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9 Health Benefits of Yoga

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We’ve all heard at one time or another about how yoga is great for our holistic well-being and some of us have a daily yoga practice we do with that in mind. What you may not know is that the list of life enriching benefits of yoga just keeps on growing and here we look at several new discoveries about the wonderful benefits of yoga that have emerged in recent years. If you don’t incorporate some form of yoga into your daily life you may reconsider after reading this and become a yogi or yogini yourself!

Yoga gives an immune boost to breast cancer survivors

In breast cancer survivors, the Iyengar method of yoga not only promotes psychological well-being, but seems to offer immune system benefits as well, according to new research. The Iyengar method, created by B. K. S. Iyengar, “is considered to be one of the more active forms of yoga,” says lead researcher and presenter Pamela E. Schultz
“It still has the meditative component, but it’s been shown to have a physical output equivalent to a moderate-intensity exercise.” –Source

Yoga reverses the risk of heart disease

Ycan reverse the clinical and biochemical changes associated with metabolic syndrome, according to results of studies from Sweden and India. Waist circumference, blood pressure, blood sugar, and triglycerides were significantly lower, and “good” HDL cholesterol levels were higher in the yoga group as compared to controls, Agrawal’s team reports in the journal Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice. –Source

Yoga proven to help back pain

Research shows that regular yoga sessions may be an effective way to combat back pain. In one study, those who practised weekly 75-minute yoga classes made greater progress than those who took part in strengthening and stretching classes. The researchers found that at the end of 12 weeks patients in the yoga group were better able to do daily activities involving the back. After another 14 weeks they also reported less pain, and used less pain relieving drugs. –Source

Yoga enhances sexual performance

A study published in the December 2008 edition of The Journal of Sexual Medicine showed women who were not satisfied with their sex life experienced heightened arousal and better orgasms when they practiced yoga. Another study published in the same journal in 2007 showed yoga was the most effective solution for men dealing with premature ejaculation in comparison to Prozac and non-prescription drugs. –Source

Yoga can help heal in PTSD recovery

Recently Yoga has begun to be used as a treatment to aid in healing those with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. In a recent study, a group of female patients suffering from PTSD were taught Hatha Yoga in eight sessions while another group of female patients underwent eight sessions of group therapy. Those who finished the Yoga training showed a substantial improvement in symptoms such as “the frequency of intrusive thoughts and the severity of jangled nerves” in comparison to those who underwent group therapy. –Source

Yoga helps in weight control through mindfulness

According to a new study headed by researchers at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, people who practice yoga regularly are less likely to be obese. The reason isn’t necessarily the exercise part of yoga but the mindfulness part that promotes a slim body. It was found that middle-age people who practice yoga gained less weight over a ten year period than those who did not. This was independent of physical activity and dietary patterns. –Source

Yoga helps in stopping binge eating

According to research conducted at the University of The Rockies, binge eaters were encouraged to take part in a 10-week yoga therapy program. These participants saw a dramatic drop in their binge-eating episodes towards the end of the program. Every week, the program included an hour of yoga and group discussion afterwards that lasted half an hour. –Source

Yoga improves mood and reduces anxiety

Yet another study has confirmed that yoga can assist in the treatment of a wide range of psychological disorders, including depression, anxiety, and cardiac disease. Chris Streeter, MD, and his colleagues from Boston University School of Medicine discovered that it may be because of yoga’s ability to increase levels of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), an endogenous antidepressant neurotransmitter present in the brain. –Source

It’s well known yoga reduces stress; now we know why

Research has suggested for some time that psychosocial interventions like meditation reduce the adverse effects of caregiver stress on physical and mental health. However, the pathways by which such psychosocial interventions impact biological processes are poorly understood. –Source

Source: “9 Life Enriching Benefits of Yoga”, from shift.is, by Paul Lenda

from:   http://theunboundedspirit.com/9-health-benefits-of-yoga/

Eating Away Inflammation

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Inflammation: Tame This Silent Killer With Simple Food-Based Solutions

Inflammation31st January 2014

By Carolanne Wright

Contributing Writer for Wake Up World

The bane of health, chronic inflammation, is at the root of most disease. Cancer, rheumatoid arthritis, obesity, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, cardiovascular troubles and periodontal issues are all influenced by an overactive inflammatory response.

Fortunately, we have a powerful ally against inflammation residing in our kitchen. Through select foods and dietary adjustments, we can subdue this unruly beast and create a solid foundation for a healthy future.

The Primary Culprit: Poor Food Choices

Inflammation is the body’s natural response to injury, helping to heal damage throughout the system. And yet, this mechanism can lead to serious illness when left unchecked.

Dietary choices are the number one trigger for an exaggerated inflammatory reaction – especially sugary, high-glycemic and processed carbohydrates. Poor-quality fats like those found in meat and dairy, as well as trans fats in refined vegetable oils, are also problematic.

In the scholarly paper “Control of Systemic Inflammation and Chronic Diseases – The Use of Turmeric and Curcuminoids”, researcher Stig Bengmark observes:

“The world suffers an epidemic of both critical illness (CI) and chronic diseases (ChDs), and both groups of diseases increase from year to year, and have done so for several decades. It is strongly associated to the modern, so-called Western, lifestyle: stress, lack of exercise, abuse of tobacco and alcohol, and the transition from natural unprocessed foods to processed, calorie-condensed, and heat-treated foods.

“There is a strong association between reduced intake of plant fibers and plant antioxidants and increased consumption of industrially produced and processed products especially dairy, refined sugars, and starch products and ChDs. Heating up foods such as milk (pasteurization) and production and storage of milk powder produce large amounts of advanced glycation end products (AGEs) and advanced lipid oxidation end products (ALEs), known as potent inducers of inflammation.”

Be that as it may, just as the diet can exacerbate inflammation, specific foods can also heal it.

Edible solutions

A number of foods offer exceptional protection against inflammatory reactions. For instance, sulfur compounds found in garlic, and polyphenol antioxidants in green tea, both successfully discourage excessive inflammation. [1][2]

Golden-hued turmeric is another example. In laboratory tests, the anti-inflammatory characteristics of turmeric are effective in mitigating skin, lung and neurodegenerative disorders, cancer, heart disease, diabetes, osteoporosis, cataracts and intestinal diseases. [3]

Healthy fats are also important. As an outstanding source of omega-3 fatty acids, sardines, fish oil supplements and wild-caught salmon, or vegetarian options like hemp seed, flaxseed and walnuts, provide the building blocks for healthy inflammation levels. [4][5][6] Moreover, oleic acid in olive oil supplies a good measure of anti-inflammatory omega-9 fatty acids. [7]

Don’t forget to add a bit of spice to your life. Over 25 years of research on ginger has established the herb as one of the foremost anti-inflammatory foods around. A study in the Journal of Medicinal Food discovered that two ginger extracts, Zingiber officinale and Alpina galanga, inhibit several genes responsible for inflammatory reactions. [8]

And Karen Lamphere, MS, CN, recommends a dash of heat. “Some of the most potent anti-inflammatory vegetables are peppers and the spices derived from them, such as cayenne pepper. All chili peppers include capsaicin (the hotter the pepper, the more capsaicin it has), which is a potent inhibitor of substance P, a neuropeptide associated with inflammatory processes.”

Over and above dietary choices, lifestyle options such as reducing stress, detoxifying and exercising regularly contribute to lower inflammation levels too. In the end, sidestepping the risks of this silent killer is a straightforward daily task when armed with whole foods and healthy habits.

from:    http://wakeup-world.com/2014/01/31/inflammation-tame-this-silent-killer-with-simple-food-based-solutions/

Foods Banned Elsewhere Sold in US

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10 Foods Sold in the U.S. That Are Banned Elsewhere

by OracleTalk Curator on January 3, 2014
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This Article First Appeared At Care2.com:

Americans are slowly realizing that food sold in the US doesn’t just taste different than foods sold in other countries, it’s created differently. Sadly, many U.S. foods are BANNED in Europe — and for good reason. Take a look at the plummeting health of Americans; what role might toxic foods play in our skyrocketing disease rates?

Below are 10 American foods that are banned elsewhere.

#1:  Farm-Raised Salmon

Farm-raised fish is usually fed an unnatural diet of genetically engineered (GE) grains, antibiotics and chemicals unsafe for humans. To mask the resulting grayish flesh, they’re given toxic and potentially eyesight-damaging synthetic astaxanthin.

To determine wild from farm-raised salmon (sold in most restaurants), wild sockeye gets its red color from natural astaxanthin and carotenoids. The white “fat strips” are thin, meaning it’s lean. Pale pink fish and wide fat marks are a sign of farmed salmon.

Avoid “Atlantic Salmon.” Look for “Alaskan” or “sockeye,” which is illegal to farm and has very high astaxanthin concentrations.

Where it’s banned: Australia and New Zealand

#2:  Genetically Engineered Papaya

Most Hawaiian papaya is genetically engineered to be ringspot virus-resistant. But research shows animals fed GE foods like corn and soy suffer intestinal damage, multiple-organ damage, massive tumors, birth defects, premature death and/or nearly complete sterility by the third generation. Dangers to humans are unknown.

Where it’s banned: The European Union

#3:  Ractopamine-Tainted Meat

About 45 percent of US pigs, 30 percent of cattle and an unknown percentage of turkeys are plumped with the asthma drug ractopamine before slaughter. Up to 20 percent of ractopamine is still there when you buy it.

Since 1998, more than 1,700 US pork lovers have been “poisoned” this way. For this very health threat, ractopamine-laced meats are banned in 160 different countries! Russia issued a ban on US meat imports, effective February 11, 2013, until it’s certified ractopamine-free. In animals, it’s linked to reducedreproductive function, increased mastitis and increased death. It damages the human cardiovascular system and may cause hyperactivity, chromosomal abnormalities and behavioral changes. Currently, US meats aren’t even tested for it.

Where it’s banned: 160 countries across Europe, Russia, mainland China and Republic of China (Taiwan).

#4:  Flame Retardant Drinks

Mountain Dew and other drinks in the US contain the synthetic chemical brominated vegetable oil (BVO), originally patented as a flame retardant.

BVO bioaccumulates in human tissue and breast milk; animal studies report reproductive and behavioral problems. Bromine alters the central nervous and endocrine systems and promotes iodine deficiency, causing skin rashes, acne, loss of appetite, fatigue and cardiac arrhythmias. The featured article explains:

“The FDA has flip-flopped on BVO’s safety, originally classifying it as ‘generally recognized as safe,’ but reversing that call, now defining it as an ‘interim food additive,’ a category reserved for possibly questionable substances used in food.”

Where it’s banned: Europe and Japan

#5:  Processed Foods and Artificial Food Dyes

More than 3,000 preservatives, flavorings and colors are added to US foods, many of which are banned in other countries. The featured article noted:

“Boxed Mac & Cheese, cheddar flavored crackers, Jell-O and many kids’ cereals contain red 40, yellow 5, yellow 6 and/or blue 2 … (which) can cause behavioral problems as well as cancer, birth defects and other health problems in laboratory animals. Red 40 and yellow 6 are also suspected of causing an allergy-like hypersensitivity reaction in children. The Center for Science in the Public Interest reports that some dyes are also “contaminated with known carcinogens.”

In countries where these food dyes are banned, companies like Kraft employ natural colorants like paprika extract and beetroot.

Where it’s banned: Norway and Austria. Britain advised companies against using food dyes by the end of 2009. The European Union requires a warning notice on most foods containing dyes.

#6:  Arsenic-Laced Chicken

Arsenic-based drugs are approved in US-produced animal feed because they cause animals to grow quicker and meats products to look pinker and “fresher.” The FDA says arsenic-based drugs are safe safe because they contain organic arsenic … But organic arsenic can turn into inorganic arsenic, run through contaminated manure and leach into drinking water.

The European Union has never approved using arsenic in animal feed; US environmental groups have sued the FDA to remove them.

Where it’s banned: The European Union

#7:  Bread with Potassium Bromate

Bread, hamburger and hotdog buns are “enriched” with potassium bromate, or bromide, linked to kidney and nervous system damage, thyroid problems, gastrointestinal discomfort and cancer.

While commercial baking companies claim it renders dough more tolerable to bread hooks, Pepperidge Farm and others use only unbromated flour without experiencing “structural problems.”

Where it’s banned: Canada, China and the EU

#8:  Olestra/Olean

Olestra, or Olean, created by Procter & Gamble, is a calorie- and cholesterol-free fat substitute in fat-free snacks like chips and french fries. Three years ago, Time Magazine named it one of the worst 50 inventions ever. MSN noted:

“Not only did a 2011 study from Purdue University conclude rats fed potato chips made with Olean gained weight … several reports of adverse intestinal reactions to the fake fat include diarrhea, cramps and leaky bowels. And because it interferes  with the absorption of fat soluble vitamins such as A, D, E and K, the FDA requires these vitamins be added to any product made with Olean or olestra.”

Where it’s banned: The UK and Canada

#9:  Preservatives BHA and BHT

BHA (butylated hydroxyanisole) and BHT (butylated hydroxytoluene) are common preservatives in foods like cereal, nut mixes, chewing gum, butter spread, meat and beer. The National Toxicology Program’s 2011 Report on Carcinogens says BHA may trigger allergic reactions and hyperactivity and “is reasonably anticipated to be a human carcinogen.”

Where it’s banned: Both are banned in parts of the European Union and Japan; the UK doesn’t allow BHA in infant foods.

#10:  Milk and Dairy Products Made with rBGH

Recombinant bovine growth hormone (rBGH), a synthetic version of natural bovine hormone is injected into cows to increase milk production. Monsanto developed it from genetically engineered E. coli bacteria, marketed as “Posilac.”

But it’s banned in at least 30 other nations. Why? It converts normal tissue cells into cancerous ones, increasing colorectal, prostate and breast cancer risks. Among other diseases, injected cows suffer exorbitant rates of mastitis, contaminating milk with pus and antibiotics.

In 1997, two Fox-affiliate investigative journalists, Jane Akre and Steve Wilson attempted to expose thedangers of rBGH, but lawyers for Monsanto – a major advertiser with the Florida network – sent letters promising “dire consequences” if the story aired.

In 1999, the United Nations Safety Agency ruled unanimously not to endorse rBGH milk, resulting in an international ban on US milk.

The Cancer Prevention Coalition, trying for years to affect a dairy industry ban of rBGH, resubmitting apetition to FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg in January 2010, but the FDA sticks to its false position that rBGH-treated milk is no different than milk from untreated cows.

Action: Look for products labeled “rBGH-free” or “No rBGH.”

Where it’s banned: Australia, New Zealand, Israel, EU and Canada

Take Control of Your Health with REAL Food

If you value your health, avoid foods containing harmful ingredients and ditch processed foods entirely – even if they are permitted in the US.  Opt for fresh whole foods, organic, grass-fed/pasture-raised beef and poultry, dairy products and eggs.

from:    http://oracletalk.com/10-foods-sold-u-s-banned-elsewhere/

Wayne Dyer on Passion

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A Message from Wayne: Your Passionate Power

Wayne W. Dyer
a message from Wayne W. Dyer

Dear friends,

Here’s a concept you won’t want to forget: passion always trumps excuses. Keep in mind that when I use the word passion, I’m not referring to the romantic notions that this concept conjures. Instead, I’m equating it to a vigorous kind of enthusiasm that you feel deep within you and that isn’t easy to explain or define. This kind of passion propels you in a direction that seems motivated by a force beyond your control. It’s the inner excitement of being on the right path, doing what feels good to you, and what you know you were meant to do.

It’s my contention that the mere presence of passion within you is all you need to fulfill your dreams. Remember that God is in no need of excuses, ever. The creative Divine Spirit is able to manifest anything it contemplates, and you and I are the results of its contemplating itself into material form. Thus, when we have an emotional reaction that feels like overwhelming passion for what we’re contemplating, we’re experiencing the God within us…and nothing can hold us back.

Passion is a feeling that tells you: This is the right thing to do. Nothing can stand in my way. It doesn’t matter what anyone else says. This feeling is so good that it cannot be ignored. I’m going to follow my bliss and act upon this glorious sensation of joy.

When you’re enthusiastic, nothing seems difficult. When you have passion, there are no risks: family dramas become meaningless, money isn’t an issue, you know that you have the strength and the smarts, and the rules laid down by others have no bearing on you whatsoever. That’s because you’re answering your calling—and the you who is doing the answering is the highest part of you, or the God within.

The presence of passion within you is the greatest gift you can receive. And when it’s aligned with Spirit, treat it as a miracle, doing everything you can to hold on to it. I feel this way about the creation of my books. I’ve learned over the years that when I go to that place of passion within me, there’s no force in the universe that can interfere with my completing a project. My life is consumed by the passion I feel for what I’m doing—yet I know that as long as I feel this, I’m experiencing the God within.

My enthusiasm seems to cause my world to endlessly offer me cooperative, co-creating experiences. I’m willing and I’m eager, and not just about my writing—I feel the same way about staying in shape, enjoying my family, giving a lecture, or whatever it may be. If you have passion, there is no need for excuses, because your enthusiasm will trump any negative reasoning you might come up with. Enthusiasm makes excuses a nonissue. When you seek the presence of your creative Spirit and are filled with passion about virtually everything you undertake, you’ll successfully remove the roadblocks from your life and enjoy the active presence of Spirit.

Namaste,

Wayne Dyer

from:    http://spiritlibrary.com/wayne-w-dyer/a-message-from-wayne-your-passionate-power

On Memory and the Elderly

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Forget about forgetting: The elderly know more and use it better

What happens to our cognitive abilities as we age? If your think our brains go into a steady decline, research reported this week in the journal Topics in Cognitive Science may make you think again. The work, headed by Dr. Michael Ramscar of Tübingen University, takes a critical look at the measures usually thought to show that our cognitive abilities decline across adulthood. Instead of finding evidence of decline, the team discovered that most standard cognitive measures, which date back to the early twentieth century, are flawed. “The human brain works slower in old age,” says Ramscar, “but only because we have stored more information over time.”

Computers were trained, like humans, to read a certain amount each day, and to learn new things. When the researchers let a computer “read” only so much, its performance on cognitive tests resembled that of a young adult. But if the same computer was exposed to the experiences we might encounter over a lifetime – with reading simulated over decades – its performance now looked like that of an older adult. Often it was slower, but not because its processing capacity had declined. Rather, increased “experience” had caused the computer’s database to grow, giving it more data to process – which takes time.

Technology now allows researchers to make quantitative estimates of the number of words an adult can be expected to learn across a lifetime, enabling the Tübingen team to separate the challenge that increasing knowledge poses to memory from the actual performance of memory itself. “Imagine someone who knows two people’s birthdays and can recall them almost perfectly. Would you really want to say that person has a better memory than a person who knows the birthdays of 2000 people, but can ‘only’ match the right person to the right birthday nine times out of ten?” asks Ramscar.

The answer appears to be “no.” When Ramscar’s team trained their computer models on huge linguistic datasets, they found that standardized vocabulary tests, which are used to take account of the growth of knowledge in studies of ageing, massively underestimate the size of adult vocabularies. It takes computers longer to search databases of words as their sizes grow, which is hardly surprising but may have important implications for our understanding of age-related slowdowns. The researchers found that to get their computers to replicate human performance in word recognition tests across adulthood, they had to keep their capacities the same. “Forget about forgetting,” explained Tübingen researcher Peter Hendrix, “if I wanted to get the computer to look like an older adult, I had to keep all the words it learned in memory and let them compete for attention.”

The research shows that studies of the problems have with recalling names suffer from a similar blind spot: there is a far greater variety of given names today than there were two generations ago. This cultural shift toward greater name diversity means the number of different names anyone learns over their lifetime has increased dramatically. The work shows how this makes locating a name in memory far harder than it used to be. Even for computers.

Ramscar and his colleagues’ work provides more than an explanation of why, in the light of all the extra information they have to process, we might expect older brains to seem slower and more forgetful than younger brains. Their work also shows how changes in test performance that have been taken as evidence for declining in fact demonstrates older adults’ greater mastery of the knowledge they have acquired.

Take “paired-associate learning,” a commonly used cognitive test that involves learning to connect words like “up” to “down” or “necktie” to “cracker” in memory. Using Big Data sets to quantify how often different words appear together in English, the Tuebingen team show that younger adults do better when asked to learn to pair “up” with “down” than “necktie” and “cracker” because “up” and “down” appear in close proximity to one another more frequently. However, whereas older adults also understand which words don’t usually go together, notice this less. When the researchers examined performance on this test across a range of word pairs that go together more and less in English, they found older adult’s scores to be far more closely attuned to the actual information in hundreds of millions of words of English than their younger counterparts.

As Prof. Harald Baayen, who heads the Alexander von Humboldt Quantitative Linguistics research group where the work was carried out puts it, “If you think linguistic skill involves something like being able to choose one word given another, seem to do better in this task. But, of course, proper understanding of language involves more than this. You have also to not put plausible but wrong pairs of words together. The fact that older adults find nonsense pairs – but not connected pairs – harder to learn than young adults simply demonstrates ‘ much better understanding of language. They have to make more of an effort to learn unrelated word pairs because, unlike the youngsters, they know a lot about which words don’t belong together.”

The Tübingen research conclude that we need different tests for the cognitive abilities of older people – taking into account the nature and amount of information our brains process. “The brains of older people do not get weak,” says Michael Ramscar. “On the contrary, they simply know more.”

from:    http://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-01-elderly.html

On Medical Research and Truth

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Medical Research Gone Wrong, Part 2

Catherine J. Frompovich
Activist Post

One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back. — Carl Sagan (1934 – 1996)

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact. — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 – 1930)

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history. — Eric Arthur Blair aka George Orwell (1903 – 1950)

The above quotes are from influential men of rather recent times, not some apocalyptical soothsayers who were out to make names for themselves. Those quotes place witness to the ability of some to foresee the path humankind was traveling down. Very few, except the revered real charlatans of science, were permitted to perpetuate what’s been termed eugenics using whatever way you want to define the term. Remodeling human DNA or, currently, what’s termed “slow kill” eugenics, which employ technologies of varied disciplines found in medicine and pharmacology, are something hard to accept due to media control and proselytization techniques.

Below are relatively-recent-posted sites on the Internet that bear witness to the conundrum regarding vaccines and vaccinations, especially an apparent hidden agenda found in several “ingredients” to effectuate biological interventions specifically designed for eugenics, and no one in government or medicine is doing anything to stop. Catherine discusses those “ingredients” in her book, Vaccination Voodoo, What YOU Don’t Know About Vaccines.

Risks of neurological and immune-related diseases, including narcolepsy, after vaccination with Pandemrix®: a population- and registry-based cohort study with over 2 years of follow-up, discusses the problems affecting children regarding the flu vaccine Pandemrix®. Why is that information not being mainstreamed by the U.S. media?

Here’s the PubMed posting: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24134219

That information appears on the U.S. government’s National Institutes of Health website. However, what will CDC/FDA do to implement that information into vaccine production and also into physician/healthcare workers’ meme so consumers are informed and protected?

Even though, according to researcher Neil Z. Miller, there are 130 official categories for death sanctioned by the U.S. CDC and the World Health Organization that coroners must choose from when filling out death certificates for babies, one of the most obvious is missing: vaccines/vaccinations!

Many parents don’t realize that when they purchase vaccines for their babies, the cost is taxed and the money goes into a special fund to compensate them if and when those vaccines seriously injure or kill their babies. As of May 2013, $2.5 billion was granted for thousands of injuries and deaths caused by vaccines. Numerous cases are still pending. [p.2 in Miller report]

Readers may want to check out 131 Ways for an Infant to Die: Vaccines and Sudden Death by Neil Z. Miller.

For those who question whether there’s a sordid vaccine underbelly – a ‘science’ that is not revealed willingly to the trusting healthcare consumer of vaccines – please consider the work being done at The Rockefeller Foundation.

In its 1968 yearly report, the Rockefeller Foundation acknowledged funding the development of so-called “anti-fertility vaccines” and their implementation on a mass- scale, per Jurriaan Maessan appearing in the exceptional exposé titled, “Eugenics Today: How Vaccines Are Used to Sterilize the Masses.”

Readers will recall that in Part 1 of “Medical Research Gone Wrong,” Catherine interviewed the authors of the book Against Their Will. Within the Introduction of that exceptional book, the authors say this about eugenics:

The eugenic fervor in the United States would gradually wane during the 1920s and dissipate further during the Great Depression while speeding up and taking a more malevolent form in Nazi Germany. At the same time, there were still orphanages and institutions for the disabled, and the treatment given to inmates there still showed the influence of eugenics. Although no longer a philosophical force, the eugenics movement had done its job: thousands of Americans had been dehumanized and thoroughly devalued. [p.5]

What Catherine wishes to point out is the undeniable fact that a surreptitious form of eugenics still is being carried out. Listen carefully to Mr. Bill Gates describing the mathematical equation to effectuate population control, something those who, should be exposing, quite frankly, are not.

Bill Gates seems to be admitting that vaccines are used for human depopulation, doesn’t he?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WQtRI7A064

If the early research in eugenics, as exposed in Against Their Will, apparently is practiced in unassuming daily medical procedures like vaccinations, then nothing much has changed.

Perhaps, nothing speaks to the issue of controlling scientific medical information and shoddy research and ethics than the information a member of the U.S. Congress acquired in August 2013 and about which Catherine wrote the article “Vaccine Dangers: BOMBSHELL Admissions from CDC’s 1999 Epidemiologist” wherein validation is made – but CDC/FDA deny – regarding causation of autism by ethylmercury (Thimerosal) in vaccines:

Within this group we also found an elevated risk for the following disorders: autism (RR 7.6, 95% Cl = 1.8-31.5), non organic sleep disorders (RR 5.0, 95% Cl = 1.6-15.9}, and speech disorders (RR 2.1, 95% (1=1.1-4.0). For the neurologic degenerative and renal disorders group we found no significantly increased risk or a decreased risk. [2] [CJF emphasis added]

Nothing demonstrates the ignorance, or possible arrogance, of those who supposedly are supposed to know, e.g., medical doctors, the science, research, and facts about vaccines than the Fox News interview with a mother, whose son was afflicted with autism after receiving vaccinations at two years of age. It’s dramatically interesting to watch the mom having to correct the ‘vaccine medical expert’ doctor about what’s in the vaccines her son received. Ouch! Watch what Catherine labels the Fox News-Authority-MD Gets Schooled by Mother of Child with Autism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8wseIXsPmw .

There’s a euphemism that says, “Past is prologue,” meaning: What transpired in the past actually can be an introductory event, act, or even period in time relative to current or future happenings.

To emphasize apparent misinformation or even possible ‘pseudo-science’ that promoted advertising products, we need to look back to product advertisements and wonder what were they thinking when advertising and selling tape worms as weight reduction; cocaine toothache drops; cigarettes that ‘guarded against throat-scratch’; heroin in a bottle; and Catherine’s all-time favorite, “More Doctors smoke Camels than any other cigarette.”

Tape Worms for Weight Reduction 
Cocaine Toothache Drops

 

Tobacco & Cigarette Use 
Even MDs Promoted Smoking 

 

Heroin Produced & Sold by Pharmaceutical Manufacturer

 

Cannabis / Marihuana / ‘Pot’

 

 Crystalline Form of Heroin Hydrochloride Salt

 

Pharmaceutical Company Maker of Crystalline Heroin Tablets

 

Trans Fat Margarine

Even heroin was sold in the past by a company that became a huge, monetarially-profitable, modern-day pharmaceutical company, Eli Lilly & Company!

How can anyone forget the hubris of the medical professions foisting margarine, a non-healthful trans fat, as preventing or managing heart disease! Of course, there were Throat Pastilles made with cocaine, and various other corporate products in the past, like vaccines today, that were/are hyped to the point of total belief and acceptance regardless of the harm they cause.

The only problem now is that those agencies that brought reforms into being now promulgate pseudo-science, especially when it comes to Big Pharma’s vaccines and vaccination studies. We have to look no further than the fact that there is a total blackout within the U.S. media, news reporting, and as much as they can command on the Internet to keeping healthcare consumers totally ingnorant as to the valid science regarding neurotoxins and other toxic ingredients in vaccines and the harms vaccines cause. The CDC’s VAERS reports validate those harms! As of Sept. 3, 2013, 1117 deaths were attributed to vaccines; see this report.

Ironically, those very same government agencies are mandating that poisonous, well-advertised-pharmaceutical products be injected into newborn infants, babies, toddlers, teens, adults, and senior citizens. Oh, let’s not forget our pets, companion animals, and those animals that are raised as food.

Maybe something is totally amiss – maybe by design? – when there’s such zeal in mandating everyone/thing be polluted by one particular product, which independent scientific studies disprove much of its hyped effectiveness. In law, when entities collaborate to do nefarious things it’s considered a conspiracy. Catherine contends its medical research gone wrong.

Catherine J Frompovich (website) is a retired natural nutritionist who earned advanced degrees in Nutrition and Holistic Health Sciences, Certification in Orthomolecular Theory and Practice plus Paralegal Studies. Her work has been published in national and airline magazines since the early 1980s. Catherine authored numerous books on health issues along with co-authoring papers and monographs with physicians, nurses, and holistic healthcare professionals. She has been a consumer healthcare researcher 35 years and counting.

from:    http://www.activistpost.com/2014/01/medical-research-gone-wrong-part-2.html#more

Latest Kryon Channel via Lee Carroll

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Greetings, dear ones, I am Kryon of Magnetic Service. It is December of 2013, but it seems like only a moment ago when we faced you and thousands of old souls around the planet and told you to “hold on”

We discussed with you that the prophecy of the precession of the equinoxes was thousands of years old and it was a turning point. We described that those in the Mayan civilizations, the prophets of their time, had put together the time fractals in a way that their calendars would reflect the esoterics of the wobble of the earth. We told you that their vision was so profound that the end of their calendar coincided with the beginning of a new era.

We told you that in between the end of 2012 and the beginning of 2014 there would be times of recalibration. We gave channel after channel telling you what was recalibrating, which basically was just about everything. We told you to hold on and we indicated that seeds were being planted for bigger things. We told you that there could be difficulty for you in this year [2013] and that some of you would find it more difficult than others. In a moment, I’m going to itemize some of the things that were difficult, and tell you what’s going to happen from here on.

I can tell you these things at this moment, just like I was able to tell you about 2013, because you’ve created them. This is not a prophecy, dear ones; this is a report. I see the bigger picture, something you cannot see as you sit listening to this. You see only the oneness of yourself and a few of your friends. It’s impossible for you to see an overview that Spirit sees based upon the billions of souls on the planet. There are billions of intents, and some of them contain surprises that are positive. Some of the consciousness shifts are only just beginning to occur, and through it all we repeated and we repeated that dark energy dies hard. We did that so you would understand that it is a slow process of coming out of the mud. The mud wants to suck you back in.

The dark energy has a lot to lose because of the light that you are shining back onto this planet, but this year was the recalibrating year. I know what you’ve been through. I know the friends you’ve lost way too soon. I know of the seemingly odd circumstances that some of you were in, so let’s just say what you’re thinking. You are thinking that what you have been through doesn’t suit a Lightworker, or that you didn’t deserve it. That’s what it’s like to recalibrate. But then I told Yawee that this was “his year”. [Yawee is the Lemurian name of Dr. Todd Ovokaitys, who just presented at the Kryon seminar.]

Now, for those who are listening to and reading this channelling apart from this group of old souls in the chairs, some of this information may seem to be a non sequitur. It’s because I’m now going to talk directly to Yawee and describe some things and explain some things that we’ve never explained. It’s time.

And so, listener, trust that what I’m going to say fits into a bigger picture. Those of you in the room heard Yawee speak a moment ago about how his high science is beginning to be seen and honored. So you are more aware of the meaning behind what I’m going to say than others. I’m going to reveal a function of the body that you are working with, Yawee, that you are not really aware of to the degree you should be.

How do I explain this? Yawee, years ago you walked into your vision and DNA talked to you. You have spoken of this. For 15 minutes, you got to actually “hear” it, and at some level you were aware that you were not talking to just one molecule. You were dealing with your own DNA, by the way. I think you knew that, but there was something unusual beyond what you have described, and you have not described all of it, I know that. The fact is that you were talking to more than 100 trillion molecules at the same time! It’s because you can’t just communicate with one molecule of DNA. There is a process that will be discovered, and one you are currently using, that I’m going to discuss now.

Medicine, esoteric medicine, has been using something for centuries that they don’t really understand. They know it works, but they don’t truly know how. Homeopathy is mysterious because homeopathy takes a tincture too small to chemically react to anything in the body, but it works. The Human ingests this, and it is absorbed normally under the tongue and it works. However, if you ask the homeopathically inclined that dispense and use it, they will come up with all manner of reasons why it works. But they are guessing.

The reason it works is because the small tincture you present to the body is “seen” and is communicating to what is called the “innate intelligent body”. It is not the intellect, not your brain, and not what you think is your 3D body chemistry. The tincture is a signal to the body to heal itself. The tincture isn’t guided anywhere, but the body sees the intent of the Human Being and the chemical in the medicine, and the innate smart body immediately knows what to do. It starts to heal where it knows it should heal. How many kinds of homeopathic remedies are there? Countless kinds, and they are known to work without any guidance at all. There’s a process in the body at work – there has to be.

Yawee, let’s talk about your invention, your most recent one. You described your guided stem cell protocol as a “go there and stay there” instructional technology to guide the stem cells directly to where they are needed. You “instruct” the stem cells to go to a place in the body and stay there where they can be used. Now, the ones sitting in the chairs today don’t know anything about that. But you do and I do. And you know that you’re either incredibly lucky, over and over, or you’re dealing with something else. Because to guide a stem cell in a “go there and stay there” scenario is like a Human Being reporting to a city of a billion people, then standing on the outskirts and locating that one person they are looking for, right away, by accident! Somehow it works.

Your “go there and stay there” is a macro program accomplishing an incredible micro result. How? Trillions, if not hundreds of trillions of DNA molecules are all identical in the Human body. Somehow they “talk to each other” instantly. If one DNA molecule senses something, they all do. Science doesn’t know that yet. They may have thought of it, but they don’t know it. There is a mystery here of how DNA does what it does. Somehow it must communicate, yet there is no process of communication known to your science that could explain it. But they all “see” the intent of your program together as one and implement it as one.

We have told you this before, and we have written books about it. Your DNA has quantum attributes. It’s not a quantum molecule, but it gives quantum instructions. Ah, but there’s more. All the DNA I perceive in your body right now is singular, with only one allied consciousness. This is because the DNA in the Human body is in an entangled state with itself. It is quantumly locked in a way that it works as one benevolent union. This is a quantum physics attribute that is not yet fully understood and not yet applied to biology. It represents the smart body, the innate body, and if you want proof of that, it’s everywhere!

What do you know about identical twins? You know that they have the same DNA and that they are the only Humans on the planet who do. What do you know about studies of identical twins? You know that they can be on opposite sides of the planet and both can have the same intuition at the same time about something that’s happening with their family. Now, what does that tell you about their DNA? It’s connected! In fact, it’s connected within a particular quantum state. What do you know about quantumness in DNA? The answer is, almost nothing! So let me fill you in. It’s beautiful. Let me fill you in, because it’s going to temper everything you do from now on.

Now go slow, my partner, for I want this to be right. It has to do with what’s going on with the recalibration of the Human Being. What I’m going to describe is the recalibration process and what is changing within many of you.

The field around DNA is quantum and it responds in various ways to other quantumness given to it. The response is not linear, not chemistry and not through intellectual thought. This quantum world around you is a world that you’ve not measured yet and one you can’t see yet. There are no instruments to prove it yet, but there will be and when that time arrives, you will see it clearly. Then you’ll know I’m right.

If DNA is surrounded by some kind of quantum state, it means that it has quantum attributes with other things in a quantum state. What else do you suspect is quantum? The tones that you’re singing are quantum [speaking of the pineal tones Todd has developed]. The seed biology from the Pleiadians is quantum. I’ll just go ahead and state it, and Yawee will figure it out. At a quantum level, this multidimensional field that connects all the DNA has one intelligence, and it is connected to the original template. That means that it “knows” like homeopathy “knows” exactly what you’re trying to do, and it is benevolent to the max!

Your DNA chemistry may be working at 30 to 35 percent in 2014, but the master template is at 100 percent. [This template is there and always has been.] Therefore, the field around your DNA is always there working at 100 percent. You, as a Human Being, make choices based in duality and create the decisions of life. But at the DNA quantum level, the “smart body” level, there’s a cheering section that is connected to the template and it’s always ready to go – benevolent and ready to cooperate with anything you give it. This is the homeopathy effect.

Early in your experiments, Yawee, you discovered something very unusual – a homeopathy effect of your quantum laser. You found that if you could trigger instruction sets to even a few molecules of DNA, all of them got the picture at the same time. Even if you gave it to them in a linear fashion, all of them got it at the same time.

Your “go there and stay there” scenario is cooperative with the benevolence of the Human Being, which is connected to the template and it knows exactly what you’re telling it, and it will always work. It will always work! You are working with body intelligence, which is quantum. The more refined your instructions become, the more benevolence is seen and understood as the body heals itself through the template. You already know that. Quantum homeopathy is what you’re doing.

The parts and pieces in linearity don’t really add up to the whole effect, do they, Yawee? That doesn’t make sense in a linear world. The rest of the story is that you have accomplished a quantum handshake with quantumly entangled DNA of the Human body. The reason the results are so profound, with some of them flying in the face of known science, is that you have one of the first qualified quantum physics energies on the planet that then is a fast-track to the quantum biological parts of the Human Being. I just told you why it all works. There’s more, there is always more, but knowing this you can go to some of the next steps that you’ve been looking at and thinking about, knowing that the principal of any biology you work with will be “benevolent cooperation”.

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Dear ones, this DNA quantum field is the one that has been just a little off this year. The very benevolence of your DNA, which is connected to the master template, has been recalibrating. Sometimes it’s aligned with the template, and sometimes it’s not. And that is why you’ve felt like you’ve felt. That is why there is sometimes surprise sickness. Let’s list some of the recalibration issues of 2013.

Health is first. Do I have to expand upon that? There have been more sick old souls than ever before in 2013. Suddenly, it’s like an esoteric plague of sickness. You’re recalibrating! Things are not quite aligned but they’re about to be.

Now, spirit doesn’t work with a calendar, and when January 1, 2014, arrives, be careful you don’t celebrate that everything is going to be just great. Because each one of you is different and the paths are different and the calibrations are different. The solutions to the issues and the problems are different, but what I want to tell you is that the seeds of recalibration have been planted for this year of 2013, and 2014 is where they start to grow. Slowly this DNA field of yours will come back into calibration, but with a different Human nature template. It’s one that is enhanced and ready for things beyond the old energy.

We’ve told you that you’ve been in esoteric survival mode and we’ve even given you the attributes to look forward to, which are not survival specific in any way. They included compassion and tolerance and temperance. They included generosity and all the other things that survival mode does not include. You might say it’s a “different kind of survival”. It’s a survival by creating compassion, which leads to peace on Earth. With that come other things that are going to sustain Human life on the planet, despite the doomsday sayers and preppers and all the others who continue to expect the worst. They’ll get “the worst” by the way, since this is the message they are giving to their DNA. Did you ever meet a hypochondriac who pulled every disease they were afraid of right into their cells? You see, it works! A benevolent cellular structure will do its best to follow the instructions of the “boss”. So, what are your instructions? What are you saying to the quantum field around you? That’s the next thing I want to talk about.

Health. Now that you know what is going on in your own body and that it is benevolent, you have the opportunity to give it quantum instructions with your intuition. I didn’t say to do it with your brain, did I? You have to use conceptual intuitive thought. See yourself healed! See yourself out of the disease or the anomaly. These are your instructions that will go right into that realigned DNA with receptors that are far more willing and ready to receive your information than you ever realized. The cures can be quick, trust me, and the worst is over. But the realignment and the facilitation of the new energies are going to take a while to fit in, so give them time. But for most of you, the worst is over.

Consciousness. You’ve been just a little off, as we’ve said. The year of full moons is complete. Consciousness cannot align to the core within you when it’s always a little off. The energies are pushing and pulling it because it’s recalibrating. This has pulled some of you away from Spirit, did you know that? I know who’s here, I know who’s listening. Some have been pulled right out of their faith and right out of their love for God, and they’ve become cynical. I know who’s here, and I know who’s listening. That’s what recalibration does. If you only trust your intellect, then nothing’s going to work. Your intellect is not connected to your innate!

You know, don’t you, that the connection to your Higher-Self, that beautiful silver cord, is not a product of the synapse of your brain. You knew that, didn’t you? You cannot intellectually examine the majesty of the divine. It’s done with the heart, the innate and the emotional body. Then balance that with the intellectual part of your brain, and you have mastery!

I know who’s here. How many of you have been trying to hold on to what you had? Do you remember the feelings that you had when you meditated in the older energy? It was a “known” energy. What about the connections you had with Spirit that made you smile, or the things that would make you feel good inside – and they are now missing? I know who’s here, and I know who’s listening. Well, let me tell you something, it’s coming back! But you may have to tune to another station to get it. So be aware of that. Don’t simply repeat the old ways. Try some new things. Feel the breath of God as it breathes peacefulness right now to you. That was number two, consciousness.

Number three is synchronicity. For some, it has stopped happening. You depend on it for your life, and it just isn’t happening. Now for Yawee, it’s a bit different. I told him personally that 2013 would feature synchronicity for him. But that is because he’s different and he needs to plant the seeds that will eventually begin the growth of what we described only a week ago as the new frontier on the African continent. This is something we have been saying for years, and now you got to hear it in this assemblage today – the beginning of that, right where we said it would happen. So Yawee is helping to facilitate the recalibration, instead of participating in it.

Synchronicity has been explained many times, but it requires that you be in sync with your intuitive self and your innate. But the benevolent connection to the template that you count on for your intuition has been readjusting itself for you, and it has been difficult. Things that you thought would happen didn’t, and things you thought would never happen did. This makes you question whether you’re doing it right, doesn’t it? I know who’s here, I know who’s listening. That’s going to change, and slowly you’ll get the sync back because the benevolent connection with the template source of your DNA is starting to align.

You are starting to receive a greater percentage of activation of your DNA as a Human race. Some of you will use it and some of you will not. But all of humanity is receiving it and not just a few. The Lightworkers, the old souls, have the wisdom of the Akash and they feel it and know it. They have the wisdom of the ancestors to listen to messages like these and to align to them.

Expect good things! Did you believe me a year ago when I told you about 2013? Well, believe me now. It starts to get better. Did I tell you that the old energy would die hard? It’s going to try to stop you. Now, again this old energy is not an entity out to get you. It’s simply dark energy that works in a certain way and balances with light. But be aware as you watch the news and you see certain kinds of actions. It’s not going to look good for a while because the news only reports the darkness.

Judgment, number four. Bad judgment. Some of you have made bad choices! Normally you don’t, so you sit there beating yourselves up because you made bad choices! In retrospect, you know better: “I’m an old soul, I should know better. I should know not to do this or that.” Perhaps you’ve gone certain places and created certain schemes but they didn’t work. Then you say to yourself, “I should know better.” But that’s what happens during a recalibration.

You see, you were not aligned to your “common senses” template, and your judgment is not what it normally is during a time of realignment. I told you a year ago it would be good if you climbed into a closet for a year and didn’t come out – have somebody feed you under the door so you wouldn’t have to interact with life. [Laughter] Of course, that’s Kryon humor, but you know what I’m saying. When you got out and about, and went through life making decisions that you make all the time, not all of them were good this year. Don’t let it bring you down. Consider 2013 a year in the dark if you want. You’ve been moving through a fog, which is clearing, and fog doesn’t clear all at once. As you slowly see further ahead, you will feel better about the road.

You’ll feel it getting better in many ways, dear ones. The connection, the alignment – nothing is better than a full alignment of DNA with the template of creation.

Benevolent DNA: Do you realize, Yawee, that you’re the first one to use this process on this scale? Do you realize, Yawee, what you can do from now on through the knowledge of these things? The “go there and stay there” is just the beginning. Try something even more stellar and be amazed! The whole quantum field of DNA knows who you are and what you’re doing, and with the whole Human Being allowing, it will work. It will work.

Finally, there’s fear. You’re a Lightworker and an old soul, and you continue to say, “Well, I’m really not afraid of anything.” Oh, yes you are! I’ve used the term before and it comes from my partner’s brain. Please forgive me if it isn’t that funny, but 2013 has been the year of, “Have a little fire, scarecrow?”

Unbalance can destroy everything you are and make you afraid of losing the core. It only takes a few things for you to doubt your spirituality, doesn’t it? “Am I doing it right? Spirit, am I doing it right? This shouldn’t be happening. What have I done wrong? Am I doing it right? Why are things going so wrong?” Dear ones, I’m here to tell you that nothing has gone wrong. Everything is as it should be, Lightworker, because you are the one who is recalibrating. Do you understand that?

Ninety percent of the planet is just sitting there feeling fine and nothing odd is happening. It’s because they’re not in touch with what the old soul is. They could be with free will and free choice, but they’re not interested. But you are. This is because you gave permission to recalibrate. How do you like that?

I want everybody who is listening and reading this right now to receive this gift that we are pushing to you. We are doing it in a quantum way, and I will ask you to release the fear! It’s an old energy paper tiger that says if things feel different, then something is wrong. But that is not truth. You’re doing everything right, everything right! In this process, it’s going to occur to you why you’re here and what you’re doing. Why you? Why now? Could it be that this was the plan all along?

Drop this false fear! Don’t let circumstances of a recalibrated year prompt you to lose your faith. Take your hand, if you wish, and grasp that of the Higher-Self right now, and don’t let go. Because the Higher-Self is offering this to you. It’s time to finish this nonsense of recalibration, feeling odd and unusual, or sick, or not knowing what’s wrong with you. It’s time to finish doubting who you are or trying to figure out why you have funny judgment and nonexistent synchronicity.

We’ve been with you the whole time and we told you it was coming. But when you get it, you don’t know why and many become fearful. It’s time to drop the fear. Things are going to start to align and when they do, the synchronicity of things that you are hoping for will start to click and start to settle. Some of you will have greater synchronicity than you ever imagined, and it will make up for 2013. You’ll start to understand why certain things happened the way they did.

Dear one, you’re an old soul. You’re the forerunner and the hope of the galaxy. I came in all those years ago to give you this channel tonight. Did you realize that? There was only hope back then that you would cross the bridge – that shift of the precession of the equinoxes – only hope. But then you firmly crossed it and now the work begins. Past 2013, the work will be that which starts to synchronize with you and who you are.

“Kryon, why do we have to go through this?” That’s why you’re called Lightworker, dear ones. Some of this is work – hard work.

We’re about to leave, and the next time I channel, it will be 2014. The year 2014 represents a “seven year”, a year of divinity. Let the seeds that you’ve planted through your health issues, your consciousness issues, your poor judgment and your fear be buried in the ground! Then water them with compassion and what will grow will be the beauty of what you always wanted. Let the ground yield the fruit of your hard work, eventually creating the turning point for peace on Earth.

Let compassion reign in YOU, dear ones, and stand tall that you made it. You made it.

And so it is.

KRYON

On Astrology & Current Changes

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Where do we go from here? An Astrologer wants to know

Where do we go from here? An Astrologer wants to know

Story by: Sharyn Norwood

The vibrations of the Universe are assisting us now more than any other period in our lifetime.
This is an era of great transformation to uncover the truth, whether in ourselves or the world around us, and it is taking place on all levels. The connection with the energy of the planets is like a dance to perfection, with PLUTO, URANUS, and NEPTUNE as partners of influence, playing a major role during this time of drastic change.

In 2009, Uranus and Pluto made a square, and then Neptune took it to a new level as it moved into its own sign in April of 2011. Our society was challenged even more by the deep waters of tears, and for awhile, any illusions were washed away. Pluto is the powerful driving force of renewal; Uranus brings in the higher mind with lightning strikes, as well as a search for freedom and the unexpected. Neptune takes humanity deep down in the depths of Poseidon’s watery home and gives us the ability to find our true connection with humanity.

It may seem at these times everything is falling apart, as we face so many challenges. Pluto takes us down underground and breaks things down to the bone – to help us see what is truly valuable, just as it is portrayed in the Death card in the Tarot. Meanwhile, Uranus gives us sudden insights and  the courage to start anew, as depicted by the Fool in the Tarot.

The four cardinal signs, Aries, Cancer, Libra, and Capricorn are the pillars in our astrology chart. They are the action signs of the Self, Family, Relationships, and Life Purpose. The Pluto-Uranus squares of the past have brought in an age of change, where governments and nations fall, allowing new ones to grow. The last one was in the 1930s, and before that, the American Revolution of 1776. It is like a garden in the winter right now, but when Pluto leaves Capricorn on March 24, 2023 and moves into Aquarius, it will bring about a springtime. This growth process that is taking place will also bring us closer together in the years to come, as we prepare for a New Era.

May you see the love and blessings in your journey.

from:      http://spiritofmaat.com/magazine/january-2014-transformation/where-do-we-go-from-here-an-astrologer-wants-to-know/

Grocery Manufacturers Attacking GMO Labeling

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GMO labeling to be outlawed? Grocery Manufacturers Association unveils deviously evil plan to silence us all

Friday, January 10, 2014
by Mike Adams,

(NaturalNews) The Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) is scheming to criminalize state-by-state GMO labeling laws in a deviously evil effort to keep consumers ignorant of what they’re eating. Remember, the GMA is the same organization that got caught running an illegal money laundering scheme in Washington state, secretly funneling money from big food manufacturers into a campaign to defeat GMO labeling initiative I-522.

Now the GMA is pushing legislation at the federal level to not only outlaw GMO labeling laws at the state level, but also to get the FDA to declare GMOs as “natural” so that foods made with GMOs can claim “all natural” on their labels. A petition filed with the FDA by the GMA states, “GMA will be filing a Citizen Petition early in 2014 that asks the FDA to issue a regulation authorizing foods containing ingredients derived from biotechnology to be labeled ‘natural.'” (SOURCE)

“Monsanto and giant food companies are scheming behind the scenes to introduce a bill in Congress that would kill mandatory state GMO labeling efforts and replace it with a gutted version of a bill to preempt states’ rights and give the illusion of serious regulation,” reports Food Democracy Now, which also calls the plan “devious” in nature.

How evil can they get?

With these anti-transparency, anti-consumer, anti-American actions, the GMA now firmly puts itself in the same evil camp as Monsanto itself. Because the right to know what we are eating is a fundamental human right, the GMA’s actions clearly define it as an anti-human rights group. In the history of human rights violations, we’ve seen a long list of evil efforts to silence certain groups of people and keep them ignorant: Women were denied the right to vote, slaves were denied the right to “personhood,” and in the Holocaust, Jews were denied the right to life itself. Now the GMA joins that haunting history of human rights violators by insidious working to deny all people the right to know what they are eating.

The GMA solely represents the profit interests of dishonest, deceptive food manufacturers who sell toxic poisons, not the interests of food consumers, and it has a long established history of using deceptive tactics to make sure its members can continue to hide their toxic poisons in their food products.

The GMA is, in essence, a “pro-poison” industry group that wants consumers to unknowingly eat more poisons in their food. The GMA should not merely be ashamed of itself; it should be publicly exposed as an evil food industry group whose actions, if successful, may result in hundreds of millions of Americans being harmed by unknowingly eating unlabeled poisons in their food.

Your help is needed to stop this group from achieving its truly evil aims in Washington. Here’s what you can do to help:

Actions items to defeat the evil GMA

Sign this petition at Food Democracy Now:
http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/sign/stop…

Share this story at the Center For Food Safety:
http://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/press-rel…

Share this story right here on Natural News:
http://www.naturalnews.com/043469_GMA_GMO_la…

Tweet this story, Facebook it, email it, share in whatever way you can. The GMA needs to be halted by a barrage of active consumers who rise up and shout, “ENOUGH! We demand to know whether the products we buy contain GMOs!”

After all, the right to know what we eat is a fundamental human right. Don’t let the anti-human rights “GMA” group keep you in the dark over what you’re eating. We must not let evil prevail in this fight for food transparency!

BTW, Natural News Labs is the only organization in the world now testing and openly publishing heavy metals test results for foods made by the members of the GMA. To see those results right now, visit: http://labs.naturalnews.com

Sources for this story include

http://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/files/201…
https://www.politicopro.com/story/agriculture/?id=29…
http://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/press-rel…
http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/sign/stop…

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The Depression Trap

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6 Lies Your Depression Wants You to Believe (& How to Not Fall Into The Trap)

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The world we have created is a product of our thinking; it cannot be changed without changing our thinking. ~Albert Camus

When depression hits, it hijacks your thoughts and feelings. It whispers seductive lies into your ears; lies that gradually start sounding like the truth. I know how that feels, because I have struggled with it too. If on the other hand, you knew the lies depression commonly uses, then you can ignore or replace them with your own inner truth. And every time you do that, you have healed a little bit.

So, here are some common ‘depression deceptions’ to watch out for:

1. It’s a chemical condition. So I can’t really do anything about it right?

Wrong

I’m a psychiatrist and so I hear this one a lot. And it dismays me. As a society, we have gone from one extreme-thinking that everything was related to your mother-to the other extreme-now everything is a chemical condition that is beyond our control. Both are too simplistic. We are complex individuals with unique and rich stories. There is no one answer that will always fit all of us.

Yes your brain is made up of electrical impulses and chemical substances that change a million times in a day and make up your thoughts and/or emotions. And yes, often times, severe clinical depression requires medications. In fact, they can be essential and life saving in some situations. But, and listen to this very closely, even when they work well, medications alone don’t keep you from getting depressed again. What they do, is give you enough relief to then workon your self, and change the things in your mind and life, so that hopefully, you don’t feel that depressed again.

In fact, some forms of therapy, such as Mindfulness based cognitive therapy, has been shown to be even better than medications at lowering the risk of relapse (as long as you’ve gotten over the worst hump).

The human mind is very powerful but much of it is amenable to change. It’s a tough process, but so worth the effort.

2. Anyone with my childhood/job/marriage/health/finances would be depressed!

Each of us lives in our own heads and so we only can feel our own pain. Yes we can empathize with others, but we can’t fully feel anyone else’s joy or pain as intimately as we can feel our own.

This can lead us to feel trapped by the pain of our own life circumstances.

I used to feel this way as well. My depression would tell me “Your mom committed suicide and your dad is a narcissist. It’s not possible for you to ever be happy”. The worst part was, I believed it for a long time.

Since then, I have been fortunate to feel my own strengths, to learn about the brain, to read books and meet amazing people who have overcome great odds, proving to me over and over again that the human spirit is greater than the sum of past events.

You have great inner strength and wisdom within you. Whatever may have happened in your past is only one part of you. Don’t let it dictate your whole life

3. I’ve tried everything. Nothing works for me.

Do you feel like you have tried every single thing to help yourself? And nothing is working?

If that’s the case, maybe you’re trying too hard. Sometimes chasing happinessmakes it more…..elusive, like a butterfly that will only come and softly sit on your shoulder when you can simply be in it’s presence without chasing it.

Try just surrounding yourself with people who seem genuinely happy. Not the Polly Anna kind of superficial happy. But the folks that exude a sense of deep contentment and peace from within. Don’t compare or force happiness to come to you. Just be in its presence.

4. I’ll be happier once I lose weight/get a raise/buy a home…

I wasted lots of my time in my 20’s hoping that if I just worked desperately toward  achieving this or that, I would live happily ever after. Well, I did achieve most of those things, and it did make me feel excited briefly, but soon I had gone back to my usual state of mind. Feeling confused, I would replace it with another “goal” and chase after that, hoping that this time, the happiness would be deeper and long lasting.

And one day I was explaining this theory to a close friend, and she said simply “What’s wrong with now? Why not just be happy now?”

It blew me away. Because she wasn’t telling me to not reach for my goals, but rather that I was missing out on the possibility of NOW.

This very moment is alive with possibility. Whenever you begin to worry about the future or connect your happiness to some elusive goal, take a moment to bring your awareness back to this moment. Use your senses to really see, hear, smell and touch your immediate surroundings. And think of one thing you are grateful for today. Maybe it’s your morning cup of coffee, the hug your son gave you or that your friend called to share a joke. Whatever it is, if you truly loved it, spend a few moments being genuinely thankful that you had that TODAY.

5. I’ve screwed up a lot. I hate myself. I’m not worthy of happiness.

This is a tough one, because when we don’t love ourselves, that’s where the work must start. No foundation, no building.

Whatever you may have done in the past, it’s gone. That moment can never come back.

However, every new breath you take now is a new chance at life.  It’s totally fresh and alive for you to shape as you like. And if this one doesn’t do it, that’s fine, your next breath is again a fresh possibility. And the next. And the next.

Until you take your last breath, you have millions of moments to start over and become the person you want to be. It’s up to you what you do with each one.

6. Most of my life is okay, except for that one ‘X’ thing.

I once read a story that goes something like this.

A professor puts up a big white board with a black dot on it, and then asks his students to describe what they see.

Most of them come close to scrutinize the board and blurt out the answer excitedly “The black dot! There is a black dot on it!”

Finally, the professor says “It’s interesting that most of you didn’t notice the whole white board in front of you, but rather chose to focus on that one small black dot”

This is what happens when we focus solely on the negative things. I’m not saying your difficulties are just dot sized. Not at all. All I’m saying is: Don’t forget to enjoy the beautiful expanse of white in your life. Because it’s there.

Source: “6 Lies Your Depression Wants You to Believe (& How to Not Fall Into the Trap)”, from thechangeblog.com, by Kavetha Sundaramoorthy

from:    http://theunboundedspirit.com/6-lies-your-depression-wants-you-to-believe-how-to-not-fall-into-the-trap/