- Standing Up For Real Food On Food Revolution Day
- Exposing What Fear Is Like
- What Makes You Happy?
- What Happened To Common Sense?
- Is Anyone Listening? 10 Ways To Listen When It’s Noisy!
- My Favourtie Smells Of Spring
- How To Become A Saint- Do You Know The Story Of St Patrick?
- Are You A Feely Feely Person?
- Have You Ever Told Your Child About The Real Meaning Of Easter?
- Will you wear red for Red Nose Day?
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Standing Up For Real Food On Food Revolution Day
Food is one of my passions. No- I don’t think it’s because I love eating it all the time, although I do enjoy eating good food! It’s more to do with the empowering feeling of knowing what effect food has on my body and eating accordingly.
At present I am going through the menopause and suffer a little with hot flushes, which are particuarly tiresome at night as they can keep me awake. Now this has prompted me to read about natural remedies for relieving such symptoms. I have found some really interesting information on what my body needs at such a time. By increasing my intake of omega3 and foods such as soya, green vegetables, fish and nuts and decreasing my intake of caffeine and alcohol I am already feeling the benefits. The great thing is that these foods not only relieve the symptoms mentioned, but they benefit me in so many other ways, such as keeping my weight down, which is also an issue at this time.
Knowing that many if not most of my ailments can be cured by diet is exciting and empowering. I have lost count of the number of friends who lament the awful side effects of prescribed medication for their ailments and many are still suffering many months later. Yet nature has provided a rich source of nourishment that, in addition to a healthy lifestyle, can give us a healthy and pain-free life in many cases.
Standing up for real (fresh, varied, unprocessed) food on Food Revolution Day is all about teaching us to make good use of the provisions that are out there if we will only learn to find them, prepare them and eat them. In many ways it’s about going back to basics, learning how to use foods to our advantage as our great-grandparents did, but also just simply learning to love real food. In today’s world we have so much information at our fingertips.
Share real food on Food Revolution Day. Find out about this exciting event with Jamie Oliver on May 17th: The Food Revolution
Exposing What Fear Is Like
Fear demands to be hidden and disguised. It has to be in control and will speak loud and clear as often as possible. The best time is first thing in the morning, for then it has more chance of controlling the whole day. As the day arrives, it can lie about how impossible my dreams and goals are for the day. It can convince me that I can’t do any of it. Can’t is a favourite word as are hopeless, dangerous, irresponsible and impossible.
Fear is a friend of Lies. They work really well together. If fear can fuel the lies, then it has a great chance of control and the person concerned is likely to be covered in a cloak of deceit. Yes- they will be perfectly convinced of the truth of the lies and will get very angry if challenged. If challenged they will probably feel not only angry, but also let down and misunderstood. “Surely they can see that I can’t possibly be expected to…..!” will be their plaintive cry.
Fear loves darkness, so although it loves to get right in there at the start of the day, it also loves the night, when it can lurk in the shadows and take you by surprise when you are unprepared. The more it can stay with you, the more potent it will become and you might actually grow to like it. This can be the point of no-return, for once it becomes your friend it could be there to stay. Its roots will go deep if left alone and will twist themselves around every part of your life.
What can get rid of it then? Some kind of pest killer? It might affect every part of the body, making it sick, but it starts in the mind and that is where it needs dislodging. Counterattack it with truth and the lies will no longer be able to hang around. Without the lies, fear won’t know how to function on it’s own.
Fear is a hard master. It demands, it deceives, it destroys.
What is the opposite of fear? For me it is LOVE!
Know what you believe and find the truth, for the truth will set you free!
The Life Changing Power Of Words
What Makes You Happy?
My photo of my son makes me smile
I don’t know about you, but it does me good to think happy thoughts. Wasnt that what made the children able to fly in the story of Peter Pan? Whilst only a story, it had some sense in the concept. I am too quick to think sad and depressing thoughts and realise that I need to train my mind to think happy ones. How sad is that? Oh dear- there I go again!
So instread of thinking: “what a dark, depressing day”, I will think, “what a lovely day to spread some much-needed happiness and kindness”. Or instead of thinking how much I am struggling today, I will think of someone else to share some cheer. Instead of seeing bad first, I will look for the good and instead of spending lots of time watching or listening to unhappy people, I will look for happy ones.
I don’t think that this is living in the clouds either- or if it is, it certainly beats living in the mud!
“What you focus on will grow” is a saying I have heard. Now is the time to look each day for the things that I want to grow and focus on them. I want to see my relationships grow for instance, so it will be good to look at them positively and I wouldn’t be surprised if much of the negative things that I saw before disappears.
Children do this more naturally. There’s nothing to cheer you up like the smile of a baby. The challenge is to keep it alive in them and not kill it. Let’s celebrate this life-giving emotion and water it each day. Do you remember the Care Bears? Let them share Funshine Bears Happy Activities with children. Check out this resource for teaching the happy emotion to children: Funshine Bears Happy Activities
What makes you happy?
What Happened To Common Sense?
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I was sitting in a steam room the other day when I noticed a sign on the wall which read, “Beware of hot steam”. It got me wondering why such a sign was necessary. Does it mean that we wouldn’t be aware of the steam and it’s potential dangers if that sign wasn’t there, or do we only take care when someone tells us to? Why won’t they allow us to use our common sense?
Well many people believe that common sense isn’t so common nowadays and we need rules and signs to enable us to function. Maybe it’s more a case of use it or lose it! If we constantly tell our children what they should and shouldn’t do, they will I believe, lose their ability to make wise decisions themselves, for they will always be waiting to be told what to do. A far better strategy would be (more…)
Is Anyone Listening? 10 Ways To Listen When It’s Noisy!
Do you feel sometimes as if you are talking to yourself? What has happened to the sense of hearing in your house? No one is listening! In a family it can sometimes feel a lonely place, where there is plenty of action, but not many times when everyone stops to listen- apart from at the TV of course! It can be a shock to find that after many years living together, often where communication has been mainly shouting at one end of the house to the other, you realise that you hardly know each other. Well, here are a few thoughts to create an environment where you are able to listen to each other. (more…)
My Favourtie Smells Of Spring
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I love this time of the year! You can begin to smell the first signs of the awakening of life: the first cuttings of grassy lawns, the bursting of new flowers, competing with the first smells of Spring as the ground is warming up. Even in my own family we have been welcoming a new baby with all of the smells associated with feeding, changing and simply warm cuddles! Taking note of our sense of smell brings much pleasure! (more…)
How To Become A Saint- Do You Know The Story Of St Patrick?
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I was recently listening to a memorial service where this dear lady who had passed away was being honoured by many good memeories of the noteworthy things she had done. Now that made me think that when I die, I would like to be remembered like that. I hope that at my funeral service there will be things that will have benefitted others from my life. How sad if my life was only lived to benefit myself. What good would that be? So when I awoke this morning, this thought gave me a good reason to get up: “What can I do today to bless someone else?” (more…)
Are You A Feely Feely Person?
The Sense Of Touch- Little Hands
There are more nerve endings in our fingertips than other parts of our body. Is it any wonder then that we are naturally keen to feel and touch things around us? We can discover a lot by doing this. How else would blind people be able to read and identify things without being able to feel?
In the same way a child needs to be able feel and touch in order to learn. They can of course learn by using their other senses, but I have noticed how much quicker they learn and with so much more enthusiasm, when their little hands are able to feel and touch as well. Over the years I have developed ways of making this possible during my teaching sessions with young children. Here is one that concentrates on The Sense Of Touch and uses many of these principles in a successful way.
Take a look at The Sense Of Touch Lesson Plan
So next time little hands want to touch, think first before saying no, for who knows how much they might learn.
Have You Ever Told Your Child About The Real Meaning Of Easter?
Easter eggs and bunnies tell a story
It’s not hard to do either and you can quickly check it out for yourself. Here’s a site that explains it simply- What Is The Easter Story? and provides some great resources.
The easy way is to wait until they are showing interest and use props naturally to help, such as an easter egg they’ve been given or an easter bunny. Or when eating a hot cross bun ask if they know why we make a cross on our hot cross buns? Don’t worry, the story of Jesus dying doesn’t have to be gruesome and scary, but especially if you can get hold of some good resources, it can be simply told and the wonder of the resurrection will be caught.
In this modern day, it’s important that every child has the opportunity to hear The Greatest Story Ever Told so that they can decide for themselves. After all, how can they choose unless they hear the options?
By helping children to take care of their spiritual health, they are more likely to grow into well-balanced and mature adults who are able to withstand the pressures of life.
Will you wear red for Red Nose Day?
Well what’s it all about then, wearing red, or was it red noses I hear?
On 15th March all around UK, people will be walking around with red noses and trying to make everyone laugh. Many won’t stop at the nose either and who nose where else one might find red on their persons? All in aid of a good cause of course and actually, making an effort on a particular day to laugh can’t be bad can it, especially when you think of the health benefits? After all, some hospitals even enlicit the ploys of clowns to bring cheer to the children’s wards. They say it really helps too!
So Red Nose Day would be well worth all the fuss even if that was all it was. But the truth is, it isn’t! It’s so much more that makes the afore-mentioned meaningless in comparison. The idea is that everyone does something funny for money. Yes- the many antics are all done to raise money for needy children. Comic Relief is a great cause and you can find lots of red ideas and resources here.
