Jackie Graff R.N. B.S.N on CNN Headline News with raw food

Society's Idols

Society values entertainment and quick fixes instead true healing, spirituality and moral fiber.
Just look at who makes the big bucks? Become a celebrity! Why would a teenager want to study chemistry, architecture, psychology, nursing or criminal justice to name a few? One can even consider going to playboy to be the atypical "girl next door" Just flash a set of large breasts, laugh annoyingly, say honey this honey that and you'd get famous and get the benefits that come from that such as cars, houses, and may even get yourself a rich hubby. For the young men -learning to chase, throw, catch or direct balls of various shapes and sizes is the answer. Let's not forget writing romance and sci fi novels instead of spiritual books.
People want food and entertainment. Never have I seen a hospice nurse, HIV researcher, a cop or a fire fighter making crazy salary figures. Yet, these people are here serving others while endangering themselves.
The earth needs to cleanse itself. It needs to renew its nature and humans along with it. People will need to learn once again how to walk on two feet, feed, clothe and shelter themselves and hopefully the next turn around how to be civil, caring, and humane to each other - how to live in union with one another and with mother nature.

Feng Shui: healing with color

Different colors vibrate at different frequencies. Energy healing is not a novel idea. The art of Feng Shui provides us with the ability to apply color in our life in order to achieve a healthier flow of chi and reach a body and mind balance. Our chi can be influenced by our surroundings and by the colors we consciously chose to surround ourselves with or clothe our body. Color had been used to even describe our mental states such as red with rage, feeling blue or peachy and being green with envy. The colors covered here are primarily intended to provide you with ideas about color coordination in your wardrobe and to strengthen your chi level.

You can chose different colors to influence your chi. To subdue your rage or calm your anger you may want to apply the colors black or green, to alleviate depressed mood resort to light green and purple. When you are having a headache resort to green or pink, for stomach pains use yellow or red, for hypertension white, black, baby blue or light green. To address obesity resort to the application of the color white.

If you feel trapped by the external circumstances in your life, use green. Green is symbolic with growth, expansion and upward movement. To enhance your communication skills use blue since this color has the property to evoke calmness and peace. Indigo strengthens your intuition, allows you to gain objectivity into your problems and relieves emotional and mental turmoil by allowing you to gain new insights. The lighter shades of pink induces relaxation, calmness while the darker hues of this color enhance optimism and confidence in oneself. Yellow helps strengthen ones attention/alertness and improves memory. The color yellow can assist you decision making. Orange leads to mental clarity practical problem solving. The color orange balances your chi after a period of stress or a shock and allows you to let go of the past. Red increases your chi, boosts self esteem, leads to vibrancy and feeling more energized. It is considered a lucky and auspicious color. This color banishes insecurities and the lack of enthusiasm. Those with high blood pressure should avoid this color and instead resort to using black, white or lighter shades of blue and green.
The color white symbolizes purity, clarity and openness and to address eating disorders. You may use this color when you feel the need to let go of mental and emotional clutter from your psyche. This color signifies new beginnings and un bias attitude. The color black is grounding/stillness and protectiveness.

There are no good or bad colors; just inappropriate application of color in certain situations. The information above is not intended to diagnose, treat or cure any physical or mental illnesses. consult with a physician and a Feng Shui practitioner in your area for more information.

Spiritual rebirth

Numerous accounts of spiritual re-birth are found in the Gospels and the Epistle to the Corinthians. A main Christian message is that one must die in order to be born again as Jesus says to Nicodemus in the Gospel of John, 3-3: “I am telling you the truth: no one can see the kingdom of God without being born again”, and, (6) “A person is born physically of human parents, but is born spiritually of the Spirit.” This death is not of physical but rather of spiritual and psychological nature. It is symbolic of the death of the ‘ego-self’. A transformation occurs when a person gains profound insight or has an “Aha!” experience that leads to a shift of consciousness. The Spirit is not an external element, but it is rather the God essence within each person. This is the meaning of Jesus’ statement in the Gospel of John, 10-34 “It is written in your own Law that God said: You are gods.” The same idea is beautifully expressed in the words of the Bulgarian Master Beinsa Douno: “Look for the origin of all things so that you may find the true God within your soul.”
The ultimate goal of salvation is to obtain salvation from the lower ignorant ‘ego-self’ and its destructive habits. When a person acknowledges that God is inside of him or her and that this God essence permeates everything, the individual gains understanding and acceptance of the message, “You are gods.” The scriptures do not discriminate by saying that some of us are gods, but asserts that all of creation is holy. In Colossians 3-11 we read: “Christ is all, Christ is in all.” This Christ or Cosmic consciousness is accessible to everyone.
Excerpt from : Guru in Jeans: Inward Journey to Psychospiritual Awakening

The art of patience

Within every relationship there are ups and downs. What makes
a relationship endure is not the absence of conflicts but the ability to
avoid power struggles and resolve disagreements. You may have read different self-help books, talked to your partner of even consulted a counselor. All of this will be of no advantage to you unless you make a commitment to keep working on improving your communication with you partner on a consistent basis. As they say practice makes perfect. Relationships grow through change.
Any relationship goes through changes the same way you change as an individual. You cannot expect your partner or your relationship to stay the same. That would be not only unrealistic but also unhealthy. Imagine your partner staying stuck in his or her old way no matter what you do or say. I cannot stress enough to couples how important it is to be consistent in doing good work in your relationship that brings the two of you closer. Perhaps the therapy sessions you may have gone to have helped some and now the two of you are communicating better and getting along. Remember to use all of the tools you have learned. Practice, practice, practice. Do not rely on your partner to do all of the work in the relationship. He or she may do it at first for a period of time and just as you think that everything is going well, you enter the same pattern of conflict, miscommunication and lack of intimacy. In order for your relationship to stay healthy you need consistency throughout your partnership. Consistency is expressed in many ways from taking time to say “I love you” to being mindful of not engaging in power struggles and being honest. Sometimes partners become too comfortable with each other and begin to slack off.
Excerpt from : Couple's Communication Made Easy (audio book)

The By Stander Effect..

The by stander effect occurs when a group of people observe or are aware of a crime occurring and do not do any ting about it. Most recently in Dekalb county GA a cop was wrestling with a criminal and the criminal was overpowering him. As the cop lost use of his police radio people had gathered around watching the scene. Finally a women had pulled over in her car, gotten her tazor out and tazed the perp.

People are selfish and self preserving. I am not even amazed any more when they show on TV how so and so has helped another person. That is the sensationalism in our spiritual and moral evolutionary path. Wow!!! That is common civility, goodness and caring. Yet, there is more of the dark side dominating the world and our little earth at this time.

People need cleansing. They need to become the best moral and spiritually evolved creatures. Even some animal spices are more caring towards their fellow beings than we are.

Humanity will continue to suffer at its own hand. Each being will continue to be in darkness until it pulls itself up.

No Secrets or Mysteries!!!

The word "secret" is a money maker! How? you may ask
Have you seen all of the book, DVD, and article titles and other products with that word in it?
I see it all of the time and it bothers me.
Why?
Because there are no secrets out there. No secrets to getting rich, slim, younger, etc. Whatever knowledge is out there, is not a secret. If a person had not yet stumbled upon some of the information in the universe, then that person is yet to do so. "There is nothing new under the sun." Yet people choose to market "secrets" while others chase "secrets".
The second runner up word is "Mystery"