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"Appreciation is a powerful
tool to shift perspective. Finding something to appreciate during a
difficult situation quickly moves the perspective to the big picture from
the little picture."
-- From Chaos to Coherence, Doc Childre and Bruce Cryer
"Our cells are constantly eavesdropping on our
thoughts and being changed by them. A bout of depression can wreak havoc
with the immune system; falling in love can boost it. Despair and
helplessness raise the risk of heart attacks and cancer, thereby shortening
life. Joy and fulfillment keep us healthy and extend life. This means that
the line between biology and psychology can't really be drawn with any
certainty. A remembered stress, which is only a wisp of thought, releases
the same flood of destructive hormones as the stress itself."-- Deepak
Chopra
 Table of Contents
A Native American
Inspiration
I Want to Know You
It doesn't interest me what you do for a
living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of
meeting your life's longing.
It doesn't interest me how old you are. I want
to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dreams, for
the adventure of being alive.
It doesn't interest me what planets are squaring your
moon. I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow, if
you have been opened by life's betrayals or have been shriveled and closed
from fear of further pain.
I want to know if you can sit with pain, mine or
your own, without moving to hide it or fade it or fix it.
I want to know if you can be with joy, mine or
your own, if you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you to the
tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful, be
realistic, or to remember the limitations of being human.
It doesn't interest me if the story you're
telling me is true. I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true
to yourself, if you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray you
own soul. I want to know if you can be faithful and therefore be
trustworthy.
I want to know if you can see beauty even when
it is not pretty everyday, and if you can source your life from God's
presence. I want to know if you can live with the failure, yours or mine,
and still stand on the edge of a lake and shout to the silver of the full
moon, 'Yes'!
It doesn't interest me to know where you live or
how much money you have. I want to know if you can get up after the night of
grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone, and do what needs to be
done for the children.
It doesn't interest me who you are, how you came
to be here. I want to know if you will stand in the center of the fire with
me and not shrink back.
It doesn't interest me where or what or with
whom you have studied. I want to know what sustains you from the
inside when all else falls away. I want to know if you can be alone with
yourself, and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments.
- Oriah Mountain Dreamer (an Indian Elder)
Upcoming Events
May 5th & 7th - Special
Guest Server at the Café of Life -
Drs Stacey Hebblethwaite and
Sukhi Muker will be serving Life while I support my best friend in his
wedding down south. Stacey and Sukhi are my chiropractors and the main
reason why I am closed every Tuesday morning (to get adjusted at their
office in West Van). I am honored and delighted to give you this
opportunity to experience an adjustment from my chiropractors.
Reservations will be required for Wednesday and Friday.
May 13th, 7pm - "Say 'Good
Night' to sleepless nights" - Stress keeping you from getting a
good night's sleep?
Penny Hyndman R.N. will
be discussing how she deals with people's stress. Penny
is a nurse and wellness counselor with
Inner Wisdom. She
utilizes counseling, education, Biofeedback and Therapeutic Touch, it is her
goal to assist clients in learning self regulation to promote well-being.
May 19th, 6pm-7pm -
Dr. Kira Frketich, N.D.
will be at Planet Organics in Coquitlam (next to Pier 1 and Sportmart).
She will be discussing the positives and negatives of high protein diets
like Atkins and South Beach.
May 11 & 25 at 7:30pm -
"Life Adjusted" - Looking for information to start transformation?
This enlightening weekly lecture focuses on keys to health, life, healing
and how the Cafe of Life can contribute.
Ongoing -
1 hour, 100
days - A commitment to yourself. A 100 day festival
celebrating your health and your commitment to improving your quality of
life.
Stress
Our
cells are constantly eavesdropping on our thoughts and being changed by
them. A bout of depression can wreak havoc with the immune system; falling
in love can boost it. Despair and helplessness raise the risk of heart
attacks and cancer, thereby shortening life. Joy and fulfillment keep us
healthy and extend life. This means that the line between biology and
psychology can't really be drawn with any certainty. A remembered stress,
which is only a wisp of thought, releases the same flood of destructive
hormones as the stress itself.
-- Deepak Chopra
Comment:
Deepak hits the nail on the head with this quote. It's as if Deepak
has come to one of my "Life Adjusted" talks. The last line, "A
remembered stress, which is only a wisp of thought, releases the same flood
of destructive hormones as the stress itself." embodies B.G.I. Stored tension
(stress) greatly effects healing and performance. Research has proven
that cells store stress and have also proven that when you are happy, the
cells in your big toe are happy. This is why when you receive an
adjustment, you feel it all over. Tension (stress) is released and
integrated so your body doesn't have to deal with it again. Think of
chicken pox. If a person with chicken pox fully integrates the virus
into their body and immune system, the immune system will have learned from
the experience and you will never have chicken pox again. However, if
your were under stress at the time of chicken pox or your body was unable to
integrate the virus, it will show up later in life as chicken pox or
shingles. You tell me which is better - do you want to always
experience and learn the same lesson or do you want to grow and evolve?
Mercury
So most of us have amalgam fillings. Ever notice the dentist
treating the amalgam like hazardous waste, it kind of un-nerves you just
like the x-ray technician who ducks behind a lead wall just before your body
gets bombarded by mutating gamma rays. As with all articles and
research I put in this newsletter, check out the facts for yourself and come
to your own conclusion. Having said that, check out what the
University of Calgary did:
http://commons.ucalgary.ca/mercury
Web
Presents (presence)
3rd W.A.G.- Just when
you thought teenagers had nothing better to do than play video games and get
in trouble. Students at Port Moody Secondary have formed an group
called 3rd WAG - their influence is now global!
Sacred Mirrors
- Alex Grey's website. This flash is an amazing sequence on the
different levels of humans.
The 33
Principles
R.W. Stephenson and B.J. Palmer laid down the 33 Principles of Chiropractic
in the early 1900's. Chiropractic is based on these principles and we
are going to list all 33 - two at a time.
#1 - The Major
Premise ~ A universal intelligence is in
all matter and continually gives to it all its properties and actions, thus
maintaining it in existence.
#2 - The Chiropractic Meaning of Life.
The expression of this intelligence through
matter is the chiropractic meaning of life.
Meaning: Chiropractic's sole
purpose is to remove interference so your body's intelligence can be fully
expressed resulting in Health, Healing & Life!
#3 - The Union of Intelligence and Matter.
Life
is necessarily the union of intelligence and matter.
Meaning: Without matter (physical) there is no life. Without intelligence there is no life.
#4 - The Triune of
Life.
Life is a triunity having three necessary united
factors, namely: Intelligence, Force and Matter.
Meaning: A living thing must
consist of physical (matter), mental (intelligence) and spirit (force).
#5 - The Perfection of the Triune.
In order to have 100% Life, there must be 100%
Intelligence, 100% Force, 100% Matter.
Meaning: To express 100% Life
Force, physical, spiritual and mental processes must be at 100%
#6. The Principle of Time.
There is no process that does not require time.
Meaning:
This is a Universal Principal - applies to healing, growing, dying, etc...
#7. The Amount of Intelligence in Matter.
The amount of intelligence for any given amount of matter is 100%, and is
always proportional to its requirements.
Meaning: Your body always has 100% intelligence and if you
should loose an organ or limb the intelligence will remain at 100% even
though the intelligence in that organ or limb is removed.
#8. The Function of Intelligence.
The function of intelligence is to create force.
Meaning: Innate Intelligence maintains the human
body in order for Life Force to exist.
Any Questions, Comments or disagreements, please
email: cafeportmoody@telus.net
Book
Excerpt -
'Synchronicity: the Inner Path of
Leadership' by Joseph Jaworski
"I
realised that small changes at just the right place can have a system wide
impact because these changes share the unbroken wholeness that unites the
whole system. A seemingly insignificant act in one part of the whole
creates nonlocal results that emerge far away. Unseen connections create
effects at a distance - "quantum leaps" - in places quite surprising to us."
(Thanks Vicky for this month's Book Excerpt)
Comment:
The similarities of the outer environment and inner environment are truly
amazing. Joseph Jaworski is talking about synchronicity and how there
are no mistakes or accidents in life only "unseen connections". This
idea also fits in to B.G.I. (what I do at the Café
of Life). With every adjustment in "places quite surprising to us",
"unseen connections" to your stored tension are released and integrated.
These "small changes" (light adjustments) at "just the right place can have
a system wide impact because these
changes share the unbroken wholeness that unites the whole system."
Countless times I am asked, "How could one little touch effect tension in a
different location and be so powerful?" Read the above quote again and
see if it answers your question.
May's Studies
Fighting Infertility at the
Chiropractor
Infertility. If you haven't struggled with it
yourself, chances are you know someone who wants to become pregnant but
can't. Now, there's surprising new research that may crack the case and
offer some couples new hope.
Comment:
One of the most common heard phrases that makes chiropractors laugh is when
they overhear an expecting mother say, "my chiropractor got me pregnant".
This is not true (in the literal sense)! Many people are seeking
chiropractic adjustments for infertility reasons because it is affordable,
it works and it doesn't screw with nature (quintuplets, sextuplets, etc...).
The chiropractic adjustment is meant to allow a greater expression of Life
Force and Innate Intelligence, period, end of sentence. Furthermore,
the side effects of the adjustment are boundless - symptomatic relief
(scientifically proven), performance (scientifically proven), immune
boosting (scientifically proven), fertility (soon to be scientifically
proven), etc... By no means is there one specific adjustment or
technique that can do all these things, only your Innate Intelligence and
Life Force can do all these things. Chiropractic has tapped into
releasing the tension prohibiting a greater expression of Life Force and
with each adjustment, you are able to express the pure beauty you were meant
to express.
Green Tea's Benefits
Researchers at Kyushu
University in Japan set out to examine the means by which green tea has been
shown to help protect against several cancers, such as breast and prostate
cancer. About one third of the dry weight of green tea leaves is made up of
a flavonoid called catechin. And the most abundant of the four types of
green tea catechins is epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG), which also happens
to be the component of green tea that has been shown to inhibit tumor cell
growth.
In trying to understand the
mechanism that makes EGCG effective, the Kyushu Team focused its attention
on a type of cancer receptor cell known as 67 LR. Many cancer tumors produce
large amounts of this cell, which senses chemicals and responds with
electrical signals. Scientists believe that 67 LR is one of the key agents
that helps cancer spread throughout the body. Using lung cancer cells, the
researchers observed that cell growth was inhibited by exposure to EGCG at
concentrations that would equal just three cups of green tea. The Kyushu
researchers believe their work reveals that EGCG binds to 67 LR cells and
prevents them from prompting tumor growth.
Just days after the Kyushu
study was released, another study of EGCG was reported in the journal,
Blood. Researchers from the Mayo clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, examined
the interaction between EGCG from green tea and cancer cells taken from 10
patients diagnosed with the most common type of leukemia: B-cell chronic
lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). This research also involved a receptor cell,
called VEGF, which nurtures growth in leukemia. Researchers found that EGCG
suppressed the VEGF mechanism, inhibiting the growth of new blood vessels
necessary for cancer proliferation. In 8 of the 10 samples, EGCG prompted
the death of cancer cells. Researchers hope their study will eventually lead
to a non- toxic way to treat CLL. This type of leukemia can only be treated
with chemotherapy, but when older patients are diagnosed with early stages
of CLL (a cancer that mostly affects people over the age of 60), some
doctors choose to monitor the slow-growing disease before subjecting a
patient to unnecessary (and harsh) treatments. The Mayo team believes that
EGCG could be an effective, low-impact treatment for early stage CLL.
Comment: It's truly amazing how western
medicine is starting to see the light when it comes to eastern medicine.
Maybe one day, medicine and insurance companies will create two categories -
disease care and health care. An article I will include in next
month's menu talks about how multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical companies
refuse to look at disease prevention because it would not be good for
business.
Questions
at the Café (submit your
questions or replies)
Spring is in the air and nature is changing everywhere around us.
What changes are going on in your body? Regardless of our
technological advances and evolved thinking we are a still connected to
nature and as nature changes every spring so do we. Go deep with this
question, go beyond allergies and superficial symptoms - when you can feel
these changes you can learn powerful lessons from them!
Life
& Light,
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