Wouldn’t you like to have it all?

By having it all, I mean having exactly what you desire for your life. Maybe you want better relationships with your family, or more money to buy the conveniences in life. Maybe you’d like a new car, better health, a better job or to find your true love. Perhaps you need freedom from the following: debt, a sour friendship, too much paperwork, a career you hate or a house that’s too small with a mortgage that’s too big.

Whatever you want, you can have. Having it all is possible, but no one else is going to give it to you. It all begins with you. It may feel like hard work, but project yourself into the future 1 year, 5 years or 10 years and imagine what it would feel like to have exactly what you want. There are 10 easy steps that you can follow to finding your dreams and making them come true. Having it all is no longer new-age psychobabble. Science is beginning to prove that this is possible. Forget what you learned in school. Start studying the discoveries science has made since then.

Create Awareness

1. Begin With Awareness

Awareness is key to finding what you want, both externally and internally. This entire process begins internally, so you must begin with you. Develop awareness of the thoughts and feelings you have on a daily basis. Are they mostly good, or mostly bad? Are you focusing on what you don’t have in your life? Learn about the direction your thoughts are taking by paying attention to them. Listen to the words you speak. Listen to the stories you tell. Make a list or keep a journal if you like. If that doesn’t interest you, just learn to pay attention to yourself.

Positive thoughts

2. Practice Positive Thoughts

Once you become aware of the negativity you have in your life, whether you believe it’s coming from the inside or the outside, you have an opportunity to change it. You can choose more positive thoughts. Even if something that feels like the end of your world is happening ‘to’ you, it’s possible to swing your focus to something happier. Begin with sentences that start with ‘Well at least I have ______”. Choose something in your life that makes you feel happy or that is working out the way you want.

Have gratitude

3. Be Grateful

In addition to practicing positive thoughts, find things for which to be grateful. They can be small things or big things. Be grateful for the singing birds, the sunrise, a gift from a friend or your pets. If you have a happy marriage, be grateful. If you have a nice dinner with your children, be grateful. If you can get a smile out of someone who’s usually surly, be grateful. Gratitude retrains the mind to look for only the good things. When you begin looking for the good things, you’ll notice more of them.

Visualize

4. Visualizations

Begin to visualize life the way you would like it to be. At first, this may be difficult, because you’ll probably feel like you are lying to yourself. This is ok. Practice makes it easier. This is one of the main keys to bringing about success in your life. See yourself in your dream house, at your dream job, with the love of your life or in perfect health. Make time every day to practice visualizing these thing. If you have trouble keeping pictures in your mind, try writing out sentences explaining how you would like your life to be.

Vision Board

5. Create a Vision Board

One way to help you with visualizations is to create a vision board. A vision board is a collage of pictures that describe the things you want to have, do and be in your life. These can be pictures of happy people, love, wealth, the exact care you’d like to be driving, power statements, beauty…really anything that lifts you up. Spend time with your vision board each day and learn to visualize each of these things in to your life.

Inspiration and Ideas

6. Receive Inspiration

As you learn to quiet your mind and review your life as you’d like it to be, parts of your brain will begin transforming. This is scientific. This actually happens. The pathways in your brain move and change and you’ll start to notice things that you hadn’t seen before. In this process, you’ll notice that ideas and inspiration will come to you. Perhaps you’ll get an idea for making more money, or you’ll stumble across the perfect business opportunity. Maybe someone will offer you a gift or trade that involves something you’ve been wanting. You may meet someone at the checkout when you’re grocery shopping with whom you have many things in common. Appreciate the magic of these inspirational moments.

Take Action

7. Take Action

When you receive ideas and inspiration that seem like they come out of the blue, you must take action. Your brain is responding to the work you’ve been doing and you are being provided with opportunities for having it all. How you will accomplish large goals is not as important as taking that first step. Commit yourself to small actions every day that will lead you toward your goal. As time goes and you continue with awareness, positive thoughts and visualizations, the answers for how to reach your end result will come.

Write Goals

8. Write Down Your Goals

Once you understand that this process actually works, decide to put a little more effort into your endeavors. Write out a detailed list of your goals. It doesn’t matter how big or small they are, if they equate to your definition of having it all, write them down. Get serious about what you want and the belief that you can have each and every one of them. Now, dissect each goal and determine one or more steps that you already know you can take to reach them. Don’t forget to allow inspiration and ideas to help guide you.

Give First

9. Give to Receive

By now, you should already have evidence in your life that these things work like magic. It may take a bit of this magic before you reach the point where giving is comfortable for you. Giving is the single most effective path to receiving. When you give, whether it’s love, time, money or something else grand, you will be blessed with many gifts in return. Not only may you receive something tangible, but you’ll understand the positive feelings that are created inside you when you give. Those positive feelings are magnificent! You may even find that you enjoy the feelings of giving much more than you could ever enjoy any material things that you get back. Giving is very fulfilling. Start now by giving a little of what you are blessed with. It’s your choice.

Continue Your Learning

10. Continue Your Quest for Knowledge

The definition of having it all will change for you over the course of your life. Perhaps now you only wish you could become free from a huge load of debt. Once you are relieved from that, you may begin wishing for a luxury automobile. Once that manifests into your life, you could start dreaming of starting a multi-million dollar business. As these details change in your life, so will your way of thinking need to expand. Always continue your quest for knowledge. Whether it’s learning more effective ways to meet your goals, practicing meditation, networking with successful people in your desired field or learning another language, become excited about knowing more. Always include learning in your day. Knowledge is crucial in leading you to having it all.

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Physical health, albeit very important, is only one portion of what makes up total wellness. Total wellness implies health on many levels including emotional and spiritual wellness, in addition to the health of your physical body.

When you decide to embark upon the journey to total wellness, it can feel quite overwhelming, especially when you begin to research all the things that can contribute to ill physical, emotional and spiritual health. You might feel like quitting before you even begin, but the key here is to take things one step at a time. Make changes slowly and as you see fit.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. ~Lao-tzu

You must begin somewhere, so choose something that’s either easy for you to begin, or is a pressing matter, such as high risk for certain diseases or a chronic condition, such as depression. Here’s what I mean by that:

Start Easy

If you know you need to make some changes in your life, just start with one. As you practice this one change over time, it will become habit and free up your thinking to begin working on your second change, and so on. Some simple first changes that you can make one at a time are as follows:

• Begin reading labels on the food you buy at the grocery store. Research some of those ingredients and cut out all foods that contain high fructose corn syrup, partially hydrogenated oils, sodium nitrate or high sodium content. Choose one and begin there. I suggest cutting out high fructose corn syrup first, but don’t be alarmed when you realize a large portion of the foods you eat contain this ingredient.
• Cut out one bad food habit, like that nightly bowl of ice cream in front of the television, and replace the habit with something more healthy, like grapes.
• Cut back on television. Limit your watching by 1 to 2 hours per night, or turn the tv off completely for 2 nights per week.
• Incorporate 5 to 10 minutes of your day for sitting silently and doing absolutely nothing. This, a form of meditation, helps to clear your mind of stresses and mental fatigue.
• Purchase a water filtering systemand make a commitment to begin drinking one glass of water per day. Increase this as necessary until you’ve reached the recommended 8 glasses.
• Work on becoming more aware of your emotions. Anger, sadness and guilt are feelings that are normal, but not necessarily productive. Your motivation at this point is not to change these feelings, but simply develop an awareness of when you are feeling them.

Your Health Depends On It

If you have a pressing health issue or you belong to a high-risk group for a disease or illness, make that your primary focus. I identify fully with the concept of holistic healing. Therefore, I would suggest researching specific remedies that pertain to your issue. Learn what types of herbs or vitamins may benefit your body, learn what types of foods or food combinations may contribute to a better functioning immune system, and become open-minded to all solutions. Begin to make small changes that represent an effort to move toward healing this problem you may be facing. If it’s a matter of life or death, jump in with both feet and make the necessary changes immediately!

Total Wellness

The above examples demonstrate a very small list of things you can do physically, spiritually and emotionally to begin working toward total wellness. Total wellness is a journey. It’s a long road, but one that becomes very fulfilling over time. There are many, many tools that can help you to achieve total wellness, including all your dreams and desires. Excellent health, continual joy, release from life’s pressures, financial abundance, relief from debt. All these things contribute to total wellness and each of these can be acquired by you. There may be a substantial amount of work on your part to achieve these, but with support, knowledge and resources, you can start living a fulfilling life instead of letting the days slip by.

Today I am making room for abundance.

The idea was spawned from my latest read, The Success Principles(TM): How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be. It’s by Jack Canfield, who some of you may know from the movie, The Secret, and others may recognize from the popular Chicken Soup For the Soul series. There are so many amazing topics in this book, and they are all short, sweet and to the point. For the first time I feel compelled to highlight important points in a book because so much of what he says is coming at the right time for me.

Some of you may know that I’ve won the vision board contest with VISS International. The support I received on my video was awesome and I’ll be embarking on my new career shortly. It’s funny, the same principles that I’ll be teaching and that can be learned from associating with VISS, John Assaraf and Bonnie Bruderer are the exact principles that helped me to win this contest. It’s about asking, visualizing and knowing for certain that you’ll get what you want, or something better! I’m so passionate about this because I’ve seen it work miracles in my life. My wish is for everyone who wants a better life, no matter in what way, to learn these techniques and apply them.

So in order to make way for the prosperity and abundance that I’m visualizing into my life, today I will be physically making room for it. My vision board is complete with a picture of my dream home, a fancy black Hummer (though I’ll be keeping, driving and restoring my awesome ‘86 VW bus as well), good luck charms, power statements, my soul sentence and some other fun things that inspire me. In order to make way for these things, some shifts need to take place for me personally. I am going to begin living like I’m already there, both emotionally and environmentally!

The first thing I plan to do to accomplish this is to walk through my house and analyze my possessions. If you follow the principles of the law of attraction and the millionaire mindset, you’re already aware that millionaires think differently than those who struggle with money. I’m no longer struggling with money, thanks to these principles, and now it’s time to step it up a notch. People with millions of dollars usually have more time, more conveniences, less anger and fear, better health and better lifestyles. At least this is the kind of millionaire I plan to be!!

So, I’ve got a box all ready and I’ll be filling it with items that no longer serve me, but may come in handy for those who are working their way through a tough situation. I know when I first arrived here with no possessions, chipped plates and a mattress on the floor were a godsend. But now it’s time to give to those less fortunate, since I have come so far so quickly.

I’ll be donating anything that I currently own that I don’t use, don’t wear or that I wouldn’t take with me on the move to the luxury home. Sometimes we become inundated with clutter that collects and stores energy that could be better used for growth and prosperity. It’s like cleaning the dust from your shelves…some people don’t ever do it, some people realize that it’s a necessary evil and some people graduate to generously tipping a cleaning service to take care of it for them. Change your mindset about the dust and clutter and you’ll be working your way toward an abundance of fresh air and clean space…something that prosperous and wealthy people may take for granted!

Now let’s back up a bit. Becoming a millionaire first begins in your mind. For me, the millions are simply the next step. I’ve been working on my own personal development, including my attitude, my surroundings, gratitude for the things I have, appreciation for every situation I have encountered in my life and forgiveness for all those that I used to blame. I’ve still got a ways to go, as personal development is a lifelong achievement. But in paying attention to my joy, my abundance thus far, my happiness and my personal peace, I’m ready for the next step. We all deserve all of the above. We deserve whatever we wish into our lives. And anything you want can be had, once you understand how to cross the bridge.

If you’d like more information on anything I’ve talked about: vision boards, personal development, changing your mindset, clearing old emotional blocks, ending the struggle with money, visualization, etc. please feel free to contact me. My passion is personal peace. I’ve achieved it and I’d love to help you figure out how you can do the same. Come join me on my journey. Let’s blast through what’s holding you back and reveal how easy it is to release the bad and live with only the good.

xo,

Jeannie

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Half empty, or half full? What's your perspective?

Is the glass half empty or half full?

That’s one of those questions we’ve all heard. Maybe we laugh as we discuss the answer amongst friends. But once the comedy ends, we drink whatever half is left in the glass and we move on, without another thought about the underlying depth of this contemplation.

The paradox is that the glass is both half full and half empty, simultaneously. Depending upon the day, your mood or your life experiences, you’ll have a tendency to answer accordingly. It will be what it is for you, and you’ll likely stick to it. This is where perspective comes into play. Perspective is one of the single most important determinants of how our lives will unfold, and the kicker is that we, alone are in 100% control of how the entire thing turns out.

There are two sides to every story. Really, there are a million. There are so many different ways to look at and feel about everything that is. No matter how we think, react, are… we are never wrong, and we are never right. We are simply carrying about, in control or out of it, unfolding our lives as the events surface. How many of us are aware that we have any control in our lives? How many of us feel confident enough to take advantage of this power? How many of us are free enough from fear, guilt and confusion to believe that we can turn any unfortunate event into something splended, fulfilling and joyful? How many of us believe we deserve such a beautiful gift?

Changing your overall perspective of life is not only fulfilling and attractive to the Universe and it’s gifts, but it is also a process. It doesn’t take hard work, but it does require diligence. The first step is to become aware, and if you have read thus far, you can check that off the list. Awareness never goes away once it’s received. You cannot ‘backslide’ from awareness. You can temporarily misplace the information somewhere in a boggled mind, but you can never unlearn a gem of wisdom that has been placed before you.

The next step is to pay attention to your habitual thinking. This is tricky since it’s almost as if we have to catch ourselves being ourselves. You must literally see yourself in the third person and objectively assess each of your thoughts. The best way to go about this is to become aware of your feelings. If something doesn’t feel good, find out why. Nothing is external. There are ways to view circumstances that seem terrible with a light heart and a keen eye for knowledge. Dissect all bad feelings to get to the root of why something is bothering you, and then figure out how to change your perspective.

Let’s use traffic as an example. Most of us hate sitting in traffic. Why? It may be hot outside, it may be cold. We may be late for an appointment. We may have a long list of things to do and we’re impatient with all those cars in front of us. Sitting in traffic is actually a wonderful opportunity to have some ‘us’ time. If there are a million cars in front of you, there’s not a darn thing you can do about it. Turn on the radio and sing. Turn off the radio and enjoy the sunshine. Look around you and notice the beautiful birds, architecture, clouds and scenery that you usually miss as you speed by. Admire that 1968 Mustang next to you on the road.

Get to know yourself.

Figure out why you’re huffing and puffing over something that you can’t change. Are you feeling guilt for being late? Are you tense because you’ve got too many things to do? Notice those feelings, breathe and then relax. Find a new focal point. Focus on something that feels good.

This example, in a nutshell, is how you may always go about ridding yourself of all feelings that aren’t nice. You always have a choice to feel good or feel bad. No one can change these feelings for you. No matter how your kids act, what the weather report says or how little money you’re bringing into your life, you can always decide to focus on that which is good and plentiful.

Make this a new habit. Once this process becomes second nature, you’ll notice all the good things that follow. Magic will begin to happen in your life and you’ll wonder how you missed something so simple for all these years. It’s a journey. It’s your movie. It’s your life. Be the shining star and pass on the goodness.

Farmville is fun. If you hate it, are you doing something else that is fun?

At first glance, you might be thinking ‘what the heck does Farmville have to do with holistic healing.’

Well. The answer is nothing… and everything!

I play Farmville on Facebook. I like it. I think it’s fun. It provides me with a break in between writing articles or the other 900 jobs that I’ve created for my to-do list. And I’m not alone. 76 million people actively play Farmville every month. It’s a phenomenon.

Frequently, I see group and page invites flash across my Facebook news feed that say things like ‘Farmville Haters,’ ‘I don’t care about your farm or your park or your mafia’ or ‘Oh, you’re a fan of Farmville, I’m a fan of having a life.’ Wow.

So, it gets better. If one clicks the link and proceeds to read what some of these people write on the walls, one will find such comments as ‘I hope all their crops die,’ ‘They should just get a life and a real farm’ or ‘I wish we could send Farmville farmers swine flu or bomb their farms.’

Frequently you’ll find overuse of cuss words and insults.

What’s the deal with this? I was truly astonished at the level of anger and disgruntled-ness that I found from Farmville haters. And it led me to wonder what’s really going on.

So, I created my own group on Facebook. It’s called Mind Your Business and Stop Hating on My Farm. This is a place of peace. At least that was my intention. I really have no idea why some people would get so upset about something someone else is enjoying. It’s completely beyond me. It’s a free world and no one is twisting anyone’s arm to join Farmville. You might get an occasional invitation from a friend, who thinks you might need a BREAK from all that bitching…but that’s an easy thing to ignore or block if you really don’t want to play.

Which leads me to my next point. The ONLY way I can understand being this upset over other people playing an online game is if you are completely sick of seeing the updates on your news feed. But here’s the thing. Instead of taking the time to join 100 Farmville hater groups and think up clever insults for those of us who play, perhaps you could Google a term like ‘how to stop application and game updates from showing on my Facebook news feed.’ The information is there. And for your convenience, it’s here as well. Just scroll to the bottom of this post.

Now to my real point on how this ties in with holistic healing and this blog. If you’re a Farmville hater and vehemently expose your hatred via these Facebook groups and your news feed, do you have any idea what you’re doing to yourself? It’s not likely that you’re upsetting any Farmville farmers because they are having a good time playing their little game, harvesting their little crops and feeding their little animals. You’re creating a huge ball of rage over literally nothing.

Are you aware that rage and anger creates sickness and disease????

While I am detached from this emotion since I’m not interested in creating sickness and disease for myself, I did want to tell the world that expending energy on hatred is really not good for the body, mind or soul. This is true of hatred for anyone or anything, but especially something that is either A) not affecting your life one bit, or B) very easy to ignore and block.

I mean c’mon. If you can’t let THIS go, I can imagine the size of the tumor that may be growing in your body because you can’t drive calmly in traffic or deal with your in-laws. Wow. The term ‘take a chill pill’ comes to mind, but this is a holistic blog so I don’t believe in pills either.

Alternatively, perhaps you should just breathe deeply and realize that you are making your own choices and your feelings are being created by you. Please wake up and join the team for peace so that we may evolve into a more peaceful society. You do understand that peace must start with YOU, right?

Wow. Ok so the following video is really quite funny. I’ll admit it. It does prove some points that Farmville addicts might be experiencing. However, there’s no hate! No energy has been expended on hatred. This guy is having FUN hating Farmville, which is the whole point of this post to start with.

How to Block Game and Application Updates, Life Farmville, From Your Facebook News Feed

Ok, so here are the instructions for blocking game and application feeds, or even certain people from showing up on your Facebook news feed. These instructions are copied directly from my Facebook fan page that I mentioned earlier.

If you happened upon this group…even if you’re a hater…there’s a really simple way to HIDE all application updates from your news feed that you don’t want to see.

Instead of hating on Farmville…here’s what you do.

1) The next time you see an update from an application or a person that you don’t want to see again, run your mouse over to the right side of the post.
2) A little box pops up that says HIDE.
3) Click it and the post will go away. You’ll also be given an option to hide all posts from that PERSON, or all posts from that APPLICATION.
4) Click your choice and then, my friend, you’ll never have to be bothered by our silly little farming updates again.
5) Now you can feel better and go on about your happy Facebook posting without getting so wound up.

So now you know how to block certain updates from your Facebook news feed. Wasn’t that easy? Think of all the energy you expended being upset over it. Self-realization is imminent, my friend. It’s going to happen sooner or later. The lightbulb WILL come on. Why not take steps to make that happen  more quickly. Stop HATING! It’s really bad for you.

xxoo,
Jeannie

High Fever Natural Remedies

A fever is the body’s natural way of eliminating bacteria and infections. An elevated temperature is created because the body knows that these types of organisms cannot ‘take the heat’, so to speak. People generally become alarmed, especially when children have a fever. If we examine the idea that the immune system is the body’s natural defense against infection, and if it hasn’t been hindered by overuse of antibiotics in the past, it will do the best job possible at fighting off sickness and disease.

Despite the fact that a fever has a specific purpose and place in healing of the body, sometimes we may wish to bring down a fever, even if only slightly. When a fever gets too high, there are several consequences that may result. If you or your child are experiencing hallucinations or dehydration as a result of high fever, you may want to consult a physician. If you’re more interested in calming the patient and getting to the root of the issues, there are several natural remedies for bringing down a fever and leading to a better chance for rapid healing.

Touch is one of the most important things to include in your natural healing remedies for fever. The body is made up of energy which has a particular and constant flow. When this flow is interrupted by sickness, it’s important to try and get things back in order. Especially for a child, touch will not only help to get energy properly flowing again, but it will also calm and soothe the sick patient. This will permit him or her to feel more comfortable and safe, thus allowing the immune system and other functions of the body to focus on healing, rather than stress and frenzy.

There are many herbs and natural plants or seeds that can help reduce high fever. Drinking herbal teas with thyme, linden flowers and chamomile may be especially helpful natural remedies. You’ll also want to make sure to drink plenty of water and fruit juice. Remember, most of the fruit juice on the shelves at the grocery store is not really juice. When sick with a high fever, you’re looking for 100% natural with no sugars, sodium or high fructose corn syrup. The vitamins and minerals that can be obtained by drinking beet or carrot juice will help significantly. For children who may not agree to tea or beet juice, a tepid bath with added herbs or a cool compress will help soothe and bring down the fever. Many people report that placing an onion or potato around the wrist or the heel helps lower body temperature as well, and engaging in such behavior will likely create some humor that may lighten the mood!

Remember to always keep on loose clothing so that the fever can breathe. Try to avoid solid foods and don’t use alcohol as a rub down or addition to the bathtub, as it can actually do more harm than good, especially for kids. Try not to become frantic over a high fever as that type of energy can lead yourself or your patient to an even more restless state. Remain calm, give a fever a couple days and let it run its course. If fever is associated with a stiff neck, severe hallucinations or rises about 105 degrees for adults, and high fever natural remedies don’t seem to be working, a doctor’s appointment may become necessary.

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Use nature or visualizations to help balance the mind, body and spirit

Balancing of mind, body and spirit has significant benefits in everyday life. This balance can be achieved in a number of ways, and there are several simple changes that can be made immediately to begin feeling the positive impact. Awareness of your current standpoint is vital to the experience and can help give you some idea of how you operate and where to begin to achieve the necessary balance.

What Feelings Are You Choosing?
Our feelings are a choice. It may not feel that way when we are experiencing unfortunate circumstances, but the simple fact is that there are many ways to feel about a given situation. Blessings in disguise, for example, occur everyday in our lives. It seems simpler to blame exterior circumstances for what is happening to us, but when we choose to release negative feelings or find a more positive way to view any experience, it helps to create this balance of mind, body and spirit. Positive feelings weigh less, giving us more energy, vibrance and focus. When these are in place, nice and happy experiences seem to become more frequent.

Who is Making Contributions to Your Life?
What kinds of people are contributing to your current conditions. While it is fully your responsibility to choose appropriate feelings, this is much easier to do when you are surrounded by supportive and uplifting people. Balance of mind, body and spirit can be much more easily achieved when you can laugh and love more easily and without effort. If you are surrounded by people who complain, or if you complain yourself, check this behavior and begin to network with people who make it a habit to be positive. These people may seem annoying to someone who’s used to living a reality of unfortunate circumstances, but the more you realize how much easier this way of life is, the more attractive this lifestyle will become.

Where’s All the Fun?
Do you have any fun? It is vital and essential and mandatory that you find a way to incorporate some fun into your life; on a daily basis! The excuse that there isn’t enough time to do the things you want to do is simply not true. In fact, having fun and releasing stress will give you the benefit of more time in a day. Time is relative anyway, and the addition of events which make you feel joy, laughter, peace, love or freedom will enhance the balance of body, mind and spirit and keep you more focused and efficient for the tasks that you are less emotionally connected to.

Release Stress
Meditation is one of the most effective ways to release stress and find that balance for your entire being. Your physical well-being, emotional sanity and spiritual gwell-being all depend upon a balance. Meditation can be achieved almost anywhere at almost anytime. A ritualistic perspective is not necessary. Whenever you have a few moments, like sitting in traffic, washing dishes or waiting for someone, you can engage in a few moments of meditation. Become acutely aware of each thought as it enters your mind, and then practice ways to let it go, let it pass and let it fly. This practice takes some getting used to, and will become an extremely important and effective tool for releasing stress, remaining calm, feeling joy and recognizing the harmony in all people, circumstances and events around you, whether seemingly good or bad.

Live, laugh and love in peace, joy and harmony.
~Jeannie

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Do you dare to go barefoot?

Foot odor can be embarrassing and difficult to cure. With the expansion of awareness of the potential toxicity and long-term side effects of traditional medications for any disease or infection, including foot odor, natural remedies are becoming popular and mainstream. Foot odor natural remedies are easy and inexpensive to make right at home, or they can be purchased at local health food stores and vitamin shops.

Get Rid of That Smell, the Natural Way!
Long-term use of harsh chemicals can lead to all sorts of toxic situations for the body. The feet are no exception to this rule. This can be avoided by purchasing foot odor natural remedies, or using ingredients found in your cupboards, for mixing one yourself. The use of essential oils with anti-fungal properties, mixed with some sweet-smelling oils can really make a difference in ridding bacteria and fungus which contributes to that horrible smell.

Natural Recipe Using Essential Oils
A great natural recipe for eliminating foot odor is the mixture of certain essential oils with distilled water and other non-toxic substances. Mix 1 cup of distilled water with ¼ of witch hazel. Add about 7 drops of tea tree oil, which contains anti-fungal properties, and an additional 3 to 4 drops of an additional essential oil of your choice. Sage and geranium oil also have anti-fungal properties, while oils like lavender and rose have a wonderful scent. This solution can be sprayed directly on your feet, and inside your shoes as often as you like.

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Natural Deodorizers for the Feet
There are many ingredients that can probably be found in your kitchen cabinets which are great at eliminating foot odors. Baking soda not only rids the awful smell, but also helps to cut down on bacteria. Sprinkle some baking soda in your shoes at night, and add a crumpled ball of newspaper to collect moisture. Tea and vinegar washes can also be made into a foot soak for a great and natural acidic foot bath. Bring tea to a boil, or heat vinegar as an alternative, and once it’s cooled, pour it into a deep dish and soak your feet for at least 20 minutes.

Natural Shoe Inserts
There are many shoe inserts on the market made of natural materials and ingredients which help to minimize foot odors. You may want to take a look at the following:

10prs Bamboo Charcoal Deodorizing Shoe Inserts

Woodlore Cedar Shoe Fresh Inserts

Another fantastic article that I came across today. There’s not much to be said. Camille puts it all down in terms that make sense. You have control and it’s about time you figured that out! If you’re running every day as a part of the rat race, and you’re at least aware of that much, this article may give you a boost to keep going in your search for yourself. Read on…
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The Myth About Control ~ Who Controls What?

It doesn’t really matter where you grew up or how you were schooled. It’s likely you were told, over and over, that the world “is what it is” and your job was to find a way to fit in, do something productive, and take what you got. Or maybe, if you’re one of the “luckier” ones, you were told that with a little hard work, the world could be yours. But, without question, unless you were born a Hilton or a Rockefeller, you had to do your part. No free ride. No Easy Street.

So there we were in all our naive glory, enthusiastic and ready to do whatever it took to live the dream. We were armed with an education and a sense of determination. Maybe we even had a hand up because we “knew” someone. We got our degrees (or not!) and set out into the world to make our mark. And then…

What “they” call “reality” sets in. That college education doesn’t necessarily get you the job. And if it does, it’s not what you thought. Or the pay sucks. Or the hours are horrendous. Or…you find out pretty quickly that this whole idea of the American Dream is just something that applied to the immigrants from the early 20th century. Not so much anymore.

Pretty soon, you’re at the shrink’s office once a week, wondering why you’re so depressed, digging through old tapes to find the cause of your anxiety. You’ve got enough drugs to kill an elephant, but still you’re in utter despair. Why am I so unhappy? What’s wrong with ME? You wander through your day, like the good little robot you were trained to be, hoping against hope that “one day” it will all change.

And then…

You wake up in the middle of the night, covered in sweat, your heart palpitating, and your mind a blur of thoughts that won’t clear. You have no idea what’s just happened or why you’ve woken up in such a state…but you know, somehow, it’s big. REALLY big. So you get out of bed and splash water on your face. You go sit by a window and you try to remember what it was that woke you up. You sit there, waiting for your heart to resume it’s normal operating procedure…and get your breathing back to some semblance of regularity.

And then…

It hits you. That thing that woke you up so furiously was YOU. It was YOU talking to you. It was that beautiful, unlimited Spirit that IS you, trying to get your attention. Trying to tell you that it’s not futile. Trying to tell you that YOU have the power to create your world. Trying to tell you…HEY! IT’S YOUR WORLD! WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?

This thought settles in. You suddenly realize you have a giant grin spread across your face. Your breathing has not only ‘normalized’, it’s slowed to the rate of a hibernating bear. You are, in that moment, in a state of bliss. Because…

You get it. You finally see what they’ve been trying to hide from you all along. You see what the Universe holds for you…and you for it. You realize, without a smidgen of a doubt, that YOU ARE the Universe. Without YOU, the Universe wouldn’t be. You are the breath it breathes, the legs it walks on, the eyes it sees with… the thoughts it thinks. It’s YOUR game and you can craft it any way you wish.

This is a truth that most never learn. It’s a truth that has been a truth since we stood upright and began to work cooperatively. We are not merely physical entities with souls. We are souls in physical entities. Get the difference there? These vessels are merely vessels. They’re housing All That Is…right now, as you read, as I write these words.

You ARE the controller of your destiny. You ARE the master of the Universe….YOUR Universe. There is no one else who has any say-so over what happens to you. That is, unless you allow it. Otherwise, it’s ALL YOU. And the moment you can wrap your pretty little head around THAT, is the moment your world will change faster than you can say ‘YES’.

Yes.

It really is that simple.

Author Resource:- Camille Strate is a blossoming Being who spends much of her time writing. She also spends an immense amount of time crafting magickal treasures out of wood. When she makes time for it, she rolls around in the grass with her dogs and cat, pretending to be 9 years old. More often than not, she’s got a smile on her face & a whole boat-load of love in her heart. Visiting her website is highly recommended.

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Positive affirmations can make changes at a cellular level.

Positive affirmations may seem like a bunch of words that sound good in theory, but how are they supposed to make a difference when we live in a world filled with negative energy? We turn on the news and it’s bad. We get into traffic and we almost get killed by raging drivers, or we become angry ourselves. We are up in arms over healthcare, government, and religion. We hate our jobs, our marriages are failing and our kids don’t listen. What good can a bunch of words labeled ‘positive affirmations’ do for us?

You’ll be surprised if you decide you have nothing to lose and try out this little exercise.

When a statement of purpose is recorded, in writing, either in a text document or on a notepad, it becomes powerful. Realize that it’s a creation. It’s something that wasn’t there before, but now has existence. It’s matter created from a thought. If you have the ability to read between the lines here, a big lightbulb should be going off.

Even more powerful is the spoken word. Using positive affirmations as a daily mantra will transform your physical and emotional being. Stating words that bring about a general feel-good sensation will lift negative emotions out of the way almost instantaneously. Repeating them daily will begin a change at the cellular level of your body. Continuing this repetition of positive affirmations will create a new habit of bringing about joy into your life by rerouting old message waves in the brain. It’s scientific, my friends… much bigger than mumbo jumbo.

[amazon-carrousel height="200" width="600"]3f298d8c-9aec-4bfe-85a0-9dfa09014509[/amazon-carrousel]It’s always possible to reach for a feeling that’s better than the one you’re currently experiencing. Positive affirmations can help with this. Even if you feel pretty good, making positive statements can make you feel even better. Wouldn’t you like to feel bliss and joy as much as possible? It can be done. If you’re sick of feeling sad, angry, disappointed, irritated, overwhelmed or lonely, find a great affirmation and practice changing that feeling.

If you’re sensitive to the sensations of your body, you’ll notice the flutter or energy surge when you say something powerful and positive. Look around for some positive affirmations that work well for your life, or write down some of your own. I will include a short list at the end of this post.

Make it a habit to recite your powerful statements at least twice a day. You can choose general positive affirmations for joy and happiness, or pick specific statements that pinpoint a problem you may be having in your life.

If you have a problem with emotional eating, or want to lose weight:
~I am now at peace with my body, and I am feeling healthy.
~I crave only foods which are healthy for my mind, body and spirit.
~Losing weight is easy and effortless.

If you are having problems with relationships:
~I am now creating joy and love in all my relationships.
~I attract healthy and loving relationships.
~I feel compassion and love towards myself and others.

If you are having problems with depression:
~Today is filled with joy, peace and happiness.
~I feel powerful, strong and creative today.
~My life is now magical. I see evidence of joy and light.

These are only a few short examples of millions of positive affirmations that can be incorporated into your days. Once you understand the power of positive thinking, you’ll begin to see results that are magical, and you’ll begin to attract only good feelings.

Peace, joy and light,
Jeannie
xo