10 Food Toxins To Stay Away From

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1. Stay away from processed meats like bacon, hot dogs, and sausage. Sodium nitrate accounts for their appetizing red hue, but this additive can also cause the formation of nitrosamines in your system, which can lead to cancer.

2. Stick to low-mercury fish like American-farmed tilapia instead of swordfish or tuna. Overexposure can cause memory problems, fatigue, and other health issues, and besides, most wild fish stocks are threatened these days. (Looking for an alternative? There’s branzini, the fish you’ve never heard of.)

3. Reduce the amount of canned food you consume. Cans are commonly lined with bisphenol-A, an organic compound that, according to the Lang study, may be associated with diabetes and heart disease.

4. Cut back on meat and dairy products. These animal products may contain trace amounts of harmful contaminants like polybrominated diphenyl ethers, polychlorinated biphenyl and dioxins. Although many of these toxins have been banned, they are still present in the soil. Reducing your intake of animal products is also more friendly to the environment.

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How To Meditate Video

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If you want to have an understanding of what happens when you meditate this is a great 3D video that simply explains meditation.

Ways To Make Your Home Green

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This handy list of how to make your home more green as well as healthier is from PathNet.Org. They have 10 great ideas to help you achieve cost effective home ideas on the green.

1. Use CFLs

Replace your incandescent light bulbs (the cheap ones you probably got at the grocery store) with ENERGY STAR® qualified compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs). By replacing even your five most frequently used light bulbs, you’ll save $100 per year. If every family in the U.S.A. did this, greenhouse gas emissions would be reduced by one trillion pounds–there are 12 zeros in a trillion! More on energy-efficient lighting.

2. Program Your Thermostats

Save 10% on your heating and cooling costs just by setting your thermostat back when you’re not home and while you’re sleeping. Program your thermostat to 78 degrees F or higher in the summer and 62 degrees F or lower in the winter. If you tell it to return to your preferred temperature before you return home, you won’t ever know the temperature changed, until you look at the reduction in your energy bills. Select ENERGY STAR qualified programmable thermostats.

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Take A Moment To Relax

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I love finding relaxing music to listen to when I have a second to get away. Music has an amazing ability to change our minds and even our thoughts. This is often a way of healing for many people. Enjoy this wonderful piece as it is incredibly relaxing.

Now, researchers from Italy and the UK have found that it is the silence between the tones, and not musical tones per se, that induces feelings of relaxation. “…music may give pleasure (and perhaps a health benefit) as a result of this controlled alternation between arousal and relaxation,” said researcher Dr Luciano Bernardi of the University of Pavia, concluding: “Appropriate selection of music, by alternating fast and slower rhythms and pauses, can be used to induce relaxation and reduce sympathetic activity and thus may be potentially useful in the management of cardiovascular disease.” ( Science News)

Violet Flame Meditation

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I use this one as much as I can. It is very relaxing meditation that is simple to use.

While you can’t go back in time, the violet flame has the power to erase the cause and effect, and even the memory of our past mistakes, or what we call Karma. The violet flame changes negative energy into positive energy, darkness into light, “fate” into opportunity.

In general, most people must pay their debt to life, or “balance” their karma, by selflessly reaching out and helping others, by working through misfortunes that come their way, or by passing through diseases or other forms of personal suffering. The violet flame is able to transmute or mitigate our negative karma before it comes back to us. This meditation helps change our vibration so that we may transcend into higher purpose.

1. Sit with your back straight, legs and arms uncrossed. This allows the energy to follow along your spine and through the chakras – the spiritual energy centers in your body.

2. Center your attention in the area of your heart. Visualize your heart glowing and emitting light rays like a sun.

3. While reciting, visualize the violet flame surrounding you, and those whom you love, your home, city, country, the planet – according to your needs. If you’d like a deep and intense internal cleansing or healing, visualize the flame penetrating your whole body. Let it flow into your arteries and your veins, restoring them to perfect health.

Sources: http://thevioletflame.tripod.com/