Monthly Menu - July, 2005

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"When love and skill come together, expect a masterpiece." – B.J. Palmer

"Doubt is the life behind faith."

This Month's Specials:

 

Inspiration Soup

This week's Inspiration Soup is written by my friend, Vicky White.  Vicky is a Certified Feng Shui consultant and Coach.  She uses her knowledge to help people bring balance and abundance in the outside world just as chiropractic brings balance and abundance to the inner world.

 

Feng Shui and Coaching, Coaching and Feng Shui
Coaching, feng shui and body work provide powerful tools to integrate body, mind and spirit and support us in making the most of the life lessons we experience.
Following a feng shui consultation, energy comes alive, clients start experiencing synchronicity, and all kinds of changes occur. Coaching enables the client to maximize this momentum and make the most of changes that can be sudden and greater than expected.
Our physical space is but one of the environments that inspire us, influence us and bring out our best.
Addressing all our environments can complete the picture. A powerful coaching model designed around 7 Environments for Success is a way of designing a life that helps you get what you want with much less effort. It's a way of tapping into all
the environments that support you in reaching bigger goals.
By consciously creating inspiration in these seven environments our energy flow can be magnified and built upon.

1. Physical Space - homes and offices
2. The Self - body, strengths, spirit
3. Intangibles - thoughts, beliefs
4. Nature - life, seasons, outdoors
5. Memetic - knowledge, ideas, concepts
6. Network - internet, web, 6-degrees
7. Relationships - friends, family, colleagues
the rest of this article can be viewed at:

www.cafeportmoody.com/vicky.htm

 

Thoughts on a Half-Shell

ELEVATION
A star lit up like a cigar
Strung out like a guitar
Maybe you could educate my mind
Explain all these controls
I can't sing but I've got soul
The goal is elevation

A mole, living in a hole
Digging up my soul
Going down, excavation
I and I in the sky
You make me feel like I can fly
So high, elevation

Love, lift me out of these blues
Won't you tell me something true
I believe in you
- Bono

Calendar

 

Sweet Web Pudding

The Spiritual Cinema Circle - Excellent product & service.  Everyone is jumping on the Circle's bandwagon - Deepak Chopra, the producers of "What the Bleep...", etc. , its an AMAZING service!  A DVD filled with in-spirational content.  Try one month and see what I mean. 

This month's DVD includes an incredible documentary on Rumi:  Poet Of The Heart.

 

After Dinner Reading

S.A.D. news (S.A.D. = standard American diet)
Statistics say that soda, French fries, potato chips, hamburgers and chocolate make up 70% of the American diet. The top 10 selling products in grocery stores are
1- Marlboro cigarettes
2 - Coke classic
3- Kraft macaroni & cheese
4- Pepsi
5- Diet Coke
6-Budweiser beer
7-Campbell's soup
8-Tide detergent
9-Folger's coffer
10- Winston cigarettes.
Is it any wonder that the health condition of Americans is so awful? If you want to improve your health, you have to eat real foods, the less processed the food, the more life it has. The more life it has, the more life it will give to you.

 

News & Views

Drugging Babies
It is well known that many of the student killers were being prescribed mind-altering psychiatric drugs. T.J. Solomon, the 15-year-old from Conyers, Ga., who shot six classmates in May 1999, was on Ritalin; Eric Harris, 18, one of the two Columbine killers, was being prescribed the anti-depressant Luvox; and Kip Kinkel, the 15-year-old from Springfield, Ore., who killed both his parents and two schoolmates, and wounded 20 other students in May 1998, was taking Prozac, one of the most widely prescribed drugs.
Of more than 6 million children under 18 in America who have been prescribed Ritalin, Luvox, Prozac, Paxil, and other anti-depressants and psychiatric drugs, many have committed violent acts, even killings. Many others are walking time-bombs. U.S. News & World Report, March 6, 2000, documented some lesser known cases:
• In California, 16-year-old Jared Viktor was convicted of murder for stabbing his grandmother 61 times. Ten days earlier, Jared had been prescribed the anti-depressant Paxil, for pre-existing problems.
• In Kansas, 13-year-old Matt Miller committed suicide (he was found hanging in his closet) after taking the anti-depressant Zoloft for a week. The Miller family has sued Pfizer, the manufacturer of Zoloft.
Even more horrible, increasing numbers of infants, toddlers, and pre-school children are being zombified with psychiatric drugs produced for adults, before they can even learn to talk, let alone read.
According to an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), Feb. 23, 2000 (“Trends in the Prescribing of Psychotropic Medications to Pre-Schoolers”), poor children, especially black children, are prescribed Ritalin (methylphenidate) at younger and younger ages, with the number of prescriptions in two study groups having increased more than 300 percent during 1991-1995.
The anti-depressant Prozac is just as abused; the article says that a psychiatric newsletter, citing marketing data compiled by the Food and Drug Administration in 1994, reported some 3,000 prescriptions for fluoxetine hydrochloride (the generic name for Prozac) written for children younger than one year-old!
The findings, written by a group of doctors from the University of Maryland, Johns Hopkins University, and the Center for Health Research at Kaiser Permanente, in Portland, Ore., were presented in May 1999, at a meeting of the American Psychiatric Association in Washington, D.C. But the dangerous practices haven’t stopped. - (Taken from Fall 2000 21st Century Science & Technology Magazine)

Funny (not really) how there is a huge push for an anti drug approach for children yet they continue to be the second most medicated group (behind the elderly). 

 

Questions at the Café

Is 98° F/ 37° C (body temperature), normal?

 

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