What’s really frustrating and pisses me off is that none of you Patriots as you call yourselves. Why aren’t we taking arms as our country is amidst foreign and domestic takeover? We the people have Got to wake up, hello? What does it take to be nuked and dead and brought back to life again and hold the line? I’m being sarcastic but I’m being serious too. You could see my frustration if you only could hear me how fucking pissed that I am.
I myself won’t live in no fucking Nazi controlled country. Or as Donald Trump said “we will end up being Venezuela on steroids and kissing the nutsacks of Nazis and communist for the rest of our fucking life. I refuse to give in to these bastards and something’s got to give. We have to fight now or die on our knees later. Our children’s minds/attention, the most valuable part of their being, is being held captive with blinking, bonking, colorful trivial & brainwashing techniques.
Children should not have smartphones or computers. They need to play outdoors with their contemporaries. Our Mum used to sit with us, cuddle us, read books to us and encourage us to read the words. They hardly play with each other – which is vital for their brain’s proper development.
Parents are allowing it because their attention is hijacked as well!
That’s because a lot of parents use tech devices as babysitters.
Parents would rather their children have their heads in devices rather than spend time with them. And as long as it keeps those pesky kids out of the parents’ way of their “me time” they are just fine with it. More electronic devices for Christmas as long as you don’t bother me kids.
Cyborg Zuckerturd will have everyone living in his metaverse fantasy world right up until a Chinese Communist soldier jams his bayonet into us! Then it’ll be back to reality for a minute or two anyway!(edited) They are not your kids, they are their consumers. give them a ball and tell them to play in the garden.
As consumers, kids will accept digital transactions designed by the One World Order Government to track our every move. No crime needs to be committed if they want to eliminate us. Jan6ers still in gulag proof. Children are brought up in a digital world for this purpose. To be tracked like animals.
The true benefit of “having nothing to say”…. “Your mind is empty like space”-(Tibetan Book of the dead. 13 century) The nature of consciousness, happiest place you’ll ever be, no desires, no needs, no thoughts, absolute clarity, no fear of dying. Only then you realize you are all one, everything, the universe. Bogoslowsky
It is why TPTB let you mature and breed. You are breeding stock to them, that is all. When you have children for them, then you become a useless eater.
Big Tech wants your kid to be its consumer, even if it harms them
“There’s a scourge on our children and it’s called ‘kid tech.’ Big Tech knows that screens and social media are making our kids sick, so why aren’t companies doing something about it? There’s a scourge on our children and it’s called “kid tech.” These two words describe how companies freely market directly to young ones in our homes and schools with addictive games and videos designed to keep kids hooked. The numbers are staggering Children ages 5 to 8 spent an average of three hours a day in front of digital devices, while teenagers logged nearly a third of their day in front of screens. This was before the pandemic upped these numbers. In the past two years, anxiety and depression have skyrocketed. Measures of self-confidence are in the toilet. A new paper presented at European Society for Pediatric Endocrinology meeting last month suggests that excessive blue light from our devices may be contributing to early onset of puberty in girls. As The Post’s Karol Markowicz writes, “They’re on a drug, and everyone seems OK with it.” And Big Tech knows that screens and social media are making our kids sick. According to author Susan Linn, digital technology is now “more pervasive, more invasive, more sophisticated, more manipulative, and more devious than ever.”
Angry yet? Just wait. There’s more. Psychologist and child advocate Susan Linn’s new book, “Who’s Raising the Kids?” offers an impassioned indictment of tech companies making big money off exploiting the minds of our children. Linn, who has fought against direct-to-children marketing since the 1990s, provides an unvarnished look at our dystopian world where children sit slack-jawed in restaurants watching unboxing videos. Digital technology is “more pervasive, more invasive, more sophisticated, more manipulative, and more devious than ever,” she says. Adults can model good screen etiquette for their children by declaring screen-free zones and times. Take Aristotle, billed in 2017 as toy company Mattel’s “all-in-one nursery necessity” that would coo at a crying baby, sing songs with a toddler, and help a kindergartener do homework. It would act as a “surrogate parent” — one that collects children’s data from birth to adolescence. Thanks to advocacy groups, the toy never hit shelves. But this story teaches us one important lesson: Big Tech has no boundaries.
There’s been a shift in American family dynamics — and advertisers are fully willing to exploit it. Millennial parents are less inclined to think of families as hierarchies. A majority of millennial parents consider their children to be among their closest friends and 74% include their children in decision-making, according to ad-agency research. “Families are more like teams,” one ad executive said, according to Linn. A marketer’s goal, with the help of child psychologists catering the message, is to push children’s “choice as consumers” and increase “child-to-parent communication” (i.e., increase nagging for games, toys, or more screen time). Even the apps marked “educational” in the Google Play store contained ads, making parents nostalgic for good old-fashioned math on a chalkboard. There are no safe places. Even if you’re not one of the 53% of 11-year-olds with a smartphone (19% of 8-year-olds also have them), a child is deluged with marketing from companies like Amazon, Google and Disney at school thanks to “ed tech” games and apps. Researchers at the University of Michigan found that 95% of the 135 most downloaded apps — even the apps marked “educational” in the Google Play store for children under five — contained ads. Meanwhile the market is exploding. The K-12 ed tech market is expected to double to a $42.5 billion market in 2025. Nine out of 10 kids from third to twelfth grade already use ed tech products at least a few days a week. While adults have the maturity and experience to handle technology, kids are far more vulnerable.
The research is stark on this, too — computers in the classroom do not improve outcomes. Schools that rely heavily on computers “do a lot worse in most learning outcomes, even after accounting for social background and student demographics,” writes Linn. In some cases, those that use tables in “all or most” of their classes have reading scores a full grade lower than those who don’t. There are ways to fight back from the big creep of Big Tech. These two words describe how companies freely market directly to young ones in our homes and schools with addictive games and videos designed to keep kids hooked.” #TechWreck
: FK ’em all. All the Tech Billionaires, starting with Zborg, who should be the Poster child of the Tech-wreck. Soon may be: Kicked out of his company and facing an investigation for rigging an election. (edited) Video games an T.V. is a laziness that has hurt our children. The CCP want our Nation to be Morons. Hey, don’t allow this there. But they serve it to the USA. They want everything bad for the USA. No shit Sherlock…Is that why it is called Consumerism??
James ULTRA Freedom @WorldTvlr 80% of Americans, ALL Parties, OPPOSE #Transgender Procedures on kids. -1st, it’s Shoved down our throats by Radical #Democrats Look we had a big bird. Now big tech is out to destroy the family unit. -It’s NOT dress-up & acting on stage; things attractive to young kids. -It’s grooming & Indoctrination. -It’s a mental illness. -It’s MUTILATION.
Righteousness exalts peoples, but sin is the shame of nations. Remove the wicked from the presence of the king, and his throne will be established in righteousness. Jesus IS the righteousness of God.
EUPHRATES RIVER BEGINS TO DRY UP: ‘A PROPHECY OF JEREMIAH’ BY ADAM ELIYAHU BERKOWITZ | SEP 22, 2021 | BIBLICAL NEWS “Be Dry; I Will Dry Up Your Rivers.” Isaiah 44:27 (The Israel BibleTM) The Humanitarian Crisis Caused By The Decade-Long Civil War In Syria Is Worsening As The Euphrates River, The Longest River Of Western Asia, Is Drying Up. According To One Rabbi, This Is The Realization Of A Prophecy From The Book Of Jeremiah.
THE EUPHRATES RIVER Originating In Turkey, The Euphrates Flows Through Syria And Iraq To Join The Tigris In The Shatt Al-Arab, Which Empties Into The Persian Gulf. This Year, Rainfall In Southern Turkey Where The Euphrates Begins Was The Lowest In 30 Years And For The Past Two Years, The Region Has Received Only 50-70 Percent Of Normal Rainfall. Syria Is Currently Facing Its Worst Drought In 70 Years. The 1,700 Mile-Long Euphrates Is The Main Source Of Drinking Water As Well As Powering Three Hydroelectric Plants That Produce Electricity For About Three Million People In Syria. Two Dams In Northern Syria Face Imminent Closure Which Would Leave About Three Million People Without Any Access To Electricity. The Water Level At The Tishrin Dam, The First Into Which The River Falls Inside Syria, Has Dropped Five Meters And Is Currently About Ten Centimeters Above “Dead Level” When The Turbines Stop Producing Electricity. The Sources Of The River Lie In Turkey And An Agreement Between The Two Countries In 1987 Allowed An Annual Average Of 500 Cubic Meters Per Second Of Water To Cross Into Syria. In Recent Months, That Amount Has Dropped To As Little As 200 Cubic Meters Per Second. Some Experts Believe That Turkey Is Using The Water Crisis To Exert A Political Agenda. Much Of The Path Of The Euphrates Inside Syria Lies Inside The Northeastern Region Of The Country Which Is Controlled By The Semi-Independent Kurds Which Turkey Considers To Be A Terrorist Organization. Turkey Has Seized Land In Syria From The Kurds In Order To Decrease Their Influence On The Border Region. The Kurdish Authorities Are Accusing The Turkish Government Of Withholding Water For Political Purposes.
BIBLICAL REFERENCES The Euphrates Figures Prominently In The Bible With It Being Described As Bordering The Garden Of Eden. The Name Of The Third River Is Tigris, The One That Flows East Of Assyria. And The Fourth River Is The Euphrates. Genesis 2:14 It Was Also Named As One Of The Borders Of The Land God Granted To Abraham’s Descendants. On That Day Hashem Made A Covenant With Avram, Saying, “To Your Offspring I Assign This Land, From The River Of Egypt To The Great River, The River Euphrates: Genesis 15:18 The Prophet Jeremiah Described How The Waters Of Babylon, The Region Currently Including Syria And Iraq, Would Dry Up As A Punishment For Their Idolatrous Practices, The Devastation Being So Complete As To Render The Region, Once Part Of The So-Called ‘Fertile Crescent’, Uninhabitable. A Drought Against Its Waters, That They Be Dried Up! For It Is A Land Of Idols; They Are Besotted By Their Dread Images. Assuredly, Wildcats And Hyenas Shall Dwell [There], And Ostriches Shall Dwell There; It Shall Never Be Settled Again, Nor Inhabited Throughout The Ages. Jeremiah 50:38-39 Rabbi Yosef Berger, The Rabbi Of King David’s Tomb On Mount Zion, Emphasized That It Is Precisely During The Holiday Of Sukkoth That The World Is Judged On How Much Rain It Will Receive In The Upcoming Year. “It Is Clear That What Is Happening In Syria Is The Prophecy Of Jeremiah,” Rabbi Berger Said. “God Loves All Of Creation But Nations Are Judged On How They Relate To Israel. In This Case, Syria Has Much To Repent For. As We Are Seeing More And More Signs Of Geula (Redemption) Appearing Precisely As Prophesied, It Is Important To Remember The Prophecies And Not Get Distracted By Our Own Interpretations. People Are Focusing On The Pandemic And The Vaccine But Missing The Message Implicit In The Plague. People See The Drought But Miss The Meaning Which Could Actually Contain The Solution.”
“The Simple Message Is To Make Hashem One And His Name One,” Rabbi Berger Said. It Is Interesting To Note That Jeremiah’s Syria Prophecy Is Appearing Just As An Art Exhibit In London’s Chisenhale Gallery Recreates A Colonnade From The Pagan Temple Of Palmyra, Syria. The Iranian-Born, Montreal-Based Artist Abbas Akhavan Came Up With The Idea Of This Colonnade When He Saw An Image Of Then-Mayor Of London Boris Johnson Unveiling A Replica Of The Palmyra Arch In London’s Trafalgar Square In 2016.
The Model Cited By The Artist Was A 28-Meter Tall 3-D Printed Model Created By The Institute For Digital Archeology Representing The Famous Arch Of The Original Temple Of Palmyra In Syria That Was Displayed In London As Part Of The UNESCO World Heritage Week. The Arch Was A Pagan Roman Structure That Stood In Front Of The Temple Of Ba’al 2,000 Years Ago To Honor The God Of Orgies And Child Sacrifice. The Temple And The Original Arch Were Destroyed By The Islamic State (ISIS) In 2015. Though The Organizers Claimed The Event Was A Symbol Of Protest Against Religious Extremism, It Coincided With Beltane, The Major Festival For The Worship Of Ba’al. Both Christian And Muslim Eschatology Include Prophecies Of The Drying Up Of The Euphrates Signaling The End-Of-Days. In Islam, Some Of The Hadiths Suggest That The Euphrates Will Dry Up, Revealing Unknown Treasures That Will Be The Cause Of Strife And War. In The Christian Book Of Revelation, It Is Prophesied That In The ” Near Future” The Potamos Euphrates Or “Breaking Forth Like Water” Of The Middle East Will Dry Up In Preparation For The Battle Of Armageddon. The Euphrates River Is Drying Up – Part 1 Something Strange Is Happening. – YouTube
The Serpent Story God Is The Serpent – Search (Bing.Com) Was The Serpent 100% Evil, Or Covert Christ? Posted on November 12, 2020, by noncanonical Christianity Most people have heard some version of the story with the serpent in the Garden of Eden described in Genesis 3, in which God commands Adam and Eve not to eat from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, but the snake talks Eve (and, indirectly, Adam) into doing so. The story, as well as many other stories in Genesis, have inspired countless people throughout the ages– both those who take it literally and those who take it figuratively. For those who take it literally, however, there are some pretty challenging problems.
The depiction of God can be cruel (for example, turning Lot’s wife into salt), genocidal (with the Flood), and even… perhaps factually wrong. It’s this last one that helped inspire early Christian thinkers, like the author of the Testimony of Truth, to think differently about the story. In the Testimony of Truth, not only is the God depicted in the garden of Eden malicious, but the snake is not the devil– it’s Christ!
God Was… Not So Great?
The Testimony of Truth points out some really problematic behavior from God in Genesis 3. First off– God was either wrong, or lying. God commanded, “you shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the middle of the garden, nor shall you touch it, or you shall die”, but did that occur? It seems like an empty threat– neither Adam or Eve actually died upon touching or eating the fruit! Another thing the text points out is that God’s motivations here seem really problematic. In Genesis 22, God says, “See, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil; and now, he might reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever”. God’s motivation is that he doesn’t want man to have eternal life, and to be like him! That’s pretty concerning, right? Wasn’t Christ’s whole message that we should be like him and have eternal life?
The writer of the Testimony of Truth concluded that this being which Genesis calls “God” must not, in reality, be the true God– certainly not the god and father of Christ. His solution is to consider the god of Genesis (and, indeed, the Old Testament in general) to not really be the true God, but a demiurge, a lower deity. For background on the topic, I’d encourage you to read my article, The Demiurge, Intriguing Solution to Hard Old Testament Problems. The Testimony of Truth certainly doesn’t shy away from the asking what we should make of this deity, The text argues: What kind of a god is this? First, he begrudged Adam’s eating from the tree of knowledge. Second, he said, “Adam, where are you?” God does not have foreknowledge; otherwise, wouldn’t he have known from the beginning? He has certainly shown himself to be a malicious grudger. And what kind of a god is this? This is clearly not a positive perspective on the god of the Old Testament! If God Was A Demiurge… Who Was The Serpent? According to The Testimony of Truth, it’s not God who told the truth in Genesis 3; it’s the serpent! Genesis 3 tells us that, “the serpent said to the woman, “You will not die; for God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
On a surface level, this seems to be true.
When Adam and Eve ate the fruit, they did not die. Their eyes were opened, causing them to realize that they were naked. Finally, they were ashamed, indicating that they knew good and evil. To take it another level, though, the text points out that what the snake was advocating for… actually sounds pretty good, right? Christ didn’t want us to die, right? Wasn’t a consistent activity in his miracles that he was opening eyes, restoring sight to the blind?
Finally, wouldn’t God want us to know good from evil? The Testimony of Truth points out that serpents show up in other places in Genesis. For example: In Exodus 7, Moses and Aaron must perform a miracle before Pharaoh. Aaron throws down his staff, which becomes a snake. Pharaoh’s magicians do the same, but Aaron’s serpent is more powerful and consumes the serpents of the Pharaoh. A much more powerful and relevant example for the author of the Testimony of Truth, however, comes from Numbers 21, in which, after the Israelites have been bitten by poisonous serpents: And the Lord said to Moses, “Make a poisonous serpent, and set it on a pole; and everyone who is bitten shall look at it and live.” So Moses made a serpent of bronze and put it upon a pole; and whenever a serpent bit someone, that person would look at the serpent of bronze and live.
The Testimony of Truth proudly proclaims about this: For this is Christ; [those who have] believed in him have [received life]. Those who did not believe [will die]. Indeed, the story found in Number 21 shows a metaphor that seems profoundly similar to the story of Christ’s crucifixion. Those who look to the crucified serpent survive, while those without the eyes to see perish. It’s a gripping image, isn’t it? The Testimony of Truth argues that it’s revealing Christ as the serpent found in the story of Genesis. The image of the serpent is not diabolical, but rather the one of the power and truth of God. It consumes the false magic of Pharaoh’s magicians, and it brings salvation and life to those who are condemned but look upon it.
Concluding Thoughts I find it an interesting puzzle. I do think it can be problematic to take a text like this literally– but, even if we take it figuratively, we’re still stuck with selecting what messages to take away. I certainly don’t see God as being described in many of the Genesis texts as being the kind of God that Christ seems to have worshiped and identified as his father. On the other hand, I want to be very careful about throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Taking too hard of a demiurgical approach can verge on anti-Semitic, depending on how you approach it. Jewish thinkers have been pondering these problems for centuries– longer than Christians have, certainly– and have found other ways to approach the problem. The demiurgic strategy is interesting, and I think there’s value there for a modern context. I also think one needs to be very careful and intentional about how one presents the narrative, and one must take responsibility for the implications of that narrative and the effect it has on others.
After forty-three years of university teaching, I retired in 2007. For the first time since I had begun writing, I found myself with as much time as I needed. I could write about whatever struck my fancy or my sense of service. So it was that in the fall of 2008, at the age of 68 (but two years younger than the age of my brother when I passed), I began to think about death.
Like any human being, I had reflected many times before on my mortality and what the afterlife experience might be. And as a confirmed Bahá’í, I had long since acquired a fair degree of certitude that the conditions of that experience as portrayed in the Bahá’í writings were accurate and reliable. Furthermore, I fully expected—and do still—that I will during the course of my life review be made keenly aware of the times when I knowingly and willfully did things I should not have, even as—I dearly hope—I shall also become apprised of some little acts of kindness and of love I performed without the least concern about winning points for my afterlife evaluations score. Unlike anything I had ever written before—other than a few poems—this work flowed from my imagination through my fingers onto the keyboard scarcely without thought or revision. I certainly do not mean to imply this was some divine inspiration. Rather it was if long pent-up thoughts and observations had suddenly been unleashed upon me, like a flood of emotionally charged and quasi rational reflections on my own life experience as it relates to my ultimate outcome in this life and in my transition to the next.
It is a light-hearted work, and thus begins with a humorous bit of fiction, as I imagined how triplets in the womb—were they cognitively aware of their condition and also able to communicate—might observe their progress through the nine months of rapid change. The climax of this narrative naturally occurs as they sequentially experience what they are certain is the end of their existence as one-by-one each exits the warmth and security of the uterine world and is suddenly thrust out into the realm of noise, lights, voices. Needless to say, this quirky story is intended as a parable, an allegory, about our fear of death which, the Writings assure us, would be immediately changed into joy beyond measure were we to understand the reality that awaits us. The theme of the work beyond that initial foray into the realm of fiction dwells on something I began to observe shortly after my accession to the position of a tenure-track professorial rank at the University of South Florida—that somehow I was living out a life that I had not really chosen, so much as I had followed, or had allowed myself to be coerced along, a path prescribed by society at large, but as reinforced by family, friends, and popular culture.
Employing a useful metaphor, I describe this path as boarding a train along with everyone else I knew, and not getting off until I had become aware that it was not going anywhere that in my heart of hearts I really wanted to go. The work proceeds to weave together bits of autobiographical example with axiomatic philosophical observations derived therefrom, but all the while focusing on the endgame that all our lives must ultimately play with death. And yet, unlike the chess match with Death in Bergman’s 1957 film The Seventh Seal, this game we’re in as Bahá’ís is ours to lose, if we but follow the alternate path, the path “less traveled by” that Bahá’u’lláh has plainly laid out for us and which the plans of the Universal House of Justice have made even more explicit. I hope this website will assist those interested in exploring and understanding the scope and themes of my work. In addition to providing a description of each of my individual books, the site explains the continuity among the various groups of these works and offers other relevant information about them. It is also a repository of my articles and talks that are otherwise scattered throughout the web. The Life, Works, and Onlines Courses of Professor John S. Hatcher (johnshatcher.com)
Collectively, we humans have never lived this long. The average lifespan in the year 1900 was forty-seven—today it is seventy-five. Consequently, problems resulting from the physiological deterioration of the aging brain are only recently becoming intensely studied. Compared to other amazing advancements in scientific exploration of reality, understanding of the human brain is the very earliest stage of exploration and development. Of course, aging and the field of gerontology are, generally speaking, newly emerged concerns for our modern age. But as I discussed at some length in my book Close Connections, the more science examines this most complex creation in all of physical reality—the human brain— the more speculation shifts from modular theory to holonomic theory, and, even more recently, to what I call the “transceiver” theory, where we understand the source of consciousness as non-physical.
Close Connections will appeal to anyone interested in spirituality and its link to everyday life. For more than twenty-five years John Hatcher has studied the nature and purpose of physical reality by exploring the theological and philosophical implications of the authoritative Baha’i texts. His latest book explains how the gap between physical and spiritual reality is routinely crossed and describes the profound implications that result from the interplay of both worlds. In short, increasingly exploration of the relationship between “self” or “consciousness” and the brain indicates that the source of “self” is metaphysical and not biological, even though it communicates back and forth through the intermediary of the brain so long as this relationship endures. The growing popularity of this theory has even gained acceptance among major scientists in the field of neurology, because too much new information indicates capacities of will and consciousness defy any present physiological model, even explanations postulated through quantum physics. Some scientists have concluded that there is no possibility of any future physiological model being capable of accounting for human personality, human consciousness, and human will as being the random product of neurological activity.
The Baha’i teachings have long held that exact same understanding—that the seat of human consciousness is the soul and not the brain, the spiritual and not the physical: Thou hast asked Me whether man, as apart from the Prophets of God and His chosen ones, will retain, after his physical death, the self-same individuality, personality, consciousness, and understanding that characterize his life in this world. If this should be the case, how is it, thou hast observed, that whereas such slight injuries to his mental faculties as fainting and severe illness deprive him of his understanding and consciousness, his death, which must involve the decomposition of his body and the dissolution of its elements, is powerless to destroy that understanding and extinguish that consciousness? How can any one imagine that man’s consciousness and personality will be maintained, when the very instruments necessary to their existence and function will have completely disintegrated? Know thou that the soul of man is exalted above and is independent of all infirmities of body or mind. – Baha’u’llah, Gleanings from the Writings of Baha’u’llah, pp. 153-154.
In short, science is discovering that the essential self is non-local—not resident in or dependent on a physical organ. Your brain, in other words, is not you. Over time, and not all that much time at that, the study of the interplay between physics and metaphysics will doubtless vindicate completely this understanding of the human reality. For now, we can accept it or not based on our individual study and experience. My own experience is that “I write, therefore I get published,” an axiom that is decent enough for me to accept the knowledge that I am thinking. Furthermore, I refuse to give credit for my thinking to the random firing of a bunch of neurons I’ve never met that reside in some specialized lobes of my brain, though I may take my royalties and buy some brain food (smoked salmon is good) as a token of appreciation to my lobes.
The relationship of this paradigm to the Baha’i concept of human purpose— of our spiritual preparation for a non-physical birth into a metaphysical environment— is extremely enlightening as regards our creation, particularly as regards the notion of our being made in the image of our Creator. In this Baha’i view of our human reality, the essential self begins gradually to escape the bonds of physiological constraints and, ultimately, at the moment of death, to escape physiological association altogether. Or, started from the Creator’s perspective, also our relationship to physical reality is specifically designed to gradually extricate and detach us by degrees from attachment to our lower or physical nature. Consciousness – Bing images
Sugar Consumption and Home glucose monitoring has been an integral part of managing diabetes for the past half-century.
~But more people without diabetes are seeking out CGMs to understand
how food and lifestyle choices impact their health. CGM in a nutshell: – CGM measures the amount of glucose in the interstitial fluid just under your skin
(it’s a close proxy for glucose in your blood ).
– And, through intelligent software , shows you how your body is reacting to diet and lifestyle choices in near real-time. – This trend toward opening access to personalized data, along with tools to help make that data actionable, is crucial to solving the metabolic health crisis. What is the metabolic health crisis? – Today, more than a third of Americans are living with prediabetes. – Prediabetes increases the risk of diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and stroke. – However, this kind of metabolic dysfunction can progress for years before people realize they have a problem. And More than 80% of people with prediabetes are unaware that they have it. How CGM can help? – The kind of closed-loop feedback CGM provides can empower us to make healthier decisions and, hopefully, reduce our risk of developing metabolic dysfunction. – Many legitimate questions remain about the impact of CGM use in people without diagnosed metabolic impairment, but anecdotal evidence suggests that it could be genuinely transformative. What CGM is and is not. – Advocating for more visibility on one’s own data and adopting a diet that aims for stable blood sugar doesn’t mean obsessing over data or diet in unhealthy ways. – Instead, the goal of increased visibility into our body’s functioning is to learn what promotes long-term health for you.
– A glucose spike should never be the source of shame or anxiety but rather a learning opportunity.
Dr Erica Berger Thanks for sharing. As an integrative psychiatrist, I patiently await studies that look at impacts of CGM use on mental health symptoms. Quite a few patients are asking about this now.
Roseanne Galvin Dr Casey … have you done a podcast (or Youtube talk) on CGM comparisons? If not, it would be so helpful. So many bright doctors and professionals offer great information but so often with conflicting beliefs, information & guidance. It is tough to make a decision with a ginormous sea of choices.
Angie Angie The sad part is that CGM are not affordable at all.
The monthly cost is high.
kkwilde7 I would love to have one of these, but they are way overpriced for the average person! Once again, many times it is for those who have higher incomes to be able to utilize this new technology
cass olmstead Agreed. The only CGMs that I can find are part of a costly monthly membership program. I cannot find any companies that just sell them to individuals without making them join their monthly membership. If these companies really wanted to help people, they would give them the option of having the CGM with the app to track our own data and not have to pay them a monthly service fee to do something we can do all on our own.
joy_full_abundance Everything seemed to spike my glucose that was frustrating. I need help with foods that can satisfy my hunger and not spike it. WHILE considering my heart health issue of no cholesterol, salt etc. Help. Pls advice.
lisabt50 It’s a great idea but doctors won’t prescribe diabetes supplies until you have diabetes and many people can’t afford to buy CGMs from the companies that are offering them to non-diabetics.
monroe.mark I have been urging my personal physician for 9 months now.
No CGM because he wants to use the Fasting Blood Glucose tests. Just about ready to change physicians.
bestgo I have a love/hate relationship with my @levels CGM and app. It’s only been 2 months and I’ve learned a lot, but it’s also messed with my head quite a bit. I’m struggling with understanding why my body reacts to the same exact foods in such drastic ways on different days. It’s making it hard to choose the right foods to remain stable. My nutrition is pretty darn clean. I rarely eat anything processed. I sleep well and exercise daily. I make all my own salad dressings in order to avoid sugar. Yet a large salad can still cause a spike on certain days. If someone can help@meunderstand why that might be, I’d greatly appreciate it. Lastly, Dr. Casey, could you maybe do some articles/podcasts on how genetic variants can/may cause glucose issues in our bodies and what we may do to hack ourselves?
Earlier this year, former NASCAR and IndyCar driver Danica Patrick removed her breast implants which she got done in 2014. Patrick faced symptoms like loss of hair, weight gain, and face swelling. Fortunately, she is in a better place now and has improved her overall health. Since then, she has been vocal about the effects she faced because of the implant and how it deteriorated her health over the years.
The most successful woman in the history of NASCAR and the inspiration to many female drivers in the sport had a conversation with the American celebrity doctor and a five-time winner of the New York Times best-selling author, Daniel Amen. In a recent Instagram post by the renowned doctor, Daniel thanked Danica for opening her vulnerable side to the world and the struggles she faced while having the implants.
Today is a great day. I sat down with my new friend and retired race car driver DANICA PATRICK. Danica and I discuss her struggle with breast implant illness, brain health and so much more. Danica’s story is incredibly powerful, and I am honored to be/
Within this opportunity with the most successful woman in the history of American racing. Danica and I did a deep dive of her recent struggles with severe symptoms and an extensive list of profiles she suffered including heavy metal toxicity, adrenal fatigue, face swelling and hair loss. She opens up about her decision to remove her breast implants and why it was so important for her to share that with the world. Her episode will come out in a couple weeks, and you will be able to watch it on my Instagram. Thank you for your vulnerability, Danica! @Danicapatrick. #mentalhealthmatters#scanmybrain
By opening her personal struggles to the world, the former IndyCar race winner wanted to raise awareness among the women who go through struggles like these and promote body positivity. Well, that’s just not it. She also has other ventures of her own other than racing, podcasts being one of them where she discusses life.
Danica Patrick attends Netflix’s “Don’t Look Up” World Premiere on December 05, 2021, in New York City. (Photo by Mike Coppola/Getty Images)
Life of Danica Patrick outside the racing world: After leaving a great impact on the male-dominated racing world, the 40-year-old retired from racing in 2018. Since then, she has taken time out for herself and got involved in various other ventures.
She is still a success and a great inspiration to many around the world. She also hosts a podcast, ‘Pretty Intense’ every Thursday. There she has an intense discussion with the guests from all aspects of life and talks about inspiring ideas.
She became an entrepreneur and started her Rose wine label called Somnium, a vineyard in California. Not only that she also owns a collection of home scents personally designed by her which goes by the name Voyant.
Is Boston University subtly trying to threaten the American people before the midterm elections? HOW IS THIS BEING ALLOWED?
Oh yeah… our CORRUPT Federal government. They should go back to developing a better BEAN. Like Wuhan and other select locations around the world, Boston is likely just another new distribution center for the World Headquarters on Plum Island.
Funded by none other than NIH. Fauci strikes with a vengeance 💣
Now ask yourself some questions: 1. Why would they make this public? 2. Why would they make it public three weeks pre-election?
In 1969, President Richard Nixon issued an executive order unilaterally and unconditionally ending America’s bioweapons program, and all U.S. stockpiles were destroyed by 1972. That same year, 160 nations signed a treaty banning all use of biological and chemical weapons. And 143 countries eventually ratified the treaty, including the United States, Russia, Iraq, Iran, Libya and North Korea. Fifty-two nations have not signed on, including Israel, Egypt and Somalia. Failed treaty Despite its noble intentions, says Block, the 1972 treaty lacks any significant provisions for enforcement or verification. As a result, a number of signatories to the treaty have maintained active bioweapons programs.
Everyone involved with this research should be sent to Gitmo.
Bullshit, as all the others. They want tô rinse and repeat the massive Mail ballots and the FRAUD that got Biden “elected”. this is why UMass is better than Boston University.
WTF? Why is an American university creating deadly viruses? Whomever is behind it needs to be fired and investigated. They should be working on cures! And this isn’t the lead story on all the mainstream media? Really? And what about congress, where are they? Too busy campaigning. This has to be illegal, where’s the oversite?
Are they calling it the “Make sure Trump can’t get reelected by shutting the world down again and rigging the rules against Republicans for the 2024 election cycle strain?” WhO would file a patent for Subliminal Acoustic Manipulation of the Nervous System,
and WHY?
Knowing this, are we sure Covid came from China? I know folks are always creating this crap. I want to know what type of precautions are taken while coming up with crap like this. Why would we or anyone make something so dangerous? To what end did they make something to kill 80% of people? Are they going to drop it on China? North Korea? Iran? I’d feel better about it if it was created offshore someplace.
Another sign that we’re suicidal as a country. The other signs are Fauci is walking around as a free man, Echo Health is still getting millions from NIH and (obviously) gain-of-function is still a thing.
America’s worry at present isn’t Covid. It’s the Kosher Coup of 2020 that installed the regime presently working on taking us down!
Better wake up! They hide a whole lot of evil behind their veil of anti-Semitism!
…let this sink in, Say the word. Co-vid. Say it again. Co-vid. Keep saying it. Co-vid. Repeat it. Co-vid. Again, and again. Co-vid. Don’t stop saying it. Co-vid. Day in and also day out 24/7 coverage of the… “virus”. The “Co-vid”. They put a spell on you. Remember the most contagious, dangerous, deadly Covid-Alpha-Beta-Gamma-Delta-Epsilon-Zeta-Eta-Theta-Iota-Kappa-Lambda-Mu-Omicron-Deltacron-Flurona-Variants! They’ll have you spinning your brain cells for decades.
Read more: www.biorxiv.org/… Share or comment on this article: Outrage as Boston University CREATES Covid …. strain that has an 80% kill rate
Obviously, the US didn’t learn anything from the Wuhan Covid bioweapon debacle …… they are playing with fire and bragging about it…. sounds like an accident waiting to happen! They need to shut down all of these labs worldwide
From outsourcing to Wuhan China, the administration of lawlessness has now weaponized our universities in the development of a Biological Agent whose purpose is WARFARE
Now, that’s a true depopulation weapon, especially given it’s possible to configure the virus for infectivity affinity for specific races and ethnicities. Can you imagine the diabolical power of being able to engineer a virus that’s targeted against a particular racial or ethnic group? What a horrific weapon. It seems there’s a quiet biological arms race going on and it’s far more dangerous than a nuclear weapons arms race. Interesting times. (edited) You look at this and go why the hell are humans messing with Viruses, the only thing more dangerous than viruses in the hands of nature it’s viruses in the hands of man. Sadly, omicron is now available to every bioweapon project in the world.
Fauci should be tried for crimes against humanity. Who is funding this research & why? Is the injectability not enough to comply with the WEF fascist mission to depopulate the world.
…. the depopulation elites believe the globe can sustainably support only 500 million humans (roughly 7% of todays population), and if you are beholden and committed to this dogma, to save the planet for human species, then mass murder of 7.5 million souls is within its twisted logic, and of course those who manage the depopulation effort will be the ones who are allowed to survive to see the panacea…so, a virus that kills 80% of the world’s population is just a good beginning…sadism is a thriving cult…
Gain-of-function research was stopped in 2014 under Obama. I don’t know how this school was able to do these experiments without government approval. Be prepared for another coronavirus release. Don’t believe it. This was not created to get “ahead” of anything. There is no reason whatsoever to create these kind of deadly viruses- none. That is why gain of function was made illegal in our country, and also why Fauci moved it to Wuhan.
IF scientists mutated a more deadly virus, it was to make the next pandemic they plan to release deadly, so that they can enslave and control us even more with a CRISIS THEY CREATE. These globalist owned people are devils and they need to be stopped now. We need trials and serious punishments for those going along with them as soon as the midterms finish— and we better DEMAND them.
💉 1976: Mystery virus emerges, untested vaccines rushed out in extraordinarily lucrative push all across America, they lead to widespread neurological damage. Virus later determined to be a product of a military vaccine program. 🐝
2020: Mystery virus emerges… Here comes the mid-term variant. Just in time. And nobody will care. The only mask wearers these days are Biden voters. Biden promised a long, cold, cruel winter with a lot of death. He missed it by a year. This winter will be the long, cold winter of death as people are forced to decide if they should eat or heat. People will either freeze to death, or starve to death Are they going to test this On Fauci?
Why are they doing function research in Boston? It was banned under Obama and is not legal now! Let us not forget how CDC and AMA Protocols were responsible for needless deaths due to Covid. Safe medications were available to treat the infected, yet they were left to die. Why are we still mandated to use worthless masks in Hospitals?
Science is Evil
Science has demonstrated the lack of protection these provide. I suggest for a better understanding of the Covid Farce you need to read RFK Jr’s book “The Real Anthony Fauci ” or see the Movie which is released for free today @ therealanthonyfaucimovie.com. Go to “TheRealAnthonyFauciMovie.com” to get the real picture of the unholy alliances that are funding these kinds of things. Collaborations and cabals galore from government to industry and how they affected the pandemic and how they affect so many things in public health. End Gain of Function research!! Why TF are they creating these lethal viruses 🤬🤬
Don’t forget tonight is the movie exposing Fauci based on Robert Kennedy Jr’s book. Want to know who’s publishing books like this THEY don’t want you to see? https://www.skyhorsepublishing.com/
Think about it, the entire medical industry is based on the sicker you are, the richer they get. Why trust anyone who profits from making you sick?
Dr. Geert Vanden Bossche warnt: Impfungen machen Virus für Geimpfte gefährlicher 💉🦠 – Search (bing.com) Der erfahrene flämische Immunologe und Mikrobiologe Dr. Geert Vanden Bossche war sowohl für die Bill und Melinda Gates Stiftung wie auch die Impfallianz GAVI tätig, die von der Gates-Stiftung finanziert wird. Er hat jahrelang an der Entwicklung von Impfstoffen mitgewirkt. Vanden Bossche war einer der ersten, die davor gewarnt haben, in die sogenannte Pandemie hinein zu impfen, da sonst Fluchtmutationen entstehen würden. Im Gespräch mit Vivien Vogt erklärt der Immunologe ausführlich, was er mit der Kettenreaktion von neuen Pandemien + Epidemien meint + warum das mit unabsehbaren + dramatischen Folgen für die globale Gesundheit ⚠️👇
Translation: The experienced Flemish immunologist and microbiologist Dr. Geert Vanden Bossche has worked for both the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Vaccine Alliance GAVI, which is funded by the Gates Foundation. He has been involved in vaccine development for years. Vanden Bossche was one of the first to warn against vaccinating into the so-called pandemic, otherwise escape mutations would develop. In an interview with Vivien Vogt, the immunologist explains in detail what he means by the chain reaction of new pandemics + epidemics + why this has unforeseeable + dramatic consequences for global Gesundheit ⚠️👇
“New covid strain w/80% fatality rate created in Boston” Well, I will say this much, it’s a money saver for the communist party that is trying to knock us off since they don’t have to cut the CCP in on the action. we know that Biden notified us a cpl. months ago, that a new virus was coming soon so I reckon this is it. The fact that they are still pushing the “vaccine” shows they just want to keep the storyline going. then all that’s left is to start jabbing folks with this new killer and trying to start another panic. all they have to do then is hide the stats until it’s too late. Remember, Joe promised a new one was coming. stay away from this and protect your kids. That’s the view from “ALENA’S CORNER” @alena_barrett
How is this taking place? “Gain of Function ” research is illegal to conduct on U.S. soil? That’s why Obooke-a-tooke-a-dooky, the NIH, and Fraudci were doing it in China!!! · The excuse “it’s so we can prepare for future pandemics” is moot when there would not be this type of pandemic if the “too high of a risk” experiments were not conducted in the first place. Did they learn nothing from the recent GoF research that most likely created the COVID pandemic, or did they learn too much?
Having read the book, I fully understand the corruption within the bureaucracy. It’s all about Money and power. In your reporting what is the purpose? are they trying for a new vaccine or is this possible something different & just calling it that. After all, may-be not well now we have a Bio-lab are we preparing for something?
The world doesn’t want to.
And why is this being done? BU is the school rich Long Island kids go to because they can’t get into Harvard. Way back, when I was at that college in Chestnut Hill, BU was the last place we would go to get laid. Obnoxious princesses. Same school that graduated from AOC. Who still hasn’t paid off her college loan debt. joe_eagle75 @joe_eagle75
New Biolab-Created ‘Covid’ Kills 80% of Mice They openly admit that they have made a very deadly strain of ‘Covid’ in the name of ‘research’ at Boston University. “Researchers attached Omicron’s spike to the original ‘wildtype’ strain that first emerged in Wuhan at the start of the pandemic. [There was nothing ‘wild’ about the man-made Wuhan Covid 19 🙄] The researchers looked at how mice fared against the new hybrid strain compared to the original Omicron variant.” – Daily Mail
YEs, the strain was created by fauci and the Chinese democrats (Obiden administration to kill us)
Who in the fuck allowed this shit to happen? Get the real crimes against humanity trials going! We must defund the NIH before they kill all of us! #covid19 Covid shots are murder! Developing this covid shit is a war crime!
Where’s the bookie? I want to place $1000 on them “leaking” the new variant right before the election. That is not a wonder, by all these vaccinated people, long covid is a vaccination problem! Anyone knows it, who doesn’t, has lost his own control over the body, spirit and soul, completely! What could possibly go wrong? What is the point? Why in the F@#$ would they be allowed to do anything like this?
For 🚂❤️🚃🤍🚃💙🏎💨 🏛 “Freedom” ==> END FASCISM, WOKEness & CCP 🏛 😍🇺🇸 “Do unto others” – America’s Soul 🇺🇸😍🌹Protect Our Children, Elections & History 🌹Protect Speech, Family, Religion & Gun Rights 🌹Stop Politicizing Justice & Deep State Actions 🌹No OPEN Borders 🌹Tell the Truth about Covid, Vaccines, Climate etc. 🇺🇸🇺🇸
Arrest these Nazi scientists So, you can call me a conspiracy nut if you want, but let’s look at the facts: Covid escaped from a lab in Wuhan that we funded, it killed many worldwide The Covid vaccine is killing our young people, doesn’t work effectively against Covid Now they have created a Covid vaccine that has 80% death rate, and some people think they’re not trying to kill us and depopulate the earth.
Everything is energy. Everything is vibrating at different frequencies. Even rocks, furniture, etc. are vibrating, only at a much lower, denser frequency. As long as everything and everyone on the Earth is vibrating at the same low, slow frequency things will stay the same. The frequency has to be raised so the Earth can split off and enter a new dimension. It is the same thing that happens to our own Earth bodies. As we learn the lessons of the physical plane we can “graduate” to another higher dimension on the spirit side, and not have to return to the Earth school. We can progress, because we will have outgrown this earthly school. Thus the Earth itself is getting ready to “graduate”, to leave the familiar, the status quo, and progress into something much higher. Yet the new Earth without human beings and life in its many diverse forms would be as an empty house. Just four walls without a soul inside. There had to be a way for the humans to also evolve so they can go with the Earth. The humans would have to also raise their vibrations. This was easier said than done, considering how many eons mankind had been trapped here. Then I understood. The karma they had before coming into this world will be left with the “old” Earth. That is where karma will continue to exist.
It has no part in the New Earth. As their influences grow, they raise the vibration of the earth, raise the consciousness of the earth. On a quantum physics level, it creates a high frequency vibration of energy, a sacred vibration. At the same time the density of the magnetic field of earth is decreasing and has been for the last two thousand years. That release of density of the magnetic field allows the density of consciousness to begin to awaken to that information that is coming in. It allows you to become channels for that information. It allows the soul consciousness to begin to awaken. Where the law of physics is concerned, when you have a high vibration that maintains itself within a field as a dominant vibration, it begins the law of entrainment. It begins to raise the vibration of everything of a lower density to its higher vibration. When that happens, it shakes everything up. You create a spiritual crisis. And that’s what you’re in on your planet, a spiritual crisis—all the dualities coming to the surface, into the light. The shadow is rising from the subconscious to be brought into balance, to be healed. It’s a healing crisis. That’s exactly what’s taking place, shaken to the core. All the defenses are being shaken up so the core can reveal itself. Integration is taking place. But in all integration, what happens with duality is you see the extremes of the two sides first. At the same time in this new two-thousand-year cycle you’re moving out of the sixth ray of consciousness, which is the ray of duality that controlled the Piscean age during the last two thousand years. As that moves out, it creates a crisis. And the seventh ray is moving in, which is the ray of the unified field, which is the spiritual ray that restructures everything in the physical that is out of sync or out of balance. It begins to destroy all systems that are in duality. What that means is all the old systems you have known are beginning to break down.
They’re going into a crisis. J: What kinds of systems? G: Your corporate systems, your economic system, your capitalistic system as you have known it, your governmental political systems. Anything that is in separation or duality now will be in the extreme of its duality as it begins to break down. Civilization as you have known it has reached a point of crisis. Now it’s beginning to break down. It’s beginning to crumble. Whenever anything begins to crumble, when it reaches a point of crisis, it fights to maintain its reality. Just as an animal is cornered in the forest by a couple of other animals, it will fight like crazy to survive.
So what’s coming? What is coming, ultimately, is the breakdown of the system as you have known it and its transformation into a system that is not divided upon itself. A kingdom divided against itself cannot stand. So it must fall apart before it can be rebuilt. It is worrisome to those who try to keep it in place. But it is not worrisome to the awakening soul that exists in the truth that lies outside of duality. What you are talking about here that you fear is the breakdown of the veil of illusion, of separation. That’s all. And what is taking place will bring, in the crisis, humanity together to build something anew, a new system, a new form that will embrace the good of the whole. But first you must develop an awareness of the other side, how extreme that other side of duality has gone.
What do you mean by the other side? The side that is in separation, the side that is in control, the side that seeks to conquer, the side that seeks to dominate. Because basically you have developed a consumer culture in the Western culture, and it has permeated the world. That consumer culture is consuming itself. There isn’t enough to go around anymore because the focus has all been on the outside, in the physical, to get a sense of satisfaction and gratification by consuming all your resources, by consuming one another’s spirit. It’s all money and consumption. And what it creates is alienation. It creates more and more isolation, alienation and aloneness, protection and defense. When only a few people are controlling everything, they have to do everything they can to defend that control. Everything that opposes their control becomes their enemy.
What do you mean, we were informed this would be an opportunity? What we do is we read soul grids. And we keep in touch with all the soul grids where the general populace and the evolution of the planet is concerned, and the individual populace is at certain levels of soul development. There are many levels of soul development. When a soul gets to a certain level of soul development because of the number of incarnations it has had and what it has learned from those incarnations, it is ready then to move to a different level of soul development. At that level of soul development, they can access certain levels of knowledge and information as a soul in its service because each soul is in service to the divine plan. And each soul is in service to every other soul in the divine plan. One for all and all for one kind of idea. And so the channel chose on a soul level to be of service in relation to informing spiritual evolution and the development of this new awakening in this incarnational cycle. Thus, the doorway of opportunity was opened to us. Very simply, the divine plan for physical matter in the earth is to learn to love. That is the divine plan. Now what does it mean to learn to love? Love is a force, a force of God, a force of creation, a force of being. Therefore, learning to love means learning to awaken, realize, accept, express, and experience in the fullest way possible the experience, expression, and potential of your being as an individual. That is the divine plan embodied. That is the force of love embodied. That is the soul awakened. So, your purpose in the divine plan is to learn to love.
Now what does love have to do with? Love brings together the fusion of the consciousness of God in physical form. No more duality—instead, there’s oneness, unity, wholeness, completeness, merging, connection. But in order to do that, the irony, the paradox is that you must first become an individual, because if you do not know yourself as an individual soul, you cannot know another soul. Therefore, you must be willing to reveal the knowledge of who you are and share it with all others freely. You must be willing to uncover the depths of who you are and reveal it, unstintingly, without defense. You must use all of your being to respond to all that life has to offer. You must be willing to stand alone with yourself in order to be unified within yourself. Then, and only then, can you be unified with another. That is the divine plan for the earth. That is the evolutionary cyde you are now coming into. So now is the time when you must awaken that Christ within you, that Christ Consciousness within you, because Christ Consciousness is soul consciousness. It’s simply your realization of yourself as divine, and your connection and your ability to channel that connection to the divine. So we are the herald of that awakening, to teach you how to awaken that, to make you realize it’s even a possibility and to get you out of this idea that you are separate from Christ, that you are separate from God, and that it is something better than you are. Because all that means is that you’re little children not willing to take responsibility for that level of intelligence and consciousness. That’s all that means.
Read about these powerful ways to manifest your own positivity, light, and love. The time has come for us to raise our vibrational forces!
A vibration is a state of being, the atmosphere, or the energetic quality of a person, place, thought, or thing. Much of reading “vibes” is intuitive—you can tell a person’s energy when they walk into a room, for example.
While some people draw you closer, others make you want to keep your distance. You see a depressing and violent news story; you get a heavy feeling in your gut. You witness a puppy cuddling with an infant, and you feel a warmth inside.
“As you think, you vibrate. As you vibrate, you attract. Abraham-Hicks
You have heard time and again that whatever you offer out into the world will return back to you, as dictated by the Law of Attraction. Like attracts like. This law of the universe says that you are responsible for your life, and can manifest change according to how you direct your thoughts and emotions.
“Everything in life is a vibration.” –Albert Einstein
Raising the Vibration of the Earth! – Deborah King Everything in the universe is made up of molecules vibrating at different speeds. This includes trees, bodies, rocks, animals, thoughts, and emotions. Human vibrations are composed of everything from physical matter to the way you communicate the thoughts you think. In simple terms, some molecules vibrate faster, and some vibrate slower; there are higher vibrations and lower vibrations.
When you are vibrating at a higher level, you feel lighter, happier, and more at ease, whereas lower vibrations feel heavy, dark, and confused. Almost all spiritual traditions point the way toward higher realms of consciousness, and scientific studies (like that of consciousness research and spirituality author Dr. David Hawkins) have even quantified the vibrations of different states of being to create a scale of consciousness.
The following are 12 ways you can help raise your vibration frequency. How are you vibrating right now? How about the world?
1. Gratitude
Gratitude is one of the quickest ways to amp up your vibration. Try it right now— stop reading and look around the room. Turn your attention to what you are thankful for in this moment (there is always something). It might be your purring feline, the beautiful weather, or the fact that you were blessed with another day on this earth. As life coach Tony Robbins said, “You can’t feel fear or anger while feeling gratitude at the same time.” Therefore, when you feel yourself experiencing a low energy emotion, see if you can shift your attention to gratitude. Make gratitude a habit, and it will transform your outlook on life as you start to experience a spiritual awareness and appreciation for the little things.
2. Love
Call to mind someone who is easy to love and hold that person in your heart. Visualize him or her sitting in front of you and notice how you feel. A feeling of expansion, lightness, and happiness will take over your being, and that right there is the shift you are looking for. Love is one of the highest vibrating states of being (the fourth highest level on the Hawkins’ scale of consciousness) and has the power to pull you out of even the deepest of ditches. Attune your heart to love and your energy will start to soar.
3. Generosity
Anytime you get stingy or greedy with anything (love, attention, money), it lowers your vibration, and it feels bad. In fact, anytime you attach your happiness to something outside of yourself, it leaves you feeling the opposite of how you want to feel. The antidote is to be generous. Whatever you want more of in your life, offer it out to someone or something else. Feeling poor? Give a little money to charity. Feeling lonely? Make an effort to make a stranger smile. Don’t have enough time? Give your time to a good cause.
4. Meditation and Breathwork
Dr. Hawkins’ research was based on the idea that the more “true” something is, the higher its level of consciousness (or vibration). Therefore, when you train yourself to be present with the moment you are in, you resonate more harmoniously with the truth. The past and the future are only in your mind; the only truth is now. Meditating and breathing mindfully also calms your nervous system, improves your mood, and brings about greater feelings of peace—all high-vibe qualities that will benefit your state of being. This spiritual practice helps to raise your vibration level fast so that you can enjoy those benefits without delay.
5. Forgiveness
According to Abraham-Hicks’ emotional guidance scale, blame is a low energy. Out of 22 emotions (arranged from highest vibration at number 1 to lowest at 22), blame is number 15. If you can work toward forgiveness, you will release yourself of this lower energy that can weigh on you like a bowling ball, and up the scale you will go.
From the epic Indian poem, the Mahabharata: One should forgive under any injury. It has been said that the continuation of the species is due to man being forgiving. Forgiving is holiness; by forgiveness, the universe is held together. Forgiveness is the might of the mighty. Forgiveness is sacrifice; forgiveness is quiet of mind. Forgiveness and gentleness are the qualities of the self-possessed. They represent eternal virtue.
6. Eat High-Vibe Food
Everything you consume is prana, or life force energy. If you eat a lot of “dead” energy (In the form of meat, fried, or processed food), you will lower your vibration. By eating nutrient-dense, prana-rich foods, like local and organic fruits and vegetables, your body literally absorbs these things, making you more light, vibrant, and alive. High-vibration food makes a person’s vibration higher.
7. Reduce or Eliminate Alcohol and Toxins from Your Body
While it can temporarily feel good, alcohol is a depressant and lowers a person’s vibration. If you want to be clear, spiritually connected, and have a healthy outlook on life, chances are that eliminating toxins from your body would be a good place to start. Rather than numbing out, adopt a more healthful and holistic way of life and see if you don’t feel more energetically abundant.
8. Think Positive Thoughts
What you think about, you become, and each thought you think creates your future. If the thoughts you think are pessimistic, overtly anxious, or in any way negative, you will likely find what you are looking for. Just as gratitude draws more of the same into your life, so too does impatience, jealousy, and unworthiness. This negative energy can leave you feeling heavy and burdened. Be diligent about what thoughts you give your attention to, since it can take only 17 seconds for a thought to attract another one like it and activate the Law of Attraction. Push away negative energy and choose positive thoughts, for they are the key to positive change.
9. Surround Yourself with Beauty
While you are at it, be sure your home and work environments reflect beauty, passion, and enthusiasm for life. The right lighting can have a significant impact on your productivity and your mood. Hang art that inspires you. Use colors that calm and rejuvenate you. Reduce clutter and create more space for clarity. Your surroundings have a big effect on how you feel on the inside and live your life.
10. Go for a Walk Outside
A double-whammy for raising your vibration—get some exercise in the great outdoors. Get the sun on your face while you get your heart pumping. Take a break also from the constant buzz of electricity and technology, and reconnect with Mother Nature. Even a few minutes spent mindfully outdoors can completely shift your mood, which is why going for a walk around the block when you’re having a mental block or a lover’s quarrel can be so beneficial.
11. Be Sure Your Relationships Are Vibing High
Finally, surround yourself with people who lift you up, rather than drag you down. Spend time only with people who make you feel better about yourself, people who believe in you and are interested in resonating at a high frequency just like you are.
It can be tempting to succumb to a feeling of helplessness with regard to the future of the planet and all its inhabitants. But channeling your efforts into raising your energetic frequency is one of the best gifts you can give the world. When you lift yourself up, you bring others with you. This is the only way you can contribute to raising the collective consciousness of the world.
12. Consume High-Vibe Music, TV, Books, and Movies
Prana is not limited to the food you eat, but includes everything you consume. Be sure your entertainment is of high vibration and leaves you feeling uplifted rather than depleted. Does social media make you feel energetic or insecure? Does that violent action film actually enhance your mood, or does it contribute to your anxiety? Does the music you listen to include violent or low-vibration lyrics? How might changing the soundtrack of your daily commute from death metal to mantras contribute to the course of your day? Be as selective about your media intake as you are about the quality of the food you eat, and you will find newfound energy in your day.
My picks: Classic rock artists/bands from each decade that defined that decade.
50s Elvis/Chuck Berry/Ray Charles
60s Beatles/Stones/Hendrix/CCR
70s Pink Floyd/Led Zeppelin /The Who
80s Van Halen/Iron Maiden/Queen/Rush/GNR/MotleyCrüe/Prince
If we’re choosing on acts that best ‘defined’ an era rather than necessarily being the best: 50s Elvis/Chuck Berry/ Link Wray/ Buddy Holly, Bill Haley/Eddie Cochran / Little Richard/Isley Brothers/Gotta Mention Sinatra/ 50s Dion & The Belmonts/Big Joe Turner and Carl Perkins/Four seasons/ Billie Holiday/Everly Brothers /Fats Domino 60s Beatles/Stones/Jimi Hendrix/Led Zeppelin/Simon & Garfunkel/ The Doors / Janis Joplin/Bob Dylan/Creedence Clearwater Revival/The Kinks/ Jimi Hendrix /Cream/ The Ides of March/ Jim Croce/ Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead/ The Spinners There was no rivalry with the Beatles /Beach Boys. Beach Boys were mostly pre – Beatles and their styles were so different. The Stones/Beatles did have a friendly rivalry & attracted a similar audience. The Beatles loved Brian Wilson and vice versa and loved BB vocal harmonies.
70s Led Zeppelin /Lynyrd Skynyrd/David Bowie / Sex Pistols/Black Sabbath/Rolling Stones/Eagles/Genesis/David Bowie / Steely Dan/ Pink Floyd, Yes / Styx/ Dire Straits/ Prince/ Bruce Springsteen/ BeeGees/ Deep Purple/Elton John/Queen/Stevie Wonder/ Doors/Eagles/Slade/Sweet/Van Halen -David Lee Roth ~ Sam Hagar/ ACDC/Cheap Trick/Toto/Meatloaf/ZZ TOP/Foreigner/ 70s Aerosmith/Derek and the Dominos/ Eric Clapton/Ramones/Blondie/Kiss/ SuzieQ/ LZ/ ColdChisel/ The Doobie Brothers and Grand Dump Railroad/Deep Purple/Rush/ 70s The Stooges/The Clash/ABBA is a Swedish supergroup formed in Stockholm in 1972 by Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad had their time under the sun. Also, Heart transitioned into the 1980s; by 1982Fisher, Fossen, and Derosier had all left and were replaced by Mark Andes (bass) and Denny Carmassi (drums).
The 80s were really tough. Iron Maiden /Ozzy Hard to leave them off this list. Guns N Roses came in at the tail end and really pushed forward into the 90s too. 80s REO Speedwagon – Hi Infidelity (Full Album) VanHalen/Iron Maiden / U2 / Molly Hatchet/Tom Petty/ SRV/ZZ Top/ Rush / Prince/ Metallica ~master of puppets /Huey Lewis and the News greatest hits The Police/Judas Priest / Dire Straits maybe Springsteen/Queen /John Sykes (Thin Lizzy, Whitesnake, Blue Murder) Def Leppard/Rush & Pixies/ Bob Seger Silver Bullet band/Cars/Scorpions/Duran Duran/ The Cure/Depeche Mode / Poison / Survivor/Triumph/Motorhead/Dio/ REM/Replacements//Joy Division /Motley Crue/ AC/DC/Divinyls/Angels/Def Leppard/Anthrax and Death Angel/Manic Street Preachers, also known simply as the Manics, are a Welsh rock band formed in Blackwood in 1986./ KMFDM is an initialism for the nonsensical and grammatically incorrect German phrase Kein Mehrheit Für Die Mitleid, which, keeping the same word order, literally translates as “no majority for the pity”, but is typically given the loose translation of “no pity for the majority”. I think Metallica would have been better in the 1980s. Master of Puppets full album – Search (bing.com)
Garth Brooks changed Country Music scoring18 No. 1 hits on Billboard magazine’s Hot Country Singles chart. His biggest hits include “The Dance” and “Friends in Low Places” (both 1990); “The Thunder Rolls” (1991); “What She’s Doing Now” (1992); and “Ain’t Goin’ Down (‘Til the Sun Comes Up)” (1993), which was the first song since Glen Campbell‘s 1975 hit “Rhinestone Cowboy” to spend nonconsecutive weeks at #1 on Billboard’s Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.
90s Nirvana/Metallica /Bon Jovi / Motorhead/ Arc Angels/Storyville/Nirvana / Ween/ Soundgarden, Alice in Chains/ Alice in Chains/Toad the Wet Sprocket/ Kyuss/L7/Chemical B./Cranberries. 90s Megadeth/Tom Petty & HB’s / Blur / Oasis / Rollins Band/Mr. Big/ Pearl Jam/The Smashing Pumpkins/Jimi Jamison/ The Jeff Healey Band/ Rancid/ad Religion/Pearl Jam/ or DMB – I agreed up until the naughties…. Roxette/Barenaked Ladies/Green Day/Coldplay/ Linkin Park/Blink-182/Fall Out Boy/Panic! At The Disco/My Chemical Romance/ The Killers/Beck/Fecal Matter and Primus/ Vixen/Collective Soul/White Stripes??? The Strokes??? Mastodon???Oasis???Stone Temple Pilots???
00s Green Day/RHCP /Coldplay/White Stripes /Black Eyed Peas Band/Vallejo/ Los Lonely Boys/ Radiohead / The Strokes/ Foo Fighters/yo la tengo/ Chili Peppers too, also maybe The Strokes? Linkin Park/Symphony X/Rammstein/ Mild High Club and Young the Giant/Porcupine Tree/ Arctic Monkeys/The killers/The Jeff Healey Band/ Loverboy/Fall Out Boy/The Explosion/Alkaline Trio /Monster Magnet / Gov’t Mule/ Amy Winehouse/Radiohead/Nickelback*/Deep Dope/Arcade Fire/ Matchbox Twenty/Barenaked Ladies/PJ Harvey/Fastball/Sister Hazel 10s Foo Fighters /Muse/ Halestorm/ Florence + the Machine/ king gizzard & the wizard lizard/porches/Gotye/Neal Morse Band/Slipknot/Disturbed/Stephen Wilson/Marc Scherer/ Jim Peterik/ Turnover/Menzingers/Cloud Nothing/
20s Måneskin @thisismaneskin Copy that It was actually the Black album that made Metallica a global commercial success…. Well this was pre-grunge obviously. But you know what’s really interesting, in light of all those bands that became almost irrelevant due to grunge, Pantera who completely changed their sound & direction from the 80s, sandblasted the 90s with groove metal.
Metal Saviour’s…I’d put Guns n Roses or Metallica in the 80s instead of Dire Straits and I’d put Pearl Jam/Alice In Chains or Stone Temple Pilots over Metallica in the 90s. I’d want to put Hendrix in the 60s but it’s hard to take out Beatles or Stones. 70s is spot on.
Mark Knopfler & Brad Paisley, my favorite guitarist. 50s Bully Holly, Beatles, 60s Stones and Beatles, 70s Eagles and Zeppelin,80s Bruce and U2, 90s Pearl Jam and Nirvana. 00s Foo’s and Kings of Leon, 10s Black Keys, Arcade Fire
Also, should be mentioned •50’s. Eddie Cochran, Bo Diddley, Big Mama Thornton •60’s. Rolling Stones, The kinks y Cream/THE VELVET UNDERGROUND. •70’s. Allman Brothers •80’s Aerosmith, Melvins y Los Suaves •90’s Rage Against the machine, Nirvana y Pearl Jam •2000’s Radio Moscow, 1000Mods y SOAD
70’s – EAGLES / Fleetwood Mac/Chicago/Boston/Journey I like Motley Crue / Van Halen 80s 0r 90s RATM??
Highly influential Gamazda piano – Bing video Also, White Snake and Night Ranger were HOT! White Stripes/Radiohead 00s
Agree with everything up to 10. Wouldn’t even say Foo Fighters. Cage the Elephant/Black Keys made the list. I would have replaced Dire Straits with U2, Metallica with the Chili Peppers, ColdPlay deleted, Greenday was the 90s if I recall. Linkin Park/Foo Fighters.
Great American Bands from the 70’s. Grateful Dead, The Band, Allman Brothers, CSN&Y. Also, The Who if we’re going with Brits. And how can you omit REM from the 90’s?
Black Belt Nia Teacher Gorgeous day in the park with Nia’s friends! Just another intro to a fad fitness practice? No way! This is more like an invitation to feel better in your body and experience movement that is effective, fun and actually feels good! A powerful fusion of dance, martial arts and mindfulness practices, Nia delivers a full body workout while moving to a variety of soundscapes. Nia is for everyBody.
All fitness levels encouraged! Sharing Nia is one of my greatest joys in life. Spreading awareness of this practice to help people feel better and discover, explore, unleash and enhance their individual potential to live a healthy and meaningful life, is an act of love. One of the things I love most about Nia is the people. I feel so lucky to have walked (and danced) with some very wise and beautiful people on this path.
The Nia Technique – Bing video An expressive movement and lifestyle practice delivering the promise of body conditioning. Nia is an international movement, headquartered in Portland, Oregon, USA. Learn more about Nia: www.nianow.com Born in 1983, Nia is now internationally recognized as one of the fastest growing fusion fitness techniques in the country. Created by Debbie Rosas and Carlos Aya Rosas, Nia’s grounded approach maximizes body efficiency and teaches you to consciously move in a gentler way. Nia uses The Body’s Way to get fit, stay healthy, and self-heal to bring greater comfort, joy, and power into your life.
Nia offers the expressiveness of dance (Duncan, Modern, Jazz), the power and explosiveness of martial arts (Tai Chi, Tae Kwon Do, Aikido), and the body awareness of healing arts (The Work of Moshe Feldenkrais, Alexander Technique, Yoga). Equating fitness with movement, Nia awakens feelings and sensations throughout your entire body, allowing you to grow and heal through self-expression and to relax into comfort and strength. Nia invites you to listen to and trust your body’s inherent wisdom. Nia’s playfulness and expressiveness revitalizes your mind and body as it uplifts your spirit and emotions. NASA (@nasa) • Instagram photos and videos
Artist- Gil Wilson-Butterworth
When my body, mind, emotions and spirit need a little TLC, I feel a pull to get as close to the earth as possible. When I drop down to the floor, I’m immediately grounded. I feel supported by the earth’s energy. I can open up my joints in ways that only the support of the floor and gravity can provide. From the floor, I can strengthen and stretch, and increase agility using gravity and the space around as elements to condition my muscles and support healing.
As a child, playing on the floor was natural. As an adult, the floor is still the best way to learn, grow, develop and receive lasting benefits. Getting up and down from the floor is an all too important skill to maintain as we age. Remember when you were a kid and didn’t think about exercise? Play was our exercise. And it still can be! Kids and animals don’t look for the hard way to do things. They are driven by instinct and play to move their bodies.
They are deeply connected to the Joy of Movement. They move because it feels good. In Nia (recess for adults), we move because it feels good too! AND fitness/wellness is a by-product of moving. We follow the Pleasure Principle. If it feels good, do it! If it doesn’t, stop! We are more likely to stick with a workout that feels good than one that is drudgery or worse, hurts. Nia changes bodies and lives around the world by inspiring and guiding people to listen to the wisdom of their bodies, choose movement that feels good and find connection in community.
Believe it! You CAN make time for joyful, healthy movement and self-care.
And YES, you CAN dance! Never underestimate the power of community connection to support you in your body and life goals. I receive so much love and support from the local and global Nia community as well as The Collective community.
Ah the healing vibration of sound! We receive it from the music we dance to and we can create healing sound from within. In Nia, we use tone, words, and singing to heal and empower the body, mind, emotion and spirit.
The way Nia uses voice, sound, and music are all directed towards enhancing your well-being. Did you know that every cell in your body is a resonator that responds to sound coming from the outside AND inside of your body including your mental, emotional and spiritual states of consciousness respond to sound?
Biking is another movement of mine, especially when I can get into the woods on a dirt trail! I love the sense of dynamic ease during this magical balancing act and being fully present moment to moment, while navigating obstacles and doing my best to not crash .
Nia is a lot like riding a bike. Keep moving the Nia way and you will sense dynamic ease and Balance! So, keep moving, my friends. What movement loves are in your life? This is me learning a move in Nia’s newest routine Express. It’s a fun swerve, reverse spinal rolls our fabulous choreographer @kelleraeoien calls “The MTV”.
With practice, I’m pretty sure I could rock this in a music video. JAZZ is the dance of Fun, Showmanship and Expression and one of the nine movement forms influencing our practice. In Nia, we use the energy and chemistry of JAZZ to connect to our personal expression with our Upper Extremities. When we dance and connect with this movement form, we feel seen, empowered and alive in our movement.
I love helping people feel better. I became a massage therapist and certified to teach Nia in the same year, 18 years ago. I like to say that massage is passive bodywork and healthy movement like Nia is active bodywork.
BOTH are important tools for health and well-being.
MT helps alleviate and manage chronic pain. As does Nia.
MT helps increase endorphins and feelings of well-being. As does Nia.
MT helps us maintain a healthy nervous system and relieve stress. As does Nia.
MT helps alleviate anxiety and depression. As does Nia.
MT helps move stuck energy patterns in the body. As does Nia.
MT can help increase flexibility, muscle tone and improve joint health. As does Nia.
MT increases cardiovascular and lymphatic circulation. As does Nia.
While it may be impractical and unaffordable to get daily massages, getting your regular dose of healthy movement like Nia provides all these benefits and in ways somewhat better than massage therapy with consistency. Plus you receive cardiovascular conditioning, strength and agility, fun, creativity and community support.
Nia IS Bodywork and so much more! There is something about sensing the first signs of fall in Florida that puts a little bounce in my step! I feel a little giddy thinking about cooler weather and Halloween. Autumn connects me to my inner child… the collective return to school, getting to dress up for the holiday, the changing season…
We can learn a lot from our inner child. Children naturally live sensory lives. From the time they are born, they base much of their communication on what they sense in their bodies. As we grow up, become more cerebral in our day to day life and tend to lose that connection to the basic information our body gives us in any given moment.
Nia teaches how to reclaim living a sensory life as a valuable tool to nurture body and spirit, reach potential and find fulfillment. Sensation is information and helps us to make better moment to moment choices.. The more we take time to tune in and listen, the more adept we become at living a Sensory Life.
The fabulous Nia 1st Degree Black Belt and Trainer, Kate Finalyson with her The Enneagram system of nine personality types combining traditional wisdom with modern psychology – a powerful tool for understanding ourselves and the people in our lives for the purpose of personal and spiritual growth, successful relationships at home and work, and leadership/business communication skills.
Are you curious about which of the nine personality types you might be? Take the test!! Here is a free one you can take but there are many more on-line. https://www.truity.com/test/enneagram-personality-test Have fun!!
Through movement we find health, and healthy movement hinges on pleasure and comfort, and on self-healing and conditioning, which comes from working with your body, and finding the right motivation and inspiration to stick with what’s good for you. Bring every part of you to the dance with love. Love your body, love your life!
Every Nia class begins with a focus and intent for our hour of practice.
The season of PLAY is almost upon us. Whether for you, school is out or work is still in, the collective spirit of the summer is a great time to loosen up, let go, unwind and PLAY more! It is the time of the year when the natural world is most alive, expressive, abundant and PLAY-full. “And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.” Kahlil Gibran
Play is inherent now. It is our birthright. It is through Sacred PLAY that we receive the gifts of self-discovery, stress relief and creativity. Sensing PLAY in the body is a powerful elixir. Pleasure heals. I find myself reminded of this every time I dance to live music, get on my bike, swim and attend Nia Classes, Playshops and Trainings. I’ve come to know deeply, how vital PLAY is in order to feed my spirit, nurture my body, balance my emotions and free my mind.
I hope you will make. It is our way to become fully present in the moment to connect with the Joy of movement and learn the tools, moves and principles of Nia to discover more about ourselves. The beauty of this is that we can apply setting a focus and intent to everything we do. Do you have a focus for this week?
Is there an intention you would like to set that your focus could support? I consider this practice to act as my “north star” for the period of time it is set and always encourage students to bring their personal focus to their Nia practice in addition to the class focus. Please join me @intent_space@hipexpressionsbellydance. Come move and be moved on your journey of self-discovery! #sensationalhealth#niatechnique#mondaymotivation#niastpete
Being wild means deep listening to what matters most to us.
Being soft means allowing our hearts to open. These sensations allow us to connect with the natural rhythms within ourselves and our world around us. How do we transform our sadness, anger, frustration and outrage along with a whole spectrum of emotions including guilt and shame, into something that can bring healing to our communities?
We stand up. We march. We use our voices. We express ourselves. We open our eyes and our hearts. We get outside our comfort zone. We change our destructive conscious and unconscious beliefs. We MOVE. We move to transform our emotions to be a beacon of peace and to gain clarity about our personal Truth. Thoughts and emotions are energy and are part of our physical being. They are not separate. If you want to change the way you think and feel, change the way you MOVE.
MOVE your thoughts and emotions through your body so that they can transform. Every time we dance authentically, we become a better version of ourselves. Nia is always supporting you to be brave, to do better. That’s what this practice is all about. As soon as you step out of the door it’s straight
“We equate winning with being O.K., and failure with being not O.K. The real truth is that I’m neither O.K. nor not O.K.” @mikaelashiffrin opens up about losing her father and the real nature of grief.
Still managed to win the overall cup. Such an incredible person you are. I know what’s like losing someone like that, you just have to keep going because nothing is going to change, you have your memories with you that will last forever.
Sending from
So, psyched you found a great guy in Kilde, after your father’s passing.
It may only take one amazing person to help fill the void of another amazing person.
Thank you so much for writing this. Your words are beautiful and resonate with me so deeply as I lost my mother last November. Your expression of grief and how it feels felt like all the feelings that I have trouble expressing and explaining.
Thank you so much for shining a light on grief and death. Our society has so much trouble and discomfort within this topic and it’s so important that it’s more widely discussed. Everyone will unfortunately experience this one day so we as a society need to be better about understanding and supporting and most importantly speaking about it.
Life was never meant to be easy. We all are challenged for a reason. Grow and be stronger from your adversity and you will always have us as a fan!
You are a beautiful soul, as well as a wonderful athlete. Thank you for giving us the opportunity to get to know that part of you as well,
in addition to what we see in the races!
My heart hurts for you. My dad has been gone for 13 years & I still dream about him.
So much of who I am is because of him & his impact on me.
Thank you for sharing your heart with all of us.
It is still hard, the pain is real, but the biggest comfort for me is to know he knew Jesus & that I will see him again…
I will keep you in my prayers that you find peace…. it will take time
On the path to superstardom the entity called “Mikaela Shiffrin” that two years ago went from supernova to black hole suddenly becoming an endless echo chamber for soul-rending grief. Even for a few hours a week try to slip out of that force field and become “Ann Walker” or someone else with zero celebrity, no interviews, no endorsements, just free to live and occasionally feel the private pang of loss over her father’s death, not the public grief of the “Mikaela” persona.
Very touching article and well written. There could not be a more true statement made in all aspects of life: “We equate winning with being O.K., and failure with being not O.K”… keep being strong and being you. Thanks for sharing. Mikaela Shiffrin (@mikaelashiffrin) • Instagram photos and videos
So complex, grief. It’s important to feel it all .
So darn Heartbreaking- I just get a wave over me where reality just doesn’t quite fit? It just makes no sense. Mom should be here- what the hell happened???
….so Brave of you to share your journey. And cathartic. Thank you Grief trauma resides in the body too, the ‘heaviness’ of it all…energy work, like Reiki has done wonders for me. It’s a cellular reset. Not a forgetting but a way to enter into joy again sans the guilt, fear, etc.
through your body.
I encourage you to check it out
What a special human being. It’s a pleasure to watch her doing her work (turning it into some weird kind of “body art”), it’s mind opening to listen to her words, and I don’t know how she’s doing it but she’s always beautiful too. Respect, she really is one in a million.
Powerful and touching. The feeling of anger that comes with grief is real, and I’m sorry you’ve had to feel it because it means you’ve lost someone you loved deeply.
It’s OK to not be OK. Keep talking about him and to him
Your father’s spirit and love will always be with you and part of everything you do. Even though his physical presence has left. It began the day you were born, and his spirit will be passed forward to those you love.
This is the most honest, at the same time sad and yet filled with so much beautiful love statement of a public person I have ever read! It will be a big help to others who lost loved ones as well. And your courage to share this is inspiring! Keep riding these waves of grief and eventually they will get smaller… and allow you to be happy and have fun in your life as this is what your dad wants you to be…
Perhaps you have read it already, but I strongly recommend The Book of Joy by The Dalai Lama and Bishop Desmond Tutu. In it they talk about how chasing happiness will always disappoint, but that finding JOY can help us thrive despite the hardships we face in life. You seem to know this. Keep inspiring through kindness and self-awareness and hard work. May the Force always be with you!
It’s extremely hard to relive this pain, but the reason I’m doing it is because maybe it can help someone else. You’re not alone.
“We equate winning with being O.K., and failure with being not O.K.
The real truth is that I’m neither O.K. nor not O.K.”
And you know what…it’s O.K. to not be O.K.
The main point to tell this story is that sometimes it’s as simple as getting out of bed and putting one foot in front of the other. You don’t have to succeed every single day— you won’t succeed every single day. Sometimes all you’re doing is trying & sometimes that’s enough. Know that I see you and hear you. And I’m thinking about you. People don’t often talk about this side of loss and pain, but it’s really so very important.
How does one move forward after such a loss? Because not talking about it doesn’t equal not feeling it. It’s challenging to be open; I get it. I’m hoping this helps someone out there to understand it’s OK to feel what you’re feeling.
Summer clock is running out for this girl. Just about time to ski again!
Mikaela Shiffrin (@mikaelashiffrin) • Instagram photos and videos Ski szn is right around the corner so I thought I’d share a few exercises/workouts that I’ve been doing over this summer that feel super effective in prepping for those race-turn forces, and I thought maybe you guys would like them too!
1) Bulgarian Split Squats— I love that these can be weighted in so many different ways, holding a kettlebell in front of you, dumbbells at your side, with a bar like I am here, or no weight at all! When done properly, these get your core, balance, quads, glutes and you even feel a bit of a hamstring! Great for building a wide range of stability and strength for the mountain.
2) KettleBell Swings— these make me giggle cause it’s like… “umm what are we actually doing here?” BUT, they are super effective. I’ve felt that these really help me build strength through the posterior chain and help to stabilize my lower back, without overworking my back.
3) PILATES… this is just straight up nourishment for the whole body. It’s a serious combo of a lot of core, upper body, hip, leg strength and active mobility. My sessions range from more recovery focused to a very intense core work, but it really can be targeted for your specific needs. It’s been a godsend for me over the last few years. (Shout out to Kim at @athleticclubwestin for always making time to see me when I’m home!)
Making it to the Olympics is a victory in itself. Just. Be. Careful. A Littie over 3 yrs ago, I was run over by my own car after I fell, and it backed over me on a slight incline just as yours is here. Though it wasn’t moving fast, it still thrashed me and dragged me with unbelievable force. The tires broke my neck and femur as they rolled over my body, and I had cuts in my head that bore into my skull.
I was Flight for Life to Denver where I spent 2 weeks in the hospital, a week of which was in the ICU, and had 3 surgeries to repair my mangled body. I still have permanent nerve damage in my left hand, a vertebral artery occlusion which puts me at risk for stroke, and my neck has lost a lot of mobility due to having 5 fused vertebrae. I am grateful and extremely lucky to have returned to full activity, despite what doctors originally told me.
But I wouldn’t wish this upon anyone. Let alone America’s greatest skier I always thought if I got really hurt it would be doing something more… extreme. As you know, weird stuff can happen when you least expect it so please be careful around the car!
MENTAL HEALTH” I’m so proud of Mikaela and all the athletes for showing up every day during a crazy Covid Olympics and competing with all their hearts on unfamiliar terrain. Let’s cheer for everyone who made it to Beijing.
Medals or no, you’re all superheroines and superheroes.
These words have been thrown around a lot over the last couple of years. As we have maneuvered a seemingly never- ending global pandemic and so much more, we’ve also had the chance to sit with our feelings. While some have become more compassionate and connected in this strange time, as a whole we have become increasingly more critical. We seem to have forgotten about the human at the core as we hide behind computer screens and tear others down with words as keyboard warriors.
Athletes that we have put on pedestals…it was bad enough before covid, but since it’s been worse. Armchair experts weigh in on social media with their hot takes about why @simonebiles failed the nation and how anything but gold doesn’t matter. I watched the summer Olympics in utter disbelief at how the world was reacting to the greatest gymnast of all time’s momentary departure from the top. While so many people showed compassion, a dizzying number of people criticized her. I was sad, appalled, and honestly terrified for what was to come at the winter edition of the same event when world-sized expectations are placed upon our athletes’ shoulders.
And here we are. And I can assure you it is indeed dizzying.
When I ski, it’s like a song…flow, power, rhythm. You can’t help but feel amazing. #sheskis#weareskiing
Last year at world champs, @mikaelashiffrin walked away with four medals in four events. It was amazing and spectacular, and she didn’t get as much credit as she should have after the year she had because she didn’t win four golds (which btw is absurd in this sport with so many variables) but she still won gold and made history. Again. Then she went on to make more history this season. Again, despite the loss of her father and continued grief. The back injury. A positive covid test and two-week quarantine at the most crucial part of the season. Yet, she remains in first in the race for the overall. She shattered records left and right and showed that the impossible is possible so much, that the world has put her on a pedestal, and anything less than a victory is a disappointment.
️3 Olympic medals ️11 World Champ medals ️73 World Cup wins ️47 World Cup slalom wins ️3 overall World Cup titles
Tell it like it is…many out there need to find the ground again…where is the compassion and understanding that life isn’t a perfect movie. Having been around world class athletes most of my adult life…they all put their pants on 1 leg at a time…just like us mere mortals…who is anybody to say anything about any of them.
Time for the haters to look in the mirror and take a deep look inside their own lifes…I am sure it ain’t as perfect of a picture as they seem to paint for the athletes to have. Thanks for bringing everybody’s feet back to earth…so much truth in your post thanks for sharing that humanity.
ONE MORE THING… A lot of people love to root against the ones at the top. Love/hate relationship. @lebron, @tombrady, @serenawilliams, … when one wins so much.
The public either : 1) grows to expect it or 2) gets bored. I’m so over rooting against athletes at the top and rather I’m here to just appreciate insane athletic feats. An athlete doesn’t get injured enough so they’re ultimately boring. FLIP THE SCRIPT. Just as falling and getting back up is impressive, it’s equally as impressive to stay at the top of your game, healthy, for so long. Look at Tom Brady. That blows me away. To stay healthy and fit and be the best at your craft for THAT long?!
That’s unreal. Let’s change the narrative. Society needs a paradigm shift…and history will prove that the paradigm shift will come on the backs of moments like this, and powerful individuals like @mikaelashiffrin …. because moments like this show us exactly what is most important: the person. NOT the ratings, the results or the storybook endings. But the person, the challenges they face, and the transformation they experience through the process. It’s the transformation that we all seek…at the individual level, becoming a wiser/fulfilled/passionate human…. or at the societal level, becoming more compassionate/collaborative/diverse…. And it takes moments like these, and strong individuals like her, to show us a better way….in sport, and in Life.
Verified: It’s always so inspiring to take part in the #ESPYs, Mikaela Shiffrin at 2022 ESPYs in Hollywood #celebrities #goddess #beautifulgirl Even more so this year with the celebration highlighting 50 years since Title IX. Being surrounded by so many remarkable sports figures left me a little speechless and starstruck. Also a very fun time to change out the usual attire of race suit or
workout clothes and get all dressed up.
A lot has happened this year. I can imagine it’s not easy to weave all the intricacies of social justice issues, the progress we’ve made thus far towards a more equal playing ground, the distance we have yet to cover, the war in Ukraine, the fight to get BG home, and so much more into an event that is fundamentally meant to be an uplifting and inspiring sports awards show. Somehow, @espn managed to put it all together with taste, humor and—when needed—seriousness.
Thank you, ESPN, for the invitation, the @playerstribune for continuing to share my journey, and especially thank you to all the athletes (those in attendance, and those who weren’t) who continue to push boundaries and break barriers every day, constantly proving what’s possible through passion, drive, and dedication.
I’ve been following ski racing for almost 50 years.
I remember Jean Claude, Franz Klammer, Spider, Rosi, the Maher’s ~ Wild Bill Johnson, and on.
Hands down Miki is the !
If she never runs another gate! @mikaelashiffrin you are a rockstar! The numbers don’t lie. It’s empowering to see you putting it on the line and skiing in all 4 disciplines. How many other athletes can do that? Most team sport athletes play one position. They have one job to do.
You have seen success all across the board! Don’t forget that! USA, USA, USA!!
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And so, when the media or fans or whomever says Mikaela let them down, or Simone was a failure, just remember when you replied all to a company email rather than just hitting reply. And know that that fuck up for you has far different consequences than competing in front of millions doing something where you are putting your life on the line.
Lastly, I’d love to thank all the written journalists who were wonderful yesterday in the mixed zone with Mikaela in what was an excruciating time as she spoke about things so much bigger than back-to-back DNFs in skiing. And to others who exploit an athlete when they are at their most vulnerable state: all I have to say is that I am truly sorry for you and I hope you reflect and attempt to understand the importance of athlete mental health and protecting athletes as humans *actually* means. And to @giuliettacandiago in the end and our peeps at the USOPC (@teamusa and @jonmason11)…
THANK YOU for being so amazing and actually prioritizing mental health.
Is she disappointed? Yes. Is that understandable? Yes. She is a champion. She is the best in the world at her craft. Of course she’s disappointed. Does this define her? No. Does that fact make it hurt any less? No.
When anyone asks me about who Mikaela is as a person, this is what I share…she is a person who is kind and real and authentic when the cameras aren’t there. In Cortina a few years ago when she won the super-G, I had a horrendous migraine. It was so bad, in fact, that I threw up. I didn’t want to make a big deal of it so I hunkered down in my room, but it wasn’t lost on Mikaela. Rather than celebrating, she and Eileen came into my room to sit with me in the dark, bring me goldfish, and make sure I was ok. Thanks to Her Mom. THAT is who Mikaela Shiffrin is.
People don’t give enough credit to athletes who just make it to that level, let alone win anything. The amount of skill, discipline, and hard work that goes into finishing DFL in the olympics is something the average person cannot grasp. They look for any reason to try and bring them down to their level because deep down they know they can’t compare to someone like that.
What an eloquent essay to ground the past couple of days. You are a true friend to @mikaelashiffrin and a true fan of the sport. Shame on the media and the uncompassionate armchair critics. Is the goal to further crush the best ski racer (ever) in the world, or help raise her up in her moment of despair?
(“People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel” – Maya Angelou)
drmarkhyman@drcaseyskitchen explains how toxins can actually have an effect on obesity and the many places they can be found, and the list could go on.
What could be more vital than caring for the health and wellbeing of this gift of body we have been given? I am here to help. Join me this week for class to learn more. My sore classes are perfect for beginners, where you can learn at your own pace according to your needs. !🙋♀️
Exactly! Obesity is a complex issue that includes environmental factors. I think placing all responsibility on the person who is obese erases the responsibility of the government to regulate these hormone disruptors.
Awareness is the first step to change. No need to be overwhelmed. Be empowered to make better choices in the products you buy and bring into your home. There are amazing low toxic & non toxic options available. And if in doubt when it comes to personal care and household cleaning products, make your own. It’s easier and cheaper and in the process you’ll declutter your home ✌️
I think it is so wild how many people have something to say about fear mongering. The news pretty much everyday all day is fear mongering, but we just accept it. Here, we are being given an inside peek into chemicals that are literally poisoning us on a day-to-day basis that we may not be aware of. Doesn’t awareness give the opportunity to choose? When we are at choice, we are in our power. Thank you for providing this information.
That’s it. I’m going to live in the wild and create my own life. Build and hunt. Hahaha I can’t even change the channel on the dumb TV bc remotes confuse me😂😂 They are making us sick while big P lives the best life, profiting off our sickness. This is a negative post but it is always clean . To have your filter for water in the house , buy food on the markets , try natural products. Yes of course This us everywhere we create it us People but we are strong being we can manage if we concentrate on healthy eating , fasting, sport and energetical, emotional balance 🙏
andrea_kotarski How come I know so many things about skinny people that eat all crap and stay skinny.
I think just being mindful of what is in our products and our food.
This is absolute nonsense. Claims made without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. Don’t over consume calories and you won’t gain fat, simply. Eat healthy and exercise and you won’t crash your metabolism. Sounds overwhelming and scary. That said, simply cleaning up our diet and cutting out sugar, flour and processed food will get you a long way and on a path to good health. I’ve done this. Don’t let this information stop you from living a good life. Yikes 😬
So many doom and gloom comments for this post. Come on people! We have to know our enemy in order to defeat it. We have to know the ugly truths because this will lay the path for action steps. The fact that there are so many toxins in the air, soil, water, clothing and food and we are all still here able to heal and thrive shows how remarkable and powerful our bodies are. Stop it with the “thanks for depressing me”, go watch the podcast, make the changes, be more mindful of your choices, inform others and stop wasting your energy on complaining, let’s be motivated to make this world a better healthier place.
So true. Our environment is saturated with chemicals everywhere, even those “BPA free”. I can’t imagine how the world will be in 50 years.
@drmarcoantiaging agreed! I feel sad for my kids, what will life be like for them in 50 years
OKAY…what do we or can we do to avoid them? It seems, live in a bubble but whatever material it’s made from is toxic 😑
I think this is true but over exaggerated. Not that she’s lying but has wrong data. Like people talking about plastic being the worst thing for the environment, but in reality, plastic waste represents less than 1% of the waste we produce.
This is not a surprise….. What’s really interesting about what has gone on in our world it’s that a lot of people are becoming aware that toxins have been around for decades… don’t forget the chem trails in the sky Radiation from your cell phone, all the other gadgets that people have in their homes, computers, TVs the list goes on… those horrible EarPods that people keep sticking in their ear you know are close to your brain…..
I do believe they are also one of the sources of cancer running rampant in our population.Just wait until you read Estrogeneration by @anthonygjay
If you are looking for great advice on limiting toxins, follow @environmental toxins nerd ANDDD the stress, fear, worry, and obsession about all of these things can be even more damaging to the body, mind, and nervous system than the actual chemicals. This stress and fear can increase cortisol (stress hormone) which wreaks the most havoc on the body.
B-R-E-A-T-H-E. Relax. Get outside. Eat food, not too much, mostly plants. Take walks. Get in nature. Get sunshine. Drink lots of water. Meditate.
They are the food we eat. Much of what they call food are things that we are genetically not able to process properly that screw with us, so many of the foods we eat are filled with excessive amounts of sugar and naturally occurring toxins that our body can’t handle, especially in the quantities we eat today, the government food pyramid Will make people sick it is a recipe for type two diabetes which is the number one cause of heart disease. People need to understand that our bodies cannot process sugar when we eat it it releases a bunch of hormones that literally tell ourselves to physically close up and start functioning as a defense mechanism trying to reject what we put in our bodies and they tell us foods are healthy and switch the names up and give them all of these intricate scientific names that nobody can understand but much of what they tell us to eat is full of sugar and you don’t need to eat it like they say. You don’t need bread, you don’t need any grains, you don’t need corn, you don’t need beans, you don’t need peas and you don’t need most fruit. I learned this and thought they got the science wrong or the people saying this were crazy but I kept studying the science and I stopped eating these foods 14 months ago. I’ve lost a ton of weight. I’ve thrown away all my medications and about three weeks ago I had my doctor run a comprehensive blood panel as well as checking all of my organ functions. I restored my metabolism. My immune system is working great. I’m not deficient in a single nutrient and according to my very traditional medicine doctor there’s nothing I can improve in my diet. All of my tests came back on the optimal side of the healthy levels.
drcaseyskitchen If I could only say one thing about food 🍽, it would be to focus on nutrient-dense whole foods. 🥑 But I like to go deeper. 🤿 What we eat matters – In addition to supplying energy, whole foods provide molecular instructions to help your body repair tissues, fight infection 🦠🥊, produce hormones, and stimulate bone 🦴 and muscle 💪 growth. – Certain foods—too many in the ‘Western” diet—jeopardize your metabolic health by spiking blood sugar 📈, raising cholesterol and triglycerides, adding empty calories, or driving inflammation via additives or sugar. – Metabolic health is about long-term trends, not 1 meal. – Your body can adapt to the occasional fast food 🍟 or high-carb meal. But how meals affect us—spiking our blood sugar or leaving us feeling fatigued 🥱—is valuable feedback. – Nutrition is individual, and not everybody will react the same to foods. – But if you’re looking to simplify your diet and reduce some of the most harmful foods, cut ✂️ these 5 as much as possible.🔻 1: Repeatedly eating too much sugar 🍨 (including natural 🍯) can cause damage to the body. It’s wise to limit all sugar, but avoiding added sugars, especially, is 1 way to limit overall intake. 2: Wheat flours 🥐 (whole wheat too) causes blood sugar spikes. Repeated spikes raise your disease risk. In addition to swapping for alternatives, limit snacks 🥨 and breads 🥖 with wheat flour. 3: More than 70% of foods in U.S. grocers 🛒 are ultra-processed. People who eat fewer processed foods tend to have healthier gut microbiomes and be more metabolically fit. 4: Vegetable oils and refined seed are high in omega-6 fats, which have been linked to poor metabolic health. Especially dangerous ⚠️ are hot dogs 🌭, deli meats 🥪, and bacon 🥓, which raise your Type 2 diabetes risk. 5: Most fast foods 🍔 are ultra-processed and loaded with refined flours, fats, salts, and hidden sugars—often engineered to be potentially addictive.
There are ZERO supplements or medications that can fix a chronically toxic lifestyle FIRST THINGS FIRST ~ Bone broth, collagen, probiotics or any other currently popular product will not fix your fat, gut or other health problem. No amount of beneficial nutrients can overcome a toxic barrier. *Detox first, THEN nourish* is the title of today’s post on my functional medicine nutrition page.
More targeted detox below 👇
mincinnutritionist@mincinnutritionist 🎯 ALL THINGS TOXIC & TARGETED DETOX ~ on my functional medicine nutrition page by date: 2021 ❎ Feb 26 Toxic heavy metal testing 🌊 Feb 22 Unwanted surprises in your water ☕ Feb 5 Caffeine: The dose makes the poison 🌡Jan 22 Mercury as a factor in Co*V Mortality 🕺Jan 16 How the body gets rid of toxins. Focus: liver update
2020 😰 Dec 23 Neurotoxic heavy metals 🌱 Nov 16 Toxic metal reduction on a plant-based diet ✔ Nov 14 How to detox from ______ Know your toxins 🛡10/14 Copper Toxicity & ADHD 💇10/13 Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis Summary – All 12 Reasons 😁10/7 FDA Updates Mercury Amalgam Risk Groups 🐟9/23 Mercury Toxicity of Fish 🚬9/8 Detox Wood + All Other Smoke 🌿8/10 Detoxifying Plants/Foods 🤰8/8 Personalize Your Detox Protocol 😰8/3 Are You Tired or Toxic 😡7/30 4-part Liver Health series must read! 🔥 7/6 Iron Overload ✋7/5 Skin Is A Detox Organ ✈5/3 All About Aluminum 🍫3/10 Heavy Metals in Chocolate, 🍖Bone Broth & Supplements
2019 😭12/10 What Is Your Body’s Toxic Burden 👶10/18 Lead Found In 95% of Baby Food Tested 🔹Head for the page grid under my Profile for those of interest
Toxins anyone? Never stop asking WHY! There is a place for both nourishing supplementation and toxin elimination. Prioritizing what MOST needs accomplished for a given individual is best done on an individualized basis. Bio individuality rules. Personalization is key. Just as one size vitamin doesn’t fit all, neither does one size detox. Obesogens & pfas ☹️ pfas chemicals are in my clothing yikes wrinkle free clothing 😒😣 I kind of knew about it before but it’s really getting to me now🙄 I wonder if pfas could be why I have Tinea versicolor🤷♂️ I doubt it but you never know.
Keys are Do not worry…eat healthy and exercise…be happy
Drink water, your body is 70% water, oh wait don’t drink water because it’s full of toxins. Eat vegetables because it’s good oh no don’t because it’s full of toxins. 🤯🤯🤯
Where focus goes energy flows. Everything is energy, energy is everything. The opposite of love it’s not hate, it’s FEAR. We should wake up and understand this. ❤️
Our environment is making us so sick! theonlymitch_ A massive list of things to stay away from and are impossible to stay away from, without offering any solutions. Quite literally stressing out the average person who is trying to better themselves and doesn’t know where to begin. And stress/cortisol is quite literally one of the biggest contributors to negative health, mental and physical. Do better.
billie__holiday__ @greenumbrellacincy, Can we work on the factories putting all this in our air and water? Our air all around Cincinnati often smells like the cleaning products they produce along the river in lower Price Hill.
drrosemarie_rutecki Such great information to get out there, thank you! ❤️ All this chemicals affecting our microbiome and hormones
vintage_girl74 Well, people need to do their best to live and eat clean, but sadly, many will use this as an “excuse” for an unhealthy body and to excuse bad habits. “Well, it’s not MY fault Basically you’re saying it’s everywhere and we have no way to run away from it..THIS WOMAN IS SCARY..THE WAY SHE SAYS IT…LISTEN U MUST BE EATING ALL THIS YOURSELF EVERYDAY BUT UR JOB IS TO SCARE OTHERS WITHOUT GIVING A VALID SOLUTION.WE CAN’T STOP EATING OR DRINKING.
suzpucciarella This makes it seem like a lost cause, but what is the detox process? Whole foods, methylation support.. stress mgmt, sleep…but what else? Let’s be encouraging!
giniabear Let’s please not forget the aerosol chemical sprays from the Geoengineering chemtrails. No such thing as a contrail.
naturally_insideout Yes, because they disturb our hormones which leads to hormonal imbalance and one of them is Estrogen dominance which leads to weight gain. The best way to take this under control is less is more and whole nutritious food 🙌
abfilleddiya Living in a world of convenience has made it more and more Toxic😢 we just have to do what we can when we can to make it better.
whereismarcopolo Been saying this for years. When we ingest these toxins the liver packages them in lipids to isolate them because we can’t process them. It’s a defense mechanism
bakeswithmariam I found it so strange when I left London for a holiday in the Mediterranean. I had no allergy flare ups. I was completely free from the constant sniffing and sneezing. Soon as I entered back into the U.K. it was like clockwork, all my symptoms rushed back.
admdewey So now what? This is our world we must live in. Even smarter choices still are toxic. There are still skinny people and obese people living in the same world both making the same choices. It’s complicated and a dooms day message such as this is interesting in 30 seconds but it’s not furthering the help that real people need from social media. Life is way more complicated than “all the chemicals in everything we use is causing inflammation and obesity.”
quetzalinaysol Please don’t panic ✋ I know and I agree this can be overwhelming. More when someone is new on knowing what food, cosmetic industries are doing. So let’s bless it all, the air we breathe, the food we eat, the showers we take, the water we drink. Make conscious choices but when unable to, just ENJOY IT. Whatever you are eating or using on your body. It is more dangerous to be stressed out of all the bad it is causing in our body to simply enjoy and bless it. Of course, keep the healthy and conscious choices when you can.❤️❤️❤️ ➡️ If you are new, make steps to change the food you consume, products you use little by little, just be more conscious of your choices and don’t panic.
minicoop52 Let’s not forget the 35 chemicals-neurotoxins in breast implants, that when ruptured, seep into the lymphatic system for life, oh and printers ink is just one of them 💀 . zeigarst Bummmmmeeerrrrrr
PEACE AND LOVE TO ALL. BLESSINGS TO YOU ❤️
thebuckleyboutique I have a chronic illness and I can completely understand how hearing all this can be completely overwhelming. It’s all about making small changes over time. I started with changing my diet. Once I had that under control, then I discovered Beautycounter. It is a beauty and skincare company that is dedicated to safe, clean products. The next step was to replace my cleaning products. I use a combination of Thieves from Young Living, a variety of Norwex products, and I am looking into getting the Branch Basics starter pack. You can replace all of your plastic storage containers and reusable water bottles with glass. You can find good deals on Amazon. I hope this helps gives you some ideas on where to start on your health journey ❤️ dr casey’s kitchen explains how toxins can actually have an effect on obesity – Search (bing.com)
mincinnutritionist 🚫 There are ZERO supplements or medications that can fix a chronically toxic or stressed lifestyle
FIRST THINGS FIRST ~ Bone broth, collagen, probiotics or any other currently popular product will not fix your gut or other health problem. No amount of beneficial nutrients can overcome an infectious or toxic barrier. Detox first, THEN nourish
People are so interested in nutrition & natural health, ever asking what food can I eat for this disease or what supplement can I take to relieve that symptom. More often than not, we first need to take a step back and ask what do I need to get rid of or avoid
Tailored detox or infection treatment is foundational for optimal health. Just as we cannot construct a stable home on a foundation of rubble, so too with building our health. First sweep the foundation, then add the nutrient building blocks Proper drainage is key. 🔑 Taking supplements without wide open drainage channels can add insult to injury. Nutrients can become an added burden on liver, kidneys & lymphatics, just like another toxin
ALL disease can be boiled down to just 2 factors, excess toxins and insufficient nutrients. Health & healing come down to the right ratio of these 2. Removing the bad & adding the good may sound simple, but addressing the particulars on an individualized basis is not straight forward. Everyone’s constitutional, genetic & biome makeup is unique, as is their detox-ability. Additionally, toxin exposure varies considerably from region to region, even neighborhood to neighborhood. Personalization is key. One size detox smoothie or tea doesn’t fit all
STEP 1 is to know your enemy. See comments for a comprehensive list of targeted toxins I’ve posted about 🎯
STEP 2 is where I come in, assessing your toxic burden & nutritional status and outlining a multi-phase personalized protocol that brings your toxin nutrient ratio back into balance. Link in profile to the contact page on my website to request brochure & session schedule, which describe these 3 phases. It’s also discussed in the 3-part purple post currently pinned at the top of my page 💜
Mental health struggles are on the rise, and it’s more important than ever to develop tools we can lean on to heal, manage, and optimize our psychology.
There is almost nothing more important to invest in. Our ENTIRE reality and every action we take, thought we think, feeling we feel, and word we say is a function of our mental state, and we have a lot of control over that.
👇 More drcaseyskitchen Link in bio to my article on all the tools in my personal toolbox for managing stress and mental health! 🧠 Here’s my toolbox. I don’t do everything every day, but I at least try for a couple, and lean on more when the need is higher!
1. Monitoring my heart rate variability, an objective measure of stress w @whoop and @getlief. 2. Practicing slow, diaphragmatic breathing. 3. Meditation with a focus on the breath and noting thoughts as they arise @calm 4. Yoga. I love heated Hatha yoga 5. Spending time in nature, which has measurable impacts on health and stress markers. 6. Lavender essential oil, which has clinical effects on reducing anxiety and can change gene expression and activity in the brain. 7. Writing it out. If I’m spinning about a problem and don’t know what to do, I’ll set a timer and write about it for 5 minutes. 8. Focusing on awe, abundance, and gratitude. Observing and noticing the astounding beauty of nature (for me, it’s often sunsets or trees!), reading thinkers like Mary Olive, Rumi, Kahlil Gibran, or Thich Nhat Hanh, and reflecting on the complexity and beauty of science, the universe, and the natural world. 9. Practicing self-love. 10. Reflecting on the nature of death. Stoics, Zen Buddhists, and many other traditions have meditated on death as a way to enhance life, and this is something I’ve always found, too. 11. Eating to improve your brain’s functioning and mental state! REAL FOOD! THIS IS KEY!!! 12. Professional support: Therapy or coaching. I can’t recommend it enough. 1-2 hours of the week that make all the others better. 13. Emerging research on psychedelic-assisted therapy has shown it can profoundly impact the processing of traumatic events and stress, and improve happiness.
What are your favorite tools? 🔧🧠 mincinnutritionist 🙌+👆 👐 11 steps to effective detoxification in comments 1 Avoidance 2 Avoidance 3 Avoidance 4 Open bowel drainage 5 Open liver drainage 6 Open kidney drainage 7 Open lung drainage 8 Open lymphatic drainage 9 Open skin drainage 10 Tailored homeo-nutritional therapy detoxification 11 Targeted supplementation . 💡Know your enemy ~ Targeted Detox 🎯 is key 🔑
VITAMIN A ~ Supplementation is linked with immunosuppression and… Continued in comments
VITAMIN C ~ Ascorbic acid is NOT Vitamin C The REAL difference between natural food source C complex and the isolated synthetic ascorbic acid fraction is explained in comments. Learn what’s more effective, 1,000 mg AA or 100 mg C complex?
Depending on one’s diet & multi, I generally don’t recommend synthetic vitamin C. If you decide to supplement, I suggest no more than 1,500 mg daily, in divided doses
VITAMIN D ~ This hormone is complicated. One size D does not fit all. Dial in your dose in comments
⚠️ Avoid vitamin D supplementation if you have • Normal or elevated serum vitamin D levels • Elevated body tissue D levels • Compromised kidney function • High serum calcium • High serum phosphorus • Low body tissue magnesium
ZINC is to copper what calcium is to magnesium. When we take one, we mess with the other and the delicate balance is easily disrupted. Copper & zinc share the same absorption site in the intestine. Flooding those sites with zinc, will certainly raise zinc tissue levels, but it will also depress copper – ending up with a zinc toxicity and copper deficiency. Think before you zinc
Because of the popularity of zinc to “boost” the immune system, here’s an increasingly common mineral disruption problem I’m seeing in my practice. 3 out of 4 of my new patients are showing up with elevated zinc and depressed copper tissue levels.
Did you know that signs & symptoms of deficiency are… continued in comments + Zinc lozenge vs pill ~ suck or swallow? in comments
QUERCETIN ~ has multiple benefits – and a dark side 🌓 It is an outstanding multi-purpose immune flavonoid. As a zinc ionophore, it shuttles zinc into cells where it can exert its antiviral properties. This is the same mechanism that has been extensively studied with the drug hydroxychloroquine.
⚠️ Quercetin should be avoided if you have or are • Low blood sugar / hypoglycemia • Low blood magnesium • Low serum potassium • Pregnant • Breastfeeding • Kidney disease • Those with weak or…
💊 🤔 THINK BEFORE YOU ZINC❗ Test don’t guess. Minerals occur in a highly delicate Balancing Act, and it’s all too easy to upset the cart and do more harm than good. For example, copper is to zinc what magnesium is to calcium. In fact, symptoms of deficiency mimic those of excess, including immunosuppression. In other words, too much zinc can actually suppress immunity. This is no time for DIYers🔸 If you are not testing you are guessing. The recent immune support post by this title, and related ones about Mineral Nutrition, on my functional nutrition page details options for accurately assessing one’s highly individual needs ~ without the guesswork. 💚
➕ ZINC STATUS ASSESSMENT
Below👇 @mincinnutritionist 😛 ZINC STATUS ASSESSMENT ~ I find consistent correlation between the zinc taste test and blood & hair tissue zinc levels in my functional medicine nutrition practice. Related posts on my page. THINK before you Zinc. It’s all too easy to upset the delicate Balancing Act between copper & zinc. Copper is to zinc what magnesium is to calcium. Did you know that signs & symptoms of excess are identical to S&S of deficiency. In other words, too much zinc can suppress immunity. Request the Zinc taste test kit and/or the hair mineral test kit by linking in profile to the contact page on my
@mincinnutritionist 🔸ZINC LOZENGES ARE A VIRUS SHIELD. The sooner we bathe the mucous membranes to the time of exposure, or preferably beforehand, the more effective it is at preventing the infection from becoming systemic and full-blown symptomatic. 🔸 HOWEVER, because minerals occur in a delicate Balancing Act, before regular ongoing use, it’s wise to test and not guess. For example, copper is too zinc, calcium is too magnesium. It is possible to do more harm than good. In fact, because symptoms of deficiency are identical to symptoms of excess, unnecessarily supplementing zinc can actually suppress immunity. So it’s wise to think before you zinc🔸 We’ve also learned some fascinating information about zinc ionophores such as quercetin, which shuttle zinc more effectively into the cells. Quercetin is the natural flavonoid equivalent of the pharmaceutical hydroxychloroquine. 🔸 So when combined with quercetin short-term, low-dose zinc lozenges would be a safer course for those who are disinclined to be properly tested
🔸SQUEEZE YOUR D FOR ALL IT’S WORTH❗ Take advantage of chewing it. Either pop open in your mouth the soft gel or use liquid and allow it to linger in your mouth before swallowing. Vitamin D is active in mucosal tissue, which is our first line of immune defense. Although a different mechanism, the principle is similar to zinc lozenges, spray or liquid in the mouth for a virus shield. ➕ You’ll also absorb more fat-soluble nutrients a, d, e, k & Omega 3, when taken along with the fattest rich meal. Related posts on my functional medicine nutrition page.
➕ MORE Big D below 👇
What’s good for immunity is food for the brain, and for the gut, the liver, hormones, skin, bones, eyes, etc. . 📊 TESTING D~ know the difference between having your vitamin D tested supplemented or unsupplemented. Typically, we want to know what your Baseline body level is UNsupplemented. However, having a blood test while taking supplements, may be used to monitor supplementation. A normal level while supplementing does not mean that your body is holding its own. There is a difference. Always test, do not guess. And remember so-called normal is not optimal. Functional interpretation is essential. It’s not recommended to continue supplementation for more than 6 months without retesting. We typically see the lowest levels in Spring, after Winter’s darkness. Supportive posts in my related comments and on my functional medicine nutrition page . https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8541492/ Co*V Mortality Risk Correlates Inversely with Vitamin D3 Status, and a Mortality Rate Close to Zero Could Theoretically Be Achieved at 50 ng/mL 25(OH)D3: Results of a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis . • The form commonly tested is indeed the bio-active form of vitamin D, 1,25-dihydroxycholecalciferol or calcitriol, which translocate the cell membrane and cytoplasm to reach the nucleus of the cell, where it binds to vitamin D receptors. + As mentioned in my related comment, for those patients with stubbornly low levels in spite of therapeutics supplementation, we’ll test also the other forms along with nutrient cofactors to get a better handle about what’s going on with the whole of vitamin D metabolism and all its synergists.
➕️ more about stubbornly low D below 👇
@mincinnutritionist 😠 STUBBORNLY LOW vitamin D? We should not need eternal supplementation. The genetic influence on vitamin D levels is estimated to be around 80%, much higher than the dietary & environmental influences of around 25%. Genetic tendencies however are not our destiny.
Although gut, gallbladder, kidney & immune issues may be involved, the bulk of vitamin D metabolism occurs within the liver. We need to fix the liver. Interestingly, 80% of us walk around with a sluggish, congested liver. For starters, see the 4-part LIVER HEALTH series on my page. Let me know if you’d like more personalized support
🥝 ASCORBIC ACID IS NOT VITAMIN C ~ Do you know the REAL difference between a synthetic supplement fraction and whole food nutrient complex? Did you know that Ascorbic Acid is NOT vitamin C? Understand the REAL difference between natural vs synthetic C in the MANGO & Whole Food vs. Supplements posts on my functional nutrition page and discover why 100 mg of food source C complex is more functional and bioactive than 1,000 mg of the ascorbic acid fraction. The details are both explained and graphically Illustrated like you’ve never heard it before. The whole is always greater than the sum of its parts 💚
••• VITAMIN A ~ supplementation has been associated with immunosuppression and liver toxicity. Surprisingly, Beta Carotene has been associated with increased incidence of lung cancer. It was found that a disproportionate amount of Beta interferes with the other carotenoids, alpha, delta, and gamma. This is why I often say the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Food is better than supplements. I’ve dedicated 2 entire posts to this subject food vs supplements. You’ll find it on my profile page . DYK Bumps on the back of the arm (Keratosis pilaris) are one indication of vitamin A deficiency? ➕️ See the full vitamin A post on my profile page
emilyjbentz So do you not recmd a good magnesium supplement to calcium depletion?
@emilyjbentz • For who? Our mineral needs are as different as our fingerprint. Depends on your baseline. If you wouldn’t add oil to your car without checking the dipstick, why take a supplement without knowing the baseline level that you are adding it to? EVEN IF It appears to help on one hand, it can be causing undetected nutrient interference and metabolic imbalance on the other. You’ll benefit from the related posts in the MINERAL NUTRITION series on my profile page
suzpucciarella This makes it seem like a lost cause, but what is the detox process? Whole foods, methylation support.. stress mgmt, sleep…but what else? Let’s be encouraging!
giniabear Let’s please not forget the aerosol chemical sprays from the Geoengineering chemtrails. No such thing as a contrail.
naturally_insideout Yes because they disturb our hormones which leads to hormonal imbalance and one of them is Estrogen dominance which leads to weight gain. The best way to take this under control is less is more and whole nutritious food 🙌
heritage.homemakers I share how to avoid toxins, like obesogens in personal care products on my page for people who need some help with that!
jabowen_ This is some b.s. lol. The body doesn’t just create fat out of nothing. It creates fat out of excess fatty acid sugars that get stored as fat. You notice how she said “these chemicals” but did not name one chemical. Because they aren’t real, this is both fear mongering and excuses
luxebeauty We love that you are having this conversation. ✨💛✨ One of the many reasons why we use glass bottles and create nontoxic products. We wrote a blog about Plastic Obeso Gens.
theonlymitch_ A massive list of things to stay away from and are impossible to stay away from, without offering any solutions. Quite literally stressing out the average person who is trying to better themselves and doesn’t know where to begin. And stress/cortisol is quite literally one of the biggest contributors to negative health, mental and physical. Do better.
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, shows you how your body 
What is the metabolic health crisis?
, and stroke.
How CGM can help?
us to make healthier decisions and, hopefully, reduce our risk of developing metabolic dysfunction.
What CGM is and is not.
should never be the source of shame 
later… 
Check out the link in my bio to learn more.
Elvis/Chuck Berry/Ray Charles 
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that’s what it feels like when you are horizontal
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️3 Olympic medals
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