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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.

 

 

Nettle and Lavender Seeds Sprouting--Supporting Our ReFIREMENT

Can you be too excited about seeds sprouting--NO!! Nancy and I started writing this blog several years ago and have been gratified and encouraged by the positive responses we've received.

We are now taking a few more simple steps in our own reFIREMENT. We started by assessing our present resources and among them was the big yard surrounding this house on three sides. Another our ability to risk and stay close to the edge. Another our creativity.

Our Healingwitherbs project is just at the very beginning. A bed is dug. Some nettle seeds planted in a recycled plastic salad container (a great reusable tabletop greenhouse) are beginning to sprout. Some lavender seeds are sprouting. Holy Basil seeds have been ordered. So for under $20.00 we will see what returns we can acheive. It is SOOOOOOOOOOO exciting--what all will come from those little seeds.

A high school mate has already shown what she can do in reFIREMENT. See this website http://www.yahsbest.com/. Suzanne, who is Yah, organically grows the vegetables for and bottles salsas and more. Can't wait to visit her farm and taste this summer.

In the warmth and light of reFIREMENT, all kinds of seeds can grow lending validation to a new abundant life.

 

Plant a Seed--Get a Nettle Seedling and More

Today, Nancy and I planted our first nettle seeds outside in a prepared bed in the yard.

My aching first knuckle is yearning for the day when we harvest the first leaves and make a tea. 

Boomers eveywhere take NOTE--stinging nettle is the go-to herb for arthritis inflamation reduction. Some brave souls may apply the fresh herb directly to the sore spot. I'm not sure, but may do that...I'll let you know.

I'm waiting for the peat moss I moistened to be ready for planting some nettle seeds indoors. A few minutes and then I'm leaving you all and going to the kitchen to plant the Teeny tiny nettle seeds in a recycled salad container. They make splendid mini green houses.

The Lavender seed should be germinating soon--looking forward to that.