tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36212722260383225962026-01-20T22:26:37.098-08:00A Guide on the Road to Peace of MindDavid Herronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14564128110588027532noreply@blogger.comBlogger83125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3621272226038322596.post-91958594283722584502013-07-12T11:43:00.001-07:002013-07-12T11:43:58.883-07:00Open the door to abundance so more can flowAre you open to receiving more in your life? Supposedly the Universe around us is abundant, all we need do is open ourselves to receive from that abundance. The key is being open. Open to receiving.
Maybe you are walking through a parking lot and see a penny lying on the pavement. It might be old and tarnished but it is a penny. What do you do? Do you snub your nose at this bit of David Herronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14564128110588027532noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3621272226038322596.post-7405312943968711992013-07-06T10:21:00.000-07:002013-07-06T10:21:15.783-07:00What spiritual diseases do we carry and pass between us?
Is there such a thing as "spiritual disease" that can be passed from one person to another? It would be like Germ Theory that says one person coughing on another is enough to pass a cold or flu or whatever between people. While one could cook up a theory of subtle energy virus's, I've just read an interesting article on The Huffington Post that has a different take on the phrase "spiritual David Herronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14564128110588027532noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3621272226038322596.post-32661071294028157162012-08-31T21:06:00.001-07:002012-08-31T21:06:16.643-07:00Healing as a daily practice woven into daily life When do you practice healing? Only while giving a healing session to a client? What if "healing" is practiced as a way of life? What if "healing" can be practiced even by those who do not have official training as a healer? In healing training we are taught how to use a body of healing techniques for a client, to help the client with their healing process. One could come away from healing David Herronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14564128110588027532noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3621272226038322596.post-61454643865623821462012-04-14T08:43:00.000-07:002012-04-14T08:43:53.297-07:00Money might make the world go around, but you shouldn't let it make your individual world go around
We need money to live in the modern world, to pay for food, rent/mortgage, travel, clothing, entertainment, etc. It is easy for the subconscious to identify the need for money as a core piece of our identity. Rich people are often given higher social ranking, while poor people often are lower in the ranks, and this segregation of people by how much money they have dismisses the David Herronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14564128110588027532noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3621272226038322596.post-46473709142165350032011-11-29T09:39:00.001-08:002011-11-29T09:39:09.935-08:00Decisions don't become REAL until you act on the decisionAre you pondering a life changing decision? To move somewhere, change career, etc? Maybe you have already made your decision but have changed nothing as yet. For example maybe you're still in your soul crushing job "waiting for the right time" to make your move and change things around. Let me ask, if you've made your decision but not acted on that decision, have you really decided?
Once you David Herronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14564128110588027532noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3621272226038322596.post-18849719181891462592011-04-04T08:01:00.000-07:002011-10-23T09:31:42.698-07:00Are you a "lighthouse of peace"? Are you engaging the power of your heart?There's a lot of crazy things going on right now and it's easy to get lost in the turmoil and worries about which direction our world is going. Below I've pasted in a video expressing some spiritual teachings of the sort I've found useful in dealing with inner and outer turmoil. I'm sharing this hoping to remind a few people to seek ways to feel peace in these turbulent times, and to respond toDavid Herronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14564128110588027532noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3621272226038322596.post-82746754073080879132011-03-20T08:54:00.000-07:002011-10-23T09:28:31.922-07:00Natural Remedies For Your Thyroid and Kidneys due to the Japan nuclear emergencyThere's a radioactive plume coming from the failed nuclear reactors in Japan. Some alarm is rising over the effect of the radiation. In part the alarm is due to the decades of fearism about all things nuclear, and partly due to the real danger. It would seem in this case the real danger is much less than the panic some have been feeling. In any case there is some useful information available David Herronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14564128110588027532noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3621272226038322596.post-83647625784767217982011-03-16T09:02:00.000-07:002011-10-23T09:32:16.851-07:00Higher Purpose: Japans earthquake and nuclear crisis asks us what we really wantWhat do we as a people really want? What kind of technological infrastructure do we really want? Recent disasters, by taking away specific parts of the technological infrastructure running our society, demonstrate their real cost. Is this a cost we really want to pay?
To recap - last Friday a tremendous earthquake struck off the coast of Japan, triggering a Tsunami that wiped out dozens of David Herronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14564128110588027532noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3621272226038322596.post-78568271259821171752010-12-08T07:58:00.000-08:002011-10-23T09:21:56.230-07:00Dan Phillips: Finding ones self by building creative houses from reclaimed stuffWhat we really need to do is reconnect with who we really are.
Why should everything be the same? Why do we have rows of ticky-tacky houses lined up on the hillside, all the same? Why, despite all the brands of everything in the store, are all the products the same? Nature doesn't grow uniformity. Nature grows stuff based on localized needs and conditions.
Start two plants of the same speciesDavid Herronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14564128110588027532noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3621272226038322596.post-41773888135108007972010-03-12T13:55:00.000-08:002011-10-23T09:20:00.175-07:00"Why don't they run that class at night" - unwarranted corporation intrusions of job life into personal lifeFor most of 2009 I was unemployed (like many people) and (unlike many people) attempting to make a living using this blog. Recently I rejoined the workforce to have a job (and more stable income) and being employed again has given me perspective on the role of working for a living. What I want to write about today is a comment by a co-worker that represents a typical intrusion of the corporate David Herronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14564128110588027532noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3621272226038322596.post-69430868779711488862010-01-14T19:53:00.000-08:002011-10-23T09:35:18.532-07:00Lost GenerationThis video was created for the AARP U@50 video contest and placed second
Article Reference:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42E2fAWM6rA
David Herronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14564128110588027532noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3621272226038322596.post-4604959480576719302010-01-09T16:33:00.000-08:002011-10-23T09:28:30.900-07:00Cerberus Capital: Literally Blood-Sucking the Poor to Make Their Billions | Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace | AlterNetNormally when people moan about blood-sucking corporations it's not as literal as this story. Cerberus Capital, one of Wall Street’s most notoriously ruthless leveraged-buyout firms made a $1.8 billion profit from buying, and the later selling, the company named Talecris. Talecris engages in buying blood plasma from plasma donors, then producing and selling products from that plasma.
David Herronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14564128110588027532noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3621272226038322596.post-66300473632083039452009-11-28T10:28:00.000-08:002011-10-23T09:25:49.686-07:00Gasoline Fumes May Fuel Road Rage | Autopia | Wired.comit might be the fumes you’re inhaling while pumping gas that make you angry. Amal Kinawy of Cairo University found that rats exposed to gasoline fumes were more aggressive than those breathing clean air and more likely to show signs of anxiety. What’s more, their brains experienced changes in neurotransmitters in the hypothalamus, hippocampus and cerebellum. Although Kinaway limited her researchDavid Herronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14564128110588027532noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3621272226038322596.post-21349555941665419722009-01-25T21:18:00.000-08:002011-10-23T09:19:58.489-07:00Sustainable Work LifeThe word 'Sustainable' most often is used to refer to resource utilization such as sustainable farming practices that preserve soil health. However the word itself refers to patterns which sustain life over the long term. Sustainable farming practices sustain an ecosystem over the long term, etc. But what about our day-to-day lives can also be made sustainable as well?
In my day job my David Herronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14564128110588027532noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3621272226038322596.post-78371165308307233862008-03-27T08:31:00.000-07:002011-10-09T09:59:24.766-07:00Another reason to get rid of the belly fat: DementiaTodays news has an article Another reason to get rid of the belly fat: Dementia which discusses recent research showing a connection between 'belly fat' and dementia. The article says the researchers don't understand the mechanism, but they've demonstrated there is a connection.
People with apple-shaped bodies are at greater risk of having too much visceral fat surrounding internal organs deep David Herronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14564128110588027532noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3621272226038322596.post-10404009043912438762008-03-09T11:36:00.000-07:002011-10-09T09:59:23.901-07:00Chocolate for Weight Loss?Recently my Chiropractor suggested I try a multi-level marketed food made from Chocolate that is supposed to have great health benefits. I barely remember having read a couple articles the last couple years talking about newfound benefits of chocolate. It's surprising to hear of chocolate to be healthy, right? Well.. read on..
One key mentioned in the literature for this product is the David Herronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14564128110588027532noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3621272226038322596.post-86774440579412835602007-12-22T13:17:00.000-08:002011-10-09T09:59:33.028-07:00The Inner Voice of LoveThe Inner Voice of Love: A Journey Through Anguish to Freedom is a collection of passages from Henri Nouwen's journals, written during a period when his self-esteem evaporated, his energy to work disappeared, and God seemed entirely unreal. This is not a book to be read straight through: each short chapter takes time to digest, because, like the following passage, each of Nouwen's thoughts has David Herronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14564128110588027532noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3621272226038322596.post-90070762276224647242007-08-26T10:09:00.000-07:002011-10-09T09:59:32.232-07:007 Ways to Grow the Action Habit7 Ways to Grow the Action Habit: By becoming a doer you’ll get more done and stimulate new ideas in the process.
...One average idea that’s been put into action is more valuable than a dozen brilliant ideas that you’re saving for “some other day” or the “right opportunity”.
...Use action to cure fear - Have you ever noticed that the most difficult part of public speaking is waiting for your turn David Herronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14564128110588027532noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3621272226038322596.post-83647923147854736852007-08-26T10:07:00.000-07:002011-10-09T09:59:31.570-07:00Ten minutes of sun 'could stop 30,000 cases of cancer', researchers sayTen minutes of sun 'could stop 30,000 cases of cancer', researchers say: The researchers believe vitamin D deficiency may be to blame for 600,000 cancer cases worldwide each year, particularly in northern European countries where sun exposure levels are relatively low.
...In the latest study, scientists at the Moores Cancer Centre at the University of California, San Diego, estimate that 250,000 David Herronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14564128110588027532noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3621272226038322596.post-61517970070801169322007-08-26T09:40:00.000-07:002011-10-09T09:59:30.791-07:0014 Foods that Lower Cholesterol14 Foods that Lower Cholesterol is an interesting overview of controlling cholesterol with diet. The typical way to treat high cholesterol is with drugs, right? But what if you could just change your diet a little? The suggestions aren't just to eat less fatty foods, but there have been a range of studies showing foods which act positively to decrease cholesterol levels.
Reviewing the list of David Herronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14564128110588027532noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3621272226038322596.post-79127503096052173352007-08-21T08:43:00.000-07:002011-10-09T09:59:29.879-07:00Remembering to do something when there's no way you can do itEver remember to do something when it's the last thing you could possibly be doing? Like, you're at the barber shop having your hair cut, and your to-do list starts coming out of the woodwork. Like how you've been meaning to clean out the closets, or shine up the chrome on your car, etc. Why is your subconscious reminding you to do something when it's the last thing you could possibly do? David Herronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14564128110588027532noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3621272226038322596.post-32077089972753136022007-08-19T11:19:00.000-07:002011-10-09T09:59:29.021-07:00Ways to make new habits stickI think in many ways habits drive us in ways that create pain in our lives. For example I am somewhat shy, and the shyness is really a habitual not-speaking. I have been outgoing at times, especially when I spent lots of time in friendly talkative situations, but being quiet and retiring has been a lifelong habit. There are of course deeper issues which are what led me to be shy in the first David Herronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14564128110588027532noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3621272226038322596.post-67679843454628453862007-08-17T08:51:00.000-07:002011-10-09T09:59:28.308-07:00Two views to healthI came across these two articles one right after another and find them interesting together. The Secret to a Healthy Body is a set of recommendations to health that essentially boil down to being active. Their specific suggestions include aerobic exercise, and stretching and balance exercises. Then Why New Yorkers Last Longer goes over research showing that New Yorker's live longer, and it David Herronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14564128110588027532noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3621272226038322596.post-58535742082665119962007-06-19T20:12:00.000-07:002011-10-09T09:59:27.505-07:00"Love in its essence is spiritual fire"Had an interesting fortune cookie today: "Love in its essence is spiritual fire"
Gosh, this just makes me think of the experimentation which led to my writings on Inner Homeopathy. This is a practice of Love, to love ones self, to love every single part of you, to love the self destructive parts of ones self, to love, and to love more. This is a very self transforming practice, so very simple David Herronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14564128110588027532noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3621272226038322596.post-41980226810078590612007-06-13T19:58:00.000-07:002011-10-09T09:59:26.626-07:00First day on the jobA new priest at his first mass was so nervous he could hardly speak. After mass he asked the monsignor how he had done. The monsignor replied, "When I am worried about getting nervous on the pulpit, I put a glass of vodka next to the water glass. If I start to get nervous, I take a sip."
So next Sunday he took the monsignor's advice. At the beginning of the sermon, he got nervous and took a David Herronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14564128110588027532noreply@blogger.com0