Life In a Nutshell: Simple wisdoms for connecting to self and spirit

Fear of the unknown is a consequence of pretending you know

Life In a Nutshell: Simple wisdoms for connecting to self and spirit

This week's blog has one entry rather than the usual two because today's message is longer than those customarily presented-two or three nutshells full I'm thinking.
Over the thirty some years that I have been practicing as a therapist I've had occasion to note that the nature and extent of human discomfort has had some dramatic shifts.  That prompted me, about 12-15 years ago to begin studying nutrition and herbology because it was becoming more and more apparent, to me, that "You Are What You Eat" is indeed true.
  The dramatic increases in anxiety, depression, autism, adhd, alzheimers, reproductive difficulties,and many other conditions along with the increases in severity of presenting issues led me to believe that it wasn't just about the media and television.  Human misery was becoming too pervasive for that to be the answer. It occured to me that the increasing use, by agribusiness, of substances that are designed to kill living things by attacking their nervous system and or their cellular structure just might be largely responsible for the shifts I was seeing. So, I became one ot the "extremists" that worked with my clients to rid their diets of processed foods and conventionally grown meats and vegetables. The sometimes dramatic changes in my clients proved to me that what I thought to be true was, even though, back then, I would have been hard pressed to provide "scientific evidence" for what I was espousing
  In recent years there have been many studies done on the effects of pesticides and herbicides and here's some of what they say.  Autism, birth defects, brain dysfunction, reproductive dysfunction, Alzheimers, learning diabilities and some cancers to name a few are caused by pesticides.  Herbicides are deadly to embryonic, placental and umbilical cord cells and responsible for DNA damage.
  Self-actualization and being whacked out by agribusiness don't go together. Eat organic and stay away from processed foods.

Life In a Nutshell: Simple wisdoms for connecting to self and spirit

The extent to which you judge, blame, criticize and compare is the extent to which you will experience discomfort in this life.

Life In a Nutshell: Simple wisdoms for connecting to self and spirit

Life doesn't require anything you don't have.

Life In a Nutshell: Simple wisdoms for connecting to self and spirit

Why? Because if it weren't that way it would be different.

Life In a Nutshell: Simple wisdoms for connecting to self and spirit

Fairness is often dependent upon whether or not a person likes what they got in a particular situation.