Healthy & Happy Life

Organic vs. Conventional Food

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Organic (Green) vs. Conventional Food (Black)

I went to the local Giant grocery store in Fredericksburg, Virginia, to find organic food. I walked by the apple sections and did not see organic apples. Then I went to the potatoes and fresh vegetable section and missed organic potatoes and vegetables also. I found organic products in the salad section with out help. There was an employee who was stocking shelves with fresh fruits, and I asked him about organic food. He told me that they do have a small selection of organic fruits and vegetables, and he showed where they were. It was a little challenging to me to find an organic selection of fresh fruits and vegetables initially, but now I know where to look.

Labeling Organic

Organic food was labeled with a USDA seal to show that it is certified as an organic and the packages had an "organic" sticker on them.

Explanation the Cost Difference

Differences between organic and conventional food costs are significant. Thee are several reasons for the price disparity. First, organic farming often uses more "elbow grease", and human labor costs more than mechanical labor. Another reason for the price disparity, as stated in Nutrition and Health Eating article from Mayo Clinic, is that natural fertilizer can be more expensive that chemical fertilizer, and more difficult to transport (manure, for example) than conventional farming.

In article Organic Not Necessary Better for You from News Discovery sais that nutritional value comparison of organic and non-organic foods did not reveal significant differences. Organic fruits and vegetables have higher level of phosphorus and antioxidant than non-organic products. But in the book Get Smart an author Heller stated that antioxidants are very important nutrients because they help protect the cells and neurons in the brain and the rest of the body. As a nutritionist, I would be concerned about how much pesticides are absorbed by fruits and vegetables, which we a consume. I would suggest to use the "dirty dozen" list to guide purchases of fruits and vegetables.

Summary of 10 Weeks Eperience

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By looking back at my personal assessment when I gave scores to my psychological (8), physical (9), and spiritual (7) well-being, I would say that my score for physical aspect went down to 6 or 7. It changed because during the winter time my body experienced minor colds, I stopped exercising regularly, eat fresh fruits, and I am dehydrated my body up too 45% only. Due to these changes I feel lazy, sometimes experience strange symptoms (I am in the process to find the cause), and my stool consistency has changed.

The goals and activities that I set seven weeks ago are still on my to do list. I did not progress toward to achieve any of them. I guess I am still waiting for the right and less busy time to begin to incorporate them into my daily routine.

My personal experience throughout the Integral Health course expended my knowledge, which will help me in the future in my personal and professional journey. This knowledge will help me to assist others by putting different exercises, mental workouts, and spiritual workshops together into one few or more weeks intervention program.

Creating Wellness

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When we started to live in digital age, humanity felt depressed, disconnected, and unhappy. New diseases began to accrue in the population. New medicine were developed but healing was achieved only temporarily. Many scientists, doctors, and ill people were looking for answers of how to achieve health and gain happiness. The answers for healing and happiness were in Eastern and Far Eastern cultures that were developed and implemented over millions of years. Now we are trying to adapt a new holistic approach into the modern healthcare system. The healthcare system began to recognize the importance of the healing not only the physical body, but also the spiritual and psychological aspects of the body.

New levels of medical practitioners were trained and they learned the Eastern philosophy of healing the whole person to promote happiness. Wellness professionals learned and exercised the integral approaches into their lives so they can be spiritually open, teach and be willing to serve others. As a future wellness professional, I am learning and developing myself into the Eastern way of thinking. The development o physical, spiritual, and psychological aspects is a never ending process and it is always evolving with my maturity. I am constantly acquiring new goals as soon as exiting goals have been achieved.

To set my goals, I have to evaluate my current health. I will begin with an assessment of my physical, spiritual, and psychological well-being. I will rate them on the scale from 1 to 10 to identify which aspects needs the most attention.

Physical-9 I have ideal body weight, my body free of the diseases and I can move freely without pain. I have transitioned to vegan food by avoiding meat, dairy, and baked products. Now my body have more energy that saved from excessive cooking, chewing, and digesting.

Spiritual-7 I still react to some situations and people that trigger my emotions. Most of the time I am aware of my emotions. I try to stay away from sins, such as gossiping, overeating, anger, horror and war movies. To be open-minded and understandable to other's beliefs, I have studied different religions to appreciate a multidimensional God and his loving messages to humanity through different Bibles. Since I live on Earth and have to evolve around humans and nature, I try to follow human, nature, and cosmic laws.

Psychological-8 I am still exploring the possibilities of my mind and trying to separate ego from spiritual thinking. I use mind based exercises, such as meditations, relaxations, and breathing, to help me deal with everyday stress.

Physical- learn self-help techniques and incorporate into my daily routines and then teach others.

Spiritual- elevate my spiritual vibration that will help me to connect to divine powers.

Psychological- learn more about alpha, beta, and theta states.

Physical health- yoga exercises and movements that use body weight only. Eat one uncooked meal a day.

Psychological health- meditations, relaxations, and guided imagery.

Spiritual health- kindness and gratefulness practices toward people, nature, and God.

When we decide that it is time to change old, damaging routings to healthy living, our mind may not agree with the decision. Our minds keep brining us back to the old routines because the mind was trained for many years to do certain thinks automatically. The brain is a muscle and to learn something new we have to repetitively perform the same action over and over again until it became an automatic process. to help achieve my new goals I will use notes, explain my mission to family and friends, and find a mentor. Also, repetition of new routines help to reprogram my mind and it would be easy to achieve my goals.

My Future Mental & Spiritual Development

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Different meditations are unique and it depends on what you want to achieve. What do you need to improve or heal today? If I am feeling sick or my energy is low, I would use Subtle Mind or chakra meditations. If I feel happy, I may use Universal Loving-Kindness meditation. My goals for "mental fitness" are quite my mind, use visual thinking often, and connect to Akashic records.

To quit my mind, I will eliminate controllable noises, such as house and car music, find quieter places outside, and use noise blocking headphone at work. Once, maybe a year ago, I had silent mind for 10 minutes at my job (people were talking and music was played). I realized it soon after I began think again, that my mental activity was still, only nice melody played in my mind.

To achieve visualize thinking; we have to stop mental chattering. I never had problems with visualization, but if somebody experience difficulties they should begin to develop artistic abilities, like drawing, sculpturing, and maybe photography. You have to see the final product before you begin to work on your masterpiece. Look at different arts, pictures, and learn colors. Visualize thinking saves a lot of mental energy, it is like getting answers in zip file with feelings.

My big wish is to connect to Akshic records, but not suddenly. Everybody can accesses the information in Akashic records, but only limited people who can control the access. I will use Golden Light meditation to achieve my goal.

I would like to warn people who developing themselves through different integral and spiritual approaches to never quit. The reason is that people who develop their mind, body, and spirit start glow like a light in the dark, and it attracts different entities who like to get some free energy. If person continue developing than he increase energy level and gets higher vibration. He begin to shine brighter and entities could not stand the higher vibrations and leave person alone. If person doing sometimes and really never serious about it , he actually spends more energy to feed entities, develops negative and judgmental attitude toward mental and spiritual exercises. I do not want to scare anybody but want people to know about it and be strong and continue their development.

Meeting Aesclepius Exercise

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This meditation was kind of difficult at the beginning. I had a hard time to imaging a person that suppose to be my teacher. Then I decided that I would meet my Higher-Self. I saw a figure of light that was in front of me. When directions suggested doing communion, I saw how our auras began to connect together. When we had to connect our crown, throat, and heart chakras, I saw that our chakras was in the form of lotus and from the lotus, the light was so bright that our lights were blended together.

I felt burning sensation on my skin at the heart area. At the end of the meditation, me and my Higher-Self merged together. I did not feel that I became wiser or felt any other differences, as directed; instead I felt energy in my body. When meditation was over, I jus sat there in the trance. I saw my friend who did not feel well and I tried to heal her with my light and with help of her guardians.

Lessen the meditation here: Meeting Aesclepius

The mindfulness meditations that I was practicing helped me to open a door to my consciousness and inner wisdom. I will continue to use them to get more knowledge and to connect to Akashi records.

The phrase "One cannot lead another where one has not gone himself" by Elliot Dacher means that person that have knowledge of the integral approach, but never practiced himself, will not be a good teacher or healer. The most successful teachers are people who went though illness or spiritual development themselves. The health and wellness professionals should not only be knowledgeable on the topic of integral medicine, but practicing and developing their spiritual, mental and physical aspects also. Compassion to others, share knowledge and experiences should be the one of the many personal characteristics of health and wellness professionals.

Integral Assesment

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I made a picture, that above, and meditated on it. What I saw and understood that I began development from point zero in the spiral way. Every main point in my life was a learning way to understand psycho-spiritual, biological, interpersonal, and worldly aspects. Most lessons were painful and I had to go thought them to understand or discover feelings, control or let go, and were pushed to look for more answers.

When I understood a two dimensional picture of my development, the picture turned to three/four dimensional with different colors, thicknesses, and speed. It was so beautiful and it is difficult to explain it now. From my meditation journey, I understood that my development does not need any special attention to one particular aspect. Everything going as planned. To continue my development I am definitely will use Subtle Mind meditation to get more answers.

Universal Living-Kindness Meditation

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Close your eyes and for a minute or two rest into the natural ease of your mind and body, and repeat the following phrases for 10 minutes.

May all individuals gain freedom from suffering.
May all individuals find sustained health, happiness, and wholeness.
May I assist all individuals in gaining freedom from suffering.
May I assist all individuals in finding health, happiness, and wholeness.

My Experience

I recorded 10 minute long an ocean sound on my cellphone and the same time read phrases with intervals. In the beginning of the meditation, phrases were comes out flat without feelings. Then, I tried to use heart chakra to sent love waves from heart. Later I realized, it is not about me and my feeling of love, it about universal love and I will be the tool to transmitting that love. Then, I saw and felt the heaviness from the light go into my crown chakra to my body. My body became hot, I felt energy floating inside my body and the "love energy" illuminated from me to surrounding space, like water ripples. It was new and interesting experience for me. When the recording was over, I needed a few minutes to close my crown chakra, but I couldn't close completely because light was so dense and strong, it is still pouring into me.

Subtle Mind Meditation

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My Experience

The first time I did the meditation was after work and I felt sleepy and tired. If I did this meditation lie down, I would fall asleep. I was drifting my attention from breath to thoughts and back. Than I was thinking what the instruction was, I didn't remember, and my images were so real.

The second time I did the following morning. This time I did not have any thoughts or images, I was anchored to my breathing and water sound. I got an understanding of Eastern teachings while have my mind still. Actually, I do this kind of meditation every night before sleep. I put my hands on the chest and listen and same time feeling my breath. It helps to stop mental activity and bring me to the present moment. For me, it likes a switch that helps me to turn off my brain.

By comparing the Subtle Mind exercise to Loving-Kindness meditation, one is promoting imagination and Subtle Mind is eliminating any images and thoughts. The point of Loving-Kindness is to use energy to activate chakras. The point of Subtle Mind meditation is to stop any mental activity.

Mental Workout

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We wish to be happier but always think negative thoughts, what was happened or may happen. We always waiting for something to get wrong and this makes our brain and the body to be in constant stress. Solution is simple, we have to train our brain to think positively and have nice thoughts. We train our body to run or lift weights to the limits of the body's ability, but brains have an unlimited capability for development and nobody knows how far it can reach. Inner development is linked to consciousness and health. Training mental states leads to the activation of the prefrontal cortex, which correlates with positive emotions. Positive emotions help to develop a healthy inner life that positively affects the immune system and the overall body's health.

Loving-Kindness Meditation

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Warning: This meditation for people who knows how to work with negative energies. Do not do this meditation if you sick, feel tiered or depressed. If during meditation you begging to feel discomfort, it is better to stop and imaging the light that cleans you up.

My Experience

I did meditation three times only. The first time was very hard to bring pure love, It was mixed with some other feelings. I guess, I still cannot feel pure love, but instead I felt compassionate, caring, and tenderness feelings. The meditation went well, besides breathing in somebody's problem into my heart. No way will I do this kind of exchange.

What I did, I imagined that my heart chakra was like a laser light that was beamed to other persons heart. The more people I imagined the more light beams were comes out from my chest. At the end of the meditation, I was hugging the Earth.

Thinking out loud: We get so busy with our lives that we experience less and less positive feelings. We get frustrated and angry with our kids, spouses, friends, coworkers, and bosses that love little by little is disappearing from our hearts. When we feeling "blue" it is very important to do "mental workout", and I know it will be very hard to do.

Rainbow Meditation

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Listen the Rainbow Meditation here: "Rainbow Meditation"

This meditation is introducing the chakras and gives briefly explanation of their meaning. Instructions are simple and easy to follow.

My personal experience

I was sitting on the chair, relaxed and was breathing slowly. My breathing became so relaxed that I almost stop to inhale. I felt so lazy to breath. When instructions began, I was sending lights through top of my head. The certain color of light would stop in matching color levels of my body and fill the section of my body with that particular light. Just like on the image. I refuse to repeat words because I do not want to be "brain wash" with affirmations. At the end when instructor said "you don't feel fatigue" I start to fell bad because brain in relax state do not understand DON'T. Overall, the meditation was relaxing and imaginative.

The other way to activate chakras

My Optimal Well-Being

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The optimal well-being is never end and there is always room for grow. I rated my physical well-being 9 out of 10 because I have an ideal body weight and my body free of the diseases. I treat my body with kindness and respect. For example, I am slowly transitioned to vegan food and someday, I plan to be a frugivore. It is mean that I try give my body more energy by saving on cooking, chewing, and digesting. If illness comes, my body will have energy to fight the pathogens. I do yoga like exercises. For example, the exercise I use is from the book Peter Calder, "Eye of the Rebirth" because I want my body to be strong and not over exhausted by gym like exercises. I established a routing to go to sleep by 10:30pm. It will help my body get a good rest and have an afternoon energy. Also, I do not eat after 9pm (I can drink a hot tea if I am really hungry) because it will help the body to fall asleep fast. Plus, it saves an energy on digesting junk food and extra energy will work as a healer to help the body to reconstruct from day stress.

I rated my spiritual well-being 7 out of 10 because I still can get angry and upset on some situations or people. Most of the time, I am aware of my emotions and use neutral position to every situation. It is hard to be neutral to my child's behavior sometimes, and maybe he needs to see that mommy is angry of what he done and it is not acceptable. For my spirituality development I use 10 commandments as my guides. Also, the Bible lists sins that are vital for the soul and the body. Here is a complete list of sins: Sin list from Holy Bible. To become more spiritual I try to follow human, nature and cosmic laws. Basically, it is moral and ethic codes, cause-and-effects, and energy connection.

I rated my psychological well-being 8 out of 10 because I am still working to control my mind and emotions. I use mind based practices, such as meditation, relaxation, and breathing, which help me to deal with everyday stress. I use relaxation exercise every night and two weeks ago I achieved, for the first time on my own, on what I was working for. I use emotional intelligence to deal with emotions because I am in control of them, but not opposite. Also, I use my mind to create situations with outcome I needed. For example, if I need to see somebody, the situation would lead to the meeting with the person I want to see, I need only 10 minute of mind work and the result would be there. I "accidently" practiced on my husband when he was angry; the result was so surprising to me that I almost fell from the chair. It is, probably impossible, to achieve full psychological and spiritual states by living in sin society.

My Goals

Physical- I would like to learn how to do self-massage and incorporate into my routines. Do not forget to do stretching exercises at my job. Drink more water and go back to eat one cooked meal a day.

Spiritual- keep do what I am already doing. Be aware of the ego more because positive comments and criticism can feed the ego.

Psychological- continue to work on meditation techniques to connect to Akashi records. Would like to achieve astral projection and have control dreams (lucid dreams).

To achieve my goals, first, I have to do more research and make a list of self-massage techniques. I need to incorporate those techniques in the morning and evening. I should bring a fresh salad to lunch and dinner would be cooked vegetables. I need to buy bigger and brighter mug that I can bring to work with a filtered water in it. Second, my spiritual aspect does not need any extra activities. And the third, for my meditation I would use "Golden Light" exercise in my spear time.

Journey On Relaxation

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My experience on "Relaxation" exercise. Listen here.

This relaxation exercise is good for beginners because there is a lot of explanations about relaxation, muscle tension, and blood flow. With some years of experienced of the different relaxation technics, with instructor or with out, I went to the trance state fast. I directed my blood flow to my hands and felt warmth that went along my spine, arms, and palms. Then, I improvised a little, I directed energy/blood flow to my hips and legs. At the same time, I imagined the light go through my head down the spine and comes out from tailbone to the ground. My whole body became relaxed, warm, and wrapped in something soft, like an energy cocoon.

Welcome to Self-Transformation Page!

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