Vaboomer -- Baby Boomer Views & News

Opening Your Heart

Opening one's heart is key to good health

After days at the keyboard my upper back and chest were in a huge knot. So the other day I was giving myself accupressure on my upper left ribs where they insert in the breast bone and these words keep sounding in my mind's ear---Open Your Heart, Open Your Heart. Again and again and again. I've been at this intention for many years--on the body level and on the emotional level.

Food and the Heart

With the history of heart disease in my family, good heart health is really important to me. I have changed my diet over the years--very little fried and that only in EE Olive Oil. Lots of veggies and fruits (OK some ice cream--esepcially when In the Keweenaw Peninsula--slaver over Jilbert's--the best in the world!) Little white or refined foods--almost no sugar or fructose.  I need to up my exercise. I need to shed 50 pounds.

This is the easy part.

Not Naive but Open

But the hard part is changing my mind to be trusting in the right way--not to be naive and seek alliances with those who would harm, but to keep my heart open to all the wonder and good that is out there.

To have my heart resonate to those vibrations and not to the ones that harm. Nowadays it is easy to become cynical and jaded...but my deep body message is to Open Your Heart to all that would bring love and abundance...LEAP! for it. and at the same time stengthen your heart with healing--people, sound, love, and herbs--such as hawthorne or lavender.

 

 

Is a Rattlesnake Your Kin?

Kinship with all Life:  The Big Holy

Out west it was recognized that Rattlesnakes seemed to bite "white men" more than Indians (native americans). 

But no one knew why... 

Astute observation revealed the mystery.  The Indians did not move near the rattlers with fear & loathing, such as the whites.  They understood the rattlesnakes.

  The Indian moved in "conscious rhythm with what he reverently called "The Big Holy", the great primary Principle of all life, which creates and animates all things and speaks wisdom throught each one of them all the time".  

If you believe that animals are "your relations", or your kin, think about how you would treat a brother or sister.

 

Source:  book "Kinship with All Life" by J. Allen Boone

 

 

 

Ancient Folk Song Sings Nettle's Praises

Live a Longer Life with Nettles?

Stinging Nettles are an anti-oxidant and anti-aging herb too.   "Old wives' tales" often tell a truth:

Old English Folk Rhyme

“If they would drink Nettles in March
 And eat Mugwort in May
So many fine Maidens
Would not go to clay”