‘I care’:

Oneness with Mother Nature

Oneness with ‘00s of folks in the mall.

She’s a way-shower.

Let’s clean up our act for mother Earth, together.

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DO SOME GOOD FOR MOTHER EARTH

I am inviting you all to join our monthly world healing initiative, and so give EARTH A HAND!.

By doing monthly world healing, you will make a major significant impact, directly & indirectly.

So what happens when you meditate once a month for 1 hour on world healing? What do you think will happen?*

Will YOU change? You bet ya! You will refuse that plastic bag in the supermarket (‘NO THANK YOU’), and FINALLY get around to put 12 empty grocery bags in the bag of your car, and even a tiny bag in your regular handbag, for when you might need one. You will read the labels in the supermarket and keep empty jar containers for when you happen to pass by that perhaps far-away ‘refill store’ to get biodegradable soap of all kinds.

You’ll speak up with kind and wise words to those around you just carelessly trash the planet, or who are violent to others. You will change the air around transforming the room & everyone’s mood after an argument took place.

You will participate in Earthday kind of local clean-ups, even when it rains. And as a subsequent you will feel like that park or beach you cleaned up has somehow become yours, so that next time you see it full of garbage again, you can’t resist the urge to pick it all up again so that it’s all cleaned up again, just a few minutes later.

You will think twice (and probably not buy it) when buying fruit and vegetables when they are packaged in non-recyclable materials. And tell the manager why you are not buying the bananas you need to make your banana bread, so that he gets it clear in his head that packaging fruit is not a good idea, after all.

You will travel less by plane and take a more soulful and more local vacation that will have a much smaller footprint on the planet.

You will donate money to the poor and simply help the sick and needy. You will perform random acts of kindness to strangers. You will reach out to those in need, in whatever way unimaginable. Funny how people around you need healing and help in ways that are ‘inconvenient’ to you. But you will just give them what they need.

And next time you are aware that politicians are about to make a decision that would harm nature, you will write them that letter to make them feel comfortable in making green choices for the world at large.

And you may not even be consciously aware of this, but because you are doing all this, you have become a role model to others, to become just like you. And as such, you’ve become a link in the chain that can tilt the world, for good.

Even if you’d do just one of these things as a result of monthly meditation on healed planet, you are on the way to the divine land of hope and transformation towards love.

Please join us in our monthly WE ARE ONE WORLD HEALING meditation / distant reiki group. If you are a reiki practitioners, send reiki to Mother Earth. If you are just like any of us, simply MEDITATE WITH US on a healed planet & a healed humanity.

NAMASTE.
Astrid

* I am not talking about the healing energy and physical manifestation that results from group meditation and/or reiki healing. Just stating the most basic, obvious & likely shift that will occur everyone of us, once we start looking at the bright side of life.

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An aid to beauty from the outside in and inside out: as this may benefit the circulatory system as well as offer cosmetic benefits.  Despite its sophistication, this beauty treatment  only uses peppermint and other common garden herbs. You can whip up this fragrant homemade body scrub in a flash.

 

Lemon Eucalyptus Scrub

… tingles with fragrance. As an Invigorating body exfoliator  it polishes skin’s surface, removing cellular debris.

Why Scrub?

1. It removes dead skin cells.
2. It helps moisturizer penetrate the skin.
3. It’s an anti-ager for the skin, can diminish fine lines.
4. Help give skin a glow .

Materials Needed

50 g fresh mint leaves, finely chopped  (note: you can use spearmint/peppermint

50 g fresh eucalyptus leaves, finely chopped
50 g fresh rosemary leaves, finely chopped
1 tbsp freshly ground black pepper
Peel of 2 lemons

300 ml olive oil
400 g fine-grained sea salt
4 tsp vitamin C powder

+ Extra eucalyptus leaves and slices of lemon peel, to decorate

Health Benefits of Ingredients

Mints are revitalizing, and the sea salt crystals cleanse and polish the skin. Eucalyptus has the health benefit of being antiseptic, purifying &  invigorating, while rosemary is traditionally used as an antiseptic, muscle relaxant, soothing agent and skin conditioner.  Black pepper’s traditional uses are to energize, for increasing circulation, to warm and relieve muscle aches and stiffness, for fighting colds, flu and infections.    Lemon is often used in aromatherapy for its uplifting, refreshing, and cheering health & healing benefits.

Step-by-Step Instructions

1. Place the chopped herbs, black pepper and lemon peel in a pan, then add the olive oil. Place on a medium heat and stir, then leave for 2 minutes with the lid on.

2. Place the paste in a piece of muslin over a sieve and squeeze out all the oil into a bowl below.

3. Mix the sea salt and vitamin C powder in a bowl. Add most of the oil (reserving a little to seal the jar) and stir well.

4. Place the mixture in a sterilized Kilner jar and press down well.

5. Decorate the top with a few eucalyptus leaves and slices of lemon rind. Pour a layer of the remaining oil on top of the salt scrub to keep it airtight.

USE: Apply to wet skin in the bath or shower, when needed. Scrub, then rinse off well with warm water.

STORAGE: Keeps for 6 months, or 1 year in the refrigerator.

The Source

This Scrub Recipe is based on: Grow Your Own Drugs: Easy Recipes for Natural Remedies and Beauty Fixes by ethno-botanist James Wong.

In this book, James uses his top-class academic knowledge to reveal how many plants contain the same active ingredients as over-the counter drugs, and offers recipes to relieve a whole range of common conditions.

Mother’s Day Gift- Set

How about pairing your homemade herbal beauty salt scrub with a copy of this book, Grow Your Own Drugs: Easy Recipes for Natural Remedies and Beauty Fixes, which contains this recipe plus many other inexpensive & easy healing and health recipes that you and mom can easily  make at home with ingredients grown in a window box or from the local market, for a range of health issues, including:

1. Digestive disorders: bad breath, heartburn and indigestion, digestion, irritable bowel syndrome, constipation, flatulence, diarrhea
2. Skin complaints: athlete’s foot, eczema, insect bites and stings, acne, sunburn, age spots, fungal conditions, burn scars, poor foot circulation, chapped hands and sores, insect deterrent
3. Kids’ remedies: vitamin booster, head lice, eczema, ear wax build-up, colic
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Other Health Resources:

*  Bach Flower Remedies

*  Aromatherapy Treatment

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Ahhh, the morning started really good. When I woke up, it was pouring rain, but it was also sunny. And we know, that means a rainbow day… And so it was. A wonderful day, with a great yin/yang balance.

Yin:  passive

Yang: active.

As today would be a full moon day, I knew that therefore our actions of the day would be rippling on into the universe  AT FULL FORCE.  And so I felt kind of lucky that I had good-karma building activities planned throughout the day: my morning volunteering to clean up our village would be followed by my beloved evening event:  ‘We Are One World Healing’ distant Reiki session / meditation session on ‘a healed world’.

MY YANG MORNING

Cleaning My Local Community

I met some lovely new friends when, as part of a team of volunteers, we cleaned up our adorable tiny village of Monterosi. It’s just North of Rome, Italy. 

We spent a whole morning, fruitfully on the endeavor, bringing out the beauty of our world, raising the energy of three public places: the local elementary school yard, the playground park on the village edge, and a little-known downtown (tiny) parking lot behind Piazza Umberto, off Via Marconi.

Clean-Up Satisfaction based on Trash / m2 Found

If you are going to tidy up your house, don’t you just love cleaning up the messiest room ?!!  Same sentiments for cleaning local garbage. When there is more junk to remove, you’ll get a greater satisfaction.

The Ratings

#1  The parking lot WON, by far, when measured in trash/m2.  

Very satisfying.

We collected a full XL garbage bag worth of abandoned ‘whatever’: bottles, glass, towels, questionable bags with??, broken toys, cloths pins, paper, boxes & other cardboard, lots of paper bits and bottle cap.

I am not mentioning those hard-to-collect cigarette buds. I think they must be a gift from the divine, because they sure represent lots of lessons to us all.

;=-)

Pix

After: garbage in the bag

Before: garbage on the ground

  #2    The second place went the school yard. It’s trash/m2 ratio was way lower as it’s a large area, however there were dozens of empty cans and bottles under the bushes, the bushes had dead branches, and plants needed to be trimmed back badly. An excessive amount of leaves made the area around the swings slippery and dangerous. 

I think there must have been 10 bags of garbage and waste collected, if not more. Plus all the branches.

A team of 3 spent a full 4 hours here, and boy did they raise the energy level of this place. The vibrational shift was amazing! This is what is so great about space clearing in general:  the world loves you back, right away, for every little care you take.

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After: super-clean and safe swings! Trees can now spend their energy on healthy growth.

Before: Overgrown bushes & 10 bags worth of waste was spread everywhere.

#3   The third place  for trash/m2 ratio went to the public playground. It was the largest area. When we arrived it appeared ‘kind of clean’. That was, until we started walking it over the grounds, …. and found 2 1/2 XL garbage bags full of trash. Want to see them?

Here they are:

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After: tidy lawnnnnnn

Before: trash in hidden corners & park edges

That was my super active morning.  Then, I had a fun-filled family afternoon, and then a oh so wonderful meditative evening…

MY YIN EVENING

Healing the World at large

Often, I’m asked how I do the world healing meditation. As I mentioned in the ‘About We Are One World Healing’- page, I send distant Reiki to each and every participant and I intend for our collective healing energy to merge and synergize, and then intend that to be applied for the benefit of all people, all nature and mother Earth.   Simple as that.  I intend that to be ongoing for the hour, and then I allow my mind to receive imagery of aspects of the healing. Ahh, I just love visualizing a healed world.

Today, a proper trash management trash came to mind: I saw a sustainable world whereby trash was 100% reused, directly and indirectly. Of course, given my quite exhausting morning activities, I just had to dedicate a few moments to visualize a trash-free world. 

Then, imagery of clean water appeared. Haiti and Africa came to mind and were supplied with healthful water. Oh so happy people were eating food.

(Image child Haiti: Lauri Koski;

recycled tag: Jay Lopez)

It was a world without hospitals as everyone was healthy and would only die of old age, happily.

And then, what’s more, it’s a world of balance: where the poor would not feed the poor, but the rich do this. E.g. Instead of buying chewing gum that would be nearly impossible to remove from public places, and that’s bad for your stomach and your teeth, western world teenagers would save gum money and ‘adopt’ a foster child in a faraway place. Ditto: I saw investors foregoing short-term gain and go for fair-trade company stock seeking equity in environmentally and socially sound organizations around the world.

We lived in a world of democracy and everyone was free.

And last but not least, I saw a happy family, my own. And that’s when I ‘woke up’ out of my meditation session, …. and dinner was ready.

OK. Enough about me, my activities, and my vision of a healed world. Everyone’s view and experiences is different and we have a kaleidoscope of options of goodness to realize, together. 

What did You do  this weekend? 

Share with us what you did, and/or comment on your healed world visions, in the comment section below.

Joining Forces

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Want to clean up your own community? Go here.

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Meanwhile, these dolphins are some of the kindest & most intelligent sea animals, who are really human’s friend. ‘Are they becoming extinct?’ is another conjured up question. 

While it is against the law at the Faroe Islands to hurt animals unnecessarily, this scene of killing is gruesome. The visual display of a sea of blood appears to be utterly barbaric to the sane.

Let’s stop this non-sense and instead prove maturity in wise & gentle ways.

Let’s Look at the Facts

The Faroe Island Statistical Office has published the official numbers for the 2009 drive hunt:

* 310 pilot whales

* 174 white-beaked dolphins

* 2 bottlenose whales

* 1 bottlenose dolphin

killed in three separate grinds.

Method of Slaughter

Caught dolphins don’t die instantly. As per legal restrictions, they are cut 1, 2 or 3 times with knives & thick hooks. I understand that, at that time, the dolphins produce a grim cry like that of a new born child. But of course, instead of being born, they die.

The pilot whale hunt in the Faroes is, by its very nature, a dramatic and bloody sight. Entire schools of whales are killed on the shore and in the shallows of bays. The knives are used to sever the major blood supply to the brain. This is the most efficient and humane means of killing these animals under the circumstances, but it naturally results in a lot of blood in the water.

While whales were the major food supply for the island, it was argued that it is more humane to leave a whale live in freedom all its life, and then slaughter it in a few minutes, than the way we typically treat commercial life stock such as pigs and cows. The latter animals live all their lives in captivity, are unable to choose what to eat, face injections of hormones, etc. and endure quite some stress of transport, prior to their slaughter.

Origin Purpose of the Ritual

The pilot whale hunts at Faroes Islands have been around for centuries and centuries: since 1584.

Its original purpose was to supply the island with food. White whale meat and blubber has been a Faroese specialty for as long as anyone can remember. Given the prior importance of the whales for the islands, the tradition of the whale hunt is a communal affair, completely ingrained in the local culture. The whale meat of this non-commercial drive is  not sold in supermarkets. Instead, the annual catch is divided evenly among local families.

Today’s Situation

However, it is no longer smart to eat any of the hundreds of whales caught and killed. In November 2008 the chief medical officers of the Faroe Islands recommended that pilot whales no longer be considered safe for human consumption because of the levels of toxins in the whales (too much mercury, PCBs and DDT derivatives) . 

Furthermore, in today’s Faroes, there is amply alternative food supply.  Whale killing has become completely unnecessary.

Meanwhile, there is ongoing debate whether the pilot whale is becoming extinct. This is particularly an issue in the case of Faroe Islands.

So, what exactly is the purpose of these ancient fests other than showing off bravery in the process of the hunt??

It seems a simple conclusion that …

it’s time for a change.

Looking at a Slightly Bigger Scope: Other Dolphin & Whale Hunts

The situation in Faroe Islands are non-commercial hunts. Other such smaller, non-commercial hunts take place in in the Arctic, the Caribbean, Peru, and the Solomon Islands. However, a commercial hunts take place  in Taiji (Japan), where annually 2000 dolphins are killed. Their meat is sold in Japanese supermarkets. As well, the Japanese fishermen supplement their income by taking about a hundred dolphins alive and selling them for tens of thousands of dollars each to aquariums in Asia and EAU.  Greenpeace is working on this very issue of whaling in Japan, and asking for your signature support. 

Seeing to the Bigger Picture of Environmental Protection & Change

To learn more about what is going on in our natural environment and how we can and should protect it better, there are many issues for us to take action on. Greenpeace has done a good job on sorting out some of our priorities:

  (click image)

– > Get Involved

–> Support Greenpeace

Now is a Pretty Good Time

Just 9 days ago, on July 23, Greenpeace co-founder Dorothy Stowe died in Vancouver, Canada at age 89.

Dorothy was a woman who dedicated her life to making the world a better place for others. 

What would you like to be remembered by? 

What could you do today to make the world a better place?

Sources: wikipedia.org,

Paws.org.au, greenpeace.org

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Not that I think that it is that important that you for only 1 hour a year become conscious of your impact on the planet. I am reminding you because I hope /wish that that one hour will make you reflect sufficiently to make a change for good each day of the year, or time you are on the planet.

Last year, I wrote an article on 10 things you could do on Earth Day, to enliven your participation to it, and to help build consciousness of our required care for our environment: http://therapeuticreiki.com/blog/earth-day-wwf-earth-hour/ .

As well, if you like to do something more frequently, that is of a healing nature for both yourself, Earth and all of us here on it, then please join We Are One World Healing.  The details of which are all on this blog here. Click on the button in the top navigation bar or simply start here: http://therapeuticreiki.com/blog/1-world-healing/

THE WORLD IS IN OUR HANDS.

Let’s stop playing with it.

Let’s start caring for it.

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Just for Fun

Thanks to ‘Project Laundry List – A Positive Approach to Change’ for the image. Their site, laundrylist.org, offers simple answers to global warming.

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We have long heard that we should change our way to minimize our disasterous impact on nature. And we know we must remedy previously-done harm. Yes, this warning still stands.

However, have you ever given it a consideration how you must change your ways as a result of the climate change that is now ‘a fact’ due to a century or so of environmental abuse? Some current and future aspects of climate change have become unavoidable and we will have to change our ways to cope with this. Are you ready? Do you even know the facts about Climate Change….. *

Plan Your Life with Climate Change In Mind

So let me ask you: how will your business be affected over the next few years, and over the coming decades and how are you planning to manage this?

Change Where, When & How You Work

For example, as water levels are on the rise, is your business located in a place where you feet won’t get wet, or are you living in the lower levels of the San Francisco Bay Area? What are you planning to do?

Will you be able to afford the night shift when major blackouts are on the rise, and electricity costs may rise? How can you be pro-active and change tack before the wind is gushing in the opposite direction?

Change Your Marketing

Basic marketing resources are affected by climate change and associated natural stresses. Availability and prices of basic raw materials such as rising paper pulp prices and the reliability of electricity will change. How are you going to promote your business in the future? Planting trees in your back yard may not be enough…

How can you be more energy efficient and pragmatic, setting yourself up to be both green and effective in the future scenario?

Innovation & New Product / Service Development

‘Change is opportunity’ I learned in my MBA. OK. Let’s see how we could make the world a better place through global warming. What will be possible now that was not possible before? How can you serve your customers better/makes their lives better, considering the facts of global warming?

If your business is in an industry that is related to temperature, how can you help your clients in the future better, given a situation of climate change?

Here’s a list of the Top 100 Effects of Global Warming. Take a look. Pick one effect. Think it through for what that means for you. Make a plan. Take action. Talk a look again. Pick another effect. Etc.

Today, on Blog Action Day, there are 7000 blogs participating in raising awareness that we can not be frogs in a boiling pot. We HAVE TO JUMP off the bandwagon we’ve been on, and come to alternative action to change for good, given climate change.

Let our hearts change our minds,
and our behavior change our legacy for future generations.
~ A. Lee, One World Healing

* Further Reading

For more information on climate change, here are two excellent resources:
1. The Rough Guide to Climate Change
2. The World Without Us

To find the other ’000s of blogs who are writing on climate change on/before October 15, visit http://site.blogactionday.org .

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“Thank you for choosing Earth as your planetary vehicle. We hope you enjoy the many wonderful features of this planet, as you hurtle through the cosmos.” … ” Please take a moment to locate this planet’s emergency exits. As you can see, there aren’t any!”

What are YOU going to do today?

TherapeuticReiki.com embraces Earth Days at all times through ‘We Are One World Healing’ ~ a Monthly meditation group you can join free, to help heal humanity. More information at http://www.therapeuticreiki.com/blog

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It will be Earth Hour tomorrow, Saturday, March 28, 2009 at 8:30 PM.

What is Earth Hour? Earth Hour is a global climate change initiative, supported by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). Individuals, businesses, governments and communities are invited to turn out their lights for one hour on Saturday to show their support for action on climate change.

And indeed, millions of people are expected to turn off the lights for one hour to raise awareness about the link between global warming and energy use. So, joining Earth Hour is a great way to kick-start your Earth Day plans for next month.

The WWF offers some fun ideas for activities to joyfully spend the Earth Hour. I’ve picked over their list and created a top 10 Earth Hour activities.

10 things to Do during Earth Hour

1. Attend local Earth Hour events – or organize one. Add your event, or get details on events near you at Events, e.g. EarthHourCanada.org.

2. Go outside and look at the stars. Ahhh…

3. Find a great viewing spot to see your town or city go dark at 8:30 p.m. If we don’t start caring more for our environment with more discipline, the darkness you’ll see might be a typical view of planet earth in the decades to come.

Children Choirs in Candle Light Procession for the World’s Peace Photographic print for sale by Art.com

4.Go for a lantern walk through a park, and listen to the birds, bats or other wildlife.

5. Meet your neighbors at a street or block party.

6. Patronize local restaurants and businesses taking part in Earth Hour. There are quite a few of them. What a great opportunity to have a candle light dinner.

7. Or, gather your family or friends for a candle-lit dinner at home.

8. Have an acoustic music jam or sing songs together by candle light.

9. Talk to your children about how much electricity your family uses. Brainstorm ways to reduce it. Make a list of ways you could reduce your energy consumption every hour of every day.

10. Agree with your friends and family to join ‘We Are One World Healing‘. This is our monthly world healing meditation group that connects from around the world. Together we send unconditional love and healing energy to the planet and hold a vision of a healed planet in meditation.

Click here to register – it’s free!

During World Hour, you can have a practice healing mediation and visualize a healed planet.

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