Newsweek Magazine recently published an article regarding a recent phenomena of honeybees dying in large numbers. Some claim it to be pesticides, or a parasite. There are many concerns about our bees, namely honey production, beeswax, and bee pollen - as well as the well-being of a species. Many of us are planting bee loving plants this year to help do our part in whatever way that we can.

Molly of Green Hope Farm recently wrote a blog post on the disappearance of honeybees, and I wholeheartedly agree with her. Molly is a pioneer Flower Essence Practitioner, she is very intuitive, and she intuited this message from the world of the bees. It goes like this:

“The situation is dire but not without hope. The factors behind our disappearance are myriad and form a chain link that is impenetrable at times. As the matrix for our existence is vibrational, we receive the loving vibration of your thoughts and the outpouring of concern as a healing balm. This is a great help to us. So send us love.

The focus of the groups who stand to lose money because of our demise helps us slightly, but love does much more. As far as the GMOs (genetically modified organisms), they are, of course, a problem. They represent a manifestation of a collective disharmony and schism between humanity and the natural world. It is not so much that the pollen of GMOs make us sick, but that the disharmony of the whole direction of agriculture makes it nearly impossible for us to do our work of harmonizing the land. We die of exhaustion with too much to rebalance, as well as from the effects of pesticides.

Along with your loving concern, another specific thing you can do to help us is to do land tuning. This eases our burdens as without your support we must work ourselves to death to clear and rebalance the land. In this way, we are like so many animal species right now. Our service to the world is land harmonizing as well as pollination. Honey is our fuel to keep going in our work. As the land of this country falls into deeper and deeper disharmony, we still strive to do our jobs. We will do our jobs until we drop dead. That is who we are. Because of the extreme disharmony, we are dropping dead in a way that threatens the very survival of our hives and our species in this country.

As you work to tune the land, you ease our burdens and allow for a more balanced appropriation of our energies to land harmonizing. As you share the responsibility to clear land with us, you leave us with enough energy to keep our hives going. We are just one of many species which will die in droves if greater responsibility is not taken by humanity. Each person who involves themselves in land clearing lifts a great burden from the yoke of many animals. That is the hope of which I spoke.

I AM the Deva of Honeybees.”

Molly goes on to give instructions on how to tune the land, clearing out negative vibrations so that all the animals, not only the bees, can live in greater harmony:

Directions for Land Tuning
If you can do this every day for the land that you live, work or care for that would be a wonderful gift to bees and all creation. Even sporadic land clearing is a help. It only takes a few minutes. I have built land tuning into my morning meditation routine so that I do it each day. This is the only way I can keep myself organized, but if this is not feasible for you, it is truly better to do it whenever you remember than never at all.

Humanity’s role in land clearing is to invoke the clearing. The Angels and Elementals of the land will do the actual clearing but they cannot do it without you asking for their help. When we do not get involved it falls to species like the bees to fill the void created by us. Extreme weather will also occur to clean up extreme negativity.

I begin my clearing work each day by grounding myself and the land I am going to clear. I ground us to the heart of the Earth and then I anchor both myself and the land to the heart of God. I ground myself to the HEART of Earth not Earth in general because Earth itself is having a hard time with only its heart being solid ground, so to speak.

When you invoke the divine beings connected to a piece of land to help you, you can be specific, or you can simplify the process by just asking for help from the divine beings connected to the land. You do not need to list specific names to get help. Any genuine request for assistance will get assistance. Right now, the Angels are telling me, “Make this as simple as possible so people actually do this process. We need help.”

After you call in this group, however you do it, ask this group to cleanse, clear, rebalance, and illuminate the land you are clearing. Ask them to clear the emotional, mental, physical, and etheric bodies of the land of everything that is not pure light or divinity.

Ask that the negativity be released through a christed grid. This is not a religious thing, it is simply the name of a filtering system that will not let the specific negativity you have cleared return to that specific piece of land.

You can visualize things getting clearer but visualization is not necessary . The land will be cleansed no matter what because you have asked that it be cleared. It does help to ask that the land that has been cleared be filled with divine love and light. This is a good thing to do because it means that new negativity won’t just sweep in and fill the void left by the cleaning. Instead the void will be filled with love.

That’s it! Thank everyone involved and you are done with the cleaning.

We welcome you to read Molly’s complete informative post.

Its spring time, a great time to flush the liver. All winter we have been eating our hearty soups, meat, and products with fat in order to keep ourselves warm. Now it is time to clean our blood and renew our energy with an easy, simple Spring Liver Flush.

R E C I P E :

1/8th of a Lemon (no peels)

8 cloves of organic garlic

2 TB Apple Cider Vinegar

3 TB Honey

In a blender, combine all ingredients until it becomes a mash like consistency.

Take 1 spoonful (about 1/2 Tablespoon) and eat it in the morning. Do this for three mornings in a row. Your liver will love you! The mash will go to your liver, and act as a cleansing screen for your blood. The garlic is a key ingredient here, as it is a blood thinner, detoxifier, and viral inhibitor. Honey is an anti-bacterial, helping to eliminate bacteria, the vinegar alkalizes the blood and cleanses, and the lemon also alkalizes, cleanses and offers Vitamin C and alkaloids and bioflavonoids (great for vein health). Watch the bags under your eyes, yellow tones to skin above eyes, and aches and pains fade away.

Your liver has a tough job of taking everything you put into your body, and removing anything unhealthy. The liver runs all of your blood through it about 20 times a day! Help your liver do its job by “Cleaning the Screen”. Did you know your liver is the largest organ in your body, after the skin? It weighs about 3 pounds!

We encourage the Liver Flush for whole health. You will notice a boost in energy, elimination of nagging symptoms, and increased bodily health. For even more liver cleansing and toning, try a cup of dandelion root and dandelion leaf tea. Milk thistle is also an excellent nourishing herb for assisting the liver in repairing itself.

Enjoy!

Cara Winship sent this out it is called: God’s hands. She took this picture on Hwy 30, traveling to London, Kentucky. It has given her strength in her times of trouble. She feels she should share it with the rest of the world. We have a God and he’s watching over us.

She e-mailed this picture to News Channel 36 and was contacted by Meteorologist John James. He said that this picture is showing up in all states, around the world. Through each person under the sun, let the will of the Creator be done.

PRESS RELEASE Newswire Friday April 20, 2007

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WEARE, NEW HAMPSHIRE - Garden Plum Enterprises, LLC announced today that its’ herbal healing salve BreastRescue^TM is now available at Earthward Natural Food Store in Amherst, New Hampshire.

BreastRescue^TM is a deep nourishing salve for breasts.

BreastRescue^TM was formulated by Herbalist Wendy Stevens who has fibrocystic breasts, which is a common ailment for women. Wendy’s recipe addresses healing for all stages of life, penetrating breast tissues and promoting healthy, nourished tissue and healthy lymph nodes around the breast area.

Wendy has had four lumps removed starting at age 18, all of which were deemed benign (non-cancerous). After two decades of these tribulations, it is to the point where Wendy’s general physician throws his hands up once a year, saying “you just have lumpy boobs!”

Mammograms and ultrasounds have become no laughing matter, racking up thousands of dollars in medical bills. Having breasts cluttered with lumps was painful, especially as breasts swelled and relaxed over the course of a month. Each time she discovered a new lump, it caused a range of emotions; apprehension, panic, terror, dismay, depression about her body, or lack of confidence in her body; all the types of emotions that contribute to poor health in the first place. In addition, once breast lumps were biopsied, scar tissue was created, which has been proven to increase congestion in the breast. What are we to do when the doctors are cutting away our flesh, putting the fear of cancer into us, scaring and scarring us, and billing us thousands of dollars?

The Wise Years
As Wendy grew older, she recognized what she calls ‘wisdom’ changes in breast tissue as she progressed from maiden to mother and onward to the wise years. With the help of a wonderful book called Breast Rescue? Breast Health! by Susun S. Weed, she created a salve that addresses all of the issues that had confronted her. Wendy’s recipe addresses healing for all stages of life, Breast Rescue alkalizes breast tissue, it binds and removes toxins & heavy metals, some of the herbs are said to dissolve lumps, and balance hormone levels in the tissue. The act of massage itself increases circulation, while the Red Clover cleanses the blood… she thanks nature for this truly remarkable salve. Breast Rescue is a soothing salve that works.Created intentionally extra soft so that it can be applied gently for even the most tender breast. We recommend applying Breast Rescue before bedtime, allowing the ingredients to soak deep into breast tissues during slumber. The longer you take to apply the salve, the better the benefit as self breast massage increases circulation in the breast area. It is also a good time to examine your breasts for any lumps. After applying Breast Rescue, your breasts will feel nourished, you will be relaxed and feel good.

BreastRescue is made with all natural, organic & wildcrafted ingredients. For more information, please visit BreastRescue.com.

By LAURAN NEERGAARD (AP Medical Writer)

Posted April 20, 2007

WASHINGTON - A major change in the national diet is under way: Heart-damaging trans fat is rapidly disappearing from grocery aisles and restaurant food, too. But are its replacements really healthier?

It’s a tricky time for consumers, because the answer depends on the food - and some are losing trans fat only to have another artery clogger take its place, that old nemesis saturated fat.

“Right now the public has to be very careful … if something says ‘trans fat-free,’ what else is in it?” warns Dr. Robert Eckel, past president of the American Heart Association.

Trans fat has become the new fall guy for bad nutrition. Chain restaurants are struggling to get it off the menu after New York City and Philadelphia required restaurants to phase it out by next year. Bills to restrict or ban trans fat in restaurants or school cafeterias have been introduced in at least 20 states.

At grocery stores, the government began forcing food labels to disclose the amount of trans fat in packaged foods last year, and the race was on to see which manufacturers could eliminate it first.

The irony: Americans eat about five times more saturated fat than trans fat. And while gram-for-gram, trans fat is considered somewhat more harmful than its cousin, too much of either greatly increases the risk of heart disease, stroke, diabetes and other ailments.

Trans fat is created when companies add hydrogen to liquid cooking oils to harden them for baking or for a longer shelf-life, turning them into “partially hydrogenated oils.”

There is no single substitute. So food chemists and chefs are taste-testing their way through different cooking oils and fats - both naturally occurring ones and chemically modified ones - to find replacements that don’t alter each food’s taste or texture.

What are the options? There are some heart-healthier oils, called monounsaturated and polyunsaturated oils - such as olive, canola or soybean oils. Unlike trans and sat fats, these liquid oils don’t raise levels of so-called bad cholesterol, or LDL cholesterol.

Frying chicken in canola or soybean oil instead of partially hydrogenated shortening is an easy switch.

But you can’t make, say, a pie crust with olive oil. Industry is finding that the toughest foods to rid of trans fat are baked goods, such as pastries, cookies, pizza crusts.

Substituting animal fats, such as butter or lard, or tropical oils such as palm or coconut oil may keep the taste, but they are super-high in saturated fat.

“You need to find a replacement for a solid fat that doesn’t have the health implications, and that’s the tougher battle,” says Susan Borra of the International Food Information Council. “We are changing the entire fatty acid profile of the food supply, and we’re not sure we know what it’s going to look like at the other end.”

And that’s where the concern comes in. Merely substituting saturated fat for the trans doesn’t give the food more bad fat altogether than before, but it doesn’t make it a healthy choice either, Eckel explains.

So the heart association is beginning a major campaign to teach consumers about the different fats and how to tell what foods they’re in. (It’s partly funded by a 2005 court settlement in which McDonald’s was accused of being too slow to remove trans fat.)

How much fat is too much? Federal guidelines say between 25 percent and 35 percent of total daily calories should come from fats, but the bad fats should make up only a fraction of that. The heart association says less than 7 percent of total calories should be saturated fat - the average American gets about 11 percent now. Trans fat should be less than 1 percent of calories, half today’s average.

A centerpiece of the heart campaign is a Web-based calculator - at http://www.americanheart.org/facethefats - so consumers don’t have to do that math. It tallies just how many grams of fat people of different ages and exercise habits can fit into a day, with lists of foods that fit the bill.

For some people, a single meal of a cheeseburger and small fries would just exceed the daily limit of bad fats. Others who are taller and more active could fit in two burgers and be OK.

Many companies are searching for trans fat alternatives that are healthier than saturated fats, Borra stresses. Indeed, the heart association brought together food makers, food chemists and health experts to explore all the options last fall, and among those generating interest are different ways to blend liquid and harder fats, in hopes of reducing the artery-clogging portions.

For now, reading the food label - the Nutrition Facts panel on the back of the package, not just the “trans-free” icon on the front - is key, says Michael Jacobson of the consumer advocacy Center for Science in the Public Interest.

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EDITOR’S NOTE - Lauran Neergaard covers health and medical issues for The Associated Press in Washington.

There are many natural herbs that are useful for reducing cholesterol, enhancing the diet, and toning and nourishing the heart, arteries and veins. Contact your local herbalist to find out more.

If you have the same dream three times in a row, its bound to come true.

Dreams in the morning, heed the angels’ warning.

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With the recent scare in the U.S. regarding the pet food manufactured with rat poison in it, I was glad when I checked the list of recalls that the food I feed my kitties was not on the list. It made me feel very good about the product choices I had made. Now, two weeks later, my kitties are throwing up their choice wet food every chance they get. And they are also having trouble with the tail end of things. Oh boy, sometimes pets can be such high maintenace! The next morning I find more suprises waiting for me.

The kitty is clawing at my herb closet, she wants some catnip. “Not now kitty, the last thing you need is a kitty high!” I clean things up and the cat is still clawing at the closet.

“OH!” The herbalist in me awakens.

She wants the catnip for her upset tummy. I take a handful and put it in her dish. Both kitties are eating and rubbing and jumping around in it.

Three days later, no more throw up!

Catnip is said to relieve headaches due to stomach upset, and Dr. Jethro Kloss proclaimed

The kitties know the benefits of catnip when their bellies and heads are in turmoil. The loving calm of catnip takes care.
Read more about Catnip.

“Our natural talent is God’s gift to us.
What we do with that talent is our Gift back to God.”
- Leo Buscaglia

by Todd Puntolillo
(reprinted with permission)

If I were given the power to cure just one ill that haunts mankind, I would pass up cancer, breeze by AIDS, and overlook heart disease because curing the malady I have in mind might just cure most of the others as a side effect. The cure I would seek would be the cure of criticism. No disease shrivels up children, destroys the family unit, ruins the business place, incapacitates government, nor produces stress like criticism. The terrible three (criticism, judgment, and complaint) do more to dishearten the spirit and, in general, create misery, pain and sorrow than anything else I have ever encountered. What is sad is that it is so often the vice of the otherwise virtuous person. It is so commonplace that, in many cases, we don’t even pause to take note when words of criticism are voiced. Sitcoms find their success in “put downs” while millions watch and laugh.

Criticism is so hideous that we even label criticism as “constructive” and “destructive” so that we can invalidate someone and tell them that it is for their own good. The need to be right by making someone else wrong is the problem to be addressed. Why not make someone else right by assisting them or letting them go, free of humiliation, so they can learn and grow?

We CAN change the world! How do we change from the damage which is inflicted by blame, censure, ridicule, judgment, complaint, condemnation and criticism? The main objection I hear to this is that “constructive” criticism is needed to make corrections. If your comments do not ridicule, blame, shame, attack or demean someone, then you are suggesting, instructing or in some way assisting someone, and those methods differ from criticizing in their intentionality. Encouraging and helping someone is a form of kindness or caring and differs from criticizing. I think most of us know the difference between being helped and being invalidated.

When you criticize, faces drop and spirits sink. The criticizer announces his own loveless soul when browbeating someone. Criticism teaches children that they are inadequate or unlovable. Blame stops progress in the business environment and undermines every goal. Condemnation and censure perpetuates racism and warlike thinking. What happens to your creativity when you are under fire? Criticism is an excellent tool to intimidate and invalidate someone, teach intolerance, start arguments and alienate others, hurt the feelings of the people who love you, attract criticism to yourself, bring disharmony to a peaceful place, stifle the dynamics of world unity, break up families and break peoples’ hearts and wills.

Knowing that if you don’t perform you’ll be criticized or judged creates stress and mistakes. It is widely accepted that stress is the most common cause of disease? And haven’t we been told that stress kills? That should be reason enough for us to rethink the cruelty of its source.

The cure for this is to care about our own happiness and the happiness of others enough to give up trying to make them wrong so we can look good. We don’t have to be right! At first, this concept sounds threatening. Believe me, in spite of what you’ve always been told, you don’t have to be right all of the time. Once we realize this, life becomes a whole lot freer and easier! Here is your choice (says A Course in Miracles) “Do you want to be happy or do you want to be right?” Why have we heard so little about this before? Because those who criticized us thought they needed to be “right.” Criticism is attack and as such destroys. What is more, the criticized party usually defends himself by making his critic wrong in his own mind. We usually accomplish nothing trying to convince someone that he is wrong. Better to let him know we care and want to help.

Here is how to CREATE THE CHANGE THAT HAS THE POWER TO CURE WHAT AILS OUR WORLD: Lavish appreciation and encouragement on everyone. TEACH gratitude and healthy values. ASSIST those who are making mistakes. ENCOURAGE, BE KIND and remove the barb when you attempt to bring about change. Can you imagine a world where we all behave as if we really WANT harmony? As always, the choice is yours. We really can be part of “THE CURE.”

Let me suggest what I call The Winning Formula:

G+L+T+F=PJI.
In mathematical formulas, that which is on the left side of the equal sign is the same as, or equivalent to, that which is on the right side. The key is to know the value of each symbol. Now I’ll spell this one out to clarify. Gratitude + Love + Trust + Forgiveness = Peace times Joy times Inner strength (Also called Integrity). In order to multiply your sense of peace, joy and power, you need to compound your gratitude with love, trust and forgiveness.

You Can Rise No Higher Than Your Lowest Estimation of Another
Repalacing Ugly Thought
Why forgiveness you may ask? When you were a child and were asked to forgive a friend who wronged you, it was explained that he/she didn’t mean it. You decided it wasn’t so important and resumed play. As you got older, forgiveness meant letting go of something from the past that still ached inside. You could see that it was an attempt to heal hurt feelings that remained painful within you. A bumper sticker on my car reads: Forgiveness means giving up all hope of a better past. You see, the past is gone and the bitterness is a choice. You are choosing whether or not to let YOUR feelings about something someone said or did eat you up–perhaps literally. There is a deeper meaning to forgiveness. It is seeing love in the face of hate, fear or resentment. It is replacing every ugly thought that comes up for us because it is truly the ONLY healthy, satisfying thing to do. Anything less will harm us every day for the rest of our lives. Remember: YOU CAN RISE NO HIGHER THAN YOUR LOWEST ESTIMATION OF ANOTHER.

You Cannot be Grateful and Unhappy at the Same Time
Love Dissolves Fear and Doubt
Gratitude is that simplistic knowing that all is well and everything we have, physical or nonphysical, is a gift. If we were to take the time to count life’s gifts, we could do it all day and into the night. Many of us don’t look deeply enough to see all the good. It is a powerful recognition that multiplies peace and joy exponentially and makes us powerful. YOU CANNOT BE GRATEFUL AND UNHAPPY AT THE SAME TIME.

There is not enough I can say about love. It is our true nature and the truth about creation. Only fear and doubt cloud our perfect vision of love. To cultivate a loving soul is to honor life and extend well-being to everyone we mentally embrace. In the words of Emmet Fox: “It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A SUFFICIENT REALIZATION OF LOVE WILL DISSOLVE IT ALL.”

Trust seems difficult. Although faith is wonderful, I call it trust because the word faith can, at times, project a feeling of helplessness. Trust is an inner knowing that all is as it should be and that the universe is both loving and intelligent. If peace, joy and inner strength are attractive to you, then follow this winning formula. Be grateful. There is so much here for you. Be loving. It warms your heart and blesses others. Trust a perfect outcome–better yet, be trusting now, the only time frame that exists. No need to wait. The overcoming of the suggestion called fear is the great task of humanity today. Forgive those who have done what you consider wrong. They are giving you the opportunity to be loving and grateful. Follow the formula and be part of “THE CURE!”

About the Author
Todd Puntolillo has over 50 years experience in spiritual healing and metaphysics. He is and has been editor and inspirational columnist for the Happy Times Monthly since its incipiency in May of 1995 and is author of his own book Love, Wisdom and Healing. Todd is currently on a local speaking tour entitled The Mystical Secrets of Life. He has studied more than a dozen modalities of healing and teaches healing as a natural, not phenomenal, result of one’s loving consciousness and powerful conviction. For more information, visit his website at www.wisdomandhealing.com

The Creator gathered all of Creation and said, I want to hide something from the humans until they are ready for it. It is the realization that they create their own reality.

The eagle said, Give it to me, I will take it to the moon. The Creator said, No. One day they will go there and find it.

The salmon said, I will bury it on the bottom of the ocean. No. They will go there too.

The buffalo said, I will bury it on the Great Plains. The Creator said, They will cut into the skin of the Earth and find it even there.

Grandmother Mole, who lives in the breast of Mother Earth, and who has no physical eyes but sees with spiritual eyes, said, Put it inside of them.

And the Creator said, It is done.

~ A Sioux Story

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