CHANGE

You know we don't like change in fact we positively hate change, that's why we can't even move on when our relationships scream to us that they are over, we don't want to move on from our jobs and when they move us out we go on like it's the end of the world!
I keep telling friends and staff about their conciousness and the fact that we can only go where our level of conciousness takes us and trying to think of 2011 the following message from DR.ROBERT ANTHONY says it all..........

Life doesn't come with a money back guarantee and yet many of us
live like it does. People are certain that they will keep their jobs. They are certain of living a long healthy life. Others might be certain that they will lose their jobs or get sick and die young. Certainty comes in many forms but it rarely corresponds to the truth.
The truth is nothing is certain. The need for certainty is the need for safety. It is the basis of all religion. Since we do not like uncertainty, we choose to believe in something that we feel we can be certain about, even though we have no logical proof that it is true.
Some might argue that if nothing can be counted on then why bother trying. In order to move forward in life many people need to have a sense of certainty about the outcome. But this kind of certainty is an illusion.
Certainty is a form of disconnection - from the truth and from ourselves. When we feel certain about something, we are disconnected from the natural flow of life.
Certainty is the perpetual elusive dream of most people.
What in life is certain? There is a part of you - your Authentic Self - that is unchanging. This pure consciousness is certain while everything else is uncertain, impermanent and an illusion. But how do you discover or experience this pure unchanging consciousness ?
Through Inquiry.
If you are certain about something - anything for that matter - you immediately place a lid on that thing. It cannot change. You won't let it change because if you do, you will be wrong in your certainty. But all things, except one thing, do change.
The only thing that doesn't change is WHO YOU ARE - your Authentic Self or what is commonly called consciousness. Consciousness is what remains when all concepts, beliefs, values, habits and ways of thinking are stripped away. In other words, all of your ideas, concepts, beliefs and so on will change over time. If this is true
then why waste time on trying to be certain?
By inquiring how and why you get certain results in your life you learn about your beliefs and patterns that create those results.
Then through the power of your mind, you can consciously form new patterns. The need for certainty is replaced by a relaxed "learning" pattern.
Can you imagine a world in which nothing changes? It would be absolutely miserable. Inquiry is the habit that leads us out of that misery.
Through uncertainty you move from being an expert to being a student. All of life, all experiences, everyone and everything become our teachers.
Today will bring you a new awareness, a lesson or a manifestation that you are making progress - IF YOU LOOK FOR IT! No matter how large or small.

Let 2011 be your year........KNOW the power of your mind!

continuation ..........

Did you hear the news today? 50cents 52 room house was broken into.........what happen was it too big to secure??? Thats what I was telling you in the previous blog, this crap needs to stop!
What's this man doing in a 52 room house? What is anyone doing in a 52 room house for that matter ? Not even the family with the 19 children needs that much space....
But on the positive side, the news also said Jamaicans cut their spending by 60% this Christmas far more than the Bank of Jamaica expected.
Yeah Yeah Jamaica lets show how its done for 2011...........
MERRY MERRY CHRISTMAS, IT'S TO SPEND WITH FAMILY AND FRIENDS NOT TO WASTE MONEY!

Merry Christmas

I love the Chinese proverb, "The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it ".
As we close yet another year can we allow the young people who have faith in Jamaica and want to try and build it to do so and stop negativing out everything about our country all you old biddies out there.....
First we downed our dollar and expected it to do well. How come I don't hear anybody saying anything since it has stayed at 84J$ to 1US$ for a few months now. We down our education instead of trying to help, yes pay attention to the schools our children attend and who is teaching them and when they're having sex parties on the buses call the police and get them off the %@*#^#*! bus ..I did it the other day....NOT EVERY POLICEMAN IS CORRUPT..don`t assume that!
It begins with one..NO, we don`t have to be Haiti and NO, we do not have to get cholera!!!!!
I went through cancer 3 times and all my doctors come from right here in Jamaica, and the expensive hospital not any better than the free one let me tell you and I have had at least 3 friends go away for treatment and they're not with us anymore.........They make mistakes and there is bad treatment, bad schools and crime all over the world.....You could be sleeping in Heathrow tonight, our version of cold can be taken care of with a blanket and if you're really cold sleep in socks and guess what we still sleeping with our windows open......
2011 is going to be a great year - Mr Obama,keep on trucking ......Jamaica give thanks, we do have a Greg Christie so there are some people left in this world who are not corrupt.........
The world is adjusting to the waste of the past years. Why should a basketball player earn 50 million dollars and live in a 20,000 sq.ft house??? Why does he need 11 rooms when he and his wife and child use 3 ??? Why do they have 7 bathrooms ? Remember the days when a 3 bedroom house only had one bathroom, didn`t everybody bathe and go to school on time? Why do we have a great room, a living room and then a den ....yet we all stay in the kitchen? Have you noticed Candy Spelling's house with her room to wrap presents? It's still on the market.......the age of the MAC -MANSION is OVER!
Simple is best....I notice that shoes that I don`t wear dry rot and leave me on the road.....message is I only need a few.....the need to have 40 pairs of shoes long gone.....
Do for people, that's what we are put here to do and don't let God come knock on our door with Mr. Death to start doing it, then all of a sudden you realize poor people eating badly and have hypertension and diabetes..... YOU are eating badly by choice they have to as they feel that a big flour dumpling will hold them longer than a salad.......instead of giving your child 20 gifts they cannot play with send a needy child to school or better yet feed her or him for the year.......find out how mothers feeding 3 children on J$5000 per week....

Have a healthy Christmas........I have been so bad since my friend Norma died that I even ate ham , I feel so awful...I have eaten Christmas cake, drank white rum and cranberry and just been totally ridiculous...can I tell you I don`t feel like how I used to feel - thank God I've not been that bad to get flu like all around me - that means my immune system still holding up and I've gone back to my normal routine, cause as I told you the other day I found out I was missing nothing.......the synthetic food is awful (the Christmas ham delicious though) but health is best....... next year is ours -We have to be around to enjoy it!

FOOD MATTERS

There's a lot of conflicting information about healing from degenerative diseases like cancer, diabetes, heart disease, and more. Most evident is the divide between Western Medicine and Natural Medicine. For some reason or another, many people
in the Western Medicine camp, can't seem to grasp the fact that diet can prevent disease.
And quite the opposite, those in the natural world, can't seem to understand that Western medicine is good for things like a broken arm or acute infection. They feel that raw food is good for all things and they wont even listen when they hear that certain vegetables might be better for you lightly steamed than raw e.g. broccoli.
You can't use voodoo or essential oils to heal a deep cut. You will need stitches....You might even have to take a round of antibiotics, then resort to natural means to get it out your system after it has done its job.
Over the years I've spent hours and hours attempting to discuss why many natural approaches work better than Western approaches with friends, family and co-workers, but still can't seem to always get the message across.
They all run to chemo when cancer calls......and I'm not going to fight them so I preach prevention instead of cure.
You may have had the same experience. So here is the best help I have found..... Share this short 8 min. video clip of a great documentary “Food Matters” with all your friends .....it affected me just the way the 30 day raw video on diabetes did.

As Johnny Coleman famously says "it works if you work it".

DANGERS OF NONSTICK COOKWARE

I have always thrown away my frying pans that were scratched and you could see the metal showing through the Teflon ...Then I found out the teflon wasnt good....now I use copper cookware the few times that I cook things like curry splitpeas etc but I didn`t know it was this bad.....please read the following article from Dr. Mercola.

You might have heard that non-stick pans were dangerous to use, but I have to tell you that they are perfectly safe... Just so long as you don’t actually cook with them, because the moment you heat them, they start to liberate fluoride vapors that are so toxic they will kill small birds.
Ninety-five percent of Americans, including children, have the perfluorinated compound PFOA in their blood. But that’s not all.
The CDC’s Fourth National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals, 2009(which is considered the most comprehensive assessment to date of the exposure of the U.S. population to chemicals in our environment), detected not just PFOA, but a total of 12 different types of perfluorinated compounds (PFCs) in Americans tested.
It’s easy to see how such a vast majority of people can be exposed when you consider the most common sources of these chemicals, which includes:

* Non-stick cookware
* Microwave popcorn bags
* Packaging for greasy foods
* Stain-proof clothing
* Carpet and fabric protectors
* Flame retardants, and products that contain them

As you can see, some of the most commonly used household products contain these chemicals

Although it may be quite difficult to eliminate all sources of these toxins since they’re so pervasive, you would likely make a significant dent in your family’s exposure simply by swapping out your non-stick cookware, considering you use your pots and pans to cook almost every day of the week.
So-called “non-stick” cookware is a MAJOR source of PFC’s, particularly perflurorooctanoic acid, known as PFOA, and these pans quickly reach temperatures that cause the non-stick coating to begin breaking down, releasing its toxins into the air.
When your non-stick pot or pan reaches 680 degrees F or 360 C (which takes about three to five minutes of heating), at least six toxic gases are released. At 1,000 degrees F, the coatings on your cookware break down into a chemical warfare agent known as PFIB.
These chemicals are easily absorbed by your body and the food in the pan, turning that healthy, home-cooked meal toxic.

Researchers have already linked various PFC’s to a range of health dangers. Elevated LDL cholesterol levels are just the beginning of the problems these chemicals can cause.

In animal studies, PFOA has been associated with:

* "Significant increases in treatment related deaths" in rat offspring at doses that did not affect the mothers
* Serious changes in the weight of various organs, including the brain, prostate, liver, thymus, and kidneys
* The deaths of a significant number of rat pups of mothers that had been exposed to PFOA
* Damage to the pituitary at all doses in female rat offspring (The pituitary secretes hormones that regulate growth, reproduction, and many metabolic processes. Change in pituitary size is associated with toxicity)

Other studies have shown that PFC’s can cause:

* Infertility -- A study published in the journal Human Reproduction last year found that both PFOA and another kind of PFC, called PFOS (perfluorooctane sulfonate), dramatically increased the odds of infertility. PFOS increased the risk of infertility anywhere from 70 to 134 percent, while PFOA was linked to a 60 to 154 percent increase in the chance of infertility.
* Thyroid disease -- Another study published in May of this year in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives found that PFOA can damage your thyroid function. Individuals with the highest PFOA concentrations were more than twice as likely to report current thyroid disease, compared to those with the lowest PFOA concentrations. Your thyroid contains thyroglobulin protein, which binds to iodine to form hormones, which in turn influence essentially every organ, tissue and cell in your body. Thyroid hormones are also required for growth and development in children. Thyroid disease, if left untreated, can lead to heart disease, infertility, muscle weakness, and osteoporosis.
* Cancer -- PFOA has been associated with tumors in at least four different organs in animal tests (liver, pancreas, testicles and mammary glands in rats), and has been associated with increases in prostate cancer in PFOA plant workers. The EPA has ruled PFCs as “likely carcinogens,” and has stated that PFOA “poses developmental and reproductive risks to humans.”
* Immune system problems -- Several studies by scientists in Sweden indicate that PFC’s have an adverse effect on your immune system. As described in the EWG report on PFC’s, PFOA was found to decrease all immune cell subpopulations studied, in the thymus and spleen, and caused immunosupression.
* Increased LDL cholesterol levels – This latest study in the Archives of Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine implicates both PFOA and PFOS. Children and teens with higher PFOA levels had higher levels of total cholesterol and LDL or “bad” cholesterol, while PFOS was associated with increased total cholesterol, including both LDL cholesterol and HDL or “good” cholesterol. Newswise states that “animal studies have identified the liver as the primary organ affected by perfluoroalkyl acid exposure, with potential effects in humans including alterations in cholesterol levels.”
For more information on the studies linking PFC’s with various health problems, please review the Environmental Working Groups extensive report on this topic.
What is Our Government Doing about These Chemicals?
The answer to that question is: not much...
While the EPA convinced 3M, the primary manufacturer of PFOS, to stop producing it about ten years ago, the chemical still continues to saturate the market – and hence our environment, and our bodies."

IN OTHER WORDS THE BIG COMPANIES KEEP GETTING RICH WHILE WE GO TO OUR GRAVES!

FRIENDSHIP

What can I say?
I haven't been able to blog since my close friend Norma Shirley died,I had no interest in doing anything, and couldn't wrap my head around writing........thanks for all your kind thoughts posted on Facebook - that made me know my words have been missed.
She used to say "if I have to eat like you to live, I would rather die " well, die she did from pneumonia or was it a heart attack or was it a broken heart whatever it was she is no longer here and her space as my friend is large and empty as she was a demanding friend, she showed how to be a friend daily, she was a friend to all her friends 24/7 and demanded the same from you.
If she called and didn't get you 2 calls in a row she was mad,I remember her unhappiness at me texting in her presence, she had to have your undivided attention and she gave you hers.
I remember how she took on your problems - they immediately became hers, but she kept hers to all but a few and even to the few of us she told she tried to make light of it.....the love of her life was her son Delius......so we had that in common and she loved mine as she loved hers....and just as my issues were hers so was my sons hers. My adopted son was a foodie like her so he not only followed her into the world of cooking, he followed her anywhere she chose to eat, regaling me with stories of their exploits- "Ma, Auntie Norms and I went to Hellshire this morning, we had lobster, fish ...." and on and on....they had great fun!
People loved to hear I was having something at my house as she always did the food so my functions were always well attended with people talking about the food months after......
She used to proudly tell me she drank at least 40 glasses of water per day, I used to tell her 40 glasses of ice cold water hurts more than it helps, as I sat down on the Terrace she used to say "you want some green juice?" I used to be very impressed as she always said she was just about to have hers until the day I said yes and wondering how on earth string bean juice was so delicious, walked into the pantry and spoke to the maker of said juice and learnt it was full of GRANULATED SUGAR.....
so much for green juice at Norma's!
She had the most beautiful send off as her love of music and flowers were well in evidence, her Urn a wonderful piece of art..........
I HOPE THE POWERS THAT BE REALIZE THAT HER CREATIVE GENIUS NEEDS TO BE PASSED ON BEFORE WE LOSE IT!
I need to come to terms with the fact that I'm to live on memories and those I have in abundance but people with larger than life personalities leave huge voids and not only in our hearts......miss you Norms!