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		<title>Your own best remedy&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:11:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The topic of health within our modern society seems to me to be upside down.
There was a time in ancient China when everyone within a community would contribute to the wealth and well being of the local doctor for as long as people were well.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The topic of health within our modern society seems to me to be upside down.<br />
There was a time in ancient China when everyone within a community would contribute to the wealth and well being of the local doctor for as long as people were well.</p>
<p><a href="http://workshops.shankari.com/upcoming-events/" target="_blank"><img class="alignleft" style="margin: 10px 25px;" title="Power of Breath" src="http://workshops.shankari.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/pob-logo.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="200" /></a>As soon as someone became ill the income for the doctor ceased until everyone was healthy again!<br />
Of course in our society it works in <strong>reverse</strong>.</p>
<p>The sicker the community becomes, the more wealth is accumulated by the drug companies and people who work in the medical profession.</p>
<p>I believe in a healthy diet with very limited animal proteins because I know that it is overloading our bodies with proteins we cannot use and do not need, creating the fertile ground for cancer cells to flourish, especially if I am indolent and have large areas of my body that never become oxygenated!<br />
I know to watch for signs of dehydration&#8230;<br />
When I sneeze I know it’s time to put on a jacket.<br />
I know that if I begin to get a stuffy nose all I need to do is raise my body temperature until I sweat and it will disappear completely.<br />
I know how to look after myself, I do not expect anyone else to do that for me.</p>
<p>No disease or pain can exist within the physical body without first existing in the emotional body.<br />
So guard your emotional body well.<br />
Have many tools at your disposal to engage your whole self in pursuits that bring you joy!<br />
You will end up where you aim your attention.<br />
Your health must be in your hands.<br />
<strong>Stay conscious. </strong></p>
<p>The current system is like a snake eating it’s tail.<br />
Step outside the whole dance.<br />
Become your own best remedy and your own informed healer.</p>
<p>Louise Hay wrote a book many years ago called “You Can Heal Your Life” …<br />
It had a rainbow on the front cover.<br />
Within this small paperback book was a list of illnesses and the emotional field that they carried.</p>
<p>The Liver is the organ that carries our anger… do you see that we live in an angry world, where everyday even the food we eat to bring us comfort and sustenance is sabotaged and we are left feeling just slightly angry and most likely suffering from indigestion!</p>
<p>Like the ads for peptobismol&#8230;</p>
<p>Eat as much food that actually makes you sick, then drink this chemical and it will push it all through very quickly while artificially neutralizing the acid caused by the horrendous combination of things you have forced into your stomach.</p>
<p>The stomach is the first brain!<br />
That’s right! As in a gut feeling?</p>
<p>What you eat is what gives you your brain power and your emotional balance.<br />
If you eat a well balanced meal you will have a well balanced day, or evening…<br />
If you eat a whole lot of indigestible almost plastic food and blast it through with a chemical like a human “Drain-o”, what do you expect your brain and emotional body to feed on?</p>
<p>You have just had a big meal but you have not actually fed yourself!<a href="http://www.shankari.com/catalog/flightofthebutterflypendanti-p-975.html?zenid=4f49eaa77ba4ef248c2784caddba81a8" target="_blank"><img class="alignright" title="Flight of the Butterfly" src="http://www.shankari.com/catalog/images/jewelry/26300-8-7-8.jpg" alt="" width="370" height="450" /></a></p>
<p>Now… This is when you create arguments and get into all sorts of trouble, because your ‘victim’ reality comes up…  sure you are being mistreated or misunderstood in some way that matches a pattern from your childhood and your focus becomes stuck.<br />
Not on the road ahead and all your future dreams and possibilities, but rather on lack and limitation and how unfair everything is….<br />
At this point… EAT SOMETHING NUTRITIOUS&#8230; and GET OVER IT!&#8230; FAST!</p>
<p>There is not a minute to waste on negative thinking of any sort! <strong>Our journey is up to us…</strong></p>
<p>Our health along the journey is up to us!<br />
No matter what your condition it is never too late to try something new!<br />
Change the way you think!<br />
Think up not down!<br />
Think big, not small… think INCLUSIVE… rather than exclusive!</p>
<p>Just agreeing to fake a smile can change your brain frequency into a higher more spacious vibration…</p>
<p>There is magic everywhere and in everyone.<br />
<strong>You have the power to keep yourself well.</strong><br />
It is a choice!<br />
Read the labels,<br />
Know what your body needs.<br />
Listen carefully to what your body tells you and act consciously to create balance.<br />
<strong>Balance is a matter of conscious choice</strong>.<br />
Keep your spine flexible and your mind agile.<br />
Take care of your spirit, through art or music or some form of creative expression… of course you do not have to limit your pursuits to one…</p>
<p>I play the flute, the Moroccan drum called a Darabuka, I love to sing, chant in Sanskrit, In Hebrew, and I am learning how to chant in Hawaiian now.<br />
I also create mosaics, draw, write and garden… all these things keep me healthy in my body, mind and spirit, so I can enjoy my work and be creative with my vision of the future…</p>
<p>Health is first a state of mind and second a lifestyle choice…<br />
Make a choice to step outside the circle of the snake eating it’s tail…<br />
You have great power to learn understand and heal yourself…<br />
It’s up to you to do this… the alternative is that you live your life as a cash cow for the drug companies who get richer and richer with each new disease… You will be amazed how wise you really are at a soul level!</p>
<blockquote><p>Pray&#8230;<br />
Meditate&#8230;<br />
Love with an open heart, give service to others freely.<br />
Remember you are abundant and beloved of the Goddess of All Creation…<br />
Bring forward your higher self and ask your body for the truth… then be still and listen.</p></blockquote>
<p>Blazing tales of wonder remembering all we have ever been and are about to become…<br />
Your sister through chaos and comfort…<br />
Shankari the Alchemist…<br />
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		<title>I have had a vision, finally&#8230;.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:33:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shankari</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am a very visual person, without a vision it is very hard for me to act.
When I am not in motion &#8220;doing something&#8221; I go into self criticism.
It&#8217;s a strange dynamic when you think about it.
We come from a culture that frowns on open space&#8230;. too much free time and open space is dangerous.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am a very visual person, without a vision it is very hard for me to act.<br />
When I am not in motion &#8220;doing something&#8221; I go into self criticism.<br />
It&#8217;s a strange dynamic when you think about it.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.shankari.com/catalog/advanced_search_result.html?keyword=quan&amp;search_in_description=1" mce_href="http://www.shankari.com/catalog/advanced_search_result.html?keyword=quan&amp;search_in_description=1" target="_blank"><img style="margin: 10px 25px;" mce_style="margin: 10px 25px;" src="http://www.shankarithealchemist.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/quanyin_consorts_catless.jpg" mce_src="http://www.shankarithealchemist.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/quanyin_consorts_catless.jpg" alt="quanyin_consorts" title="quanyin_consorts_catless" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-952" height="314" width="275"></a>We come from a culture that frowns on open space&#8230;. too much free time and open space is dangerous.<br />
You might stop and ask yourself how you really feel if you have too much free time on your hands&#8230; idle hands do the devils work!</p>
<p>But then again, we must have &#8216;time for self&#8217; or we will go completely crazy or at least become physically unbalanced and eventually sick and tired of everything.</p>
<p>The vision I had was somewhat of an evolution, arriving in parts, like a puzzle.</p>
<p>First &#8230; in real life, I was made custodian of a life size, porcelain and gold, standing Quan Yin.<br />
This is definitely not living room furniture&#8230; she and her two life size consorts, an old man carrying a child and a dragon staff and a younger man carrying yet more children in his arms and on his shoulders&#8230; and scrolls that would appear to be &#8220;the law&#8221;.</p>
<p>These three potent sculptural representations of cosmic law and compassion currently take up the better part of my front porch with the White Owl Mosaic.</p>
<p>I was feeling crowded and yet honored to have their presence at the Mystery School in Hawaii.<br />
Slowly things have unfolded&#8230; or at least it feels slow when you are in the eye of the hurricane.<br />
The land has appeared to build the temple&#8230; the vision was of that temple, with it&#8217;s breadth and height&#8230; the heart wood of four fur trees was immediately manifested and donated as the Pillars of the New Temple to Peace in Hawaii. Since then I have had constant visions of pathways and sacred geometric grids, gardens and flowering trees.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s underway&#8230; <b>the tide is changing and compassion is returning to the hearts of humankind.</b><a href="http://www.shankari.com/catalog/quanyinanddragonflyfreedompendant-p-1509.html" mce_href="http://www.shankari.com/catalog/quanyinanddragonflyfreedompendant-p-1509.html" target="_blank"><img class="alignright" style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;" mce_style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;" title="Quan Yin and Dragonfly Freedom" src="http://www.shankari.com/catalog/images/2QY10-8-10-8.jpg" mce_src="http://www.shankari.com/catalog/images/2QY10-8-10-8.jpg" alt="" height="450" width="370"></a><br />
I have heard recently of honey gathered from rooftop gardens in Manhattan&#8230; and of &#8216;guerrilla gardening&#8217; becoming a fad across the planet&#8230;. god bless everyone learning to grow food again and applying their imaginations to how to do this under impossible circumstances.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m excited&#8230; jumping out of my skin with the adventure of creation looming before me.<br />
I&#8217;m building a food garden within a labyrinth of sacred symbols and silent spaces.</p>
<p>Where I live there is no dirt.<br />
I mean absolutely no earth&#8230;. simply rocks.<br />
There is no water unless you buy it and truck it in, there are trade winds that irregularly blow at 40mph&#8230;<br />
I&#8217;m bored if its not almost impossible&#8230;<br />
that must be why I got the job!</p>
<p>I lay in bed at night and ponder things like how to pull water from the air for the food garden&#8230;<br />
I think I have figured it out by the way.<br />
I lay awake and think of ways to turn a desert into a garden for the sake of all it will feed, in all the different ways it will contribute to the community at large&#8230;</p>
<p>Food is important, food for the spirit, food for the eyes and food for the body&#8230; my vision is to provide all these things in one sacred place&#8230; activated for deep and permanent healing of the individual soul.</p>
<p><b>Why not?</b><br />
Life must continue to be a challenge and an adventure until the day we die&#8230;. or we are already dead in some respects just waiting for the rest to catch up.<br />
Plan a garden of your own.<br />
Invite your friends to come and join in.<br />
I&#8217;s a wonderful thing to share the food you have grown with others.<br />
Start with something small&#8230; parsley&#8230; or tomatoes perhaps&#8230; then build to your imagination&#8230; the sky is the limit!</p>
<p><b>I do not believe as a culture we are meant to live with such financial pressure for our daily sustenance and am working on becoming energy efficient in every aspect of my life. </b></p>
<p>Soon the Hawaii School will be completely off the grid with solar panels &#8212; and if I can master this water collection story, it will enable us to live and breathe and create constantly, within an environment that is self sufficient and leaving almost no carbon footprint upon the earth.</p>
<p>Those involved in the creation will be and are fed at a creative level, constantly growing their self-esteem.</p>
<p>I have a friend named Bob, from Michigan.<br />
He had been in Hawaii a few months when he came to visit one day and said, &#8220;I&#8217;m sorry but I have become homeless and I would like to live in the shed in your green house&#8230;. can I do that?&#8221;</p>
<p>I said &#8230; &#8220;You know there have been times when I wanted to move into the shed in the green house myself! Of course you can sleep there until you find a home of your own.&#8221;</p>
<p>This was quite a few months ago!<br />
Bob is a trained chef, who has previously held jobs of great importance in big international hotel kitchens&#8230; but he has lost his feeling for cooking and now prefers to build rock walls.<br />
The walls he&#8217;s built on the property for the Quan Yin Temple and the Peace Garden are amazing.<br />
He expresses such grace and charm that I&#8217;m flabbergasted.</p>
<p>In this manner he has rebuilt his <span>self-regard</span>, lost a ton of weight and is genuinely happy for the first time in years!<br />
He may even be interested in food again soon&#8230; we are planning to build a big stone oven to bake community bread in the future&#8230;</p>
<p><b>Food and the Magic of form and space&#8230; this is my vision and clear intent. </b></p>
<p><b><a href="http://www.shankari.com/catalog/advanced_search_result.html?keyword=quan&amp;amp;search_in_description=1" mce_href="http://www.shankari.com/catalog/advanced_search_result.html?keyword=quan&amp;amp;search_in_description=1" target="_blank"><b><img class="size-full wp-image-939 alignleft" style="margin: 10px 25px;" mce_style="margin: 10px 25px;" title="quanyin_closeup" src="http://www.shankarithealchemist.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/quanyin_closeup.jpg" mce_src="http://www.shankarithealchemist.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/quanyin_closeup.jpg" alt="http://www.shankari.com/catalog/advanced_search_result.html?keyword=quan&amp;search_in_description=1" height="432" width="298"></b></a></b></p>
<p>Creating a magical labyrinth of food and silence that will profoundly heal all who come and experience the frequency of compassion in this form&#8230; here in the lava deserts of Hawaii&#8230;. a place at the end of the universe, becoming a &#8216;beacon of light&#8217; to the world.</p>
<p>I love you all and trust you will have your own vision soon&#8230;With your own vision comes the freedom to throw yourself heart and soul into your evolution&#8230;<br />
towards freedom and joy!</p>
<p>Come and join me when you have some time.<br />
We are always creating something in service to the Goddess.</p>
<p>Blazing tales of wonder, remembering all we have been and learning to love what we are becoming…..&nbsp;&nbsp; Sxxxx</p>
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