"Make every day a celebration to
Earth and yourself by keeping in your mind and heart that Earth
is like you."
Defending Mother Earth
no compromise!
19 February 2007
So much time as passed by? I can't believe it!
Well, here we go again. I thought that maybe I would need a
some sort of "program" to help me progress on my path, day by
day. I feel like I'm heading, but everywhere at the same time.
That's not really good. So, I made a program this last week,
and I will try it for the next to come.
Week 1: awareness
To be green and aware, it is to be in harmony with Mother Nature.
It is to:
- provide the best product possible for the self and
Mother Earth
- improve the vitality of life
- protect and restore the quality of life and the natural
environment.
For now, as it is still winter (even if I'm beginning to
work in the green houses), I'm working on my awareness by
meditation and inner works. I'm grounding my self to Dana each
day. I'm also opening my five senses, which is crucial in
awareness.
Here's how to do it:
Earth Grounding
Meditation.
Helps to
focus one's attention on the here and now.
Begin by taking a deep, slow breath in ....release slowly out.
Do several times paying attention to your body responding by
allowing stress and tensions to flow out of the body and away.
Close your eyes and picture yourself as your favorite tree.
Feel roots sprouting from the soles of your feet and searching
deeper ....deeper ...into mother earth, into Dana. Feel strong
....feel rooted.....feel grounded...feel true and in perfect
peace. When you can feel the strength that comes from being
fully grounded in the earth, move your thoughts up your legs,
torso, shoulders, neck, face, up to the top of your head by
taking the energy that Dana is giving you. Sip the energy,
with your roots, like a straw, feel it growing, pulsing, a
refreshing energy. Feel branches sprouting from the top of
your head, reaching ...stretching ...opening ....towards the
sky. Higher.....higher ..towards the sky. Feel the great
expansion from your branches. Bring Dana's gift into to sky,
to the stars. Feel the light, feel the peace and the love.
Inhale slowly up the trunk of your body and exhale through the
branches over your head. Feel the cycle of breath energy
coming up from your roots and showering over your head through
the branches. Continue for a few more breaths. When you are
ready, open your eyes. Feel stronger. Feel grounded. Still,
you are always connected.
Repeat this meditation as needed.
Other things that may help you feel grounded is to take off
your shoes and allow your bare feet to play directly on earth.
It is great to do this meditation in a garden or a forest. To
"become" green ourselves, a flower, a tree, a simple
grass...You may also wish to hold a handful of fresh dirt in
your hands, to feel the energy that is in the soil. You may
even try to bring it into the house and place in a bowl (maybe
added to your altar) and add crystals around, to bring your
focus to the earth.
Wearing jewelry or meditating with some of the following
gemstones may also help! Hematite, Onyx, Black
tourmaline, or Tiger's Eye. You can also wear articles of
clothing that are black, brown, or other earth tones to help
you with the feeling grounded.
Five Senses
Meditations
This meditation is so
simple, yet it is vital.
First week: concentrate on
earring
Second week: concentrate on seeing
Third week: concentrate on smelling
Fourth week: concentrate on tasting (a mint, an orange, a good
wine...meditating wile eating is something I never done, but
WOW! You have to try this!)
Fifth week: concentrate on feeling (feeling the floor, the
air, our cloth...incredible!)
After all those weeks, you are beginning to recognize some
changes. Changes in your Self. The famous I of Rudolf Steiner!
6 February 2007
Shopping I was, last week! Imbolc came with its blessings,
and I could feel its energies, pushing me to plan my future
garden. Imbolc is "In the Belly", in the Cauldron of
Inspiration. Cerridwen was there, and I worked as ever,
seeking seeds, getting boxes and gloves. Cerridwen helped me
with Her wisdom and inspiration.
The importance of buying organic seeds is vital. The seeds
will push themselves out, seeking the Sun and minerals.
The seed is using itself for energy. Remember the saying:
seeds of life?
Non-organic seeds bathed in some kind of chemicals dirt
(sometime pink). Like the saying "you are what you eat", it is the same
thing for seeds. The seed is everything, have everything to
birth. If she bathed in chemicals, the plant will be chemical. The
seed is the future of the plant.
I cannot emphasized enough why it is so important to eat
organic food, and why I'm seeking and buying organic seeds. If
I could, I would even buy biodynamic seeds!
I read lately that: "The result is that conventionally
grown food is often tainted with chemical residues, which can
be harmful to humans. There is debate over whether dietary
exposure to pesticides at levels typically found on food is
dangerous, but experts say that consumers should use caution.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) considers 60 percent
of herbicides, 90 percent of fungicides and 30 percent of
insecticides to be carcinogenic. Pesticides can have many
negative influences on health, including neurotoxicity,
disruption of the endocrine system, carcinogenicity and immune
system suppression. Pesticide exposure may also affect male
reproductive function and has been linked to
miscarriages in women."
http://www.mercola.com/2003/jul/23/organic_food.htm
"There are numerous POPs which pollute the environment.
Some of those which have given rise for particular concern are
persistent organochlorines. A meeting of the UNEP’s governing
Council in 1995 identified a list of 12 POPs as substances of
clear concern in accordance with the precautionary principle.
These chemicals are all organochlorines. They include dioxins
and furans (PCDD/Fs), which are produced as unwanted
by-products of several industrial processes including
incineration and PCBs and HCB, which have several uses and are
also formed as unwanted by-products. DDT, chlordane,
heptachlor, aldrin, dieldrin, endrin, toxaphene and mirex,
which are pesticides complete the list. The major route of
exposure to POPs in humans is through consumption of food.
Most of the 12 POPs listed by UNEP are widespread pollutants
and are found in foodstuffs from all over the world. Since
POPs are soluble in fats (lipophilic) the highest levels are
usually found in fatty foods such as meat, fish and dairy
products, but POPs can also be found in vegetables, fruit and
cereals. In addition to the general contamination of foods by
POPs, there have also been accidents in which foodstuffs have
become highly contaminated. Greenpeace has issued this report
to highlight the contamination of the human food chain by POPs.
The report sources material from the published scientific
literature."
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/press/reports/recipe-for-disaster-a-review
I also strongly advice to read this: "A Greenpeace true food
guide gives consumers the chance to buy GE free food. The lack
of labelling in many countries mean you can't tell what is in
your food."
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/genetic-engineering
Where to buy organic seeds...hum...well...surprisingly,
there's more and more organic seeds on the market!
http://www.greenpeople.org/seeds.htm
http://www.seedsofchange.com/default.asp
http://www.certifiedorganic.bc.ca/rcbtoa/
http://www.highmowingseeds.com/
http://www.terraedibles.ca/
http://www.richters.com
http://www.brothernature.ca/
http://www.abundantlifeseeds.com/
28 January 2007
I discovered a natural cosmetic product line, and I wanted
to share with you. I tried it, and loved it. It worth
the price, on all three levels.
http://www.heiko.ca/
27 January 2007
Here I go!
I had some thought this week about "why am I doing
all this? Why caring so much about Mother Earth?" The only
answer I got was this : "because we HAVE to".
It is not easy to face the fact that the Earth is damnly
polluted, that we are responsible for this, and that we are
the cancer of Mother Earth (it is the only words that I can
find to describe this feeling). Of course, and thanks Goddess,
some people are working to be better, learning to be better,
and trying to heal Mama Earth.
If some specialists are saying that it is not all our
fault...(ex: heating/freezing natural cycles)...no one can
turn their back to the fact that we are not helping at all.
The melting of North pole, the rising of the Oceans, more
and more floods, hurricanes and storms...all are the
consequences of global changes. Less polar bears, petrole in
the sea, more dry land than ever...this is not a movie. This
is reality!
http://www.cyberpresse.ca/article/20070122/CPACTUALITES/70121127&SearchID=73270458473680
http://www.mre.gov.br/cdbrasil/itamaraty/web/ingles/meioamb/ecossist/amazon/index.htm
So, here I go. This week, I did something (as I will every
weeks, following my "program of actions").
Monday, I opened my cupboard, and watch. What is there? Is
it good, or not?...I have pets (three cats and three
Chihuahua, all saved animals). Goddess knows what's in those
products! Chemicals, additives, perfumes...and don't even try
to read the ingredients! There's none! Hum...too dangerous?
I connected myself to the amazing PETA friendly products
lists. Dear me...all my products were on the BAD list!!!
http://www.caringconsumer.com/
So, I did my first bottle of MY OWN all purpose
cleaner (after hunting for recipe and ingredients, opening my
herbal classes books, did researches, etc...). It's been a year since I wanted to finally make
my own
recipes. Natural, safe (mostly for my dogs and
cats), and very pleasant to smell. I'm quite happy! You should
try, it is so healing (for the self, and Dana).
http://www.care2.com/healthyliving/
I also did a hand dish soap with lavender essential oil...that
is very different of all those artificially chemical pseudo
citrus smell. Thanks Goddess, it is working, and my bottles
have even great looking! I'm now washing my dishes with a
natural soap and a natural sponge (organic and biodegradable).
I remember an article that I read on Unhindered Living
Center about household cleaning products. It is true that most
of them are dangerous for our pets and babies. It is even
written on the bottles. So...if it is dangerous for THEM, it
should be, logically, for US! So...why are they still making
and selling them? Big question! :)
"Household Cleaning Supplies - In 2000, cleaning products were
responsible for nearly 10% of all toxic exposures reported to
U.S. Poison Control Centers, accounting for 206,636 calls.
The most acutely dangerous
cleaning products are corrosive drain cleaners, oven cleaners,
and acidic toilet bowl cleaners, according to Philip Dickey of
the Washington Toxics Coalition. Corrosive chemicals can cause
severe burns on eyes, skin and, if ingested, on the throat and
esophagus. Ingredients with high acute toxicity include
chlorine bleach and ammonia, which produce fumes that are
highly irritating to eyes, nose, throat and lungs, and should
not be used by people with asthma or lung or heart problems.
These two chemicals pose an added threat in that they can
react with each other or other chemicals to form lung-damaging
gases. Combining products that contain chlorine and ammonia or
ammonia and lye (in some oven cleaners) produces chloramine
gases, while chlorine combined with acids (commonly used in
toilet bowl cleaners) forms toxic chlorine gas. (...)Chemicals
that are so-called "hormone disruptors" can interfere with the
body's natural chemical messages, either by blocking or
mimicking the actions of hormones. Possible health effects
include (...) an increasing rates of some kinds of cancers.
The alkylphenol ethoxylates (APEs) used in some detergents and
cleaners have been shown to mimic the hormone estrogen; one
APE, p-nonylphenol, has caused estrogen-sensitive breast
cancer cells to multiply in a test tube study."
http://www.unhinderedliving.com/chemicals.htmlI
will not put out all the stuffs that I still have (too
dangerous). What I will do, it is simply use them less, and
when they will be empty, wash the bottles and put them on the
recycling bag. Bye bye bad products!
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Dana |
Inspired by
Druidry, Anthroposophy and the Goddess Tradition, deeply linked to
simple Eco-feminism and traditional herbology, I will
share a new way of life that is friendly to Dana, Gaia. Can
we heal the Earth? Good question...but for sure, we can heal
the Self linked to Dana.
"Most of us sense that the Earth is more than a
sphere of rock with a thin layer of air, ocean and
life covering the surface. We feel that we belong here
as if this planet were indeed our home. (...) As time passed this warm relationship faded
and was replaced by the frigidity of the schoolmen.
The life sciences, no longer concerned with life, fell
to classifying dead things and even to vivisection.
"Dana" (Gaia or Ge) was stolen from theology to become
no more the root from which the disciplines of
geography and geology were named. Now at last there
are signs of a change."
http://www.ecolo.org/lovelock/what_is_Gaia.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Lovelock
Dana existed before everything; she
existed before Time. Dana, the eternal, prehistoric Earth
Mother goddess (known by the Tuatha de Danann), is fertility incarnated,
a nurturing and protecting mother, mysterious and
powerful, yet gentle and as gracious as a swan. She is life,
pure energy, nurturing mother; everything that lives,
breathing or not, flows with Her, toward Her, through Her. She is the
Earth, the Sea and the Sky, She is Life, She is spirit. All
that is living eventually return to Her, into Her
darkness, Her fertile Earth. We are born from Her, and
reborn, once again, from Her.
She is a
reminder that we must ground ourselves in the reality of
Nature and incorporate all sides of ourselves, be they
pleasant or unpleasant, light or dark.
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