Are you Roundup Ready?

Take ten minutes to watch this video about Monsanto. I thought I had a good understanding about the "State of Our Food" until I took the time to watch this film. Now, I hesitate as I prepare my grocery list....

One thing, of many, which caused me to pause began about 1:43 in the video...Roundup Ready? At 2:35, food registered as an insecticide?....

Please watch and feel free to comment.

Saved By The Yoga....

Yoga and Prison....maybe not a good mix...unless you are ready to heal some broken folks

It appears this small little prison study witnessed the unleashing of emotions related to the detoxifying release of stored emotions attributable to this unique environment.

So here is how this translates in real life:

The one thing I did not expect from signing up for Bikram Yoga at Bikram Yoga Richardson was the emotional rollercoaster I would experience as I began to release stored emotions, experiences, beliefs and toxins through the grueling 90 minute sessions under 105 degree heat and 40 % humidity. Never crossed my mind that anyone or anything could crack my inpenetrable shell.

Then first crack - my first Bikram experience , April 7th, in the hands of the venerable Denise Deniger. 30 seconds in - I was toast.
Second crack was somewhere around session 7 to 9 (I need to find my notes) where due to overwhelming suppressed emotions (which I will not detail tonight)...I silently sobbed my way through class, in child's pose, and unwittingly several others in the room began to shed tears as well...not due to physical pain, but due to a deep unspoken phenomenon related to emotional release.

How can monkey twisting make this happen...I have NO IDEA! But, hmmm, it has me wondering. It also had me skipping class for awhile!! And then again lately when I was blindsided with the addition of a new toxic inlaw issue, including a new resident of Hotel Thomas....and I went undercover from Bikram, Yassi Maige, owner of Bikram Yoga Richardson kept checking in and encouraging me to return to the mat.


But now, instead of reaching for a bottle of pills, a bottle of wine, television, the internet, over-obsession with career, or any other popular way of disconnecting from life...I am meeting and learning form others who JUST SHOW UP, and SWEAT, and RELEASE, and HEAL.

What is funny is that if someone told me that Bikram Yoga would put me in touch with my buried emotions I would RUN, RUN, RUN away.... good thing they didn't warn me.

(Thank you Dawnette Brady, Denise Deniger, Yassi Maige and Lisa Brooks...)

In Memoriam: Dr. Abram Hoffer, Health Pioneer

With a sad heart I have to share that the well know Dr. Abram Hoffer passed away after a brief illness this week.

A link to Dr. Hoffer's obituary and guest book can be found here.

The youtube video above shares with viewers Dr. Hoffer's personal vitamin regime in his last year of life.

As publicized by the well respected American Association of Health Freedom:

In Memoriam: Dr. Abram Hoffer, Vitamin Pioneer

Dr. Abram Hoffer died this week at the age of 91. A renowned Canadian psychiatrist, Dr. Hoffer was instrumental in discovering the importance of megadoses of vitamins in the treatment of psychiatric disorders like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, and was a pioneer in the field of orthomolecular medicine.

The term "orthomolecular" was coined by Nobel laureate Linus Pauling to mean "the right molecules in the right amounts" (ortho is Greek for "right"). Pauling theorized that "substances that are normally present in the human body" are necessarily good and can be used at high doses to treat disease.

Dr. Hoffer said that orthomolecular medicine does not purport to treat all diseases, nor is it "a replacement for standard treatment. A proportion of patients will require orthodox treatment, a proportion will do much better on orthomolecular treatment, and the rest will need a skillful blend of both." That is the very definition of integrative medicine.

From his work with patients in a Canadian mental institution, he hypothesized that schizophrenics lack the ability to remove an hallucinogenic metabolite called adrenochrome from their brains. He found that he could decrease the concentration of adrenochrome in the brain by using high doses of vitamin C.

Observing biochemical abnormalities and serendipitous cancer recoveries among his psychiatric patients, Hoffer worked for several years on the potential anticancer effects of nutrients, particularly the B vitamins, selenium, and ascorbate. He says this included treating hundreds of cancer patients with nutrients, with reported success.

In the mid-1960s, mainstream psychiatry was emphasizing the use of neuroleptic drugs, and Hoffer reported that he and like-minded researchers were snubbed and became the victims of a conspiracy, with their reports rejected by scientific journals. In 1967, Hoffer resigned his academic and administrative positions, entered into private psychiatric practice Canada, and created the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine.

In a 2006 interview, Hoffer stated that while he felt that current mainstream psychiatric care was "terrible," his theories and treatments were starting to become more accepted. "[W]e’re at a transition point. If I live another four or five years, I’ll see it."


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