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ORGANIC CATTLE UPDATES
Thursday, April 8, 2010
National Organic Program's New Organic Standards Exempt Beef Cattle from Pasture
Support New Alternative Three Tiered Label System
Comments due April 19th, 2010
Should organic ruminants such as a dairy cows and beef cattle which have evolved to eat grass be permitted to be kept in feedlots or should they be required by USDA organic regulations to obtain at least a portion of their feed directly from pasture?
According to the USDA's new organic pasture rule, released in February 2010, pasture grazing is required in organic dairy production, but organic beef cattle may be exempt from obtaining any of their feed from pasture during the last four months of their lives.
The New Pasture Rule's Exemption for Beef Cattle
The rule states that organic producers must 'maintain all ruminant animals on pasture,' but, in an apparent contradiction, may simultaneously also utilize 'dry lots, yards or feedlots' for grain finishing of slaughter stock, such as beef cattle, during the last 120 days or one fifth of the animal's life, whichever is shorter. During these 120 days, these organic animals are exempt from the requirement to obtain at least 30% dry matter intake (DMI) from pasture.
The USDA is seeking comments as to whether or not the current language should be strengthened or weakened. The final determination on this language will more clearly define how organic beef is produced.
A comprehensive analysis of this issue can be found at:
http://www.cornucopia.org/2010/04/position-paper-organic-feedlotgrass-based-beef/
Current Practices in the Organic Beef Industry
To gain a deeper understanding of current practices in the organic beef industry, Cornucopia surveyed organic beef producers from across the nation. Results of the survey revealed that 80% of organic beef producers graze their beef cattle on pasture until slaughter, never confining them to a feedlot. In fact, 60% of organic beef producers never feed any grain to their cattle (100% grass fed), while 20% maintain their cattle on pasture but provide small amounts of grain. The new rule's exemption for ruminant slaughter stock from obtaining feed from pasture is therefore not needed by the vast majority of organic beef producers.
Yet, the remaining one fifth of the nation's organic beef producers are currently using feedlots for finishing, The Cornucopia Institute understands that there is support from some stakeholders for an exemption from obtaining 30% DMI from pasture for ruminant slaughter stock. These farmers, ranchers and feedlot operators currently likely produce a majority of the nation's organic meat supply.
Cornucopia's Proposal for Three Tiered Labeling System
Given the well documented benefits of pasture grazing, for environmental protection, animal welfare, food safety and consumer health, Cornucopia proposes a three tiered labeling system for organic meat from ruminants.
Under the proposed system, three labels would be used for organic meat from ruminants:
1. 'Organic - Grain Finished' - For meat from animals that needed the exemption from pasture during the last 120 days (might include finishing in feedlots).
2. 'Organic - Pasture/Grain Finished' - For meat from animals that were maintained on pasture until slaughter, obtained at least 30% of their feed intake from pasture during the grazing season but received small amounts of grain supplementation at some point.
3. 'Organic - 100% Grass Fed' - For meat from animals that were 100% grass-fed, never receiving any grain in their diet.
Rationale for Three Tiered Labeling System
Since organic farmers are making arguments on behalf of the three production systems (all currently in use), it would be beneficial for organic producers and consumers to be able to easily differentiate them in the marketplace, with a clear label for each one.
Consumers are increasingly interested in grass fed meats, and some might be surprised to find out that 'organic' and 'grass fed' are not synonymous. The environmental advantages of grass based livestock agriculture, its nutritional superiority as well as animal welfare benefits, are reported not only in scientific articles, but are also covered extensively in the popular media, ranging from Mother Earth News to Time Magazine, Forbes and the Oprah Winfrey Show.
On the other hand, promoters of organic grain fed beef strongly believe that consumer preference and the marketplace dictate their production practices. American consumers are accustomed to the texture and flavor of meat from corn fed feedlot cattle, and the USDA's grading system for meat rewards high levels of intramuscular fat in beef which is more easily achieved through finishing cattle on grain instead of grass.
A three tiered labeling system will allow the marketplace to determine the viability of each production system, as well as creating economic opportunity for farmers who want to raise organic beef matching the demands and desires of organic consumers.
There are arguments in favor of each production system, which are outlined in greater detail in The Cornucopia Institute's full length position paper, available at:
http://www.cornucopia.org/2010/04/position-paper-organic-feedlotgrass-based-beef/
Send Your Comments to the USDA
While the exemption, allowing organic beef producers to use feedlots for grain finishing, has been published in the final rule, the NOP is accepting comments until April 19th from organic beef and other ruminant producers and the general public.
We urge both organic producers and consumers to share their thoughts with the USDA before the April 19th deadline, including expressing their support for a three tiered labeling system.
Send your comments to the USDA before the April 19th deadline.
By Will Fantle
The Cornucopia Institute
715 839 7731
www.cornucopia.org
Support New Alternative Three Tiered Label System
Comments due April 19th, 2010
Should organic ruminants such as a dairy cows and beef cattle which have evolved to eat grass be permitted to be kept in feedlots or should they be required by USDA organic regulations to obtain at least a portion of their feed directly from pasture?
According to the USDA's new organic pasture rule, released in February 2010, pasture grazing is required in organic dairy production, but organic beef cattle may be exempt from obtaining any of their feed from pasture during the last four months of their lives.
The New Pasture Rule's Exemption for Beef Cattle
The rule states that organic producers must 'maintain all ruminant animals on pasture,' but, in an apparent contradiction, may simultaneously also utilize 'dry lots, yards or feedlots' for grain finishing of slaughter stock, such as beef cattle, during the last 120 days or one fifth of the animal's life, whichever is shorter. During these 120 days, these organic animals are exempt from the requirement to obtain at least 30% dry matter intake (DMI) from pasture.
The USDA is seeking comments as to whether or not the current language should be strengthened or weakened. The final determination on this language will more clearly define how organic beef is produced.
A comprehensive analysis of this issue can be found at:
http://www.cornucopia.org/2010/04/position-paper-organic-feedlotgrass-based-beef/
Current Practices in the Organic Beef Industry
To gain a deeper understanding of current practices in the organic beef industry, Cornucopia surveyed organic beef producers from across the nation. Results of the survey revealed that 80% of organic beef producers graze their beef cattle on pasture until slaughter, never confining them to a feedlot. In fact, 60% of organic beef producers never feed any grain to their cattle (100% grass fed), while 20% maintain their cattle on pasture but provide small amounts of grain. The new rule's exemption for ruminant slaughter stock from obtaining feed from pasture is therefore not needed by the vast majority of organic beef producers.
Yet, the remaining one fifth of the nation's organic beef producers are currently using feedlots for finishing, The Cornucopia Institute understands that there is support from some stakeholders for an exemption from obtaining 30% DMI from pasture for ruminant slaughter stock. These farmers, ranchers and feedlot operators currently likely produce a majority of the nation's organic meat supply.
Cornucopia's Proposal for Three Tiered Labeling System
Given the well documented benefits of pasture grazing, for environmental protection, animal welfare, food safety and consumer health, Cornucopia proposes a three tiered labeling system for organic meat from ruminants.
Under the proposed system, three labels would be used for organic meat from ruminants:
1. 'Organic - Grain Finished' - For meat from animals that needed the exemption from pasture during the last 120 days (might include finishing in feedlots).
2. 'Organic - Pasture/Grain Finished' - For meat from animals that were maintained on pasture until slaughter, obtained at least 30% of their feed intake from pasture during the grazing season but received small amounts of grain supplementation at some point.
3. 'Organic - 100% Grass Fed' - For meat from animals that were 100% grass-fed, never receiving any grain in their diet.
Rationale for Three Tiered Labeling System
Since organic farmers are making arguments on behalf of the three production systems (all currently in use), it would be beneficial for organic producers and consumers to be able to easily differentiate them in the marketplace, with a clear label for each one.
Consumers are increasingly interested in grass fed meats, and some might be surprised to find out that 'organic' and 'grass fed' are not synonymous. The environmental advantages of grass based livestock agriculture, its nutritional superiority as well as animal welfare benefits, are reported not only in scientific articles, but are also covered extensively in the popular media, ranging from Mother Earth News to Time Magazine, Forbes and the Oprah Winfrey Show.
On the other hand, promoters of organic grain fed beef strongly believe that consumer preference and the marketplace dictate their production practices. American consumers are accustomed to the texture and flavor of meat from corn fed feedlot cattle, and the USDA's grading system for meat rewards high levels of intramuscular fat in beef which is more easily achieved through finishing cattle on grain instead of grass.
A three tiered labeling system will allow the marketplace to determine the viability of each production system, as well as creating economic opportunity for farmers who want to raise organic beef matching the demands and desires of organic consumers.
There are arguments in favor of each production system, which are outlined in greater detail in The Cornucopia Institute's full length position paper, available at:
http://www.cornucopia.org/2010/04/position-paper-organic-feedlotgrass-based-beef/
Send Your Comments to the USDA
While the exemption, allowing organic beef producers to use feedlots for grain finishing, has been published in the final rule, the NOP is accepting comments until April 19th from organic beef and other ruminant producers and the general public.
We urge both organic producers and consumers to share their thoughts with the USDA before the April 19th deadline, including expressing their support for a three tiered labeling system.
Send your comments to the USDA before the April 19th deadline.
By Will Fantle
The Cornucopia Institute
715 839 7731
www.cornucopia.org
CHANGING RESONANCE, CHANGING STRUCTURE
Monday, April 5, 2010
You've probably used the expression at least once.
'I resonate with that.' What does that really mean?
In conversations with others it can mean 'I agree.' 'I like that.' 'I'm willing to dedicate some thought or action to that.'
In Resonance Repatterning, the process goes much, much deeper. It becomes a conversation about where your life energy is dedicated. The conversation becomes one between the fundamental sources and structures of energy in your body. In fact, this is what is happening all the time in the way energy is used, delegated and expressed through your relationships, finances, health and state of wellbeing.
So, what or who is having this conversation? There are an estimated 50 trillion cells, 600 muscles, hundreds of thousands of neurotransmitters, 12 Meridians that relay energy throughout the system, as well as the subtle energy body nervous system of the Chakras. The muscles, tissues, glands, organs, enzymes, amino acids, hormones, etc. are all in communication.
It's like the United Nations at the personal level. The resonance between these systems is important. When there is a disruption, blockage or less than optimal flow
of energy communication, there is a change in how the whole system functions. This happens in the presence of shock, trauma, loss, grief, unresolved stress, addiction, toxicity or illness in your life.
As an example, the cells of your body have a binary response to stress. They either move towards growth and communicate with other cellular systems when there is safety and calm, or shut down with increased stress of feeling of being threatened. That means the communication within the cells and between the systems of your body are responding to how you are relating with the world.
'You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.' - Jim Rohn
The energetic information you give your body through the quality of food, thought, stress and bonding all add to this conversation, and affects how your body/mind system functions. When you become more aware of the part you play in creating wellness and wellbeing in your own life, you access the structure of the greater self and potential for new possibilities. You become more aware of your relationship with your choices, others and the world.
Resonance Repatterning is a system that identifies where you are resonating with life energizing or life depleting thoughts, attitudes and beliefs.
By shifting resonance with these places that disrupt energy in your body/mind system, you can shift your resonance with where and how you are dedicating life energy to you agreements, thoughts and actions. This is done through working with a muscle checking system, universal healing disciplines and natural modalities to identify what your body/mind system needs to resolve inner conflict, and to bring a resonance with inner peace.
What we find in a session is that what you resonate with is what you experience in the world. Resonate with safety and trust, then you are more open to new possibilities and opportunities. Resonate with danger, depression or fear, then you have less energy, greater stress or shut down.
Like the United Nations, peace is created through identifying underlying needs through building a bridge to new possibilities for greater harmony and balance in your life.
Kimberly Rex, MS is a certified Resonance Repatterning practitioner who works with people of all ages by phone, Skype, proxy or in person. To explore the dynamics of sound and how it can create greater wellness and wellbeing in your life, contact her at http://windowstotheheart.net
And now you can take this work even more deeply through working with healing your unmet life needs through in a personal Resonance Repatterning session by phone or in person with Kimberly Rex, MS at http://windowstotheheart.net
Thank you for honoring the Copyright material of this article. Kimberly Rex. All Rights Reserved.
THE LATEST WELLNESS & HEALTH NOTES, FROM THE ORGANIC HOME
'I resonate with that.' What does that really mean?
In conversations with others it can mean 'I agree.' 'I like that.' 'I'm willing to dedicate some thought or action to that.'
In Resonance Repatterning, the process goes much, much deeper. It becomes a conversation about where your life energy is dedicated. The conversation becomes one between the fundamental sources and structures of energy in your body. In fact, this is what is happening all the time in the way energy is used, delegated and expressed through your relationships, finances, health and state of wellbeing.
So, what or who is having this conversation? There are an estimated 50 trillion cells, 600 muscles, hundreds of thousands of neurotransmitters, 12 Meridians that relay energy throughout the system, as well as the subtle energy body nervous system of the Chakras. The muscles, tissues, glands, organs, enzymes, amino acids, hormones, etc. are all in communication.
It's like the United Nations at the personal level. The resonance between these systems is important. When there is a disruption, blockage or less than optimal flow
of energy communication, there is a change in how the whole system functions. This happens in the presence of shock, trauma, loss, grief, unresolved stress, addiction, toxicity or illness in your life.
As an example, the cells of your body have a binary response to stress. They either move towards growth and communicate with other cellular systems when there is safety and calm, or shut down with increased stress of feeling of being threatened. That means the communication within the cells and between the systems of your body are responding to how you are relating with the world.
'You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.' - Jim Rohn
The energetic information you give your body through the quality of food, thought, stress and bonding all add to this conversation, and affects how your body/mind system functions. When you become more aware of the part you play in creating wellness and wellbeing in your own life, you access the structure of the greater self and potential for new possibilities. You become more aware of your relationship with your choices, others and the world.
Resonance Repatterning is a system that identifies where you are resonating with life energizing or life depleting thoughts, attitudes and beliefs.
By shifting resonance with these places that disrupt energy in your body/mind system, you can shift your resonance with where and how you are dedicating life energy to you agreements, thoughts and actions. This is done through working with a muscle checking system, universal healing disciplines and natural modalities to identify what your body/mind system needs to resolve inner conflict, and to bring a resonance with inner peace.
What we find in a session is that what you resonate with is what you experience in the world. Resonate with safety and trust, then you are more open to new possibilities and opportunities. Resonate with danger, depression or fear, then you have less energy, greater stress or shut down.
Like the United Nations, peace is created through identifying underlying needs through building a bridge to new possibilities for greater harmony and balance in your life.
Kimberly Rex, MS is a certified Resonance Repatterning practitioner who works with people of all ages by phone, Skype, proxy or in person. To explore the dynamics of sound and how it can create greater wellness and wellbeing in your life, contact her at http://windowstotheheart.net
And now you can take this work even more deeply through working with healing your unmet life needs through in a personal Resonance Repatterning session by phone or in person with Kimberly Rex, MS at http://windowstotheheart.net
Thank you for honoring the Copyright material of this article. Kimberly Rex. All Rights Reserved.
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Music is associated with the emotional body, and helps to build harmonic structures for healing. This can be seen in the work of sound therapists, Qi Gong Medical practitioners and in the work of Resonance Repatterning. When unresolved emotions or traumatic experiences are stored in the body, they get stored as frequencies. Sound, melody and intervals (space between two notes) serve as energetic tools to enliven, break up, and restore greater harmony and balance to the body/mind field.
According to Fabien Maman, author of The Role of Music in the 21st Century, musical tones create physiological effects at different levels. 1) Specific musical notes are linked to specific acupuncture points, and stimulate or tonify life energy flow. 2) Melodies create response at the molecular level. 3) Harmony works with the ganglia (nerve clusters and sympathetic nervous system including the heart, glands and involuntary muscles and endocrine system (system necessary for normal growth and development, reproduction and homeostasis). 4) Resonating vibrational frequencies created by harmonic overtones are linked with your nervous system, chakras, and subtle energy bodies.
We've all had the experience of listening to music to change our moods. Music can help you feel energized or calm down. The work of Don Campbell who published The Mozart Effect has been used in hospitals and schools to help create greater harmony and healing. Accelerated Learning for new language acquisition has been employed with the use of Baroque Music through the Lozanov Technique successfully for learning. Music with the frequencies of the Earth underneath have been used to calm people with anxiety or attention deficit disorder through the work of Heart Math Institute. Music moves us and generates change at the emotional, mental and physical levels.
In a world of increased mechanical sound and electric music, we have been impacted by a depletion of natural and tonal diversity. Jill Purce, a sound therapist, acknowledges the vital importance of making your own sound to serve the need for connection to self-healing and the Earth. She cites that our separation from care of the Earth as humanity is directly related to our separation from making natural sound. Not only is it important to make sounds which vibrate through the bones and systems of our own bodies, it is important to hear them. When we stop listening to the natural sounds found in the forests and jungles, we sacrifice part of our sound ecosystem, and lose part of our connection to that which nourishes us all. Jonathon Goldman speaks to the fact that each and every tone in these systems are integral to the health of the bigger picture.
Your own voice can actually help you feel more grounded, process emotions, and feel supported. For thousands of years, song has served as a way to express emotion as a connection to one another through storytelling, to the Earth, the Heavens to the greater All That Is. There is good reason for this. Your voice creates vibration. Your ears energize your brain. Bringing song back into your life can serve as an empowering natural healing tool. Working with the natural vibrational qualities of your own voice and acoustic instruments creates a fuller spectrum of harmonics to impact change in your life. In fact, according to Sherry Edwards, a sound frequency researcher, the human voice can serve to identify issues on the emotional, mental and physical levels. Missing tonal frequencies can identify and measure dis-stress, dis-ease and wellness. In Resonance Repatterning sessions, tones are checked for resonance regarding frequency material in your body-mind system. Shifting frequencies literally changes radio channels at the energetic level of life for healing.
In a universe of vibration, every sound counts!
Experience music to heal yourself with a CD entitled, New World. The tracks include frequencies to heal the Earth and her inhabitants. Select one or more tracks to experience this month: http://www.neworld.ca/quantic/en/new-world.shtml
Kimberly Rex, MS is a certified Resonance Repatterning practitioner who works with people of all ages by phone, Skype, proxy or in person. To explore the dynamics of sound and how it can create greater wellness and wellbeing in your life, contact her at http://windowstotheheart.net
And now you can take this work even more deeply through working with healing your unmet life needs through in a personal Resonance Repatterning session by phone or in person with Kimberly Rex, MS at http://windowstotheheart.net
Thank you for honoring the Copyright material of this article. Kimberly Rex. All Rights Reserved.
THE LATEST WELLNESS & HEALTH NOTES, FROM THE ORGANIC HOME
Music is associated with the emotional body, and helps to build harmonic structures for healing. This can be seen in the work of sound therapists, Qi Gong Medical practitioners and in the work of Resonance Repatterning. When unresolved emotions or traumatic experiences are stored in the body, they get stored as frequencies. Sound, melody and intervals (space between two notes) serve as energetic tools to enliven, break up, and restore greater harmony and balance to the body/mind field.
According to Fabien Maman, author of The Role of Music in the 21st Century, musical tones create physiological effects at different levels. 1) Specific musical notes are linked to specific acupuncture points, and stimulate or tonify life energy flow. 2) Melodies create response at the molecular level. 3) Harmony works with the ganglia (nerve clusters and sympathetic nervous system including the heart, glands and involuntary muscles and endocrine system (system necessary for normal growth and development, reproduction and homeostasis). 4) Resonating vibrational frequencies created by harmonic overtones are linked with your nervous system, chakras, and subtle energy bodies.
We've all had the experience of listening to music to change our moods. Music can help you feel energized or calm down. The work of Don Campbell who published The Mozart Effect has been used in hospitals and schools to help create greater harmony and healing. Accelerated Learning for new language acquisition has been employed with the use of Baroque Music through the Lozanov Technique successfully for learning. Music with the frequencies of the Earth underneath have been used to calm people with anxiety or attention deficit disorder through the work of Heart Math Institute. Music moves us and generates change at the emotional, mental and physical levels.
In a world of increased mechanical sound and electric music, we have been impacted by a depletion of natural and tonal diversity. Jill Purce, a sound therapist, acknowledges the vital importance of making your own sound to serve the need for connection to self-healing and the Earth. She cites that our separation from care of the Earth as humanity is directly related to our separation from making natural sound. Not only is it important to make sounds which vibrate through the bones and systems of our own bodies, it is important to hear them. When we stop listening to the natural sounds found in the forests and jungles, we sacrifice part of our sound ecosystem, and lose part of our connection to that which nourishes us all. Jonathon Goldman speaks to the fact that each and every tone in these systems are integral to the health of the bigger picture.
Your own voice can actually help you feel more grounded, process emotions, and feel supported. For thousands of years, song has served as a way to express emotion as a connection to one another through storytelling, to the Earth, the Heavens to the greater All That Is. There is good reason for this. Your voice creates vibration. Your ears energize your brain. Bringing song back into your life can serve as an empowering natural healing tool. Working with the natural vibrational qualities of your own voice and acoustic instruments creates a fuller spectrum of harmonics to impact change in your life. In fact, according to Sherry Edwards, a sound frequency researcher, the human voice can serve to identify issues on the emotional, mental and physical levels. Missing tonal frequencies can identify and measure dis-stress, dis-ease and wellness. In Resonance Repatterning sessions, tones are checked for resonance regarding frequency material in your body-mind system. Shifting frequencies literally changes radio channels at the energetic level of life for healing.
In a universe of vibration, every sound counts!
Experience music to heal yourself with a CD entitled, New World. The tracks include frequencies to heal the Earth and her inhabitants. Select one or more tracks to experience this month: http://www.neworld.ca/quantic/en/new-world.shtml
Kimberly Rex, MS is a certified Resonance Repatterning practitioner who works with people of all ages by phone, Skype, proxy or in person. To explore the dynamics of sound and how it can create greater wellness and wellbeing in your life, contact her at http://windowstotheheart.net
And now you can take this work even more deeply through working with healing your unmet life needs through in a personal Resonance Repatterning session by phone or in person with Kimberly Rex, MS at http://windowstotheheart.net
Thank you for honoring the Copyright material of this article. Kimberly Rex. All Rights Reserved.
THE LATEST WELLNESS & HEALTH NOTES, FROM THE ORGANIC HOME
WINDOWS TO THE HEART
Friday, February 12, 2010
Love helps orient you to what is life energizing and healing. This is true in communication between cells of your body, between family members, partners, and international communication. Whether it is love for a friend, family member, intimate partner, group or community, life is an interconnecting web of connection based on needs. It is important to acknowledge that we each have needs for connection and harmony in our lives, and the process of identifying and healing these needs start at the personal level.
Your ability to love is equal to your ability to tell the truth about your feelings and needs. Love and bonding depends on how coherently your life needs were met at the start of life. Ray Castellino and Dr. William Emerson suggest that everything that happens to you pre-natally, during your birth process, and your first years contribute to how you respond to life's challenges. It is the blueprint for your relationships. Being seen and heard for who you are, being allowed to explore and return to safety of your caretakers impacts how you perceive life and relationship. If life needs are not met in a coherent way early on, your ability to resonate with understanding, appreciation, forgiveness and love for self and others diminishes. You can only see and experience the wholeness of another to the degree we can see and feel the wholeness of ourselves. Healing our internal conflict brings peace to our body mind system, expands our capacity for loving relationships and contributes to creating empathy for humanity and the planet.
'Everything we do is in service of our needs. When this one concept is applied to our view of others, we'll see that we have no real enemies, that what others do to us is the best possible thing they know to do to get their needs met.' Marshall Rosenberg
When there is a coherent flow of energy between people in a relationship, there is motivation, capacity to build on differences, a process and expression of loving and healthy boundaries and a drive to return to union or stability. How you observed your parents moving through conflict creates an imprint of what conflict means to you, and how and if conflict can be resolved. Your conflict style may, in fact, be a response or reaction to what you observed in your early experience of life. When there is non coherent energy flow in a relationship you are experiencing and unresolved conflict, this can lead to a feeling of inadequacy, of blaming another for your feelings and pain, or a diminishment in the ability to accept the other for who and where they are. Arguments, negative habits, and behaviors deplete each person and the relationship. These are clues that unmet life needs are speaking. This can result in anger, depression, guilt or shame. These feelings are messengers that help you listen to what is needing your attention in your life. A loving relationship is not about being free of stress or resistance. It is about growing wings to reach greater compassionate understanding of self and other. Places where personal life needs have not been resolved are opportunities for expanded awareness and healing.
'The fruit of self-understanding is self acceptance. The fruit of self acceptance is self love. The fruit of self love is love for the world. The fruit of love for the world is service to the world. The fruit of service to the world is peace.' Russell Rowe
Love is the universal energy of life. Empathy is an expression of love. When you can connect and truly listen to another there is greater capacity for contentment, peace of mind and understanding. It empowers you and others to reach for the best possible inside. When you appreciate what you have learned, it helps you integrate new awareness and solutions into your life so you can apply and grow from the experience. Empathy leads to greater relaxation, pleasure and bonding, and helps to support meeting challenges in your life with greater enthusiasm, success and joy. When we recognize that every human being has the same basic life needs, we have greater respect for our common humanity.
MODALITY: The first step is awareness. As a practice, start by listening more deeply to your inner needs. Write down the BASIC LIFE NEED List on a piece of paper. Check in with yourself to see if any of these are not currently in your life. Use the list to help connect your feelings and needs.
BASIC LIFE NEEDS: Bonding-Closeness-Harmony-Nurturing-Security-Trust-Sleep-Protection-Boundaries-Positive Touch-Appreciation-Respect-Being Understood-Space-Light-Play-Laughter
Carry this list with you as you go through the day. These are messengers for you that will make a difference in the quality of your wellness and sense of well-being. When you are feeling some form of stress or come to a standstill in a conflict that's producing feelings of anger, shame, guilt or shame, look at your list. Is there something on the list that stands out for you? What need is speaking most?
Example: You are feeling overwhelmed by deadlines, too many tasks and not enough downtime. You feel angry because it feels as if there is no end to the amount you have to do, and the list continues to get bigger. You are blaming your boss, partner, family. You check your list. Are needing SPACE, SLEEP or RESPECT? Is there something you need to express? Do you need to set loving boundaries? Is there a new awareness in regards to a need that you haven't seen before? For instance, are you multi tasking to get appreciation, yet it is not showing up? Is you multi tasking creating an avoidance or keeping you from resolution of an inner conflict? How does this awareness make you feel? What actions are you drawn to take?
And now you can take this work even more deeply through working with healing your unmet life needs through in a personal Resonance Repatterning session by phone or in person with Kimberly Rex, MS at http://windowstotheheart.net
Thank you for honoring the Copyright material of this article. Kimberly Rex. All Rights Reserved.
THE LATEST WELLNESS NOTES, FROM THE ORGANIC HOME
Your ability to love is equal to your ability to tell the truth about your feelings and needs. Love and bonding depends on how coherently your life needs were met at the start of life. Ray Castellino and Dr. William Emerson suggest that everything that happens to you pre-natally, during your birth process, and your first years contribute to how you respond to life's challenges. It is the blueprint for your relationships. Being seen and heard for who you are, being allowed to explore and return to safety of your caretakers impacts how you perceive life and relationship. If life needs are not met in a coherent way early on, your ability to resonate with understanding, appreciation, forgiveness and love for self and others diminishes. You can only see and experience the wholeness of another to the degree we can see and feel the wholeness of ourselves. Healing our internal conflict brings peace to our body mind system, expands our capacity for loving relationships and contributes to creating empathy for humanity and the planet.
'Everything we do is in service of our needs. When this one concept is applied to our view of others, we'll see that we have no real enemies, that what others do to us is the best possible thing they know to do to get their needs met.' Marshall Rosenberg
When there is a coherent flow of energy between people in a relationship, there is motivation, capacity to build on differences, a process and expression of loving and healthy boundaries and a drive to return to union or stability. How you observed your parents moving through conflict creates an imprint of what conflict means to you, and how and if conflict can be resolved. Your conflict style may, in fact, be a response or reaction to what you observed in your early experience of life. When there is non coherent energy flow in a relationship you are experiencing and unresolved conflict, this can lead to a feeling of inadequacy, of blaming another for your feelings and pain, or a diminishment in the ability to accept the other for who and where they are. Arguments, negative habits, and behaviors deplete each person and the relationship. These are clues that unmet life needs are speaking. This can result in anger, depression, guilt or shame. These feelings are messengers that help you listen to what is needing your attention in your life. A loving relationship is not about being free of stress or resistance. It is about growing wings to reach greater compassionate understanding of self and other. Places where personal life needs have not been resolved are opportunities for expanded awareness and healing.
'The fruit of self-understanding is self acceptance. The fruit of self acceptance is self love. The fruit of self love is love for the world. The fruit of love for the world is service to the world. The fruit of service to the world is peace.' Russell Rowe
Love is the universal energy of life. Empathy is an expression of love. When you can connect and truly listen to another there is greater capacity for contentment, peace of mind and understanding. It empowers you and others to reach for the best possible inside. When you appreciate what you have learned, it helps you integrate new awareness and solutions into your life so you can apply and grow from the experience. Empathy leads to greater relaxation, pleasure and bonding, and helps to support meeting challenges in your life with greater enthusiasm, success and joy. When we recognize that every human being has the same basic life needs, we have greater respect for our common humanity.
MODALITY: The first step is awareness. As a practice, start by listening more deeply to your inner needs. Write down the BASIC LIFE NEED List on a piece of paper. Check in with yourself to see if any of these are not currently in your life. Use the list to help connect your feelings and needs.
BASIC LIFE NEEDS: Bonding-Closeness-Harmony-Nurturing-Security-Trust-Sleep-Protection-Boundaries-Positive Touch-Appreciation-Respect-Being Understood-Space-Light-Play-Laughter
Carry this list with you as you go through the day. These are messengers for you that will make a difference in the quality of your wellness and sense of well-being. When you are feeling some form of stress or come to a standstill in a conflict that's producing feelings of anger, shame, guilt or shame, look at your list. Is there something on the list that stands out for you? What need is speaking most?
Example: You are feeling overwhelmed by deadlines, too many tasks and not enough downtime. You feel angry because it feels as if there is no end to the amount you have to do, and the list continues to get bigger. You are blaming your boss, partner, family. You check your list. Are needing SPACE, SLEEP or RESPECT? Is there something you need to express? Do you need to set loving boundaries? Is there a new awareness in regards to a need that you haven't seen before? For instance, are you multi tasking to get appreciation, yet it is not showing up? Is you multi tasking creating an avoidance or keeping you from resolution of an inner conflict? How does this awareness make you feel? What actions are you drawn to take?
And now you can take this work even more deeply through working with healing your unmet life needs through in a personal Resonance Repatterning session by phone or in person with Kimberly Rex, MS at http://windowstotheheart.net
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OPEN SPACES - SACRED PLACES
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
The TKF Foundation is a private grant making foundation whose purpose is to create 'Open Spaces, Sacred Places.' It partners with organizations to create sacred places which increase a sense of community and contribute to a deepening of human connections. These sacred places foster the development of human spirituality and are open and accessible to people of all beliefs, faiths and cultures. The essential components to each space are a firesoul, a bench, and a journal.
Behind each sacred space is a firesoul, a word TKF uses to describe the people who are the sparks behind the creation of sacred spaces. The firesouls' passion and vision are the driving forces behind nurturing the sacred spaces from idea to reality. Their energy, enthusiasm, patience and persistence inspire communities to come together around the creation and use of public greenspaces.
Benches create a place for rest and reflection and are natural destination points within a space. As part of the partnership between TKF and Maryland Correctional Enterprises, TKF benches are built by inmates at the Western Correctional Institution in Lavale, MD who are learning fine carpentry skills to help them secure profitable and rewarding employment upon release. The benches are made from 100+ year old, reclaimed pickle barrel wood, and along with the journal included with every bench, are an integral part of the sacred spaces that TKF has helped create.
Accompanying each TKF bench is a waterproof journal. The journal provides visitors the opportunity to share their thoughts and connect with other visitors and is a cathartic tool for those who simply need to unload their burdens by writing them down. These journals are filled with inspiring thoughts, reflections and personal stories left by people using the spaces, confirming that people want, need, and are replenished by reflective opportunities in nature. The journals are collected and read by TKF and then shared in an email,Connections, which features a different thought provoking, inspirational entry each week.
For more information on the TKF Foundation, please visit www.tkffdn.org
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Behind each sacred space is a firesoul, a word TKF uses to describe the people who are the sparks behind the creation of sacred spaces. The firesouls' passion and vision are the driving forces behind nurturing the sacred spaces from idea to reality. Their energy, enthusiasm, patience and persistence inspire communities to come together around the creation and use of public greenspaces.
Benches create a place for rest and reflection and are natural destination points within a space. As part of the partnership between TKF and Maryland Correctional Enterprises, TKF benches are built by inmates at the Western Correctional Institution in Lavale, MD who are learning fine carpentry skills to help them secure profitable and rewarding employment upon release. The benches are made from 100+ year old, reclaimed pickle barrel wood, and along with the journal included with every bench, are an integral part of the sacred spaces that TKF has helped create.
Accompanying each TKF bench is a waterproof journal. The journal provides visitors the opportunity to share their thoughts and connect with other visitors and is a cathartic tool for those who simply need to unload their burdens by writing them down. These journals are filled with inspiring thoughts, reflections and personal stories left by people using the spaces, confirming that people want, need, and are replenished by reflective opportunities in nature. The journals are collected and read by TKF and then shared in an email,Connections, which features a different thought provoking, inspirational entry each week.
For more information on the TKF Foundation, please visit www.tkffdn.org
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WISE TRADITIONS UK 2010
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Wise Traditions UK 2010
Festival for Traditional Nutrition
London - March 21st
The Camden Centre, Bidborough St, London WC1H 9AU
Doors open: 9 Event: 10 to 6
GBP 40 advance, GBP 50 at door (Concessions Available)
Main | About Speaker & Topics | Program | Purchase Tickets
Getting There | Lunch Menu | Printable Flyers | Blog Banners | Event
World Renowned Speakers
The Weston A Price Foundation campaigns for wise traditions in food, farming & the healing arts, challenging politically correct nutrition & the diet dictocrats.
Sally Fallon Morell, MA, president and founder of the Weston A. Price Foundation, author of the bestselling cookbook Nourishing Traditions and an internationally acclaimed nutrition educator.
Sir Julian Rose, pioneering organic farmer, and renowned countryside and raw milk campaigner. Julian is chairing the event. Julian will discuss campaign issues in Britain and across Europe with Jadwiga Lopata, Poland's top countryside campaigner. Jadwiga and Julian have campaigned successfully for, amongst other things, GMO-free Poland.
Natasha Campbell-McBride, MD, founder of the Cambridge Nutrition Clinic, and author of Gut & Psychology Syndrome (GAPS), her revolutionary nutrition program for mental and digestive wellness and the treatment of depression, autism, ADD, ADHD, and schizophrenia.
Barry Groves, PhD, author of Trick and Treat, the explosive book on why conventional 'healthy diets' are ruining people's lives and making food manufacturers and healthcare providers rich.
Stalls with information & books.
Bar: Raw Jersey cow, goat and buffalo milk, milkshakes and real ale.
For more information, contact Philip Ridley on PhilRidley@hotmail.com or 02076821093
THE LATEST WELLNESS NEWS, FROM THE ORGANIC HOME
Festival for Traditional Nutrition
London - March 21st
The Camden Centre, Bidborough St, London WC1H 9AU
Doors open: 9 Event: 10 to 6
GBP 40 advance, GBP 50 at door (Concessions Available)
Main | About Speaker & Topics | Program | Purchase Tickets
Getting There | Lunch Menu | Printable Flyers | Blog Banners | Event
World Renowned Speakers
The Weston A Price Foundation campaigns for wise traditions in food, farming & the healing arts, challenging politically correct nutrition & the diet dictocrats.
Sally Fallon Morell, MA, president and founder of the Weston A. Price Foundation, author of the bestselling cookbook Nourishing Traditions and an internationally acclaimed nutrition educator.
Sir Julian Rose, pioneering organic farmer, and renowned countryside and raw milk campaigner. Julian is chairing the event. Julian will discuss campaign issues in Britain and across Europe with Jadwiga Lopata, Poland's top countryside campaigner. Jadwiga and Julian have campaigned successfully for, amongst other things, GMO-free Poland.
Natasha Campbell-McBride, MD, founder of the Cambridge Nutrition Clinic, and author of Gut & Psychology Syndrome (GAPS), her revolutionary nutrition program for mental and digestive wellness and the treatment of depression, autism, ADD, ADHD, and schizophrenia.
Barry Groves, PhD, author of Trick and Treat, the explosive book on why conventional 'healthy diets' are ruining people's lives and making food manufacturers and healthcare providers rich.
Stalls with information & books.
Bar: Raw Jersey cow, goat and buffalo milk, milkshakes and real ale.
For more information, contact Philip Ridley on PhilRidley@hotmail.com or 02076821093
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A DESIRE FOR SIMPLICITY - A LONGING TO HOMESTEAD
Monday, February 1, 2010
Maybe it is the amount of financial problems I have accumulated or maybe its everyone on TV talking about what's going on in the government, lately though I can't stop thinking. I turn on Little House on the Prairie and long for the simpler days when kids behaved and parents prayed. So in my quest for simpleness my life got very complicated. I have made many mistakes and I have learned from them. Coming to White County may as well have been China.
Even though i was raised in a small town passing by farms was all I ever saw of one. My family was very cold and uninvolved with each other. I had no grandparents to teach me how to sew or cook, or even grow a simple tomato. In essence I am a victim of the 20th century. If there are no trucks to deliver to Ingles or Walmart I might be one of the millions of clueless people to starve from lack of simple basic knowledge due to easy convenience of boxed, frozen or canned products. My quest for the simple life and a wholesome place to raise my kids brought me from the city in Florida to Cleveland GA.
Immediately I began to make plans for my new home. We took down and acre of trees and made pasture, we built a barn and erected fencing, I made a garden outside my kitchen. I researched goat breeds and paid a ghastly amount for purebred saanens. Well things aren't as simple as i imagined at all. My kids do not like goats milk, and since I do not have enough pasture it cost more to feed them than i got in profit from selling the goats.
We built our barn in the middle of the field and we can't keep the horse out for nothin! and after spending hundreds on a garden all I got was 3 tomatoes. I have not given up and I prayed for a mentor. This Kool Aid kid ain't giving up! I pray for simplicity, life should not be this hard. There must be a way to work with the land, not against it.
My gut tells me our future here on this earth is in jeopardy and without sustainability we must rely on the energy infrastructure. Have you ever wondered how a tomato ends up at the grocery store? Have you ever wondered why a peach is shipped to GA from California wasting valuable gas when peaches are grown right here in GA? or why your milk came from new york when there is a dairy right here in Cleveland? why is local food not being sold in local stores? where does Cleveland's food go? I never see anything grown or raised in white county sold local (except Nadine's Chicken salad at IGA).
One day at the check out counter at the store the young lady ringing up my organic produce says to me "oh my mom is into this stuff " and tells me about her mom's farm and that I can talk to her if i need to learn more. Well she takes my email and i promptly get a farm newsletter and I realise this farm is less than one mile from my house. Organic Rose from Logan Berry Heritage farm has has taught me more in 1 hour than I have learned from books in 10 years! An answer to prayer she is.
She showed me how to make marinara sauce from tomatoes fresh picked and then can them. I would like to say that after spending an hour picking tomatoes and then making sauce all afternoon that i have enough cans to last me the winter. But I don't. I invited friends over for dinner and sent each home with a can of sauce after they said it was the best they ever had. Good food shared with friends.
Consider buying your food local. Purchasing from local farmers. Since I have a freezer full of local beef naturally raised, all I need now is a source of local natural chicken. Eventually I would like to raise or grow everything my family eats. I need a new property though, maybe seven acres of pasture to graze cattle. But for now I shall gaze upon the barn in the middle of my field and laugh at my mistakes.
Cyndi Rosenthal
397 Spotted Fawn Lane
Cleveland GA 30528
706-219-4631
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Even though i was raised in a small town passing by farms was all I ever saw of one. My family was very cold and uninvolved with each other. I had no grandparents to teach me how to sew or cook, or even grow a simple tomato. In essence I am a victim of the 20th century. If there are no trucks to deliver to Ingles or Walmart I might be one of the millions of clueless people to starve from lack of simple basic knowledge due to easy convenience of boxed, frozen or canned products. My quest for the simple life and a wholesome place to raise my kids brought me from the city in Florida to Cleveland GA.
Immediately I began to make plans for my new home. We took down and acre of trees and made pasture, we built a barn and erected fencing, I made a garden outside my kitchen. I researched goat breeds and paid a ghastly amount for purebred saanens. Well things aren't as simple as i imagined at all. My kids do not like goats milk, and since I do not have enough pasture it cost more to feed them than i got in profit from selling the goats.
We built our barn in the middle of the field and we can't keep the horse out for nothin! and after spending hundreds on a garden all I got was 3 tomatoes. I have not given up and I prayed for a mentor. This Kool Aid kid ain't giving up! I pray for simplicity, life should not be this hard. There must be a way to work with the land, not against it.
My gut tells me our future here on this earth is in jeopardy and without sustainability we must rely on the energy infrastructure. Have you ever wondered how a tomato ends up at the grocery store? Have you ever wondered why a peach is shipped to GA from California wasting valuable gas when peaches are grown right here in GA? or why your milk came from new york when there is a dairy right here in Cleveland? why is local food not being sold in local stores? where does Cleveland's food go? I never see anything grown or raised in white county sold local (except Nadine's Chicken salad at IGA).
One day at the check out counter at the store the young lady ringing up my organic produce says to me "oh my mom is into this stuff " and tells me about her mom's farm and that I can talk to her if i need to learn more. Well she takes my email and i promptly get a farm newsletter and I realise this farm is less than one mile from my house. Organic Rose from Logan Berry Heritage farm has has taught me more in 1 hour than I have learned from books in 10 years! An answer to prayer she is.
She showed me how to make marinara sauce from tomatoes fresh picked and then can them. I would like to say that after spending an hour picking tomatoes and then making sauce all afternoon that i have enough cans to last me the winter. But I don't. I invited friends over for dinner and sent each home with a can of sauce after they said it was the best they ever had. Good food shared with friends.
Consider buying your food local. Purchasing from local farmers. Since I have a freezer full of local beef naturally raised, all I need now is a source of local natural chicken. Eventually I would like to raise or grow everything my family eats. I need a new property though, maybe seven acres of pasture to graze cattle. But for now I shall gaze upon the barn in the middle of my field and laugh at my mistakes.
Cyndi Rosenthal
397 Spotted Fawn Lane
Cleveland GA 30528
706-219-4631
THE LATEST GUEST WELLNESS NEWS, FROM THE ORGANIC HOME
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