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Carnival of Healing #169 - December 20, 2008

Welcome to the December 20, 2008 edition of carnival of healing! The previous carnival was held at Your Joyous Life. The next carnival will be held at Holistic Healing.

First of all, I have to say, there were a lot of entries, and I apologise if not everyone’s is here.

There are basically 3 categories for this carnival. The first, on maintaining and improving health, where we find entries on how to eat healthy and some remedies on how to improve any health issues any of us may have. The second category is on addiction, a small category, but I thought it was important, as many of us face different kinds of addictions everyday. It is not only drug and alcohol many of us abuse, but also food and other stuff.

The third category may seem a little strange, but I do feel that the way we live, what we eat/drink from, do need healing at times, and of course, we cannot do without some common sense that is not so common nowadays.
I hope you enjoy this edition, here goes!

Maintaining and Improving health

Gout, an ailment that many people suffer from, can actually be relieved without the use of medications. Alvin shares with us several ways to get relief through a combination of lifestyle changes, dietary modifications and exercising. Check out Relief From Gout - How to Gain Comfort posted at Relief From Gout - How to Gain Comfort.

Honestly, I have not known aromatherapy to help with coughs and such illnesses. If you’re like me, do check out Aromatherapy: Myrtle for bronchitis, coughs & other respiratory ailments posted at World Healing .

Alkaline diets are one of my favourite subject. Stress, lifestlye, food, environment can cause our bodies to be way acidic than we ought to be. Randy shares with us how we canchange that. Check out Change Your Life with an Alkaline Diet posted at Eating-Veggies.com: High Alkaline Diet blog.

Erika’s post gives a nice summary about 100 Ways to Reduce Your Risk of Every Disease, and also the Top 100 Herbal Medicine Blogs


Love coffee, tea(or me?)? Learn about the effects of caffeine at Does Caffeine Raise Your Blood Glucose Levels? | My Caffeine Addiction.

Many of us suffer from one form of allergy or another, and those of us who have it, know that once it is triggered, it can be a real pain. Treating Allergies At Home offers some tips on how to avoid allergens and triggers.

Is weight gain really inevitable as we age, have some problems, etc ? Whether you agree or disagree, do check out Avoiding Inevitable Weight Gain posted at Lazy Man and Health.

In our quests to be fitter, we sometimes forget our own safety and inevitably end up with a few injuries. Keira shares 4 Ways to Injury Proof Your Next Workout | Weight Loss, Fitness, Exercise, and Health posted at Weight Ladder.

I do not actually know of anyone with Crohn’s disease, but if you do Fiona has a comprehensive list of resources here at Coping With Crohn?s Disease: 100 Helpful Resources and Communities posted at Nursing Assistant Central.

Healing Addictions

Addictions can be difficult to deal with, Tony shares about Why and How I Broke My Addiction to Caffeine at LimitlessUnits.com If you feel the need to break the addiction with caffeine, do check out his post.

Honestly, I did not that such things took place. If you are a parent and have teenagers who you think may be suffering from Anorexia, or have a friend or yourself are suffering from this, do take a look at Anorexia, The Starvation Diet, And Drinking.

Lifestyle

Many people experience anxiety but it can be hard to distinguish between what is natural and what is excessive. Ruthie shares about When Do I Need To Look For An Anxiety Cure? .

PennyLane reminds us To Be Grateful… which I feel is especially important seeing that so many people are not having enough these days.

Who would’ve taught that rabbits could teach us a thing or two? Sometimes the simplest things are the greatest treasure. Storm shares What My Rabbits Have Taught Me About Buddhism.

Yoga, another favourite topic of mine, and I agree that a healthy spine makes all the difference in our lives.

Kara shares A short home yoga practice for managing back pain. Weight loss is often difficult and unkind for many of us.

Marsha shares her experience, and that we should all be kind to our own body and mind. Women’s Weight Loss: ‘Tis the Season to Be Kind posted at A Weight Lifted.

Last but not least, as we are approaching christmas, looking for gifts(some possibly very expensive) for our loved once, c.camino shares a different perspectives in Christmas help for low income families posted at Spirit Happy.

That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition of carnival of healing using our carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.

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Magenpie.com is hosting #169 edition of Carnival of Healing!

This post is to announce that we are hosting the #169 edition of carnival of healing this coming December 20 2008! This is my second time hosting a blog carnival, and am thankful to Phylameana lila Desy for giving me the opportunity! I have been rather inactive in my own blog due to personal commitments, but I did remember that I was supposed to host this edition, so I’m back!

So what exactly is this carnival all about? For those who are new to blog carnivals, here’s the excerpt from the carnival of healing website: Carnival of Healing is a weekly round-up of personal blog posts on the topics of holistic health, wellness, spirituality, and self empowerment.

So if any of you readers out there have something interesting and is related to the themes above, I encourage you to participate in this carnival and submit your post here. Click on the orange box as shown in the image below.blog carnival

Do ensure that the topics you write about are related to the topics above. Click here if you wish to host future carnivals or view past carnivals.

Do note December 20th on your calendar, and book mark this site to be updated on upcoming posts! See you all here soon!

My new toy: Inkscape!

Haven’t been updating much as I’ve been pretty busy with stuffs. Anyway, wanted to post here about one of the things I’d been busy with! Basically, I’ve recently discovered Inkscape. It’s an awesome Open Source vector graphics editor, and I’ve been playing around with their features. The community has been very generous too, there are loads of tutorials/screencasts that teach a particular feature of Inkscape. Anyway, here’s what I’ve just managed to do….

Ok, that’s not very much, but hey I like the effect, and hopefully I’ll be able to come up with some even more interesting and pretty designs myself soon!

Sunny Yellow

Breathe

The other day I just happened to be listening to the radio and this song came on. I remembered the good old days when listening to the radio was second nature, and I knew almost all the songs that came on. These days though, I can’t stand most of the songs, so I seldom listen anymore, so this is one of those rare occasions, and it was a lovely reminder of good old times, and also, I never realised the lyrics were pretty meaningful, so I’m just posting it here.

I believe that for most of us, we forget to really breathe properly from time to time, especially when we are stressed out about something, be it a task, about our boss, our kids, friends, parents. When we feel anxious, stressed, feeling threatened in some way, we tend to hold our breaths. Try observing yourself and see if it happens.

If it does, no need to panic, just take in deep breaths in 4 counts, and breath out in 4 counts. Allow the universe to breathe you too :)

~Breathe by Midge Ure~

With every waking breath I breathe
I see what life has dealt to me
With every sadness I deny
I feel a chance inside me die

Give me a taste of something new
To touch to hold to pull me through
Send me a guiding light that shines
Across this darkened life of mine

Breathe some soul in me
Breathe your gift of love to me
Breathe life to lay ‘fore me
Breathe to make me breathe

For every man who built a home
A paper promise for his own
He fights against an open flow
Of lies and failures, we all know

To those who have and who have not
How can you live with what you’ve got?
Give me a touch of something sure
I could be happy evermore

Breathe some soul in me
Breathe your gift of love to me
Breathe life to lay ‘fore me
To see to make me breathe

Breathe your honesty
Breathe your innocence to me
Breathe your word and set me free
Breathe to make me breathe

This life prepares the strangest things
The dreams we dream of what life brings
The highest highs can turn around
To sow love’s seeds on stony ground

Breathe
Breathe

Breathe some soul in me
Breathe your gift of love to me
Breathe life to lay ‘fore me
To see to make me breathe

Breathe your honesty
Breathe your innocence to me
Breathe your word and set me free
Breathe to make me breathe

Short stuff

I wrote about the lady who had a seizure the other day at my yoga class. Well, she came to last week’s class, and looked much better. I am glad for that :) I am still not so sure if the yoga instructor course at the center is the one for me. But the other day at bf’s place, I was guiding bf with some asanas, and then his mum joined in, asking me lots of questions about what this is good for, what that is for, etc. Then his dad thought I was an instructor already :p But it was nice, and that is what I do want to go for, but I don’t know why I am still having second thoughts about the course.

Anyway, yesterday had a pretty long session with bf doing yoga, and I must say that he seems much more stable now, and is more flexible. I think the running helps. I love to run too, but after that I have to incorporate some asanas to help stretch out my muscles, especially my hip flexors. I also often feel like after running, it’s as if the cells have been shaken out, and then when I get down to do some asanas, it’s like they get reorganised back to where they should be.

I have to say that I am a little lazy at running energy for myself, but recently I did, and it was interesting how things improved right away. Just 2 examples below:

  • After yoga, I went to look for food to buy as bf wanted to eat some meat, went to the supermarket and found black pepper chicken! Better yet, it was half price cos of the time… and better yet, the nice lady behind the counter decided to give me some extra sausages and hush hush told me it’s free :p
  • Was at the beach and washing up, but had no soap, but decided to wash up with water anyway, a lady opposite me showering looked over, smiled and asked if I wanted some soap

Red Rose

Heal yourself naturally by balancing your pH with acid/alkaline foods

Many health problems that people suffer from these days are due to an imbalance of the body’s pH. The human blood pH should be slightly alkaline, at 7.35-7.45 pH. Anything below or above this range spells trouble. With the stresses of everyday life though, most of us tend towards the acidic side, and hence suffer from acidosis. If a couple of the terms above have already begun to confuse you, relax, I’ll be explaining them further below.

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At peace

Sometimes I imagine mini-me lying asleep on the little flower :)

Developing Charisma and Personal Charm

What is Charisma and charm? In the dictionary, it is “a personal quality that gives an individual authority over the masses or large groups of people” . Now examine the sentence in italics again! Even the dictionary does not nail the definition in my opinion. It is vague and it is useless to one that wants to develop charisma. It is just that something that draws people to you… some call it the X factor as if it is some mysterious characteristic encoded in our genetics.

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