Aloha kākahiaka kākou ā me hauʻōli aloha Pōʻaha. Ala a me anapa ā welina lā me aloha ʻole kō kāua puʻuwai. I lā nani nōu ōukou. Ō kā maluhia no me oe.
Good morning and happy aloha Thursday to you all. Rise and shine and greet today with aloha in our hearts. Have a beautiful day, everyone. Peace be with you.
I am open to what may unfold with grace. Everything happens according to divine plan and in divine timing. I bow down to the One Being in each and every one of us.
Authentic awakening says “yes” even to the darkness and has the compassion to meet what is truly here without denial or escapism or the attempt to fix it.
The light within you, when resolutely recognized in all circumstances, has the capacity to embrace everything. This uncompromising acceptance is, in fact, your true nature; it is nothing less than the unbounded space of consciousness that is here beneath and beyond the story of who you think you are.
To deeply rest here is a radically new way of being.
To rest here, whether the river flows gently or turbulently, means that something obsolete will die and a radically new way of living will be born.
Rejuvelac is a cultured probiotic-rich drink made by fermenting freshly sprouted grains in water. It first became popular in the 1960’s under the influence of living food enthusiast Dr. Ann Wigmore, the original founder of the Hippocrates Health Institute. Born in Lithuania, “Dr. Ann”, as she was called, is believed to have acquired the recipe from her Baltic origins. The beverage is closely related to the traditional Romanian drink, called Bors, a fermented wheat bran used to make a sour soup called ciorba. Rejuvelac is a cultured probiotic-rich drink made by fermenting freshly sprouted grains in water, traditionally wheat is used, but we also use rye as well as gluten-free millet and quinoa. Plus, we show you how to make rejuvelac from sprouted wheat as well as sprouted quinoa.
Rejuvelac is also an essential ingredient to making your own Vegan cheeses. (Check out this blog’s Food section for Miyoko Schinner’s recipes for making meltable Mozzerella cheese and your own Vegan butter.)
All information is for educational purposes only and is the personal view of the author; not intended as medical advice, diagnosis or prescription. This information has not been evaluated by the FDA and is not intended to cure or prevent any disease.
The health benefits of dill include its ability to boost digestive health, as well as provide relief from insomnia, hiccups, diarrhea, dysentery, menstrual disorders, respiratory disorders, and cancer. It is also good for oral care, and can be a powerful boost for your immune system and can protect you from bone degradation. It is also an anti-inflammatory substance, which means that it can protect you against arthritis. Furthermore, it can reduce excess gas, and is considered a carminative.
Dill, scientifically known as Anethum Graveolens, has been used for culinary and medicinal purposes for hundreds of years. Both the seeds and the leaves can be used. Apart from giving a strong, tangy, appetizing flavor and taste, dill has many medicinal properties, which mainly come from certain compounds called Monoterpenes, as well as flavonoids, minerals and certain amino acids.
Just as an object needs a subject, the person in attack is not taking an independent position but is acting as an assistant. After all, you need your opponent to complete the other half of a whole.
The gentleness/firmness is one inseparable force of one unceasing interplay of movement. If a person riding a bicycle wishes to go somewhere, he cannot pump on both [of] the pedals at the same time or not pump on them at all. In order to move forward he has to pump on one pedal and release the other. So the movement of going forward requires this “oneness” of pumping and releasing, and vice versa, each being the cause of the other.
An enormous row of 90 megalithic stones has been found buried beneath the prehistoric super-henge of Durrington Walls earthworks, only one mile from the world-famous site of Stonehenge in Wiltshire, England. The huge line of megalithic stones lies 3 feet underground and has just been discovered through the use of sophisticated radar equipment. The finding is believed to have been a huge ritual monument.
“We’re looking at one of the largest stone monuments in Europe and it has been under our noses for something like 4,000 years… It’s truly remarkable.” said Professor Vince Gaffney, from the University of Bradford and co-director of the Stonehenge Hidden Landscapes Project, which made the discovery. “We don’t think there’s anything quite like this anywhere else in the world. This is completely new and the scale is extraordinary,” he added.
The discovery was announced at the opening of the British Science Festival in Bradford, and has been described as the most exciting finding of Neolithic Britain for many years.
“Feeling the infinite love, light and healing energy of the one Creator moving through me, moving to Mother Earth, to heal Mother Earth as she brings forth a new Earth in fourth density.”
“When I stop believing, that I always have to be in control, life becomes a lot easier.”
Integrity is an energetic coherent connection with universal consciousness as source for all. Maintain integrity, and what moves through you will be inspired by limitless potential, expressed abundantly as authenticity.
Test subjects taking part in an 8-week program of mindfulness meditation showed results that astonished even the most experienced neuroscientists at Harvard University. The study was led by a Harvard-affiliated team of researchers based at Massachusetts General Hospital, and the team’s MRI scans documented for the very first time in medical history how meditation produced massive changes inside the brain’s gray matter. “Although the practice of meditation is associated with a sense of peacefulness and physical relaxation, practitioners have long claimed that meditation also provides cognitive and psychological benefits that persist throughout the day,” says study senior author Sara Lazar of the MGH Psychiatric Neuroimaging Research Program and a Harvard Medical School instructor in psychology. “This study demonstrates that changes in brain structure may underlie some of these reported improvements and that people are not just feeling better because they are spending time relaxing.”
Sue McGreevey of MGH writes: “Previous studies from Lazar’s group and others found structural differences between the brains of experienced meditation practitioners and individuals with no history of meditation, observing thickening of the cerebral cortex in areas associated with attention and emotional integration. But those investigations could not document that those differences were actually produced by meditation.” Until now, that is. The participants spent an average of 27 minutes per day practicing mindfulness exercises, and this is all it took to stimulate a major increase in gray matter density in the hippocampus, the part of the brain associated with self-awareness, compassion, and introspection. McGreevey adds: “Participant-reported reductions in stress also were correlated with decreased gray-matter density in the amygdala, which is known to play an important role in anxiety and stress. None of these changes were seen in the control group, indicating that they had not resulted merely from the passage of time.”
“It is fascinating to see the brain’s plasticity and that, by practicing meditation, we can play an active role in changing the brain and can increase our well-being and quality of life,” says Britta Hölzel, first author of the paper and a research fellow at MGH and Giessen University in Germany.
Fruits and vegetables don’t only hold the key to better health overall, they can be used to treat and prevent very specific ailments. For example, using ginger to fight an upset stomach or cranberries to prevent urinary tract infections are two well-known plant-healing remedies. Another notable example is with tart cherries, and how the tiny red fruit can effectively fight inflammation and prevent arthritis.
According to researchers with Oregon Health & Science University, tart cherries have the “highest anti-inflammatory content of any food”. This is a remarkable statement considering all of the fruits and vegetables with anti-inflammatory properties. These anti-inflammatory properties are also likely responsible for the many health benefits of cherries.
The researchers discovered that tart cherries, like Montmorency and Balaton in particular, are rich in phenolics and anthocyanins, more so than sweet cherry varieties like Bing, Lambert, and Rainier. These compounds are known to reduce inflammation considerably, which is why cherries are quickly rising as one of the best home remedies for gout and other inflammatory-related issues.
In this particular study, the researchers analyzed 20 women between the ages of 40 and 70 with inflammatory osteoarthritis. The women drank tart cherry juice twice daily for three weeks. At the end of the three week period, the researchers found “significant reductions” in inflammation markers. The reductions were most pronounced in women who had the highest inflammation levels at the start of the period.
A study from 2001 indicated the anthocyanins in tart cherries were as effective as ibuprofen and naproxen (over-the-counter inflammation and pain medications) at suppressing enzymes associated with arthritis. Best of all, there are no side effects.
Another previous study—this one from Baylor Research Institute—found that a single daily dose of tart cherry extract helped reduce pain associated with osteoarthritis but more than 20 percent.
Natural pain relieving and anti-inflammatory foods should be staples in the diets of people who have to deal with conditions like arthritis. The alternatives—like ibuprofen, naproxen, and acetaminophen—can be quite dangerous.
For example, research spanning from 1995 to 2006 found a connection between hearing loss and ibuprofen use. But hearing loss isn’t the only risk. Over-the-counter pain medications have also been tied to birth defects, blindness, strokes, and intestinal bleeding.
Natural alternatives include tart cherries, curcumin (found in turmeric), and willow bark – all effective options without the side effects.
According to recent studies conducted by Professor Mario Palma at Sao Paulo State University Brazilian wasp venom has the ability to kill cancer cells while not causing any harm to healthy cells. His research fond that the specific wasp that has the correct venom for this task is the Polybia paulista. The toxin produced by this wasp is called MP1 (Polybia-MP1) is what has been known to single out and destroy cancer cells.
“Cancer therapies that attack the lipid composition of the cell membrane would be an entirely new class of anticancer drugs. This could be useful in developing new combination therapies, where multiple drugs are used simultaneously to treat a cancer by attacking different parts of the cancer cells at the same time,”Paul Beales, co-author of the study said.
Another researcher on the team, João Ruggiero Neto from São Paulo State University further explained the process, saying that “Formed in only seconds, these large pores are big enough to allow critical molecules such as RNA and proteins to easily escape cells. The dramatic enhancement of the permeabilization induced by the peptide in the presence of PE and the dimensions of the pores in these membranes was surprising.”
There is no such thing as “messing up”. Only the mind judges that. Whatever step I take is going to be the right one, since I am here to learn and to grow.
We’ve all heard the biblical phrase, “Seek and ye shall find.” It always sounds very positive and rewarding. But how many of us are so frustrated with seeking and not finding that we’d like to have a serious chat with the author of that phrase (St. Matthew)?
If you’ve been seeking for a long time but haven’t found what you’re looking for, don’t fret!
If you haven’t found what you’re looking for, it may not be because you’re not looking long or hard enough. It may because the quality or tone of the attention you give to the seeking process isn’t quite right for finding what you want.
The tone or quality of your attention can actually be the difference between finding what you want and being in total frustration. It turns out that the best tone for finding what you want is curiosity. If you can maintain the innocent curiosity of a child when seeking anything in life, you will find and get everything you want.
Why is this? Because there is an inverse relationship between attachment to what we want and getting what we want. The more we are desperately attached to what we want (i.e., “I just gotta have it!”), the less we are likely to get it. But, if we can become very curious about what we want without attachment, then we will attract it into our lives.
For instance, let’s say you want to bring a certain amount of income into your business. The first thing to do is to tell the Universe in a very clear and precise way. Write down exactly what you want and what you don’t want (and by when). Then, adopt a posture of curiosity. It might sound something like, “Hmmm, I wonder how the Universe will bring this about…” As you encounter different people or events in your life, you might ask yourself, “I wonder if this is going to an avenue for what I want?” or “Isn’t this interesting?”
The channeled teacher Abraham tells us that “genius is nothing more than continued attention on the same thing.” In other words, the longer you direct your attention positively toward something, the more you’re a genius in that area. The same thing is true about curiosity. The longer you can maintain a childlike curiosity about what you want, the faster that which you want will come into your life.
So the phrase “Seek and ye shall find” is most definitely true, but only if you learn to seek as a child would seek-with wonder, delight, and joy in the process. Anytime you find yourself getting obsessed or frustrated with the process, just go back to that lighthearted curiosity. The Universe will always bring you what you want, and that child like curiosity will keep the doors of your life open to receive it.
All is the Lord. There is nothing else in existence.
Ignorance of this is the only impurity.
When you find yourself, you find God; When you find God, you find yourself.
Wherever true realization of God is, there nothing and no one is excluded.
God is both one and infinite; both the unlimited and the limited.
When you come to know God, the Supreme Self, you embody devotion; when you embody devotion, you come to know God.
The Father is in the Mother; Shiva is in Shakti. The whole of life is the means to realizing the Self…
We present the chart for Sun Quincunx Vesta, filtered for Vesta aspects:
[Click Image to Enlarge]
This may be a window where “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” is the WRONG strategy. Doing it “that way because we have always done it that way” will probably NOT be the write answer. Consider the possibility of innovation.
If you are lucky enough to be passing by the Old Greenwell Farm on a Thursday between 10-1 stop by to see the Kona Historical Society “Living History” demonstration. Go down in the field where you will see their wood-fired forno, an outdoor stone oven, they built in 2005 to bake Portuguese Bread the old-fashioned way.
Greenwell Farm’s Living History Display
The Portuguese from the Azores and Madeira started coming to Kona in the 1870s to work in the ranching industry in Hawaii. Where they settled they would build these stone ovens and bake their breads, soon they began baking and selling the breads to supplement their income.
Portuguese Sweet Bread hot from the wood fired oven Thursdays 10-1
It’s a great thing to see this artful process and witness the excitement on the faces of those waiting for the freshly baked warm bread straight from the outdoor oven. A…
Be open to the natural world anywhere and everywhere you find it, from bugs to clouds to birdsong on the city streets.
The Importance of Swapping Screen Time For Sunshine
In “How to Raise a Wild Child,” Dr. Scott D. Sampson asserts that topophilia, a love of place, is the key to restoring sustainability on our planet. As chief curator at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science and host of the PBS KIDS television series Dinosaur Train, he argues that the current disconnect between kids and the natural world is a threat to their physical, mental, and emotional health. Sampson offers the topophilia hypothesis: that bonding between people and place offers adaptive advantages to human beings. He believes topophilia can become the foundation for the young generation to regain their connection to nature.
Have dinner around the table tonight; learn to create ‘circle moments’ within each day.
For centuries, our ancestors have gathered around the proverbial fire, so to speak–holding space for unity and peace. In many ways, these ‘circles’ have helped to foster dialogue, to grow community, and engage in a shared path of understanding.
The circle became a way to move to a kind of world that I want to live in.
Take a moment to experience the awe that nature inspires — perhaps, look for the stars in the night sky, watch the sky turn orange, purple, and pink at sunset during your evening commute — and reflect on how doing so impacts your relationship with others in your life.
What do the Grand Canyon, Sistine Chapel, and gazing at distant stars all have in common? They can awaken a deep appreciation for the world around us and inspire a profound sense of awe. This sensation is often accompanied by an awareness of something larger than ourselves — that we play a small part in an intricate cosmic dance that is life.
“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.”
“As I look back on my life, I realize that every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being re-directed to something better.”
Aloha āwakea kākou. Manaʻolana ʻoe ā hauʻōli aloha Pōʻakolu. I lā nani nōu ōukou. Ō kā maluhia no me oe.
Aloha kākahiaka kākou. Manaʻolana ʻoe ā hauʻōli aloha Pōʻalua. I lā nani nōu ōukou. Ō kā maluhia no me oe.
Hauʻoli Lā Limahana. Maluhia a me aloha mau loa no hoaloha.
“Always seeking, seeing and serving the Creator in all.”
Fruits and vegetables don’t only hold the key to better health overall, they can be used to treat and prevent very specific ailments. For example, using ginger to fight an upset stomach or cranberries to prevent urinary tract infections are two well-known plant-healing remedies. Another notable example is with tart cherries, and how the tiny red fruit can effectively fight inflammation and prevent arthritis.
Aloha kākahiaka kākou a me Hauʻōli aloha Pōʻaono. E piha keia la mea ke aloha a me ka pono. I Hōpenapule maika’i. Ō kā maluhia no me oe.
Aloha kākahiaka kākou a me Hauʻōli aloha Pōʻalima. I Hōpenapule maika’i. Ō kā maluhia no me oe.
[Click Image to Enlarge]
Greenwell Farm’s Living History Display 
Portuguese Sweet Bread hot from the wood fired oven Thursdays 10-1 
Welina mai a me Hauʻoli aloha Po’akolu. Ō kā maluhia no me oe.
Hālau 'Aha Hui Lānākila 