The relativity of your life

 A reflexion over what is important thru an endless and tedious questionary:
Can we ever learn to relativize situations? Can we zoom out and look at the big picture and  is it worth to react to tiny events if we put them into the right perspective? Is it all worth only to do it if our world is shaken by a negative event?

What is the most important to you? Do you live accordingly to those values? Do you need to change something? Why don't you?

Let us look closer...

I have been very concerned lately about the use of ipads and the possible effect of radiation on my children. Is it a myth that exposure to radiation is carcerogenic and have negative effects on our health, or is it a terrifying reality on how damaging the effects can be to our children's generations and those coming ahead.

If I have a doubt, I'll investigate.
And as for everything else, there is always contradictory information. I would like to stick to pragmatism, and for that it might be that I'll find some answers within the scientific community less subjected to the pressure of the industry (I would naïvely guess...). Health authorities are not either doing a good job since there is a huge amount of conflict of interests, so it leaves us, parents to have the biggest role on the impact and usage of this machinery i our childrens lifes at home and at school.

Here's what I found:
"WiFi, emits radiation that causes a myriad of serious health effects, including damage to DNA, cancer, and infertility. Research shows that autism, ADHD, and other behavioral problems are also associated with wireless radiation exposure. Many scientific and medical experts have issued warnings because of the evidence before them. 
Solutions are readily available. Computers in schools can be connected to the internet via wired technology, which does not emit RF microwave radiation, and is both faster and more reliable.

WiFi emits RF radiofrequency microwave radiation. Both wireless routers and wireless computers contain transmitters that send information back and forth through the air. Microwave radiation is able to penetrate walls made of wood, metal, and concrete. It can also penetrate our bodies.

There are literally thousands of peer reviewed studies, conducted in laboratories and field studies from around the world, that show wireless radiation to be harmful. " source 

As a parent it have the choice to get concerned, or get too busy to bother. I know that I have been thinking about this issue, but it was not until I attended a course on energy medicine that I stopped to say :wait a minute, I have been terribly nonchalant about this! When looking closer on how electric fields influence our body response, I decided to investigate further and take action.
Here we have  professor Olle Johannson from Karolinska Institutet giving a glimpse of the true nature of the matter.

So for all that we still don't know, the things that still remain to be proven, and the ones that might already be a sign of caution,  why not try to do the following for our children's sake (our own too since we are usually less concerned about ourselves):

while using ipads and iphones:

- Airplane Mode turned ON
- WiFi turned OFF
- iPad placed on the table and not held in the hands or rest on the lap
- Apps download should be done via wired connection

- check how far the children are from the wifi connection and if it is to close from the room they are    sleeping in.

- take away iPads, computers and cellphones away from the room while sleeping or turn the wifi off puting them into airplane mode.

- consider hardwire (cable connection)

- do not let them carry the cellphone closer to the body (neither should you!)

If you wish to do further reading:

http://wifiinschools.com

http://www.safeinschool.org/2013/03/ipad-wifi-radiation-captured-on-videos.html
Check also Youtube for professor Olle Johannson and other linked videos on the matter.

Be safe!

Practice random kindness. Maybe you can start with yourself

We are blind to the swings

I have been in love lately...

Ayurveda is really a subject that has caught my curiosity and interest for the last few months.

Being inspired today by some articles and videos in the scope of  maintaining our well being, I share this paragraph from the cooking book "warmth" from the Mudita Institute  with the people out there that suffer from blood sugar swings like me.

It is a quite common place advice, but how often are we paying attention to our body needs?

“If we take the time to stop around midday & eat a decent meal, we are rewarded with energy levels that are stable throughout the afternoon & are less liable to suffer from sugar cravings resulting from afternoon swings in blood sugar.”

“Most of us don't understand our minds & bodies very well & keep living in ways that ensure we never will. We often speak of ‘balance’ in our lives, but few of us really feel comfortable & confident knowing just what elements are actually needed to bring out our best; to give ourselves a feeling of health & wholeness as a human being. True balance is about feeling settled in a warmer, more patient, more precise way of being that addresses our fundamental desire to take deep care of ourselves & of others.”

 

Have a nice and warm day :)

The anti-meat-eating lobby

I have always been very interested about how things are done, food beeing produced and processed.
When I buy something, I usually tend to look at the item and picture it's chain backwards, from the source until it came to my hands.

While developing my little organic clothing brand I got to see really closely the ugly truth of the textile industry. What we acquire, wherever that is, is an apparent form with a background that we often do not want to see.
It is easy not to know, because it usually hurt us less in our daily lifes when we already too busy and overwhelmed with our jobs, stresses and emotional problems. Beeing also concerned, would take too much energy.
I am aware, that we, the consumers, are the ones truly capable of making consistent and durable changes in the whole industry: we have the unshakable right to demand the best. And the industry will listen believe me, if you stop consuming this and that because it no longer serves you.

If we take a closer look into the food industry, and we take meat as an example: this really red yummi piece of roastbiff wrapped in a not so yummi PVC package (proven cancerogenic by the way... And wondering how the contact with it may or may not contaminate the food), do you care how it landed in your plate?

Well, there is something called "the concept of clean protein, recalling us the rules of certification for organic foods, which state that it is free from pesticides. According to the Environmental Agency, 90 to 95 percent of all pesticide residues are found in meat, fish and dairy products". Where and when did we miss out this information, did we avoid it or has it be hidden from us?

We have undoutably the social responsibility of  knowing what we are eating and giving to our kids and the necessity of wanting to educate ourselves to recognize pesticide-free meat/vegetable/fruit.

I am not going to go into details but here are some points that one should consider about clean protein if you wish to continue eating meat:

- Humanely raised animals,
- Drug-free reaised animals,
- Antibiotic-free meat,
- Artificial-free grown hormones used,
- Natural grassy diet raised animals,
- Low-stress environment raised animals.

For all the above choose an organic certified source.

As a vegetarian myself, I have stoped eating meat for several reasons. The one that is on the top of my list is defenetly that I was feeding my system with non-beneficial, unhealthy and sick rubbish. If you still are a meat lover, you could try finding organic certified alternatives. They are certainly more expansive, but decreasing the harmfull effects on your health and environment.

If you wish to slowly try the wonders of vegetarianism and still get your necessary protein intake, then you could look into some other options like introducing the following into your diet:

- soyabeans
- eggs
- spinach, broccoli, cauliflower and parsley
- almond nuts
- beans
- rice

Just to compare, we find more protein ,(plant and meat protein are slightly different and there is some adjustments to make the account for the necessary daily intake because they are absorbed differently in our system), in a broccoli ( around 45%) then in a beef stake (25,8%). Parsley contains 34%, and chicken 23%... Of course we need to weight what we are eating and choose a balanced diet.

But these are only a few figers to help us understand the meat/veggy worlds and the alternatives available out there for us.

If you wish to know more, here are 2 good resources:

- "Food as medicine" by Dharma Singh Khalsa
- http://www.vrg.org/nutrition/protein.php

Don't forget, eat healthy, and if you do not want to do it yourself, help your kids eat better, they will appreciate it!

*The information given in this text was based on the 2  mentioned sources.

Celebrate your greens

We are almost there so it feels.
We can hear it, we can feel it and we can certainly see it!
Spring is right around the corner.

I thought we could celebrate it accordingly with a shade of green :)

Green pea soup
1bag of frozen organic green peas
1/2 bag of fresh organic baby spinach
1/3 can of coconut milk or cream
1 chunk of ginger
1 cube of organic vegetable stock

There is probably a hundred ways of doing this, but I'll give you the practical version:

Boil more than 1/2 liter of water with the stock and sliced ginger.
Boil the green peas until their done.
Add the baby spinach and let them cook 3 min.
Add the coconut milk and boil utterly 3-4 more min.
Take out the pan and mix the soup in a mixer. It's done :)

Go out, sit down and make a toast to the explosition of green that is coming ahead!
Cheers!

The genius of you

This weekend i have been reflecting much about geniality or the fear of lacking it and falling shamely into the bore of mainstream.

The thing is that i observe - this a theory, and I might be wrong - that Facebook as become the place where people materialise their geniality or the lack of it. The place where publicly they allow others to like or be silent to their work, words, pictures, life, fragments. It's the place where they grasp for acceptance, popularity, out of the common facts and things, attention.

If it's liked, it's seen. If not, it's a unpopular boredom or unmaterialized geniality.
But why do we often think of ourselves as the genius, the one that is different, the one that has something to show. The better life, the better picture, the better art, the better you/me. Why do we have a layerd ego that we put out there to be scrutinised and peeled to the core?
Is mainstream never gonna be the hipe?

This reflection just threw me to next thought: there might be a whole parallel world out there, ruled by the invible unpopular unspoken geniuses.
The one that don't share on Facebook, the world of the quiet.
As an example:
The depth of me/you is more likely to unexist because it's unseen, thou it's still there, real to me/you but unavailable to the world. If that dimension could be grasped, the one that is ruled by those who don't show up, we would have better art, better speaches, politicians, books, better administration, fotography, schools... Better as in genius.

I guess for me, rather than believing there is a dimension of true Genius, I will be praising the mainstream, the ability of being oneself at the thin line of unpopularity. There, there will be certainly some hidden geniality for many to grasp.

Music as a good habit

How is music inspiring me?

Sometimes I wonder how deep it can go, and the places it can deeply move in a split second.

It makes me wonder what we humans are made of.

We do not only have a mind and a body and emotions stuck to the surface of our skin. It goes all far beyond that. Listening to a track like this just makes me lift off into the inscrutable mystery of consciousness, like I am here in my physical body but really I am far beyond it, somewhere where it's not here or there. 

Maybe it's just me. Maybe it's also you. And if so, we are both not here, maybe we are in the same place listening and being almost the same thing: the sound in the silence.

Go and check for yourself, maybe you'll get inspired too. Bon Iver 

Let me hear you say...

Smooth monday

So this is how it goes:

1/2mango

1 clementine

2dl coconut milk or cow milk or even water

Hand full of fresh veggies ( ruccola, baby spinach)

1 chunk of fresh ginger 

Pinch turmeric 

Mixer!

Oh wait, what is that brown thing in the picture? It's a chocolate bite! It goes superbly with it, and it leaves a smile on your Monday morning grumpy face! Some good ingredients to start a great week :)

Muaaaaahhhhhaaaa