Saturday, May 17, 2008

acid/alkaline ...some morning thoughts

While in the shower I was thinking about acid/alkaline of the water from my well and how I note a difference after heavy rain has fallen. From this point my mind went on to think about Earth and how it is stressed from all the chemicals we have dumped into it and this makes it more acid…I see how the wild fire help to alkalize the soil through the ash and the cracking open of rock to release/break down and mineralize the soil...there is a theory that the ice age was a way of alkalizing the Earth by pulverizing the rocks and leaving huge mineral deposits. Volcanic activity has a similar effect. Excess rain helps to cleanse the soil by diluting the man-made added chemicals. Earth tries to rebalance/alkalize itself every which way it can. Our body is the same pattern as Earth. It tries to keep an alkaline balance internally by drawing minerals from organs, tissues and bones. I think back to when my mother died and the emotional shock I experienced was stressing my entire system/s thereby making me very acidic. The innate intelligence of the body to maintain its internal integrity drew from bone for calcium to help buffer the acidic state of my cells. As a result, I broke a tooth without major physical trauma being exerted. This is just a snippet of the fractal pattern that we live from. When we separate ourselves from clean air, clean water, clean food we separate ourselves from our health and our home within our physical matter (body) and from our home on Earth.

Look at the air we are breathing. It has decreased in volume of oxygen over the past 60 years. Why? Acidity! We have expelled a lot of toxic gases into the air and produced acid rain as a side effect. This acidity of the rain has impacted vegetation. I have hiked a lot of the trails on the Blue Ridge Parkway in Virginia and had noticed some of the trees looked like they were dying, particularly the dogwoods. I have since found out that they are being slowly poisoned by acid rain. This very same rain is soaking into the water table from which we draw our drinking water. Our food is grown in the same conditions we are living under. It is no wonder our state of health is rapidity declining! We have acidity every which way from breathing, eating and drinking from chemically unbalanced sources. This can only produce an acidic (read inflamed) , unbalanced body.

It is our personal responsibility to be conscious of our chemical design and our interdependency on the Universe, Earth and Nature. We begin to heal by alkalizing our cellular body through clean air/deep breathing (use plants to help cleanse surrounding air), clean mineral water from glass bottles, and bio-organically grown foods that have not been genetically engineered. The fourth part to all this is to feed our mind with thought provoking material. Our thinking mind is our functional spirit so to not use it is to deny our indwelling spirit. To not use our thinking mind becomes yet another pattern of separation.

Thursday, April 24, 2008

What does pH mean in the body?

What does pH mean?

The power of Hydrogen. Hydrogen is a main element of our atomic signature of our physical body. This pH is basically a simple measure of the alkalinity and acidity of our cells. The normal scale is 0-14 with 7 being considered neutral. We are striving to keep ourselves around the 7 mark.

Some symptoms of acidity:

blood sugar challenges
lack of energy
skin issues
acid reflux
indigestion
fungal problems
inflammation (cells, joints)
constipation
headaches
stiffness
stress
fat accumulation
diseases


What causes acidity?

1) Poor food choices and ingestion of same (processed sugars, simple carbs, pesticides etc)


2) This leads to poor assimilation and creates more acid/alkaline imbalance

3) This leads to poor elimination which creates re-absorption of toxins

4) This creates biological terrain suitable for yeast, Candida, fungi proliferation and they in turn continue to create more acidity (toxins)

5) More acid we become, the more yeast, fungi are created that rob us of nutrients and create more toxins

6) The higher the toxic load, the more our cells become compromised and the less efficient the body becomes, the more ailments we have…

7) The less oxygen we have in our cells and the more carbon dioxide we have. Even Earth has the same issue!

8) The less oxygen we have, the greater our brain fog

9) The greater the brain fog, the less we are able to use our thinking mind in a positive manner and our thoughts become toxic

10) Toxic thoughts lead to acid puddles in the nerves!


Cellular acidity and alkalinity, when in balance, offer us vitality and health. Each cell in our body has both a positive and a negative charge to it. On the inside of our cell the biological terrain is acid and holds a positive charge. The outside of the cell is alkaline and holds a negative charge. Our body tries to maintain its balance and excretes excess through the kidneys (urine) and sweat is another avenue used.
If the acid levels are too high the body will not be able to excrete the excess and must either store it in fat or buffer it with minerals from organs and bones to neutralize it. This acid state of the cells causes inflamation and when the cells are inflamed, the body is challenged to drop fat and to heal.

The first urine sample in the morning will more than likely be a little more acidic than later in the day because the kidneys have been working with the rest of the body to expel the excess acid and it has been accumulating in the bladder. Having said that please note that in a balanced body the strip should not read less than 6.5 and is preferable to have the strip read 6.75 in the morning. This is a metabolic reading and is indicative of the health of the cells and the body’s ability to metabolize and neutralize acids. The second urine sample on arising should have a neutral reading of 7. A composite reading over time will allow a better indication of the health of the body as no single reading is a very good indication of overall acid/alkaline state. Maintaining a 6.5 to 7.5 ratio is the optimum range where the body can absorb nutrients (from air, food, water) to restores itself.

It is a very simple formula really. If we do not know who we are as energy first and as a physical body (matter), then we will not see/accept the relationship and relevance of clean air, organically grown foods (bio-organic is the best) and clean mineral rich water to our health of our thinking mind, loving emotions, Spirit senses and of our physical body. Until we are willing to know who we are, we are challenged to change. all change begins in the mind and I feel is translated into the pH balance of our cells. This is a reflection of the internal balance of our dual Soul mind and emotions.

Saturday, April 12, 2008

toxicity ...

I have been thinking about toxicity a lot of late and what it all means. My next class is on toxicity and symptoms of same and a cleansing program using the foods of nature as one focus of the program. So because of this my awareness is heightened as to what others are saying/offering. I have noticed a lot of people offering “detox diets” and supplements to assist in detoxifying the body of accumulated “toxins” that run the chemical gamut of “foreign to our chemical physical design.” What this shows me is that people have awareness that we are polluting ourselves and coming up with all sorts of combinations of chemicals to assists our detoxifying process. I feel that a lot of these supplements are actually adding to our toxic overload and fleshing out some pockets at the same time. They also have not, to my mind, connected our thoughts, emotions and senses to the quality and quantity of the air, food and water and our health. They have externalized, and therefore separated, their thinking and their proposed “solutions.”

As a society, we are “hemorrhaging” and we are all focusing externally on developing the best and most elaborate band aide money can buy. Very few are recognizing that we are the problem and we have to ask ourselves why and what is causing the problem in the first place. Very few recognize that when we separate ourselves from quality and quantity of Nature, Earth and Universe that we separate ourselves from our health and love of life…of living. We are living in a cesspool that we have created. We have trashed Earth and poisoned the soil and then we wonder why we are having health issues. Once again I just have to say “Duh!”

Toxicity of our cells, of our mind, of Nature, Earth and even the Universe are not separate. We share a chemical pattern. Let me begin with the Universe and our unconscious dumping into space all unwanted hardware...not to mention the energy of negative thoughts! Think of all the space debris we have “left” there from our various forays into space….not to mention the tearing of the fabric of space in the process, but that is another story. We have countless aged, dead, dying satellites orbiting around in the magnetic field of Earth. What does all this “foreign” metal do to the electro-magnetic energy field of Earth? I have to wonder if this debris that we have so cavalierly abandoned to space is not also impacting the energy field of space. How? I do not know exactly. I know that we are a fractal pattern of the Universe so I think of being a chemical consciousness (or unconsciousness) and knowing that we ALL are electro-magnetic (chemical) energy, each with its own energy field. I reflect on how my energy field can be distorted dramatically from how I am thinking and the emotions I am using and externally from the electro-pollution that abounds in “normal” living and it can be a challenge to maintain my balance on all levels. With this stream of thinking I find it an easy move to extrapolate my energy field (from my thoughts and emotions and senses) out to interact with Nature, Earth and the Universe and to see that nothing is separate. ALL IS.

We are a combination of the chemicals of space (and our DNA pattern differs by .1% from a banana and rocks from Mars showing yet again how we are a part of the Whole) so continuing on with this train of thought, it stands to reason that as we are affected from external pollution, then so to must the Universe and Earth also be impacted, maybe not to the same degree, but impacted nevertheless. So that is one level to look at. There is Earth’s wobble that is noted by scientists, and I am surprised someone doesn’t just look at it all and say “Duh!” and then set about cleaning up the mess and begin to clear up the orbiting debris. The same goes for Earth and Nature. We have polluted Earth so horribly inside and out (from space debris, to burying toxic waste in the Earth and dumping into our oceans. Nothing has escaped our ignorance) that Nature is challenged to grow well and we eat from Nature so it should be no surprise as to why we have so much disease and basic unhappiness going on! How can we be healthy and happy when our chemical supply (from Earth and Nature) is so polluted? We are only as healthy and happy (shows in dynamic, expansive electro-magnetic energy field) as the food, air and water we take in. Food, air and water are from Nature, Earth and the Universe. So once again we see the inseparability of everything.

So how does all this apply to toxicity of our cells? I am getting to that. I felt I had to go around the Universe to get here. I am trying to allow my mind to go and I am learning to trust (as apposed to judge and control) my thoughts. We can see our interdependence on the Universe, Earth and Nature to the quality and quantity of the air we breath, the water we drink and the foods we eat, and these all have a direct influence to the state of our health; mental, emotional and physical. In a simple test of the pH of our urine we can see where our cellular health is. When our body become too acidic…read toxic!, then we are compromising all systems. When our cells become too acidic, all systems become stressed, our energy drops, and fat begins to accumulate in an effort to “protect” vital organs and acts as storage for toxins in the body. This toxic load stresses everything and just like the wobble in Earth’s rotation, our point of balance is very wobbly at this point. A toxic body/mind is ripe for dis-ease, disease, excess fat, stressed cardio-vascular systems, fungus, bacteria, virus become opportunistic and blood sugar challenges abound. This is just a glimpse of what can happen to us. Of course you could come to class and learn more of the symptoms, cravings and what to do about it all J.
Until next time…go well into this very good day.

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

new class series begins in April

I have been invited to run another series of classes on Holistic weight loss and i am thrilled to be able to do this. I have pasted the flyer here with all relevant info.
I learned so much from doing the other class that i am excited to impliment this new learning.
Raewyn



HOLISTIC WEIGHT LOSS…self discovery series

WE CAN’T HAVE SWEET THOUGHTS ON A SOUR STOMACH!

Discover your mental, emotional, sensory triggers and release your blocks to begin your healing journey. With 20 years experience working with clients, I have found a holistic approach to be the most effective in attaining weight loss and lifestyle changes for health.

· WE ARE MORE THAN JUST A PHYSICAL BODY

· HOW THOUGHTS, NUTRITION, LIFESTYLE CAN INFLUENCE STATE OF INFLAMATION AND pH OF OUR CELLS-

· THE MIND AND BODY ARE CHALLENGED TO HEAL WHEN IN A STATE OF INFLAMATION

· HOW WE ARE INNOCENTLY SABOTAGING OURSELVES

Raewyn Cooper M.S, CNDP www.HEALTHISCHOICE.COM

WHERE? Unity books & Stuff, PITTSBORO 545-0619
WHEN? April 6, 15, 22, 29, May 6 2008 7pm – 9pm.
COST? $25 for first class, $20 after that.

BRING NOTE PAPER AND PEN

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Electro-pollution and our health

Electro-pollution

Our body is about 80% water and has (hopefully!) a high mineral content. It is this high mineral content within the fluid that allows for high electrical conduction through the cells and the nervous system. This internal electrical communication system is initially generated from our thinking mind and these impulses are sent out via the nervous system to our cells. For the body to restore itself while we are sleeping, it has to be in a more alkaline state so that it can adequately detoxify itself. When there are high electro-magnetic energy fields around us, this contributes to acidity in the body, which means the body is challenged to release fat and to heal and restore itself.

When the thinking mind’s electrical charge meets the magnetic loving emotions, we have light and we have our electro-magnetic energy field. We are chemical beings and as such we vibrate as energy. Vibration is movement and movement = sound. We are essentially a tuning fork of energy. Like all tuning forks, we tune ourselves to the stronger vibration around us, be it positive or negative. For example, being in the presence of someone who has a higher vibration allows us to feel uplifted when we leave because we have raised our energy field. Conversely, sleeping on an electrical blanket is a large negative energy disrupter and interferes with our electro-magnetic energy field dramatically. I know for me, this was disruptive to my energy field to such a degree that I had trouble focusing to know where the door was and was irritable and did not feel rested. I felt totally discombobulated. I was a teenager at this point, so it took a while to figure out that the electric blanket was the problem.

Think about what electrical elements are in your bedroom, a place where we spend about a 1/3rd of our time. Is there a TV?, electric blanket used?, computer running?, cell phones?, clocks?, heat pump through the wall behind the bed? Is there other electric sources? All of these can disrupt our energy field. I had to move my electric clock away from beside my bed because of the units of electric energy it was discharging. It was enough to disrupt my internal cellular communication and electro-magnetic energy field. I am in this room about 8 hours a day and over time I have to wonder what this electro-pollution could do to the health of my cells?

All cells vibrate and divide and their innate intelligence knows when to do this. This applies to every cell from our brain to our little toe and everything in between. What happens, over time, when we are over-exposed to electrical influences while sleeping? This is where the energy tuning fork analogy comes into play because we adjust to the higher live electrical field. Our personal frequency is interfered with and can change and this is confusing to our cells. This interference can accumulate over time to the point of eventually breaking-down the integrity of our cells and disrupting cell division.

Now the question arises of how to know when or if we are experiencing electro-pollution. Here are some symptoms to look out for:
Nightmares
Headaches
Muscle cramps
Depression
Fatigue

How can we neutralize the electro-pollution? First we can eliminate the external sources as best we can. We internally support ourselves through eating the most vibrant freshly picked foods as possible, and make sure that at least 50% is raw. The other components are to breathe deeply (exercise helps this), to drink at least a quart of mineral water per day from a glass bottle, and to feed our mind with thought provoking material. Soaking in a bath is a great way to help neutralize the effect of electro-pollution (whether it is from an electrical appliance, from our own internal negative thoughts or from a negative thinking person). We have our own internal electro-pollution. Our thoughts create electric firing of the nervous system and when our thoughts are negative the chemical response is to have the fight/flight hormones dumping into our nervous system. When thoughts are negative, they do not have the high electrical charge arcing to reach the loving emotions to create an entirely different energy field. Until we can shift our thinking mind out of its ego shell of fear beliefs, we are living in a state of internal electro-pollution. This makes for a very acidic body.

If you want to learn more about the external influences of electro-pollution then I offer these authors and books:
Becker, Robert O. Cross Currents. 1990
Oschman, James. Energy Medicine. 2000
Kathy Oddenino offers the internal path to neutralizing electro-pollution (from a negative ego-bound mind) and expanding the positive energy fields of our minds through her 8 books on Spiritual Philosophy and her seminars.

Thursday, February 28, 2008

Without Nature we do not have our health.

I had always been told that Blackberries and Raspberries “boosted blood” and gave us energy. I absorbed the family lore and have built upon it. I now know that these two berries are power-packed with antioxidants, vitamins and minerals and are nature’s antibiotics. These facts actually back up the “blood boosting” capabilities accepted and known by the older family members.

I look back at the older generation and recognize their innate knowing and understanding of Nature and its relationship to our health. Without Nature we did not have health. They may not have known about antioxidants and minerals and vitamins and how they all relate to cellular function but they did know that iron (among other elements) is found in these two berries and that it offered us energy and health. I have been thinking about this and know that iron is necessary to attract oxygen from the air, food and water to stimulate the body’s metabolism and boost energy levels. When this happens, the tissues can slough off the accumulated toxins much easier. This is the perfection of Nature and the timing of the growth of various fruits and vegetables. Everything works together in harmony. To step away from Nature is to be out of harmony and this produces a toxic load for our body to deal with. This means the body becomes to acidic and ripe for imbalance and disease to take root.

The older generation may not have known the chemical components and what each element did but they did know that nature has wisdom and to eat in rhythm with Nature offered health. They were wise enough to know that the foods that came available according to season and weather were what the body required. An example of this was to have cucumbers and tomatoes ready to eat in early summer. They were placed in a bowl of malt vinegar and were used as raw foods. This was said to stimulate the liver and clean up the body. I have learned that this dish acts as a “detoxer” and is a perfect salad dish after the heavier warming foods of winter. This is yet another example of living their wisdom. My aunt is 86 years old and is living on her own in New Zealand. She still maintains a large garden and I feel has a strong constitution because of it. She would say it is common sense to have your own garden…and I agree with her!

Another memory of axioms heard in regard to healing was, “you often get worse before you get better.” I have been thinking about this and what it means to me. I know we do not develop serious illness or toxic tissue over night and therefore we are not going to heal over night. Just as we do not become 50 pounds heavier over night, we will not wake up the next morning to be wearing a svelte figure again. If we get sick and are carrying a large toxic load we have to be patient with ourselves and work in harmony with Mother Nature and allow natural law to reverse the damage to our body.

I feel the body returns to health by back-tracking through the illness or weight gain until it can finds its pattern of health. I think of getting lost while driving and attempt to reverse my course until I find familiar roads again. This pattern makes “sense” to me and allows my mind to expand on the memories of expressions passed down through the family.

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

oxygen as part of our chemical design

My thoughts this morning….I have been thinking about our chemical design of carbon, nitrogen, hydrogen, oxygen and a small percentage of essential minerals and how the body feels as energy when balanced… not only within me but how it feels when doing NDP™ on another…..what about the cellular energy when it is in a more acid state? What happens to it? What does the energy feel like? Can I identify it as chaotic? It would have to be because it is not balanced.

Just take oxygen as a part of our chemical design. Oxygen helps to neutralizes acidosis in the cells and this allows the cells to replicate themselves accurately and contribute to the health of the person. Exercise brings in added oxygen to the cells. Water brings in 2 molecules of oxygen to feed the cells. Fresh foods (raw) contribute to the alkalinity of the cells through enzyme activity and oxygen. All work together to give life through….selection of:
· Air
· Food
· Water
· Mastication
· Absorption
· Elimination.

If there is a break in this pattern then there is a break down in the cellular function which means a break down of our health. The waste produced by foods is highly acidic and if we are not eliminating then we are reabsorbing the toxins and adding to the acidosis of our body. Urine and sweat is how the acid waste is excreted from the human body when the energy is balanced, and when the body is not balanced, the waste circulates through our systems and eventually accumulates in our capillaries and begins to clog up and disrupt the natural function of the body. This increase in acid immediately short circuits the oxygen from being utilized and we have embarked upon a slippery slope towards disease and an early death.

For example, the body creates lactic acid when physically pushed hard. When excessive physical activity is had and the body is not fully supported with plenty of water and fresh raw foods to help the cells neutralize the accumulated acid waste, then the lactic acid acts as a poison to the cell. With this in mind it is easy to see that keeping the body in a pH balance is our best (and critical) method of defense for health.
And so my thoughts go this morning.