Shout it From the Heights - "shofar song" free download!

  IT IS NEARING MY FAVORITE TIME OF YEAR…
(scroll to the bottom to skip the story and get the song!)

The fall Feasts of the Lord!  The last 3 of the 7 holy days of YHWH are upon us.  Coming up on the calendar we have:

6.  Yom Teruah/Feast of Trumpets/Rosh Hashanah (commonly known as)
7.  Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement)
8.  Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles)

(I know some who celebrate calculated Yom Teruah was earlier this month and are about to celebrate Sukkot...hope you are having a wonderful celebration! This is a little tardy for your Feast of Trumpets, but nonetheless, sing a new song!).  

Don’t get me wrong, the spring feasts are wonderful.  But there’s something about blowing ram’s horns & hanging out in sukkahs (tent-ish structures) that make these last three extra spicy in my book.  OR maybe it’s because they signify the coming Messiah (riding a white horse with sounding horns…on the clouds with fire kinda stuff) & the events leading to the most radical wedding party of all time.

I like parties, ok?

Dream a Little Dream

Now I'm not one to think everything means something, but I had a rather vivid dream a long time ago (this is relevant to the topic I promise).  My husband and I were going somewhere, but a bit lost and concerned about it.  We weren’t frantic, but we were not settled either.  Finally we end up in a parking lot with my best friend and her husband, at night, overlooking a neighborhood, and the ocean.  Like this:

then this happened

and lastly, this:

Sorry for the bad graphics, but I just did that at 11pm on a cheap design app.

THIS IS IT.  THIS IS IT

So anyway, this seeming shooting star explodes.  Captivating and a little terrifying, but you know what made it weird?  TRUMPET BLASTS were reverberating from the SKY and we were trembling in holy FEAR.  In my dream I remember thinking “THIS IS IT.  THIS IS IT”

Now listen, I’m not saying any doomsday/end of the world/etc. event is going to happen like this.  I don't know what to expect really.  This was just a dream.  However, if I had known anything about the Feasts of the Lord or shofar blasts at the time, this wouldn’t be as strange.  But the thing is, this dream was before I knew any of that.  I had only recently become fascinated with Israel and was mildly curious about Passover.  

Shortly after I read a book called “Feasts of the Lord” and came across part of this verse:

Amos 3:6-8

When a trumpet sounds in a city, do not the people tremble? When disaster comes to a city, has not the LORD caused it?  Surely the Sovereign LORD does nothing without revealing his plan to his servants the prophets.  The lion has roared-- who will not fear? The Sovereign LORD has spoken-- who can but prophesy?

So there's that.  It kind of caught my attention.  Quite a wonder those dreams.  

Moral of the Story

Whatever all that is, I think it might be why I have a special fascination and connection to Yom Teruah (the first of the fall feasts) and LOVE blowing our shofar as often as appropriately possible (so does my husband,  love that my kids are going to grow up with shofar blasts being the norm..).  

That being said, we wrote a song a while back.  It’s called “Shout it from the Heights” and there might be a line in there (multiple times) that says “Sound the great shofar.”  

Free Shofar-Blowing Song Download

In the spirit of the season I’ve made our song Shout it from the Heights available for free download.  Now you can sing a new song while you dance & blow your shofar this Feast of Trumpets.  Oh, and if you don't celebrate Yom Teruah (yet) I highly recommend it.  

See "Google" for more info on that.

Here’s the verse that gave Shout it from the Heights it’s original inspiration:

-Ezekiel 33:1-6- 

"The word of the Lord came to me: 2 “Son of man, speak to your people and say to them: ‘When I bring the sword against a land, and the people of the land choose one of their men and make him their watchman, 3 and he sees the sword coming against the land and blows the trumpet to warn the people, 4 then if anyone hears the trumpet but does not heed the warning and the sword comes and takes their life, their blood will be on their own head. 5 Since they heard the sound of the trumpet but did not heed the warning, their blood will be on their own head. If they had heeded the warning, they would have saved themselves. 6 But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet to warn the people and the sword comes and takes someone’s life, that person’s life will be taken because of their sin, but I will hold the watchman accountable for their blood." 

GET "SHOUT IT FROM THE HEIGHTS" HERE

Shaloha!

Why Permaculture is Permaclutch

Permanent Culture Now

Boring Words

Words are funny things.  They can say so much, just by looking at them.  The word education sounds and looks boring until you put "sex" in front of it (or something of your particular interest).  Casserole...meh. That is, until you’re nose deep in a savory, melty-cheese, meat laden mishmash dish that took only moments to whip together.  

Permaculture sounds and looks like the pinnacle of loaded and boring.  It’s not some dazzling word that gives you a twitch in your clicking finger.  But I think if we all just got past the word itself, most people might actually tune in.  So instead of calling it permaculture, we’re going to call it Permaclutch today:

1. Perma:

A prefix that works with pretty much any word one would like to emphasize the permanent-ness of.

ex. Sheez B...I got so trashed last night - I slipped and took a mean digger. My back is killin' now, B! Pretty sure it's perma-jacked up

2. Clutch: 

Great, Essential, and Potent rolled into a single word. Conveniently awesome. Clutch is also used to describe something that is done, not something that is.

ex. Stealing your orange soda was so clutch. 

(courtesy of Urbandictionary.com)

Therefore:

Permaclutch: Something done that is permanently and conveniently awesome.

Why is Permaclutch so "clutch" anyway?  

A Good Day's Harvest

Let start out with the fact that Permaclutch starts with ETHICS!  Wait, isn't that weird? Aren't we just talking about gardening?

Yes we are, and this is why it's unique.  Here's Permaclutch's ethics:

-Earth care
-People care
-Return of surplus

IMAGINE  if other "gardening" techniques had such ethics!  GMOs WOULD NOT exist.  Like - break those down for a moment.  That's not just some hippie mumbo jumbo.  You have a responsibility as a grower in permaculture, to be sure that you are adhering to the three said ethics.  You must intentionally think of the harm that could be done to the earth or people before you do anything! And when things are growing in surplus, you must return it, either sharing with the people around you, or put it back into the compost bin to close the cycle.  Hows that for accountability?  Guys, ethics in gardening?  It's a thing.  In permaclutch.  Don't be a hater.  This is actually cool.  Keep reading.

Free Food

Maybe it’s just me, but I love free, fresh avocados.  Papayas.  Kabocha squash…  Anything that grows.  Abundant, flavorful, good for me…and free (key word “free.” I think the millennials and socialists could get into this too).  I also don’t like a lot of maintenance.  If I don’t have to brush my hair, put on make-up or shave my legs, I usually won’t.  If a dishwasher will wash the dishes, I won’t.  If I have a plant producing fruit for me to pick in my backyard, I won’t go to the grocery store to get it instead.   Ease of efficiency, you know?  

Now to get low maintenance, there’s an initial downpayment (buy the dishwasher, pay a hair stylist, plant a seed)… you can’t expect to do absolutely nothing and get something.  BUT what if the up front investment turned into a consistent cash flow? Or should I say *food * flow.    

One word guys: Permaclutch.  Your deepest efficiency needs and desires for "free food" can be met.  Recipe calls for basil...don't want to run to the grocery store for four sprigs of basil that cost $3.50?  Don't have to! Just walk outside.  If you take one thing with you from this, let it be that Permaclutch = Free Food.

The Mama Bear

Most people I know, including myself, have had some serious garden woes.  We hop onto the “grow your own groceries” bus, fresh out of the institution,  and ready for adventure but we don't know anything.  We jump in feet first & slip on the first stair and it’s all a bloody disaster.  Everything dies, tomatoes catch disease, squash gets implanted with fruit fly larvae & our efforts wither into hades.  That’s how I’ve felt anyway.

But suddenly: (ta da!) Permaclutch.

Great.  Another flipping way to grow your vegetables.  Hydroponics, aquaponics, agroforestry, sustainable agriculture, vertical gardening, hugelkultur, raised beds, chinampas! …all these hot words that are supposed to light your flame of produce passion.  

Chinampas!  

I mean, yes, those are all great words, but here’s the difference.  All of those outline one way to garden.  Aquaponics is great…but it’s limiting.  Organic gardening has it’s pros, but there are certain pesticides that are still used that are questionable, therefore, limiting.  I hate being limited!  

Hugelkultur

Permaclutch is different because it takes all of the clean gardening techniques (clean meaning pesticide-free) and is a big inclusive mama bear of a method.  Use them all within the system.  Mix and match your methods, intermingle...go crazy.  But don't forget your ethics.  You have to think (kind of a lot) before you go spreading your seed around (practical advice in at least one other situation I can think of).  

What I really mean is that maybe your garden herb spiral should be right by your kitchen door (pretty, practical & convenient)!  Veggies & greens - nearby for picking & tending.  Fruit trees get to live a little farther away, because you don't access them as frequently. We call this zoning. Need a better watering system?  Put a bird swale on it.  Conserve moisture?  MULCH it (see "I Love You So Mulch" for more on that).  You see, there is a system to the maddness.  It is actually creating a natural ecosystem that mimics nature.  The goal is that the created ecosystem will support itself entirely in 5-6 years.

(Um...that's AWESOME, remember the part about your downpayment paying off?  For lots of free food?).  

One man at the start of his permaclutch legacy

Things that seems so obvious, yet we don't know or never think of on our own.  There is a lot more where that came from.  It’s the EPITOMY of what food production can and should be (and I’ll tell you this, will save the world far faster than any of it’s G-MO foes).  

Problem is, it starts with the individual.  It can only start from the bottom.  Big ag has no chance in permaclutch.  Permaclutch is about YOU and ME growing fresh, easily acquired food, trading with your permie neighbors and growing a community of abundance.  Over abundance in all aspects, really.  It’s kind of a big topic to tackle, but fortunately it is much more tackle-able than your home depot 10x10 failed garden plot built in dead bagged dirt.

So What Now?

What if?

It is up to you.  Fail at growing tomatoes for the last time until you renounce growing, declare a black thumb and succumb to buying pesticide laden food.  Depend on a system of sham & big money to feed your children.  If S*#& hits the fan and the trucks and boats stop coming, get ready to swap your kidney for your next dinner.  

-OR-

That's Better.

Look into permaculture and save the world starting in your own backyard (or front yard, or balcony, or roof, or acreage, whatever).  Quite literally.  The melange of ways to garden naturally that actually do work all rolled into one big package is a truly beautiful world to discover.  SO GO FLIPPING DISCOVER IT.  I DARE YOU.

Start here to discover Permaculture
^watch some cool videos that will inspire! Remember: Free food!

Shaloha!

"Good Medicine" Anniversary Giveaway!

Anniversaries!

August is/has been a big one for us.  We FINALLY celebrated our 6 year anniversary this past weekend (May is our actual marriage month…), the other day was my parent’s anniversary, and this month is our 10 year dating anniversary.  

1st official "date." Wowzers!  Weren’t we cute?  And young?  How's my mom's mauve blinds? 

This month happens to ALSO be the 3rd year anniversary for…wait for it… our most recent album! HA! Talk about retired.  But really, we wrote a lot as a duet prior to babies, and lately - together - we’ve been working on a whole lot of nothin’.  

That’s why I’m making a big deal out of this 3 year anniversary… because somehow this album has stood the test of time (OK, my test of time), and seems to hold it’s value.  I always and still do get embarrassed at my other old music…I can’t understand why anyone is into it.  However, this particular album I don’t think I will ever feel that way about.  It’s good, and I think you’ll like it too.  

The Giveaway Part

SO to keep it fresh and to get you jiving… I’m giving away 3 digital albums to 3 winners to celebrate 3 years!  Here’s to a little “Good Medicine” to soothe those over-POPped ears.

Here's what you can do to enter:

-1 entry - Share this post on your FB page.

-2 entries - Subscribe*

-3 entries - Share & Subscribe*

-4 entries - Comment which bible verse our album title is based off of and Subscribe* to get blog notifications. 

*Uptop ^^ FYI I never spam email, and only post a blog about every 3-4 weeks...so don't worry about being email bombarded.  I don't have time for that!

To keep it classy, entries will be a 1 time thing.  None of that "enter every day" hogwash.

I'll handwrite the entries on slips of paper on the end of the 26th and my husband will pick the three winners out of a hat... the old fashioned way!  


And if you aren’t a winner but you want to listen to it, or have already and really dig it, you can get it here.

Shaloha!

Building Dreams

Hey!  My month long break is over.  I’m back!  But I haven’t just been fiddling around all this time…I’ve been growing cannabis! - permaculturally of course.  

JK.
Really.  
I’m really kidding!  

If this is your first time here and you are confused, it’s because you missed my last post: I'm Coming Out.  

But really, we have been busy and are finally reaping the rewards of a year’s hard work.  Indeed…we have built a dream.  A dream that is a house.  On half an acre.  On Kauai.  (I am dreaming, am I not?  Is this reality?!) 

The whole process was a whirlwind wonder…how we ended up with a slice of jungle while I was 8 months pregnant and raising a 1.5yr old, with a year timeline to finish this thing, also about 4 months into starting a brand new vintage coffee trailer business…not to mention a few other financial hurdles that should have made this house impossible. 

The driveway.  Off to the right is our little cliff.

Not that everyone is a pray-er, but the thing is, we knew that we couldn’t do it by ourselves.  I am not sure what I believe about destiny - I think we play a big part in it and it’s not all worked out necessarily - however, I think that some blessings God simply likes to make happen, if you let Him (like how my man and I met, but that’s a story for another day).

So we prayed that if it was supposed to happen, He would make it happen, and walk us through it.  There were some moments of testing, but to be honest, it was somehow not that stressful.  If you’ve ever heard the term “give it up to God,” you can be sure that is what we did.  We “let go and let God”…yes I am full of cliche christian phrases tonight!  But seriously,  we simply knew it was not in our control, so we rolled with it.  And I will NEVER downplay the blessings beyond blessings many of our friends and family bestowed on us in a variety of vital ways. THANK YOU!

Forever I believed that I wouldn’t ever own a home.  It seemed unattainable and impractical.  It didn’t make sense to stay put like such.  Then I started learning about permaculture (a nomadic lifestyle doesn’t work so well with growing things on the long-term).  Then we got a dog.  Then we had a kid.  Then we found out we were having another kid.  Suddenly things got R E A L.  Buying a house on our smug little island was not a financial option and we were looking into alternatives.  Big Island, mainland, NZ, living on parent’s properties…any and all cost-effective possibilities were on the table.  

Well, a year ago the dirt I’m sitting above was a rugged, steep, muddy-buffalo grass, bamboo-consumed mess.  A piece of tropical wilderness next door to my mother in law’s house that had desperately tall avocado trees & felt like more like an easement between properties than anything.  However it had a mystery about it.  It had a strange shape that you couldn’t formulate because the overgrowth masked it’s potential - and it’s treachery.  Our builder frequently called it his “nightmare job”, and initially told us it couldn’t be done.  Working with our “skeleton budget” as he so graciously put it, I think secretly he rather liked the challenge.  Regardless, lets just say the fact that I’m sitting 25 or so feet above the dirt below, with a roof and flooring and running water…it is truly a miracle.  And yes, 25 feet up is tall.  Since it’s on practically a cliff, it is super high from the bottom of our back yard.

So while there is still work to be done, we are in.  And it feels like a million bucks.  On top of that, I’m in the beginning stages of my first official permaculture project - not just a design, but the whole shebang.  Mulch and swales and puppy dog tails… I mean herb spirals.  There will be climbing vine walls, keyhole gardens, food forest, a banana circle, plenty of comfrey, pinto peanut ground cover and food for days (a blog on that at a later date).

All I can say is that ALL things, are DEFINITELY possible.  Glory to God, for sure.  This post is semi-pointless, only really to share the journey, show some fun pictures of this “nightmare job” and encourage you to do what cannot be done.  Because that attitude is not going to get you anywhere, and I bet somehow "it" can be done, whatever “it” is.  So go! Do it.

Here’s some pictures.  Yay!

All taken from MIL's front porch: 
Upper - Raw land - all of the trees to the right are avocados
Lower - after some weed whacking, tree cutting and putting up a mini shed.  Don't worry there are about 10 more avocado trees to the right of the picture.

Same view after some light earthworks.  Shed had to come down :)

20' bottom columns

Hey it's a house! (Entry on other side)

My personal favorite part of the house: Entry door view.

The interior is still in progress.
Eventually this will be a long table with wall bench.
And soon an epic original painting from StephieAnnMay

The back porch view...Up in the clouds.

House Materials:

Flooring: Home Depot Pecan Lakeshore Laminate

Kitchen: 

Cabinets - Golden Cabinets & Stone

Koa Countertops - Courtesy of Rich T., built by Jon M.

Sink & faucet - Amazon baby (and about a million other household items)

Dining Room: 

Pendant Shade - DIY fashioned to be similar to THIS

Chairs - Craigslist special

Shaloha!SaveSave

I'm Coming Out

Wisdom Bestows Well Being

Remember that time you were wrong about something but you just acted like you always believed otherwise?  Like, you’re all for Round-Up as a pesticide (glyphosate is the active chemical ingredient) to use safely around your home and children and on your food, and suddenly the CDC recognizes it (WHO too) as a carcinogen, worse than DDT …and now you swear it off like the plague, like you knew how terrible it was all along?  

We have all done it.  Thought one way about something - a bit unstudied on it perhaps - then someone brings our attention to an opposing view on it, and after some weighing and searching, we realize we were wrong about it…but in the mean time act like we knew all along?

Well I’m not going to pretend I always knew.  I have always been extremely anti towards "this thing" (thing will be revealed shortly).  But not now, and sooner rather than later this topic is all but going to burst forth from it’s stigmatized little bubble and enlighten us all on it’s health potential.  Even though I know there’s still a lot of controversy on the subject, I’m staking my claim now.  I was wrong, and there is really something to this. We’re going to talk about how wrong I was and why.

Don’t Know What You Don’t Know ’till You Know It

A couple of months ago, someone whose opinion I value, posted something on FB (talk about FB posts not changing people’s minds…they can and they do. I’m not saying about what yet, because we have to ease into this).  The fact that this level-headed normal person (in my book) posted something about this particular subject surprised me, and I clicked.  The article didn’t change my mind immediately, but it spurned my curiosity.  

Over the past few months now I have been looking more and more into this subject.  After having negative opinions about the subject for years, I am rather surprised at just how 180 I’ve gone.  Basically I am now a firm believer in it’s benefits and have come to the point where I can’t be silent about it anymore, because not to share is downright shameful (ie. being scared of the reputation related consequences), and there are too many people suffering due to not knowing.  If me saying this “out loud” will get a conversation started that could help a sick person get better…it’s worth it.

You see I have to preface this, because it comes with a stigma that is hard to see beyond, particularly if you aren’t familiar with the research that is now coming out on the topic.  Some are already well aware of what I’m going to say, and to you I say, “Be Louder!”  There are supporters on this topic - I am finding - that are in the closet about it because of the stereotyping that comes along with it.  Well, I just don’t care anymore, because it has too much good potential to be tight lipped about.

I even feel like I’m late to the game on this.  However, I know a lot of people who would think me quite radical to be saying what I’m about to say.  If what I say surprises you, and you aren’t there yet, I assure you - there is a wealth of information that if simply googled, may likely begin to change your mind on the topic.  Don’t take my word for it.  Go find out about it for yourself and draw your own well-researched conclusions.  

So here goes, I’m coming out

Cannabis is healthy! Very, very healthy.  

Let me preface with this: I’m not a stoner.  In fact, I haven’t touched the stuff since a few failed attempts in 11th grade.  But if I get sick, I assure you I will be finding a way to get my hands on CBD oil (a type of oil made from Cannabis), and juicing the plant for it’s healing benefits.  The potential for healing with this stuff is proving to be crazy!  If there becomes a legal way to take supplements in the future, like any medicinally useful plant, I will probably juice it, along with my turmeric, ginger & moringa.  Believe it or not, it can be consumed (without getting high!) a number of ways alongside a healthy lifestyle, clean diet & other raw food supplements for whole body wellness.  You guys…the evidence is mounting, in fact the mountain of positive health uses is getting as high as everest (pun intended).  It’s even made its way onto cancer.gov as a tumor shrinking & growth blocking treatment. I'm an interesting link too, check me out.

Washington, Alaska, Colorado, Oregon…these states are onto something.  It is a plant that God created, that has wildly positive elements for our body’s health that we’ve demonized into this slacker drug.  Sure, anything can be and is often used irresponsibly (alcohol, cheetos, antibiotics, Facebook..to name a few).  Anything can be abused in a manner that can harm yourself or others.  But lets think for a second…The side effects from cannabis are occasional disorientation and psychoactivity (usually only when heated, or using plants with a higher level of the THC component rather than the CBD component), but it’s a plant that actually heals your body, and it comes free, from a seed out of the earth.  No one has ever died from direct use or overdose on Cannabis in any of it's many forms.  No one.  As opposed to the other option: pharmaceuticals, that have dozens of small print, often very negative side effects (burning from the inside out, anyone?) also from which tens of thousands die from every year (alcohol use has a much higher death toll as well).  These drugs make a small elite very wealthy, and these drugs only treat symptoms - they don’t actually heal your body.  If you want a good moral absolutes shake up, check out this docu: The Culture High.

Say it with me: Illegal Plant.  Illegal Plant.  A plant that is illegal?  You can make a plant illegal?!  What if we found out rolling and smoking banana leaves had a relaxing, sometimes psychoactive effect, are we going to outlaw growing bananas? But bananas are so good for you!  Just because people *potentially* can misuse the leaves, we're going to nullify the benefits of bananas for everyone else?  The logic is ridiculous.

I’m not an expert and I’m not going to pretend I am.  It was only a few months ago I literally scoffed at the legalization of recreational cannabis use in some states.  But the tides have turned.  I'm for it.  A plant should not be illegal.  What can be illegal is irresponsible usage.  If someone needs or wants to use it for its insanely beneficial health properties...they definitely should be able to!  Or use it to calm their nerves, like a nice glass of wine would, perhaps they should be able to.  Or if they want to have it free - like grow it for themselves (gasp!), they should be able to - medical card or not - it grows like a weed after all.  Medical cards are just one more way to give your $$ to Uncle Sam - yay!  If it were legal, besides its health elements, over time the allure of it as a psycho active drug would fade.  It would be about as exciting as growing and juicing turmeric, or kava (powder from a root that creates a muscle relaxing drink).  Anyway, we'd put a plug in the drug cartel's MJ smuggling and free up some prison space for more serious criminals (and the prison issue...OMG just watch the documentary from above.  Mind. Blown.) 

So there you have it.  A mom that writes lullabies, believes in following Torah and is an advocate for responsible cannabis use all in one.  If  you don’t believe me yet about all this cannabis-goodness, get over your preconceived ideas about it and search it’s health benefits in google.  Search how it stops seizures.  Search how it has blocked, shrunk and diminished cancerous tumors in tons of people (along with a healthy diet & lifestyle).  Search how it’s used for alzheimers, asthma, swelling, brain injury, etc. etc. Search “health benefits of cannabis” or “CBD oil and cancer” or whatever you’re curious about.  You won’t find a lack of it.  If you already know all of this…wonderful.  Please share your knowledge.  If not, I hope I’m spurning your curiosity.

Shaloha!

PS...The Culture High it's crazy good.

Spritz! After a Sunny Day Spray

I am skeptical of anyone who doesn’t love summer.  I get enjoying the winter cold, springtime flowers and colors of fall, but lying under a tree after a salty swim with the summer heat & breeze keeping you at the perfect temp all at once…it’s hard to beat.  Granted last summer I was 7-9 months pregnant and it was one of the hottest summers on record over here…so while a bit sweaty, it didn’t alter my outlook on the perfection of summertime.

Over the years of learning a great deal about our bodies, our health, our nutrition and the like, I have adjusted our sun exposure habits as necessary.  I’ve switched to using homemade sunscreens, am always on the lookout for a “stylish” sun hat for all family members (definitely a relative statement depending on your tastes), keep a rashguard on the keikis during the hottest hours of the day, and eat lots of watermelon!  Want to know a fun fact?  Watermelon and some other delicious fruits and veggies have SPF qualities.  So eat up!

Even with all the precautions, sometimes, we end up a little bit toasted.  Particularly because I fail to always reapply after swimming.  Surprisingly I’ve managed to keep my kids from getting super roasted, and while that could partially be due to their father’s skin genes (those Spanish olive tones that tan so dang perfect), on occasion we end up with pink noses & shoulders, and dried out tired skin.  When that happens I apply this sweet little tincture to give a soothing cool effect… and the healing properties of aloe and the Essential Oils don’t hurt!

Here’s the recipe:

2T distilled water
2T Raw Aloe Vera Gel (or Aloe Juice or gel if need)
1T Vitamin E oil
1T witch hazel
15 drops lavender
5 drops peppermint (leave this out if applying on baby)
5 drops tea tree
5 drops copaiba

Directions:
1. Blend all ingredients well in blender
2. Pour into 4 oz sprayer (any unblended raw aloe will get stuck in the spray nozzle! make sure it’s blended into a non-chunky liquid). 

The vitamin E acts as a short-term preservative, so you can keep it out of the fridge for the duration of summer, but I prefer to keep it in the refrigerator as the temperature of the cold makes it that much more refreshing!

Shaloha!

Burn, Bane and Butcher

We're going to talk about something on the serious side today.  Cancer.  It is a word that incites fear, which I believe is one of the worst feelings to harbor, and I also believe is unnecessary.  So little is understood about cancer by the masses, it is seemingly a death sentence.  According to cancer.org the average man has a 42% chance of developing it in their lifetime, and a woman, a 36% chance.   However when presented with preventative actions to better your chances, most people "keep on scrolling."  Most submit to defeatism before they even have cancer with a quiet fear they will someday hear the dreaded diagnoses (eg. "everything kills you these days, I'm not going to change anything").

Lets talk about today's modern treatments for cancer:

1.  Chemotherapy (bane, or poison - kill everything in its path and destroy your immune system)

2.  Radiation (burning - just scorch the tumor off)

3.  Surgery (cut it out like a butcher to a flank steak).

4.  Go home and die.

 Wow!  It is not my intent to start off sounding bleak, but the “reality” of getting cancer, generally is.  We are in the 21st century and that’s the best we can come up with for conventional cancer treatment? After billions upon billions of dollars have flooded through the “cure cancer” foundations and research and awareness groups…this is really the best we can do??

It makes me furious.  And you know why it makes me furious?  Because the barbaric treatments used in conventional medicine today are ineffective and outdated.  Not to say that it never works.  Sometimes people survive, but they barely survive, after being processed through a hellish "one size fits all" cancer cattle chute.  

What most people don't know is that there are pockets of doctors out there - virtually unheard of - whose progress is suppressed, who are actually curing cancer at wildly higher success rates than conventional treatment.  These treatments come with low, if any side effects, and don’t kill your body in the process, but rather restore your immune system so that it can target the cancer and rid your body of it.  

My question is, why are the methods used in these holistic treatments completely ignored and considered quackery by “modern medicine” when there are literally thousands upon thousands of cancer cases cured by these methods (what conventional docs call "spontaneous remission")?  More than that, when the average joe hears about the possibility of these treatments working, why do they scoff or ignore?  Why doubt? Why turn a blind eye?  I mean good God, if there’s something to it, isn’t it worth your time?  We are talking life or death here.  We have the gift of endless information at our fingertips, and yet we are going to leave it all in the hands of Dr. Soandso who learned everything from a text book funded by big pharma, who’s recommending burn, bane and butcher which is one of most damaging options & has the lowest cure rates in comparison? If holistic, naturopathic methods prove to have more effectiveness than the conventional treatment, than lets talk about what the real fraud is!

You see, I’m a little passionate.  In fact I’m really angry about this, but I’m hopeful for change.  I’m anticipating people being fed up with the way things are, dying or watching people die miserably without knowledge of options, without hope.  Truth really can only be contained for so long.  Awareness is really all I can offer, so take what I say or leave it.  But I’ve had a strange obsession with researching alternative cancer treatments for almost four years now.  I’ll state clearly here, no I’m not a doctor and I’m not telling you what to do in regards to treating your or someone else’s cancer.  But I urge you to have a mind of your own and look into your options before jumping on the chemo-train (yes, you have more options than the above four)! 

For the record, lets look at some facts about cancer.  

Cancer is a symptom.  

You don’t just “get” cancer like you catch virus.  Cancer is a symptom of something else going wrong in your body.  When your immune system is consistently tending to some other ailment in your body (particularly anything causing long term inflammation), when it isn’t given the proper support in food, supplements, emotional wellness, exercise, proper alignment, etc. it becomes too weak to fight off cancer cells.  We always have free radicals floating around in our bodies.  Right now even.  If allowed, these free radicals become cancer cells.  But in a healthy, unstressed, well nourished body, your immune system kills and flushes these guys out on a daily basis.  

Chemo isn’t a cure (hence why they're still looking for "the cure").  

If you are dealing with cancer or know someone who is, next time you go to the doctor, ask them, “What is the probability this treatment will cure my cancer?”  Don’t let them talk to you about how it will make you feel or how it’s the latest longevity drug.  Ask how possible it is that it will cure you - make you better, cancer-free, healthy.  Ask them the likelihood of it coming back.  Ask them what could have caused cancer in the first place (genetics cause only 5% of all cancer cases.  What causes the other 95%?)  Ask about the symptoms, and if any symptoms of your chemo are that it can actually cause cancer (because guess what, it can and it does. It’s on the side effects of many chemo treatments.  You can GET more or different cancer from chemotherapy).  Most people know chemo takes the good down with the bad, it doesn't differentiate.  A substance that kills is just that, a killing substance.  

Cancer stem cells are basically immune to chemotherapy.

What many don't know is that most tumors are made up of daughter cancer cells, developed off of a parent cancer stem cell.  Chemo does kill daughter cells, but the stem cells are much harder to kill this way.  So after the daughter cells are killed off (a tumor is shrunk for example) the parent stem cells are still alive and well, traveling and multiplying throughout the body, except this time, the immune system has been blasted by a chemo A-bomb.  Thats why so often the cancers return, often times in another location, and the lack of healthy immune system is why the second time around it is so much more aggressive.

Cancer isn’t a death sentence.

Here’s the truth.  Cancer can be treated and cured with natural, holistic treatments that are extremely scientific, in fact more so than the famous 3 Bs.  You don’t have to believe me to find this out.  Learn for yourself.  Most doctors are not allowed to discuss them (can lose their license over it!), don’t know about them, or bash them due to the status quo.  But it is possible.  People are not just beating cancer and other degenerative illness with whole body wellness, but are conquering cancer holistically and living long, healthy lives with revived vitality.  

All of my information was gathered from the sites below, and then some.

The Truth About Cancer

Chris Beat Cancer
Cancer Crackdown

Antineoplaston Treatment (Burzynski)

Trace Minerals and Micro Nutrients Synergy Program (Dr. Rath)

Essential Oils

CBD & THC oils

Detox

Essiac Tea

The Gerson Therapy
LifeOne

Biomedical (Hoxsey)

Hope for Cancer

Chiropractic Care

Rigvir

GCMav

Budwig Protocol

B17 & Hypothermia

Hyperbaric chambers

Hydrogen enriched water (Mret)

PEMF

And in your nutrient dense diet, don't forget these essentials:

-Turmeric

-Moringa

-Broccoli Sprouts

-Probiotics

-cordyceps mushrooms

-Cannabis

-iodine

-Wheatgrass

-Magnesium

-Devil's Apple

-Vit D

-Spirulina

-Living Fuel

Please don't believe or not believe me because of a preconceived understanding.  Please look into it yourself.  Know your options.

Shaloha!