Goodies

Why Is Organic Always The Right Choice?

I asked my long-time friend, health expert Dr. Pamela Maloney, about why she feels, as a long-time health practitioner, that using organic products is better than using synthetic.

This is what she says:

There are increasing concerns about food safety and the fact that many processed foods are made from genetically modified products and non-organic food sources.

Organically grown foods have been grown on land that is absent of any chemicals for a minimum of 3 years. The crops are grown without the use of pesticides, chemically produced feritlizer or any chemicals whatsoever. Organic foods are processed and packaged without the use of artificial preservatives, colorings, irradiation or any other additives.

The liver and kidneys take the hit from ingesting pesticides, artificial preservatives, colorings, and petrochemical created fertilizers. It is a great strain on them to process these substances. Some non-organic ingredients are stored in the fatty tissues of the body so as to keep them out of the blood stream and away from the overtaxed organs. They get dumped out later when you loose weight and the fat breaks down. This is a toxic situation for the body.

Grateful All Year Long

I watched a horrific movie the other night - City of God, the pseudo-documentary in story form about life in the Rio de Janeiro and San Paolo slums - with all the drug dealing, money corruption, police brutality, and how the youth there have no care at all for life or limb, and lack any kind of hope or way to improve their lives.

Being empathic, I felt devastated. The feeling I walked away with was of such utter hopelessness and powerlessness in the face of such overwhelming enormous corruption, greed, violence and despair that I lay awake all night.

Next morning I felt as if a train had run over me. After I had finally resolved my upset with good ole EFT and kind comfort from a couple friends, I felt the most amazing, sweet, permeating sense of peace fill me. I went outside to my little yard - which only 3 years ago was literally the smelly, centipede-filled, compost/dump for my landlady's kitchen detritus and the yard-man's discarded stuff, and is now my own personal jungle of lush growing green - and I sat in one of the chairs and allowed myself to just breathe deeply and feel grateful down to my core.

Because, if I tell myself the truth, I have it easy. WE have it easy. Compared to the city portrayed in City of God, most of us live in absolute heaven. We get to make choices about who we are and what we want to do and where we want to live. We get to be entrepreneurs and energy practitioners and internet marketers and MLMers and speakers and teachers and artists and coaches - and like it's possible - POSSIBLE - to succeed.

Many of the people on my mailing list are real go-getters, unsatisfied with the status quo, always wanting to improev and expand their lives and their possibilities. Imagine living without any kind of hope - no thanks!

Nuts!

This is an article written by my good friend of over 25 years, Dr. Pamela Maloney. She's considered one of the top health professionals in the US, and I can sincerely attest to her integrity and deep knowledge of the human body. I liked one of her blog articles so much that I chose to publish it here because it is advise I used and benefited from, myself.

Soak Those Seeds and Nuts!
by Dr. Pamela Maloney

During my acupuncture education I was taught by a Tibetan acupuncturist who specialized in Cancer that it is absolutely necessary to soak all grains, nuts, and seeds overvinght before eating. This seems like an inconvenient process, but once you start doing it you will appreciate the benefits.

These food products are in a dormant, dried state. They come alive when soaked, literally. It is the same as soaking any seed and seeing it sprout. Life is there! You will think that you will just be cooking the life out of it again in the case of grains, but I will tell you why it is still important to soak your grains overnight.

Shouts to Smiles in 1.5 Minutes

I was just at a local craft store today getting some painting supplies, and have to tell you what happened -

When I walked into the store, there was a noticable feeling of tension. People were glancing over their shoulders at a couple and their 10 or 11 year-old girl who were arguing and shouting at each other. It was very uncomfortable for everyone, and no one quite knew what to do about it, as it was almost loud enough to be very abusive.

I purposely went over near them to listen in - my impish EFT-maniac-self wanted to do some surrogate stuff on them.

It was obvious that, if they had wanted to, they could have bought anything in the store, but the mother acted as if a 39-cent piece of paper and a 3-dollar bottle of paint were going to break their bank for the next year.

And she was screaming at the girl, "Why do you have to paint it white? I think you should paint it red! And why so big? You should...." etc.

The girl was trying to answer, but all she could say was, "But MOM, my teacher said ...." and "You never let me finish!"

Great Expectations

Take a minute and ask yourself this: "How much money do I expect to receive this year?"

If the amount you came up with didn't come close to the amount you WISH you could have, don't be surprised. Statistics say that by the time we are five years old, our basic patterns in life are already set. Including how we deal with money and finances. Enough conditioning is rubbed off on us that we then go through life not expecting, not dreaming, not being ourselves - not not not! Squashed before we even get a chance to choose!

3 Simple Steps to Manifestation

What a trip this last week has been. I may have mentioned that I started painting again recently after a long break - well, today a gallery owner I used to deal with called me and asked my permission to show my work again in Honolulu. Ha! I should say no??? He also wants to look into showing in Japan, as many collectors there enjoy my work. Well, OK!

The entire week has been like this since I've been using one of Esther and Jerry Hicks/Abraham's methods for manifestation (if you don't already have it, get their book, Ask and It Is Given - you'll be so glad you did!). Money started flowing faster, prints, audios and classes are jumping out of my hands, people have been calling and emailing out of the blue for private sessions (and were they happy at the news I'm giving people a holiday special? Oh yes!) and even, now, my paintings. Wow. I am so grateful!

I think I told you a while ago that I was using New Sun's Mastermind formula - well, I'll say it again - it's amazing! My mind has been sharp as a tack - and it only gets better. I don't know how they do it without stimulating the heck out of you, but they do. If you think you might want a nice, sharp mind and the ability to stay on target and focus for as long as you want, New Sun's number is 800-544-0777. Tell them Angela loves the Mastermind formula and that you want some, too!

The Peace and Power serie we've been doing has been incredible. So many great results. This week I'm having two classes each on Tuesday and Thursday - one early one for those of you in the more eastern regions of the world, and the later one for the US and western reaches. It worked perfectly today - for those of you on the calls, thanks for being the first to try it out.

Today we went over the three simple steps to manifestation.

Can YOU Receive?

Last night, I read a little bit in a book that I got a few years ago. I keep it by my bed, and I refer to it so often that it's so dog-eared and worn out that I'm considering replacing it.

Yes, I teach people how to manifest, how to succeed, how to live their dreams. But that doesn't mean I don't lapse or fall off what I know, or that I don't need support like anyone else does. So this is The book I lean on when I fall off into my own personal pits.

You've heard the phrase many times, probably: Ask and It Is Given. That's also the name of the book: Ask and It Is Given, by Esther and Jerry Hicks. Esther is the one who channels the Abraham group.

It's so simple - ask and it is given.

"Right! Don't we wish it was so simple!," I hear you say.

Well, it really is. You've also heard, "What you think, you get," too, haven't you?

I said that to a client one day and she blew her top. She screamed at me, "That's not true! I'd have been re-molested again if it was! I think about what happened too much already!" Yet here she was, having a hard time in an intimate relationship and carried around a huge load of fear. Her old stories ruled her life.

Lenses and Squids

Do you know what a lens is? No, not on a camera—on the internet. I just found out about them this summer.

Imagine that you want to find out info about a subject, and there is a simple site where you can access links, affiliate programs, articles, books, apparel, recipes, polls—you name it—all about—ONLY about—that subject.

That's a lens. It's a deep well, rather than a shallow puddle—which is how a "normal" website is compared.

Now. Many of you have asked me how you can create a website revolving around your business. This is one of many ways to do it. Point it to your business blog, or vicey versey—and lots of traffic, lots of opportunity for income.

Setting up a lens is easy, fast, and is no cost to you, other than your time and energy.

The name of the place to go to set your up is Squidoo.com, a site imagined, innovated and put together by Seth Godin, who you may know as a radical guy in internet marketing and innovation (Think Purple Cow, Bootstrapper's Bible, Do Less etc).

There's a whole nother aspect to building a lens through Squidoo I love—when you get paid for any affiliate stuff from them, you can choose to take part of it and shunt it over to a charity of coice. You can choose how much and when. Check this out—this is very cool—tonight I got this note from Seth:

Your Beauty

Everything on my beach walk yesterday morning—that magical just-after-dawn time—had a yellow hue to it, giving everything a radiant quality that hadn't disappeared under the brilliance of high noon's glaring sun yet. I love that—that and the time right before sunset when the saturated afternoon light comes through leaves and flowers at a slant and lights them up like green and multi-hued living jewels.

As I walk down the beach, I do a little exercise with my eyes—not to see physically beter, but to see from my inner senses better. Try this: as you look at any shadow, ask yourself what color it is. Allow yourself to really look. I guarantee you that it will not be black! Usually it is a combination of light and dark hues that are some permutation of the same color of the surface upon which the shadow lies.

But look again. If you are discerning, you can see blues and deep violets, sometimes grey-blues, sometimes bright purples. Shadows can be quite beautiful all in themselves.

Turned ON

The Art of Passionate Living
An excerpt from the book by Bill Lamond

The Hidden Costs of Winning
In the last two decades in business as a self-employed person, I have found that success-based thinking is really what I call winning at a discount. It is okay to ruin your health, have lousy relationships, harden your heart and other ridiculous things as long as you get “successful.” It’s really a “success at any price model.”

This model presumes you are living in a state of war or emergency. It is a way of operating to get a particular result at any cost. In times of war, it may be necessary. It is also a way of operating that will burn out your adrenals and never give you full enjoyment. It certainly is not a way to live everyday life. It burns out the body and deadens the soul.

Experientially, what is frightening about the model of success we live in today is that at the very moment of winning, you can already feel the discount. It makes most people bitter and crazy. Yes, they have won, but at what cost? You need only look at the latest disaster to befall the rich and famous in the tabloids – drugs addictions, marital scandals, mental illness, even murder – to see what the “success at any price” model produces. It’s not pretty.

When something is achieved at a ruinous cost, it is called a Pyrrhic victory. It is empty.

Success-based thinking is a pyrrhic victory. It forgets that at the heart of every human endeavor is the very human desire to be happy. Even if you want to be rich and famous, more powerful, better in bed or fully enlightened, you must somewhere in yourself think that these things will make you happy.