Bach Flower Remedies

Prepared from the flowers of wild plants, bushes, and trees, the Bach Flower Remedies do not directly treat physical disease, but help stabilize the emotional and psychological stresses reflecting the root cause. The stress factors include such things as fear, loneliness, worry, jealousy, and insecurity. Carried to the extreme, these emotions lower the body’s natural resistance to disease. By assisting the integration of emotional, psychological, and physiological patterns, the remedies produce a soothing, calming effect, thereby allowing the body to heal itself.

Suggestions for Exercises – Lesson 17 Tarot

Exercise 17.2 – Interpreting Reversed Cards

1. Three of Wands– reversed
   I’m in a rut. I rarely break out of my normal routine to seek new experiences.
2. Chariot– reversed
   My desire to get my own way is being thwarted, but my win at work will mean little if my family is unhappy.
3. Ace of Swords– reversed
   I don’t feel like getting too involved in this cause.
4. Tower– reversed
   There is a small chance my run of good fortune could end suddenly.
5. Knight of Swords– reversed
   My cousin is a great talker, but he’s not that knowledgeable about the technical aspects of this field.
6. Four of Cups– reversed
   I’m beginning to lose interest in this relationship. I feel a small, but growing urge to withdraw.
7. Six of Pentacles– reversed
   I’m not sure I have enough physical and emotional resources to support my daughter through this crisis in my home.
8. Page of Cups– reversed
   My feelings of love and tenderness for my baby are begin drowned out by my need for sleep!
9. Temperance– reversed
   I’m pretty low on patience right now. I’m tempted to take drastic action.
10. Death– reversed
    Animportant inner change is struggling to happen, but my fears are blocking

Zeaxanthin

Zeaxanthin is an antioxidant carotenoid that may help prevent a leading cause of blindness among older people: macular degeneration.
The macula is a tiny dimple on the retina that is responsible for fine vision. Damage to the macula can cause blurry vision, or a dark spot in the field of vision. It can eventually lead to a loss of central vision, which can make it impossible to read, drive, or operate a computer. There is no cure for macular degeneration, but in some cases surgery may help to slow its progress. Free radical damage from ultraviolet radiation is believed to be a contributing factor, if not the cause, of macular degeneration. In fact, studies have shown lower than normal blood levels of protective antioxidants in people who develop macular degeneration.

ASTRAL PROJECTION TECHNIQUES

Step 1
Relax through breathing. That is, exhale all the air from your lungs until there is none left. THEN exhale a little more. There is always a little more than you think since lung are “inflated” and are usually 1/4 to 1/2 full even before we breathe in. Once all the old air is cleaned from your lungs, inhale deeply and then hold it for 1/2 the time it took you to breath out. You always want to breathe out twice as long to get the old oxygen poor air out of your lungs. There is a reason for this. The new, fresh oxygen when held for several seconds (as long as you possibly can so that it’s not too uncomfortable) results in a kind of high that is similar biologically to the effect of morphine. However, this process does not result in addiction or the overal devastation that drugs cause. In short, it is an effective way to wind down and achieve a relaxed state.