November 30, 2008 at 11:57 pm (Mother Nature)
Tags: alternative religion, environment, fitness, food, green, nature
With my last post I kind of put the cart before the horse. I’ve been thinking about adding a page about Mother Nature and my belief in this amazing being (goddess if you would).
It was actually my studies into alternative religions that led me to being a more green person. It was not a straight shot from one to the other for me, but more like a twisted road. A journey I’d like to share in part.
Instead of making one long post, I think it would be better if I broke it into categories. It will be easier for me to gather my thoughts that way and if anyone is reading the posts it won’t seem like a novel.
First I’ll write a little bit about my search of alternative religions.
Second will be my connection to nature. Interestingly many alternative religions are called earth based religions.
Third will be how the first two led me to being more environmentally friendly, or more green.
Fourth is food. Being more aware of the environment made me aware of some of the conditions in which our food is grown and raised.
Fifth and final will be fitness.
It’s really been a kind of interesting journey and one I’m glad I started and then continued to follow the twisting route. What started the journey? A simple question that many of us ask, many times. Why me?
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November 30, 2008 at 5:27 pm (Mother Nature, general)
Tags: earth, God, Mother Nature, nature
Mother Nature is the primary care giver of all living life. She in the leaves of the trees and the blades of the grass. She is with each creature when it takes the first breath of life and there again with the last and those in between. She weeps when we humans pollute the air and the water knowing that we are destroying the things we need most to survive.
She is saddened by death, but knows that it is necessary for the cycle of life. She has provided all the plants we will ever need to make medicines and can not understand why we destroy them when we cut down the great forests.
You may say you don’t believe in Mother Nature, that it is the Christian God who does these things. But how many times have you cursed her? When the blizzard blows strong or the rain won’t come who do blame? Mother Nature. How can you blame something that you say doesn’t exist?
Mother Nature is not a witch or even Wiccian. She is not evil and something to be afraid of. Her earth was scared to many people before modern religions taught them to fear her. If God created man in his own image who is the model for woman? Why can it not be Mother Nature
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November 29, 2008 at 5:02 pm (general)
Tags: beliefs, family, life, love
When did anything at any store become more valuable or more precious than a human life?
I’ve known for a long time that what we call the holiday season is no longer about friends and family, beliefs and tradition but when did it turn into murder by out of control consumers.
Today I am saddened and disgusted by my fellow human beings and behavior that can only be described as criminal and savage.
Our greed and materialism must stop. It has already sent our economy into a tail spin leaving thousands of Americans jobless and homeless. Now it has cost an innocent man his life.
We are all to blame and this will happen again, unless we stop and think about it really important and return to a true season of giving, from the heart, not the wallet.
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November 28, 2008 at 1:21 pm (general)
Tags: Christmas, gifts, life, shopping
Today is black Friday and I have to work. It’s just as well, I hate to shop. You could not pay me enough to get anywhere near any type of store today. As a matter of fact I will only buy groceries between now and the first of the year and I will only do that because milk won’t keep for 2 months.
I have never really liked to shop but at this time of year my aversion to it just gets worse. For one thing I hate crowds of any kind so a packed store is not my cup of tea. I also have no need for the typical Christmas present. You know, the bath set, the scarf set, the after shave set, the list goes on and on. I discovered a long time ago that if you shop through out the year, you can get just as good deals and presents that mean something to the person that receives them.
But the main reason I don’t like shopping is rude people and during this time of holiday cheer everyone gets a little ruder as they search for the perfect gift that the store doesn’t have anyway.
So to keep my own sanity today and for the rest of the year I will stay far away from any store or shopping center other than the grocery store.
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November 27, 2008 at 4:43 pm (better health)
Tags: alternative medicine, diet, food, health, supplements
I just read another post about alternative medicine and supplements. The post listed the top 10 most popular supplements. It’s good info, as far as stats go, but what it didn’t say is that it is best to eat the actual food to get the same benefits of the supplements.
So why would we rather spend lots of money on supplements instead of changing our diet. There are many reasons, we don’t like the taste, we don’t want to eat at home, it takes more time to cook than it does to take a supplement, the list goes on. The only good reason to take a supplement instead of eating the correct food for the same benefit would be an allergy. In some cases if you have a food allergy you can take a supplement without having the same reaction.
The post listed ten supplements, I’ll look at the top two. The top supplement listed was multivitamins. I understand how multivitamins are supplements but they are hardly alternative medicine. Anyone schooled in alternative medicine would suggest eating a well balanced diet. If you truly eat well there is no need for a multivitamin.
Fish oil was the second supplement. In the past few months a couple of friends have been told by their traditional doctors to take fish oil. Again eating the actual fish has much more health benefits than taking the supplement. So why the supplement advise? They didn’t like fish and wouldn’t eat, even for better health.
One supplement that hasn’t made the list yet is vitamin D. In the past year there has been a lot of researching involving vitamin D’s health benefits and our lack of it. The only good source of D is sunlight. It is added to food like milk as a supplement. Since sunlight can be hard to come by in the winter, it might actually be worth considering added this supplement to your daily routine, at least for part of the year.
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November 23, 2008 at 2:46 pm (better health)
Tags: Christan, fear, health, Hindu, Islamic, religion, yoga
Who would have thought that yoga would be at the center of a wold wide debate. Malaya is the latest country to try and ban yoga from the Islamic community. Egypt as some similar bans in place and in the United States it is the Christan’s that are trying to keep yoga out of public school gym classes.
And apparently all because yoga has it’s roots in the Hindu religion and might bring someone closer to the Hindu gods.
I have to wonder if all these people wanting all these bans have ever practiced yoga. My bet is no they have not. I do and it’s wonderful exercise and a great way to relax. It’s low impact (I had my first knee surgery at 13), it can be done at home, and it doesn’t require a lot of special equipment or room. It’s also been recommended for both my husband and daughter by medical doctors.
After two and a half years of practicing yoga several times a week I feel great, and I have not converted to the Hindu religion. I do however feel more connected with my own spiritual center.
Fear of something is a funny thing, but I would have never thought that religious leaders world wide would fear yoga.
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November 22, 2008 at 3:04 pm (Cost of green)
Tags: alternative energy, American spirit, life
I keep here hearing that alternative energy won’t work on a large national scale because it is just going to be to hard and to expensive to make the changes.
When I hear things like that I have to wonder where the American spirit has gone. Are we the decedents of the same people that sailed oceans in wooden ships to get to this country and a few generations later walked over the Rocky Mountains to reach the west coast?
Are we related to the same people that went whale hunting with little more than a sharpened stick to kill it with so they could use the oil to light their homes? Or what about digging hundreds of feet down into a mountain with a shovel to bring coal out? Now that was hard and dangerous.
I do still believe we are capable of doing anything we set our minds to. Maybe that is the problem, we don’t want to figure out alternative energy. It will most definitely be expensive in the beginning. It will be a lot of work (and a lot of jobs) but not always in the popular and chic big cities.
We need to get back our spirit and our belief that we can do anything or our grand kids will be sitting around in the dark.
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November 20, 2008 at 12:06 pm (Cost of green, energy)
Tags: coal, energy, gas, Mother Nature, oil, solar, wind
God, Mother Nature, President of the Universe, take your pick which one you believe in. Which ever it is they must be laughing at us humans.
Why are they laughing, because we keep picking the dirtiest and most dangerous options for our energy needs. Natural gas and oil, coal, wind and solar. There are other options but these are the “big boys” of energy.
Some greater force buried natural gas, oil and coal deep in the earth. It is dangerous to get to them and more dangerous to work with them, not to mention dirty and well, oily.
Wind and solar energy are certainly above ground. They are both just out there waiting for someone to come along and put them to work. They are not to dangerous, we send out kids out to play in them. They are not dirty at all, we all love the smell of things warmed by the sun.
So yeah, some greater and all knowing force has got to be laughing us.
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November 19, 2008 at 12:40 pm (better health)
Tags: exercise, health, relax, women, yoga
I read an interesting article this afternoon about women and exercise. Basicaly what it said is that women in their forties or older that exercise in order to lose weight or for better health usually don’t stick with it. But women that exercise for relaxation usually continue with the exercise program.
I just really thought that was interesting. It’s also true for me. I do yoga to relax, the bonus just happens to be that I’m exercising.
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November 18, 2008 at 12:44 pm (good things)
Tags: green, reusable bags, shopping, Walmart
Finally attitude’s about reusable shopping bags is starting to change. I was at Walmart this weekend picking up a few things. I always put my bags, which I have from every store in our area, in front of my purchases so the clerk sees them right away. And I almost get attitude about it, but not this time. She actually seemed happy to bag my purchases in my bags. I guess she either figured out that people like me with their bags aren’t going to give up and stop bringing their bags with them, or she’s one of us, a green nerd.
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