, EH?

When the moon hits your eye, Like a big pizza pie,
That's amoré.

When an eel bites your hand, And that's not what you planned,
That's a moray.

When our habits are strange, And our customs deranged,
That's our mores.

When your horse munches straw, And the bales total four,
That's some more hay.

When Othello's poor wife, Becomes stabbed with a knife,
That's a Moor, eh?

When a Japanese knight, Uses his sword in a fight,
That's Samurai.

When your sheep go to graze, In a damp marshy place,
That's a moor, eh?

When your boat comes home fine, And you tie up her line,
That's a moor, eh?

When you ace your last tests, Like you did all the rest,
That's some more "A"s!

When on Mt. Cook you see, An aborigine,
That's a Maori.

Alley Oop's homeland has, A space gun with pizzazz,
That's a Moo ray...

A comedian ham, With the name Amsterdam,
That's a Morey.

When your chocolate graham, Is so full and so crammed,
That s'more, eh.

When you've had quite enough, Of this dumb rhyming stuff,
That's "No more!", eh?

~Contributed by Ron Gavran

Untangling the Web

WHAT A SITE!

Type your birthdate in the window
when you go to the link below and see
what happens. Pretty neat, but none of it seems
that long ago! (contributed by Sherry Rothfield)
www.frontiernet.net/~cdm/age1.html

COMPUTER-EASE

"Did You Know" is a part
of the Webopaedia web site: www.PCWebopaedia.com/DidYouKnow
In this area, you'll find info on such topics as deleted files, CD drive speeds, how hard disks work, and other computer information. There is also an Internet section that answers questions about the origin of the Internet, cookies and e-mail.

Look at THAT!
MOCK MIGRATION

 
Photo: Reuters


The marathon began in late December
when six new birds joined the colony, leaving the San Francisco Zoo's penguin keeper scratching her head as to how birds from an Ohio park convinced the 46 others to start the frenzied swimming. "The minute the six hit this pool, not only did they stay there, they convinced the other birds to do likewise." Normally the Magellanic penguins at the zoo spend this part of the year in their burrows, grooming, decorating their habitations and only occasionally waddling out for brief swims in the pool. ~Reuters

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