How did we forget so much truth as we grew up?

This is a gift from one of my clients.......it's very relevant on today's

anniversary of 9/11.

I hope you feel it and enjoy it as much as I.

Slow down for three minutes to read this. It is so worth it.

Touching words from the mouths of babes.

What does 'Love' mean?

 A group of professional people posed this question to a

group of 4 to 8 year-olds, 'What does 'love' mean?'

The answers they got were broader and deeper than

anyone could have imagined. See what you think:

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'When my grandmother got arthritis, she couldn't bend

over and paint her toenails anymore.

So my grandfather does it for her all the time, even

when his hands got arthritis too. That's love.'

Rebecca- age 8

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'When someone loves you, the way they say your name

is different.

You just know that your name is safe in their mouth.'

Billy - age 4

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'Love is when a girl puts on perfume and a boy puts on

shaving cologne and they go out and smell each other.'

Karl - age 5

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'Love is when you go out to eat and give somebody most

of your French fries without making them give you any

of theirs.'

Chrissie - age 6

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'Love is what makes you smile when you're tired.'

Terri - age 4

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'Love is when my mummy makes coffee for my daddy

and she takes a sip before giving it to him, to make

sure the taste is OK.'

Danny - age 7

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'Love is when you kiss all the time. Then when you get

tired of kissing, you still want to be together and you

talk more.

My Mummy and Daddy are like that. They look gross

when they kiss'

Emily - age 8

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'Love is what's in the room with you at Christmas if

you stop opening presents and listen.'

Bobby - age 7 (Wow!)

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'If you want to learn to love better, you should start

with a friend who you hate,'

Nikka - age 6 (we need a few million more Nikka's on this planet)

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'Love is when you tell a guy you like his shirt, then he

wears it everyday.'

'Love is like a little old woman and a little old man who

are still friends even after they know each other so well.'

'During my piano recital, I was on a stage and I was

scared. I looked at all the people watching me and saw

my daddy waving and smiling.

He was the only one doing that. I wasn't scared anymore.'

Cindy - age 8

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'My mummy loves me more than anybody

You don't see anyone else kissing me to sleep at night.'

Clare - age 6

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'Love is when Mummy gives Daddy the best piece of

chicken.'

Elaine-age 5

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'Love is when Mummy sees Daddy smelly and sweaty and

still says he is handsomer than Robert Redford.'

Mary Ann - age 4

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'I know my older sister loves me because she gives me

all her old clothes and has to go out and buy new ones.'

Lauren - age 4

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'When you love somebody, your eyelashes go up and

down and little stars come out of you.' (what an image)

Karen - age 7

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'Love is when Mummy sees Daddy on the toilet and she

doesn't think it's gross.'

Mark - age 6

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'You really shouldn't say 'I love you' unless you mean it.

But if you mean it, you should say it a lot.. People forget.'

Jessica - age 8

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And the final one -- Author and lecturer Leo Buscaglia

once talked about a contest he was asked to judge.

The purpose of the contest was to find the most caring

child.

The winner was a four year old child whose next door

neighbor was an elderly gentleman who had recently

lost his wife.

Upon seeing the man cry, the little boy went into the

old gentleman's yard, climbed onto his lap, and just

sat there.

When his Mother asked what he had said to the

neighbour, the little boy said,

'Nothing, I just helped him cry'

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When there is nothing left,    that is when  you find out

that  love is all you need.

I absolutely love that last one.  I think that often we

would do well to just sit and listen--and "help people

cry" instead of speaking when there's really nothing

to say!

It's about living from the heart folks.  Once again, I

invite you to visit me at:

http://www.macarthurparknaturalmedicine.com

so I can help you learn the most scientifically

researched, validated and documented tools for

reducing stress and allowing us to live with greater

ease in a world that makes it tough!

Love to all,

Sandi

This is a monologue from the INN World Report on FSTV.......

"So here's what I would do if I was a terrorist.

I would foreclose on millions of homes, you know, kick folks out of

their homes.

I would de-value the dollar, so the price of everything would go up.

I would out-source their jobs so they couldn't find work.  I would

move the factories to foreign countries--you know, all the good

paying factory jobs.

I would make education unaffordable.  You know terrorists don't like

having educated people around.

I'd make health care difficult to get.  I'd let the insurance companies

get away with murder.

I would listen to their telephone calls, monitor their e-mails and use

that information to really stick it to them.

Then, I would give myself a big, old tax cut and sit back in luxury and

watch them fight over the crumbs.

But, you know what? 

We live in the United States of America.  Thank you Jesus!  And the

people who represent us would never, ever let them get away with

that, would they?

Would they?"

From the INN World Report.

So, while we're worrying about how to make it with the cost of

everything flying sky high, let us learn to better care for our fellow

man, share the resources we have and practice methods for heart-

based living while taking responsibility for our own well-being at: 

http://www.macarthurparknaturalmedicine.com

Use organics whenever possible.   Eat well, sleep well, play and

laugh well--and often.

It's the best thing we can do for ourselves and for each other.

Have a wonderful day.

Why Is God Laughing?

An excerpt from Deepak Chopra's newest novel

Why Is God Laughing?: The Path to Joy and Spiritual Optimism.

 :: By Deepak Chopra, M.D.

Is reality what we think it is? Since we all accept the existence of the

material world, how could it possibly be the illusion Francisco describes

to Mickey in “Why Is God Laughing?” After all, rocks are solid, air

sustains life, and the planet revolves on its axis. Yet these facts are

not what the word “illusion” refers to. A mystic and a materialist will

both stub their toes if they kick a rock. But a mystic believes that the

rock is a projection of a deeper reality, while a materialist believes that

the rock is all there is—reality doesn’t go deeper than things. To a

materialist, clouds and mountains are no more than things, their

beauty being beside the point. A newborn baby is a thing, too, its

humanity being equally beside the point. In a world of things, there is

no room for a loving intelligence known as God who presides over

creation and gives it meaning.

Yet on the path to joy you discover that meaning is the very basis of

life. A baby is a thing only in the most superficial sense. In reality a

baby is a field of infinite potential expressing the highest intelligence in

Nature. I don’t think of this as a mystical belief, but as a truth that

lies deeper than the surface picture—where life looks like a stream of

random physical events. Meaning is born deep within. Spiritual

optimism is also an inner experience. It is based on the love, beauty,

creativity, and truth that a person discovers at the level of the soul.

When you explore yourself on the inner plane, you are working with

intuition. It’s a common misconception that intuition is at odds with

science, but Einstein himself said that what separated him from

atheists was that “they cannot hear the music of the spheres.” In truth,

science and spirituality both depend upon intuition, for the greatest

scientific discoveries are made through creative leaps, rather than by

following a linear trail of established facts.

You use your intuition every day to confirm that you are alive, or that

daisies are pretty, or that truth is better than a lie. The path to joy

consists of making your intuitions deeper and more accessible. Once

my intuition tells me what it is to be alive, then I can explore what my

life means, where it came from, and where it’s going. Fortunately,

there is no force in the universe more powerful than intuition.

On the spiritual path you come to realize certain basic principles. As

these principles unfold, reality shifts. Mere belief cannot transform the

events around you, but realization can. It’s the difference between

believing that you are blessed and actually observing the action of

grace in the world.

The principle you will find below is a powerful engine for change. As

realization grows within you, there is no limit to what you may become;

the only certainty is that you will be transformed.

1. The Healthiest Response to Life is Laughter

This first principle serves as an antidote to fear and sorrow by

encouraging you to experience life as joyous. As we begin on the path,

joy may come and go in small glimmerings. Yet in the end, laughter will

dispel suffering like so much smoke and dust. Suffering is one of

illusion’s most convincing aspects, but it is still unreal.

A golden rule applies here: What is true in the material world is false

in God’s world, and vice versa. In this case, the material world seems

to be dominated by crisis and suffering,and therefore the sanest way

to approach life is with worry, anxiety,  and defensiveness. But once

your consciousness shifts, you realize that life itself couldn’t exist

without an underlying creativity, and that this continuous act of creation

is in itself an expression of ecstasy.  These qualities are the basis of

your life, also.

In fact, the lens of materialism gives us the least accurate view of the

world, because through it we see consciousness as merely an accidental

by-product of brain chemistry, and the powers of the mind as a myth.

To equate the deepest reality with inert atoms colliding with each other

in the dead cold of outer space denies all that sustains life and makes it

worth living: beauty, truth, art, love, morality, community, discovery,

curiosity, inner growth, and higher consciousness.

What do all these qualities have in common? They depend on intuition.

There is no objective proof that love is beautiful, or that the truth can

set you free. Rather, you must come to these realizations through

your own inner experience. On the spiritual path everything depends

on a shift in consciousness; nothing depends on atoms colliding.

What we have, then, is two opposing worldviews contending for your

allegiance. Is it better to be spiritual or materialistic? Is God a mere

add-on to physical existence, or at the very root of existence? This

isn’t an easy choice to make, because the evidence is seriously out of

balance. Most of us have extensive personal knowledge of the material

world, but scant personal knowledge of God. God has a lot of proving

to do. He must prove that he’s present and dependable, the same

way a rock or a tree is. If we want to claim that God sustains life, he

must sustain it as viably as air, water, and food do. In other words,

to realize God is no small thing. It may take a lifetime— if you’re lucky.

To begin this journey, commit yourself to the possibility that everything

you see around you is far less real than God. You want to see the truth

“with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind,” as Jesus

says. This is actually a commitment to joy. When you feel momentary

happiness, or you want to burst out laughing, or you smile for no

apparent reason, you are glimpsing eternal reality. For a fleeting moment

the curtain has parted so you can experience something beyond the

illusion. In time these moments of joy will begin to knit together.

Instead of the exception, they will become the norm. There is no

better way to know that you are growing in God-realization.

From "Why Is God Laughing?: The Path to Joy and Spiritual Optimism" by Deepak Chopra Copyright © 2008 Harmony. Republished with permission.

The Institute of Heartmath has done research on intuition.  You can

read about that research at:

http://www.heartmath.org/research/research-intuition/overview.html

or if you send an e-mail (sandi@macarthurparknaturalmedicine.com)

I will provide a copy of a more indepth report on their research of

the topic.

The Heartmath tools (get a free introductory session at:

http://www.macarthurparknaturalmedicine.com) will help you get in

touch with and strengthen your intuitive abilities.

Get to your core values, live in sync with those values and find a

greater degree of peace and happiness amidst life's unavoidable

trials and tribulations.

I really look forward to hearing from you.

Sandi

I have a friend, Swami Beyondananda--at least that's how I think of him though I've never met him in body.   He has a way of keeping things in perspective for those of us who, at times, take ourselves and our chosen paths a little too seriously.    I have his permission to pass on some of these pearls of his wisdom.    I enjoy them immensely and you all look like you could use a chuckle.   Sometimes all our hearts are heavy--but the Swami says that--

"the Creator is watching the comedy channel and we're what's on."    And that "laughing causes blood vessels to dilate and that's a lot better than having them die early".   So we can choose to "look young and upbeat--or old and beat up".

He encourages us all to "drive our Kharma and curb our dogma", get over our "delusions of gland-eur", and if we "don't like the program, tell-a-vision instead".   We would all like to live in a country where "the government does our bidding instead of that of the highest bidder" and to have "think tanks where they think about more than tanks".    The Iraqis didn't really have much of a choice, between "Saddam Hussein or George who's not sane".   No one won--but "war by consenting adults is fine, just put them somewhere where they won't hurt anyone else".....and "if we have to use chemical warfare, how about nitrous oxide.   They can explode with laughter."

We can't escape the fact that we're coming into an election year and we can only hope that "whoever becomes the new President will support the new precedent--that we're all in this together", and will support the "new 'wealth fair' program where everyone's trained to produce wealth by sustaining our globe"--and behaving fairly, because you know, "we're not on this planet to earn God's love, we're here to spend it".   But "if you want to be miserable, go right ahead.   Whatever makes you happy!"

"The Truth shall up-set you free so don't get even, get odd, because everyone of us is totally unique, just like everyone else."   And by using the most abundant resource on the planet--our imagination, we may be able to pull ourselves back from the brink of what we have created so that we might leave something of this wondrous world we have grown up in for our children to grow old in and for our grand-children to at least live to maturity.

Bless you Swami, from the depths of my well-shaken heart.

Know that "there's a seeker born every minute" and that "life is like photography--use the negative to develop."