HealthEdge

This post is a fabulously aware piece about the role of plants in our lives. Highly recommended.  " As we begin (once again) to naturalize ourselves -- both nutritionally and medicinally -- we may begin to discover that there is far more to a plant than just its chemical composition, more than just its list of constituent phyto-nutrients, vitamins and minerals. Rather, and more vital to our personal healing -- as well as to the continuation of life as we know it -- is our becoming acquainted with the organism producing the food or medicine itself. With the life-form, the being." --Daniel Vitalis http://www.realitysandwich.com/visionary_nutrition_food_medicine_life  

Day 4: Why I write about health?...because I believe we all hope to live our days without pain and in full vitality. I know some things you may not. I've seen some things others may not have noticed. If I share these things perhaps we'll all benefit. By writing I hope to keep my children safe and spare them some of my own suffering. Because if I write often enough, and hard enough, and long enough my voice will become clear, unique, and vital. I write because I must. I'm writing to clear the fog from my thinking. To describe...to describe so carefully that I am really seeing. I am writing to transform this life. To transform other lives. Today my friend and I listened to a woman, a very angry woman, pretend she had transformed by alchemy the cancer death of her husband and the miserable indignities he suffered during his brief and horrible illness into paintings. She feigned power and happiness as she shrieked unprocessed anger and grief. When the presentation was ove

So the behavior change folks tell us it's easy! Change is easy if you give it the right conditions. And the right conditions aren't so hard to cultivate, you only need to change any five things in your life to unglue stuckness; that's the word from the work of Robert Kegan, researcher and expert in the world of adult learning. Changes seem to propel development if they involve a number of different development areas including both internal and external shifts. For example, beginning a consciousness practice is an internal process. Going for daily walks is an external process. It would be more likely to create developmental movement to simultaneously take up new internal and external practices in a selection of developmental areas, called lines. Music, cooking, physical fitness, story telling, travel, languages, haunting used clothing stores, represent different kinds of growth lines. So now think of a list of five changes, new areas of growth, you could make. Do you nee