It's been quite a while since I posted, but my time has been well spent revamping my website amongst others things. I've also been writing articles and I've developed a monthly newsletter - Tips, Tools and Techniques for Self-Empowerment!
There have been many occasions when I considered posting, such as the time I watched a commercial on TV for a hands-free soap dispenser. Can anyone please tell me why we would want to use a hands-free model? Isn't the whole idea of using soap to wash away germs? So who cares if there are germs on the pump Why in heaven's name would you want to avoid a 'germy' pump? Do companies think we're stupid or something? I just don't get it.
There are many instances in our lives such as this and I believe the majority of people need to think more for themselves. Perhaps it would save them from spending money on useless gadgets such as hands-free soap dispensers!
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Friday, April 9, 2010
Is Life Ever Just Right?
People complain about everything. Nothing is ever right. It seems there's always too much or too little.
Take farmers for instance. A recent TV news item reported that local farmers are concerned about the current early spring conditions in Ontario (we're experiencing temperatures that we don't normally get for another month) and the fact that a frost could severely affect the harvest this year causing food prices to soar.
With all due respect, farmers, we constantly hear it's either too hot or too cold; too wet or too dry; too sunny or too cloudy; too early or too late. Are conditions ever right for you?
But farmers aren't the only ones. We all grumble about our life. We're too young or too old; we have kids or we don't; we don't have time or we have too much; we don't have the money or… hey, I've never heard anyone complain that they have too much money!
Seriously, can't we ever accept whatever "IS"? Life is so short and complaining about something, especially when we can't do anything about it, is such a waste of time.
I have a little more to say on this subject in an article titled Present Perfect.
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
How Seniors Have F-U-N Rapping!
Since this is a contest, the number of views on YouTube is very important, so please pass the link to your family, friends and other contacts!
Enjoy!
Saturday, January 30, 2010
A Woman's Heart Attack Experience
The following is an explanation of a heart attack (myocardial infarction) experienced by a woman and how it differs to a man's symptoms. I received it by email from a friend and want to share it as it was an eye-opener for me!
A NURSE'S HEART ATTACK EXPERIENCE
Did you know that women rarely have the same dramatic symptoms that men have when experiencing heart attack: you know, the sudden stabbing pain in the chest, the cold sweat, grabbing the chest & dropping to the floor that we see in the movies. Here is the story of one woman's experience with a heart attack.
'I had a heart attack at about 10:30 PM with NO prior exertion, NO prior emotional trauma that one would suspect might've brought it on. I was sitting all snugly & warm on a cold evening, with my purring cat in my lap, reading an interesting story my friend had sent me, and actually thinking, 'A-A-h, this is the life, all cozy and warm in my soft, cushy Lazy Boy with my feet propped up.
A moment later, I felt that awful sensation of indigestion, when you've been in a hurry and grabbed a bite of sandwich and washed it down with a dash of water, and that hurried bite seems to feel like you've swallowed a golf ball going down the esophagus in slow motion and it is most uncomfortable. You realize you shouldn't have gulped it down so fast and needed to chew it more thoroughly and this time drink a glass of water to hasten its progress down to the stomach. This was my initial sensation---the only trouble was that I hadn't taken a bite of anything since about 5:00 p.m.
After it seemed to subside, the next sensation was like little squeezing motions that seemed to be racing up my SPINE (hind-sight, it was probably my aorta spasming), gaining speed as they continued racing up and under my sternum (breast bone, where one presses rhythmically when administering CPR).
This fascinating process continued on into my throat and branched out into both jaws. 'AHA!! NOW I stopped puzzling about what was happening -- we all have read and/or heard about pain in the jaws being one of the signals of an MI happening, haven't we? I said aloud to myself and the cat, Dear God, I think I'm having a heart attack!
I lowered the footrest dumping the cat from my lap, started to take a step and fell on the floor instead. I thought to myself, If this is a heart attack, I shouldn't be walking into the next room where the phone is or anywhere else ... but, on the other hand, if I don't, nobody will know that I need help, and if I wait any longer I may not be able to get up in a moment.
I pulled myself up with the arms of the chair, walked slowly into the next room and dialled the Paramedics ... I told her I thought I was having a heart attack due to the pressure building under the sternum and radiating into my jaws. I didn't feel hysterical or afraid, just stating the facts. She said she was sending the Paramedics over immediately, asked if the front door was near to me, and if so, to unbolt the door and then lie down on the floor where they could see me when they came in.
I unlocked the door and then laid down on the floor as instructed and lost consciousness as I don't remember the medics coming in, their examination, lifting me onto a gurney, getting me into their ambulance, or hearing the call they made to St. Jude ER on the way. But I did briefly awaken when we arrived and saw that the Cardiologist was already there in his surgical blues and cap, helping the medics pull my stretcher out of the ambulance. He was bending over me asking questions (probably something like 'Have you taken any medications?') but I couldn't make my mind interpret what he was saying, or form an answer, and nodded off again, not waking up until the Cardiologist and partner had already threaded the teeny angiogram balloon up my femoral artery into the aorta and into my heart where they installed 2 side by side stints to hold open my right coronary artery.
'I know it sounds like all my thinking and actions at home must have taken at least 20-30 minutes before calling the Paramedics, but actually it took perhaps 4-5 minutes before the call, and both the fire station and St. Jude are only minutes away from my home. My Cardiologist was already to go to the OR in his scrubs and get going on restarting my heart (which had stopped somewhere between my arrival and the procedure) and installing the stints.
'Why have I written all of this with so much detail? Because I want all of you who are so important in my life to know what I learned first hand.'
1. Be aware that something very different is happening in your body - not the usual men's symptoms but inexplicable things happening (until my sternum and jaws got into the act). It is said that many more women than men die of their first (and last) MI because they didn't know they were having one and commonly mistook it as indigestion, took some Maalox or other anti-heartburn preparation and went to bed, hoping they'd feel better in the morning when they wake up ... which doesn't happen. My female friends, your symptoms might not be exactly like mine, so I advise you to call the Paramedics if ANYTHING unpleasant is happening that you've not felt before. It is better to have a 'false alarm' visitation than to risk your life guessing what it might be!
2. Note that I said 'Call the Paramedics.' And if you can, take an aspirin. Ladies, TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE! Do NOT try to drive yourself to the ER - you are a hazard to others on the road. Do NOT have your panicked husband who will be speeding and looking anxiously at what's happening with you instead of the road. Do NOT call your doctor -- he doesn't know where you live and if it's at night you won't reach him anyway, and if it's daytime, his assistants (or answering service) will tell you to call the Paramedics. He doesn't carry the equipment in his car that you need to be saved! The Paramedics do, principally OXYGEN that you need ASAP. Your Dr. will be notified later.
3. Don't assume it couldn't be a heart attack because you have a normal cholesterol count. Research has discovered that a cholesterol elevated reading is rarely the cause of an MI (unless it's unbelievably high and/or accompanied by high blood pressure). MIs are usually caused by long-term stress and inflammation in the body, which dumps all sorts of deadly hormones into your system to sludge things up in there. Pain in the jaw can wake you from a sound sleep. Let's be careful and be aware. The more we know, the better chance we could survive.
A cardiologist says if everyone who gets this information sends it to 10 people, you can be sure that we'll save at least one life.
A NURSE'S HEART ATTACK EXPERIENCE
Did you know that women rarely have the same dramatic symptoms that men have when experiencing heart attack: you know, the sudden stabbing pain in the chest, the cold sweat, grabbing the chest & dropping to the floor that we see in the movies. Here is the story of one woman's experience with a heart attack.
'I had a heart attack at about 10:30 PM with NO prior exertion, NO prior emotional trauma that one would suspect might've brought it on. I was sitting all snugly & warm on a cold evening, with my purring cat in my lap, reading an interesting story my friend had sent me, and actually thinking, 'A-A-h, this is the life, all cozy and warm in my soft, cushy Lazy Boy with my feet propped up.
A moment later, I felt that awful sensation of indigestion, when you've been in a hurry and grabbed a bite of sandwich and washed it down with a dash of water, and that hurried bite seems to feel like you've swallowed a golf ball going down the esophagus in slow motion and it is most uncomfortable. You realize you shouldn't have gulped it down so fast and needed to chew it more thoroughly and this time drink a glass of water to hasten its progress down to the stomach. This was my initial sensation---the only trouble was that I hadn't taken a bite of anything since about 5:00 p.m.
After it seemed to subside, the next sensation was like little squeezing motions that seemed to be racing up my SPINE (hind-sight, it was probably my aorta spasming), gaining speed as they continued racing up and under my sternum (breast bone, where one presses rhythmically when administering CPR).
This fascinating process continued on into my throat and branched out into both jaws. 'AHA!! NOW I stopped puzzling about what was happening -- we all have read and/or heard about pain in the jaws being one of the signals of an MI happening, haven't we? I said aloud to myself and the cat, Dear God, I think I'm having a heart attack!
I lowered the footrest dumping the cat from my lap, started to take a step and fell on the floor instead. I thought to myself, If this is a heart attack, I shouldn't be walking into the next room where the phone is or anywhere else ... but, on the other hand, if I don't, nobody will know that I need help, and if I wait any longer I may not be able to get up in a moment.
I pulled myself up with the arms of the chair, walked slowly into the next room and dialled the Paramedics ... I told her I thought I was having a heart attack due to the pressure building under the sternum and radiating into my jaws. I didn't feel hysterical or afraid, just stating the facts. She said she was sending the Paramedics over immediately, asked if the front door was near to me, and if so, to unbolt the door and then lie down on the floor where they could see me when they came in.
I unlocked the door and then laid down on the floor as instructed and lost consciousness as I don't remember the medics coming in, their examination, lifting me onto a gurney, getting me into their ambulance, or hearing the call they made to St. Jude ER on the way. But I did briefly awaken when we arrived and saw that the Cardiologist was already there in his surgical blues and cap, helping the medics pull my stretcher out of the ambulance. He was bending over me asking questions (probably something like 'Have you taken any medications?') but I couldn't make my mind interpret what he was saying, or form an answer, and nodded off again, not waking up until the Cardiologist and partner had already threaded the teeny angiogram balloon up my femoral artery into the aorta and into my heart where they installed 2 side by side stints to hold open my right coronary artery.
'I know it sounds like all my thinking and actions at home must have taken at least 20-30 minutes before calling the Paramedics, but actually it took perhaps 4-5 minutes before the call, and both the fire station and St. Jude are only minutes away from my home. My Cardiologist was already to go to the OR in his scrubs and get going on restarting my heart (which had stopped somewhere between my arrival and the procedure) and installing the stints.
'Why have I written all of this with so much detail? Because I want all of you who are so important in my life to know what I learned first hand.'
1. Be aware that something very different is happening in your body - not the usual men's symptoms but inexplicable things happening (until my sternum and jaws got into the act). It is said that many more women than men die of their first (and last) MI because they didn't know they were having one and commonly mistook it as indigestion, took some Maalox or other anti-heartburn preparation and went to bed, hoping they'd feel better in the morning when they wake up ... which doesn't happen. My female friends, your symptoms might not be exactly like mine, so I advise you to call the Paramedics if ANYTHING unpleasant is happening that you've not felt before. It is better to have a 'false alarm' visitation than to risk your life guessing what it might be!
2. Note that I said 'Call the Paramedics.' And if you can, take an aspirin. Ladies, TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE! Do NOT try to drive yourself to the ER - you are a hazard to others on the road. Do NOT have your panicked husband who will be speeding and looking anxiously at what's happening with you instead of the road. Do NOT call your doctor -- he doesn't know where you live and if it's at night you won't reach him anyway, and if it's daytime, his assistants (or answering service) will tell you to call the Paramedics. He doesn't carry the equipment in his car that you need to be saved! The Paramedics do, principally OXYGEN that you need ASAP. Your Dr. will be notified later.
3. Don't assume it couldn't be a heart attack because you have a normal cholesterol count. Research has discovered that a cholesterol elevated reading is rarely the cause of an MI (unless it's unbelievably high and/or accompanied by high blood pressure). MIs are usually caused by long-term stress and inflammation in the body, which dumps all sorts of deadly hormones into your system to sludge things up in there. Pain in the jaw can wake you from a sound sleep. Let's be careful and be aware. The more we know, the better chance we could survive.
A cardiologist says if everyone who gets this information sends it to 10 people, you can be sure that we'll save at least one life.
Friday, January 1, 2010
The Passion Test
In order to be, do or have what we desire, we must first be VERY clear about what we want to be, do, or have. The Passion Test is the perfect tool for defining exactly what is most important to us, what we feel most passion for, what our true desires are.
The book takes you through the steps to identify your passions and narrow down the five most important in your life at this particular time. Passions may change over time, but the test is only concerned with the present moment. These aren't goals which you wish to achieve over the next one, two or five years, but the things that ignite your passion and enables you to fulfill our goals.
The surprising thing for me when I did the test was that what I thought I was passionate about wasn't what I thought it was!
You can find out how passionate you are, where your blocks are, and what you need to do by taking The Passion Test Profile. It doesn't cost anything so I urge you to try it for yourself and begin 2010 with a clear idea of what turns YOU on; what fulfills you and enables you to achieve your dreams.
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
The Present is ALWAYS Perfect & We Are Enough
Have you ever struggled against a seemingly impossible challenge? Have you tried time after time to rectify a situation or experience in your life, but to no avail? I have.
For many years, I spent countless hours reading, meditating, praying, visualizing, following this practice or watching that movie, all in an effort to overcome the financial situation I have found myself in for most of my life. No matter what I've done, my experience around money has not changed... much.
I say not much, because there have been moments when I could see the 'purpose' in my situation - moments of clarity when I understood something about myself or my experience that actually made sense. What I was never able to accept was why my situation never changed drastically... the way it did for many people I read about. It caused deep feelings of inadequecy and failure, because I did what everyone said I should do, but still the money didn't come rolling in.
Questions about my deservedness came up regularly. Why were other people successful when they created dream boards or repeated affirmation or wrote about their gratitude? What was 'wrong' with me?
In August 2008, an answer came that helped considerably. I was given a message:
I say 'helped' because there was no sudden influx of wealth, but I certainly felt a little better about my experience. Recently, however, I received another piece of the puzzle. It came in the form of a conversation with my daughter.
We discussed the possibility that, not only do we pre-determine who our family will be before we incarnate as well as the circumstances of our birth, etc., but we program ourself to have a particular mental/emotional attitude or a specific life circumstance. This could be in the form of relationship challenges, physical/health challenges, or mental/emotional challenges. Have you ever noticed that everyone seems to be challenged in one area or another?
This, in itself, is not a new concept, but we went on to talk about the reason we can't seem to overcome our challenge. What if we have built-in filters that actually prevent us from conquering our particular challenge? Think about the morbidly obese person for a moment. Why can't that person simply eat less and exercise more? Wouldn't that solve the problem? Why couldn't I simply visualize myself as a wealthy person to change my experience?
There often appear to be simply remedies for complicated issues. But that doesn't make them easy. You may say that these challenges are caused by 'inner' problems and the 'inner' must be healed before the 'outer' can reflect that healing: As within, so without. And I would agree with you. However, I've had many insights about the reason for my failure to manifest monetary abundance, yet I'm still scraping by at the end of the month with a pitiful income well below the poverty line. Why is that?
My daughter and I continued to discuss these reasons. What we came up with was quite an eye-opener... for us both!
Maybe you've heard about "enjoying the journey." Well, what if the journey is our reason for living? What if achieving our goal of overcoming our challenge isn't why we came to this earth? What if we placed filters into our psyche (or whatever you want to call it), so that we never overcame our challenge? From a higher perspective, wouldn't the journey then become far more important than the destination?
It's what we learn in the process of trying to overcome our challenge that we came to experience. Every insight, every aha, every tiny victory on our journey then becomes a huge triumph!
We are always exactly where we need to be.
We are always exactly the person we need to be.
We always experience whatever we need to experience in order to be all that we are capable of being.
We are enough!
For many years, I spent countless hours reading, meditating, praying, visualizing, following this practice or watching that movie, all in an effort to overcome the financial situation I have found myself in for most of my life. No matter what I've done, my experience around money has not changed... much.
I say not much, because there have been moments when I could see the 'purpose' in my situation - moments of clarity when I understood something about myself or my experience that actually made sense. What I was never able to accept was why my situation never changed drastically... the way it did for many people I read about. It caused deep feelings of inadequecy and failure, because I did what everyone said I should do, but still the money didn't come rolling in.
Questions about my deservedness came up regularly. Why were other people successful when they created dream boards or repeated affirmation or wrote about their gratitude? What was 'wrong' with me?
In August 2008, an answer came that helped considerably. I was given a message:
Accept what 'is' – totally, without question – as the perfection of this NOW. Accept it as God’s answer to your prayers... no matter what they may be. Whatever you are experiencing IS the answer you’ve been asking for whether it’s in the form you want and expect, or NOT. It is ALWAYS the perfect answer. ALL WAYS!
I say 'helped' because there was no sudden influx of wealth, but I certainly felt a little better about my experience. Recently, however, I received another piece of the puzzle. It came in the form of a conversation with my daughter.
We discussed the possibility that, not only do we pre-determine who our family will be before we incarnate as well as the circumstances of our birth, etc., but we program ourself to have a particular mental/emotional attitude or a specific life circumstance. This could be in the form of relationship challenges, physical/health challenges, or mental/emotional challenges. Have you ever noticed that everyone seems to be challenged in one area or another?
This, in itself, is not a new concept, but we went on to talk about the reason we can't seem to overcome our challenge. What if we have built-in filters that actually prevent us from conquering our particular challenge? Think about the morbidly obese person for a moment. Why can't that person simply eat less and exercise more? Wouldn't that solve the problem? Why couldn't I simply visualize myself as a wealthy person to change my experience?
There often appear to be simply remedies for complicated issues. But that doesn't make them easy. You may say that these challenges are caused by 'inner' problems and the 'inner' must be healed before the 'outer' can reflect that healing: As within, so without. And I would agree with you. However, I've had many insights about the reason for my failure to manifest monetary abundance, yet I'm still scraping by at the end of the month with a pitiful income well below the poverty line. Why is that?
My daughter and I continued to discuss these reasons. What we came up with was quite an eye-opener... for us both!
Maybe you've heard about "enjoying the journey." Well, what if the journey is our reason for living? What if achieving our goal of overcoming our challenge isn't why we came to this earth? What if we placed filters into our psyche (or whatever you want to call it), so that we never overcame our challenge? From a higher perspective, wouldn't the journey then become far more important than the destination?
It's what we learn in the process of trying to overcome our challenge that we came to experience. Every insight, every aha, every tiny victory on our journey then becomes a huge triumph!
We are always exactly where we need to be.
We are always exactly the person we need to be.
We always experience whatever we need to experience in order to be all that we are capable of being.
We are enough!
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Dust
Recently, my daughter said, "Dust is the great equalizer." I couldn't stop laughing as it's so true. Who can tell whether something's a cheap little ornament or an expensive antique when it's covered in dust?
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