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This is how an iChing reading is obtained...

10/25/2021

To get an iChing reading, you need to throw three coins or six yard sticks and note how they fall. It can give you a Yang or Yin depending on how the coins fall. A male line or a Yin i.e. Female line. A yang line can be drawn straight and a broken yin line can be drawn.

Six times, the coins or sticks will be thrown and then the yang/yin line is drawn from base up. I.e. The first line is drawn at bottom. Next, the second line is drawn above it. Six such tosses would produce a diagram that has six lines. This is known as a hexagram.

They can be regular or shifting, in addition to being male or female. If there is more than one changing line in a hexagram, then another hexagram will be drawn that incorporates the changes suggested by the changing lines. A dot is usually drawn in the middle of a line to depict changing lines.

The second hexagram shows the altered lines. If the male, solid line is marked with a dot in its center, it will be drawn as a broken female line. If the line of the hexagram has not been changed, it will be drawn as is. One receives a second hexagram at the end of the exercise that shows the altered lines. It will be one of 64 hexagrams depending on how the lines are placed.

The energy around a situation is shown in the first hexagram. If the situation is stable, no changes are to be expected. If the situation is changing, one should expect changes. This second hexagram, also known as the "future Hexagram", indicates energy around this possibility.

The ability to identify which line is changing gives you more information about the current situation (first hexagram), and the future hexagram, which provides a longer-term indication.

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Oracle And Divination

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Grilled Zucchini- quick to make and delicious to taste!

10/23/2021

Grilled Zucchini is a perfect summer dish- light and flavorful, but it can be enjoyed all year long... As the seasons are changing, we need to find foods that are not only light to digest and but also full of taste and flavor.

So, as we transition into autumn and with temperatures drifting from still summer-highs to sudden drops, grilled zucchini is an easy favorite! Cut zucchini in half. Coat with olive oil and grill on both sides. Just before you are ready to take them off the grill sprinkle some sea salt, dried garlic powder and freshly ground black pepper. Finally garnish with cilantro and grated parmesan cheese.

Ayurveda notes: Hot summer months are quite a challenge as it unbalances our pitta dosha. It can be even more challenging if you naturally suffer from pitta disorders like excessive body heat, acidity and so on. Zucchini is perfect for summer meals, as it is very light to digest. Garnishing with cilantro further helps in calming our pitta dosha.

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What is Chelation Therapy? Learn how Chelation Therapy can help you to get rid of heavy metal toxicity and achieve your health-goals...

10/23/2021

Chelation therapy is done with EDTA, or Ethylene diamine tetra acetic acid, which is an FDA-approved drug that acts as an amino acid. Chelation is a very effective way to treat heavy-metal poisoning. This treatment method evolved to remove heavy metals from the body, such as lead and calcium overload within our bloodstream.

It was first used after World War II, when many soldiers returned with lead toxic due to ammunition, exposure to the paints of the battleships and so on. The symptoms of heart disease also lowered in these patients, which encouraged doctors to use EDTA for curing or aiding heart diseases as well.

Chelation therapy can be traced back as far as the 1930s when Ferdinand Munz (a German chemist who worked for I.G. Farben, first synthesized Ethylene Diamine Tetra Acetic acid (EDTA). Since the 1940s there have been hundreds of thousands of treatments of EDTA conducted throughout the world. It is a safe treatment that is extremely effective.

In simple terms, EDTA helps the body by extracting the lead and removing it from the bloodstream via urine. When our arteries are clogged it can lead to a number of problems, such as increased risk of stroke. Plague in the arteries can be helped with EDTA.

EDTA chelation therapy also involves nutrients such as B-complex vitamins, vitamin C and magnesium. The Myer’s cocktail IV is a popular option of chelation therapy that is a combination of high dose magnesium, trace minerals and vitamin C.

Most doctors have their own version of the cocktail but the results tend to be quite similar. It is particularly beneficial to those suffering from asthma, migraines and chronic fatigue. Some patients experience relief from their migraines directly after receiving chelation therapy.

High dose vitamin C is believed to be great for those who are suffering from immune system problems and cancer. It can help those with cancer by helping to support their immune systems, which have been weakened from chemotherapy, radiation and other types of procedures. Those who are dealing with cancer treatments tend to receive anywhere between 25-100 grams of vitamin C per session, which cannot be mimicked by taking vitamin C orally.

Nutritional testing helps assess nutrient deficiencies as well as mineral and red blood cell mineral analysis. This helps doctors to measure the vitamins in the blood and figure out where the patient is deficient and how much to give via the intravenous (IV) method.

People who are under chelation therapy are primarily tested for kidney function because that is necessary for the body to tolerate such IV treatment.

An IV of minerals stays in the blood for longer periods and is more effective than oral consumption. It is also good to keep in mind that much of the food we are exposed to is depleted or has a poor amount of nutrients, which can come from processed foods, bad soil and others.

But chelation is a strong therapy and it is important to properly understand all possible side effects. Burning is the most common side effect. Other side effects include nausea, vomiting, fever, headaches, nausea, and dizziness. Some metals, such as calcium, copper and zinc, can be removed by chelating drugs. These important substances can become deficient.

With any therapy (traditional, allopathic or alternative methods) it is very important to carry out the required procedures under properly qualified practitioners and with good medical supervision and Chelation Therapy is no different.

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Bio Based Healing

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'Factory Farmed Chickens' adversely impact our health, environment and karma!

10/22/2021

What are 'Factory Farmed Chickens'?

Factory farm chickens are chickens that are raised in huge batches without much space between them. The chickens that are factory farmed live their entire lives in large sheds that are over-crowded and unsanitary. Most of the behaviors that chickens usually experience, like roosting, nesting and wing-flapping, does not occur in the life of a factory farm chicken. Most of these shelters that house the chickens do not even have light or windows.

Chickens are fed via rows of water and food. These harsh conditions are cruel for the chickens, as they all end up lacking proper nutrition and are severely stressed due to the lack of natural behaviors. A number of factory farm chickens die from stress of living in tight spaces or diseases. Therefore, these chickens are treated with antibiotics to stop disease. They are also given hormones because they cannot naturally grow without them in these conditions. Those of us who are none the wiser later consume the hormones and antibiotics given to the chicken.

If you think hormones and antibiotics are bad, you might want to know that these factory farmed animals are also fed and “cleaned” with pesticides. Mass spraying of pesticides is said to prevent various diseases from happening, but the consequences of them later being consumed by a human are not often spoke of. Another cruel habit is to remove the beaks of the chickens in order to stop pecking. This also reduces the chance of cannibalism, which is a common habit of birds that are stressed and in too close proximity for long periods of time.

Adverse impact of Factory Farmed Chicken on our environment!

Keeping such a large number of animals in a single area creates a huge amount of animal-waste. Therefore, these factory farms end up being extremely hazardous areas that have been found to pollute the air, land and water. This pollution can even effect the health of those who work in the area or those nearby by affecting their skin and respiratory system. More extreme cases have been found to cause severe depression and, at worst, death.

These factory farm chickens include hens that are expected to lay eggs. In order to trick the hens into thinking they are ready to produce eggs, they are subjected to forced molting, which involves starving hens of food and water to force their bodies to produce more eggs. In this regards, at times... they are not given any food and water for as long as two weeks. They are also shown varying types of light in order to trick them.

Inhumane treatment meted out to Factory Farmed Chicken...

Probably the worst aspect of Factory Farmed Chickens is the inhumane way in which they are slaughtered!!
Live-shackle slaughter is a common method for killing factory-farmed poultry. The chickens are placed upside down and forced to lie on their backs. This can often cause broken bones.

The chickens are then placed in an electrified water bath to make them unconscious. After that, their throats and bodies are cut and thrown into a boiling water vat to remove their feathers. Many chickens are able to escape the electrified water but remain conscious during the next steps of the slaughter.

Although many companies have stopped buying chicken from live-shackle slaughter plants, this practice is still widespread.

Factory-farm chickens are subject to severe hardships to maximize profits. Slowly, however, awareness is growing about the conditions in which these birds are treated. Consumers and large companies are challenging some of the cruelest practices, such as forced molting and live-shackle killing, directly. These small steps could lead to a future without chicken factory farms.

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Green Living

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Quick and Easy Alkalizing Cucumber Salad

10/22/2021

It is always a great time to detox... particularly during change of seasons like right now as we transition from summer into fall time. Here is an alkalizing cucumber salad which is very easy to make and tastes great!

Chop up a cucumber. Add juice of half a lemon. This not only gives nice taste to this salad, it also helps in increasing the alkalizing goodness of this salad. Next sprinkle some sea salt. If you have kala namak- which is black salt (available in Asian/Indian grocery stores) then it lends the best taste and healing properties. But in case you don’t have it available or do not like its sulfurous flavor, which is an acquired taste; then sea salt will also work.

Now, coming back to our salad- add a pinch of dried ginger power, a little of freshly ground black pepper and quite a few pinches of dried parsley. Mix well and viola your healing cuke salad is ready :

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What is iChing? - A spiritual divination method from ancient China

10/21/2021

iChing utilizes the concept of energy around a situation using the principles of the Tao Te Ching, a classic Chinese text that was written by Lao Tzu, a famous Chinese Taoist philosopher.

iChing is one the oldest methods of divination in the world. It is based on The Book of Changes, an ancient Chinese book that explains iChing. The book is believed to be written by Fu Hsi, the Chinese Emperor (2953-2838 B.C.). It was edited later by many people to create the current version of this ancient text. Some believe that iChing is directly a result of the Tao Te Ching. They give credit to Lao Tzu, who they consider to be its creator. iChing also uses the concept of elemental energy, their compatibility and dis-compatibility, giving rise to indications about a situation.

The three tri-grams that make up an iChing hexagram, which are explained below, are called the tri-grams. Each tri-gram, i.e. Each tri-gram (i.e., a set of three lines) represents the elemental energy. These are the eight possible tri-grams:

Heaven
Thunder
Water
Mountain
Earth
Wind
Fire
Lake

To create a Hexagram, one tri-gram is placed on top of the other. The details for each Hexagram are then used to interpret the hexagram. To provide full reading details, it is important to consider whether a hexagram contains changing lines.

iChing utilizes the concept of energy around a situation using the principles of the Tao Te Ching, a classic Chinese text that was written by Lao Tzu, a famous Chinese Taoist philosopher.

iChing is the oldest method of divination in the world. It is believed to have originated in ancient China. iChing also uses the concept of elemental energy, their compatibility and dis-compatibility, giving rise to indications about a particular situation.

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7 Simple Steps to reduce your Carbon Footprint

10/20/2021

What is Green Living?

It is simply a way of life that means we make conscious decisions based on the role we have on this planet and how to appreciate and nurture it. While it may seem like it is a new ideal to become a “green” member of society, it is simply that more people are becoming aware that there is currently only one place, this Earth, that is suitable for us to live and it is important that we take care of it.

Why is Green Living important?

The reason it is so important to practice green living is because we all require the same fundamentals in order to survive: clean water, air, food and environment. Understanding green living means being aware of our resources (whether they are renewable or non-renewable), sustainability, recycling, food varieties and usable energy. In order to have resources we have to be able to conserve them, such as water, land and forests, as well as oil and natural gas.

7 Simple Steps towards a smaller 'Carbon Footprint'...

There are plenty of ways that you can leave less of a 'carbon footprint' or have less negative impact on the planet. Here are seven simple steps that you can take very easily that will help you to be more environmentally sustainable and reduce your overall carbon footprint:

Recycling and re-using plastic bags from grocery stores is a great start. If possible, use cloth bags which are reusable and can decompose.
We can also limit or lessen our use of water by being more conscious about our usage.
Turn off or unplug appliances when not in use- this saves electricity.
Recycle and reuse products as much as possible.
Recycle your trash.
Try to car-pool as much as you can.
Be conscious of your food-choices- some production techniques take a toll on the environment. Support environmentally conscious companies.

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Green Living

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Eating Carrots for Health & Vitality

10/19/2021

Carrots, those beautiful orange vegetables! Carrots are probably one of the first vegetables we ate as children. Though orange carrots are the most common variety, they do come in several other colors. And of course depending on their color, their actual nutritional content does vary. But all in all, carrots are one of the healthiest vegetables to include in our daily diet.

Many people know carrots as the most reliable source of Vitamin A and they are right! Though, there is much more to them than just vitamin A. For instance, did you know that carrots can prevent cancer and can be used as an anti-aging tool? Carrots provide many health benefits and it is quite crucial to include them as much as possible in your daily diet.

Here are some ways in which carrots can provide our body with required nutrition and help our body to heal:

Improve vision health
Are carrots really good for the eyes? Sure they are and it is because of a compound found within them known as beta-carotene. Beta Carotene is then converted to vitamin A which is eventually transformed to rhodopsin in the retina. Rhodopsin helps in improving an individual’s night vision. Beta-carotene also helps in minimizing the chances of macular degeneration.

Prevent certain cancers
Carrots can keep you from getting some types of cancer! Research shows that having carrots as part of one’s diet, reduces the risk of getting colon cancer, breast cancer and lung cancer. The anti-cancer properties in carrots are due to two compounds, falcarindiol and falcarinol.

Improve skin health
One of the benefits of vitamin A is that it has the capacity to protect our skin from sun damage. If a person lacks this vitamin, their skin will be dry and this may lead to premature wrinkles. Intake of carrots prevents all this and also ensures that the skin is acne free, smooth, healthy and is free from blemishes. Carrots therefore helps to maintain one’s skin tone and assist in improving overall skin health.

Works as an anti-aging agent
Do you want to look younger? Eat carrots! The beta-carotene compound found in carrots will act as an antioxidant and effectively regulate metabolism. While doing this, the aging process of the cells will be slowed, making you look younger for longer.

Can be used as an antiseptic
When applied externally on cuts, carrots can effectively prevent it from getting infected. For such antiseptic use, you can shred the carrot, boil it or smash it and apply on the cut area.

In addition to all this there are several other benefits to eating carrots. There are many more ways in which carrots can heal our bodies and protect us from harmful pathogens. For instance, intake of carrots can prevent heart related diseases, cleanse the body off toxins, ensure healthy teeth and gums and also prevent stroke!

For this reason, try as much as you can to include carrots in your daily diet.

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Why 'sustainable lifestyle' is an important part of Conscious Living- living with awareness?

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Nutritious Foods

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Arugula & Cukes- a simple healthy salad idea! (Quick Healthy Eats series)

10/19/2021

Here is a very easy and nutritious salad made with Arugula (also called Rocket) and Cucumber. Mix arugula and cut cucumber in a bowl. Then add half a tea spoon of white sesame seeds and quarter tea spoon of black sesame seeds.

Next sprinkle a little thyme and dried oregano. After that, crumble some fresh feta cheese. If you like it hot (like I do :-)) then add a pinch of freshly ground black pepper. Finally drizzle some extra virgin olive oil and mix up your tasty and delicious treat!!

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Quick Healthy Eats

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