Love To Be Loved – The Song
Posted by Michelle Moquin on January 7th, 2009
Hi Adam & AH: First of all, miss you both here, and so happy that you have graced us with your findings. Thank you. I so wish that I was with you time traveling, seeing and experiencing all that you both are. What a great lesson in history….a great lesson in the evolution of human behavior. Yes, no history books could reveal what you have told us. AH, you must be awed by all that you are able to see and do now. I would love to hear more from your perspective too.
All I could think about after reading your very detailed history lesson, (I would love to read the full version sometime) was the song by Peter Gabriel, “Love to be loved’. Unfortunately I could not find a video of him singing which is so powerful, soulful and just amazing, but I did find this interesting fellow covering it…and I think it’s beautiful too.
I would love to go more into the meaning….the title for me is very significant. I would love to share my thoughts with all of you at some other time.
Peace & Love: Live it, Give it.
Gratefully your blog host,
michelle
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January 7th, 2009 at 9:10 am
Maddie,
I cannot speak for our commander but my wish would be to fix them all…including Anonz’s clavicle. Just leave his memory alone this time, please. And thank you so much for checking in on him and his men, I appreciate it.
- Zen Lill
January 7th, 2009 at 11:08 am
A Dozen Ways to Get a Good Night’s Sleep
Sonia Ancoli-Israel, PhD
University of California, San Diego
In any given year, 40 million Americans have chronic difficulties falling or staying asleep, while another 20 million report occasional sleep problems. It’s no wonder that US doctors write as many as 43 million prescriptions for sleeping pills a year. Medication may help you sleep better immediately, but the best long-term solution is to encourage your body’s natural sleep mechanism to operate more effectively.
There are a lot of myths and misperceptions about how to get a better night’s rest — and some sleeping secrets that most people have never heard of. Here are some rules to help you sleep better…
Wake up at the same time each day. Sleep is controlled by biological rhythms (also called circadian rhythms) that follow a very set schedule. To align your sleep pattern with these internal rhythms, it’s important to wake up at the same time each morning.
Reason: Your biological rhythms aren’t perfectly regular, but, for the best sleep, they do need at least one stable point in time around which they can fluctuate. While you can’t always control when you fall asleep, you can control the time you wake up each day.
Another reason to maintain a consistent wake-up time is that, just as you need a certain amount of sleep to feel rested and alert, you also need a certain amount of time awake each day in order to feel sleepy at night.
Rising at the same time each day — as opposed to “sleeping in” on the weekends, for example — ensures that you will be awake long enough to fall asleep at your normal bedtime.
Spend time in sunlight. Even being outdoors on a cloudy day helps. In general, the more light exposure you get during the day, the better you’ll sleep at night.
While you don’t want to look directly at the sun, sunglasses will block the effect of the bright light. Check with your doctor about how much time he/she thinks is safe for you to spend in bright sunlight without sunglasses.
People over age 50 will especially benefit from about a half hour of light exposure at day’s end — in the late afternoon or early evening.
How it works: As we get older, our circadian rhythms shift forward in time, causing us to fall asleep earlier and wake up earlier. Exposure to late-afternoon or evening light shifts the rhythm in the opposite direction — allowing you to wake up later in the morning.
Take a brief, moderately hot bath just before bed. Another part of our natural sleep rhythm involves core body temperature, which drops at night as we sleep, then rises again just before waking.
Core body temperature works in counterpoint to peripheral body temperature (the temperature of your hands and feet) — when your peripheral temperature rises, your core temperature falls, and vice versa. Taking a hot bath just before going to bed raises your peripheral temperature, causing your core temperature to drop — which helps you fall asleep. (This is also why wearing socks to bed helps some people fall asleep more easily.) Just make sure the bath water isn’t too hot, because this could raise your core temperature.
Keep your bedroom at a comfortable temperature. This encourages the natural fluctuations in body temperature described above.
Keep your sleeping environment as dark as possible. Sleep is controlled in part by the hormone melatonin. The brain secretes melatonin only in darkness, which is why it’s important to keep your bedroom dark while sleeping — the darker, the better. Put up light-blocking curtains or blinds, or wear a sleep mask, if needed. If you have to get up in the middle of the night, use a low-intensity nightlight to guide your way, rather than switching on the overhead lights.
Reason: Turning on a bright light signals your brain to stop secreting melatonin.
Don’t spend too much time in bed. When you stay too long in bed, your sleep actually becomes more fragmented and disturbed. If you need eight hours of sleep, spend no more than eight and a half hours in bed. Even if you didn’t sleep well the night before, avoid going to bed early to “catch up” on sleep. Instead, go to bed and get up at your usual time.
If you wake up at night, keep your eyes closed. When people wake in the middle of the night, the first thing they usually do is look at the clock. But the mere act of lifting your head and opening your eyes is enough to take you out of transitional sleep (the lightest stage of sleep) into a full waking state, making it harder to fall asleep again. Instead, keep your bedroom clock out of sight — and if you wake up in the middle of the night, don’t open your eyes. This will make it much easier to drift back to sleep.
Avoid alcohol near bedtime. Alcohol acts as a sedative when it first enters your bloodstream — but several hours later, when it leaves your bloodstream, it actually has the reverse effect of making you more wakeful. If you tend to wake up in the middle of the night and have trouble falling back asleep, you should avoid drinking any alcoholic beverages after dinner. If you have trouble falling asleep in the first place, then you may need to forgo drinks with dinner as well, since their “waking effect” will coincide with your bedtime.
Don’t consume caffeine after lunch. That includes all caffeinated beverages — not just coffee, but also tea and soda, as well as energy drinks. This is especially important if you have trouble falling asleep.
Exercise regularly. Although no one knows exactly why this is the case, data shows that the more fit you are, the better you’ll sleep at night.
Don’t lie in bed tossing and turning. Once you start tossing and turning, you get tense. If you find it impossible to drop off to sleep, get out of bed and stay up until you’re sleepy enough to fall asleep. You may feel tired the next day — but over time, this approach has been found to be very effective in establishing a restful sleep pattern.
Avoid naps. Physiologically, a mid-afternoon nap makes perfect sense, since your core body temperature takes a slight dip then. And for many people, such a nap won’t interfere with nighttime sleep. However, if you have difficulty falling or staying asleep at night, a nap during the day will only aggravate the problem.
Retirement interviewed Sonia Ancoli-Israel, PhD, professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego, and director of the Sleep Disorders Clinic in the Veterans Affairs Health Care System, also in San Diego.
January 7th, 2009 at 11:12 am
This article is for you. Read it carefully and act on it immediately. If you have questions, make them known.
WHEN GLUCOSAMINE/CHONDROITIN DOESN’T WORK FOR YOU
What can you do about unremitting osteoarthritis pain after you’ve tried it all — conventional specialists, assorted prescriptive and over-the-counter pharmaceutical medications, and even the much talked about natural substance glucosamine? More drugs may not be the answer. But an alternate natural remedy could be.
As a nurse, 61-year-old Betsy knew better than most people about the risks inherent in taking many OTC drugs, including the painkilling NSAIDs — non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. Betsy ached constantly from the arthritis in her knees and hips, especially since her job kept her on her feet all day. The hours she spent in bed at night had become painful as well, making it difficult for her to sleep. Painkilling drugs seemed to offer the only option for obtaining some measure of pain-free time and for several years they did help — but now they had ceased to be effective, so Betsy made an appointment with Mark Stengler, ND, at a friend’s recommendation.
A STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION…
In their first meeting, Dr. Stengler discovered that along with the pain-killing NSAID pills, Betsy had already started to use natural substances in hopes of combating her arthritis. Several years previously she had read that glucosamine sulfate would ease arthritis pain. Consequently, in addition to the multivitamin and vitamin C she’d been taking daily for years, she had added 1,500 mg of glucosamine to her daily regimen. She continued to take the glucosamine faithfully, but she admitted to Dr. Stengler it hadn’t really helped — in fact, she said, her joints were aching worse than ever. Betsy was also 30 pounds overweight, which exacerbated her joint pain. Dr. Stengler immediately put her on a weight loss program, but now he also had to find a natural substance that would address Betsy’s joint stiffness and pain since the glucosamine, which he says is helpful for many people, was not working for her.
The substance Dr. Stengler determined would likely help Betsy was an oral collagen-containing hyaluronic acid supplement. Collagen-containing hyaluronic acid is less well known than glucosamine for treating osteoarthritis. Dr. Stengler says that many of his patients have found it to be extremely effective, since hyaluronic acid exists in all tissues and fluids in the body with the highest concentrations of it in connective tissues, including the collagen between bones that cushions the joints. Hyaluronic acid supplements made from animal cartilage can help with connective tissue formation and especially with production of synovial fluid in the joints, another way the body protects the joints from stiffness and pain. Dr. Stengler prescribed 500 mg of collagen-containing hyaluronic acid twice a day for Betsy.
USING NSAIDS FOR PAIN CAUSES OTHER PROBLEMS
With an aging population, osteoarthritis has become more widespread than ever. Many people reach for NSAIDs to ease their pain, but Dr. Stengler cautions that overuse of these drugs — as is frequently the case in treating a chronic problem such as arthritis — can be, as Betsy discovered, ineffective. For some patients, they’re even dangerous. The drugs can be hard on the digestive system, the stomach in particular, causing bleeding and ulceration. There is also evidence that NSAIDs are associated with kidney and liver problems and possibly increased cardiovascular risk. The problems they can cause may be far worse than those people started with.
Dr. Stengler says that while many people find that glucosamine (the original supplement Betsy took) helps soothe their arthritis pain, it’s not always successful — and even when it is, it sometimes stops working after a while. This is one reason it’s so important to have a physician trained in natural medicine oversee your use of supplements. Dr. Stengler’s prescription of collagen-containing hyaluronic acid, much less well-known than glucosamine, offers relief for many who aren’t finding success with glucosamine. It should be used until symptoms subside. One product Dr. Stengler uses often is BioCell Collagen II, which is a patented form with research showing it to be well tolerated.
THE PATIENT’S PROGRESS
After just three weeks Betsy was feeling much better, says Dr. Stengler, and after eight weeks of treatment, her improvement was considerable. Betsy was also helped by losing her excess weight. Dr. Stengler recommended a daily calorie intake of 1,500 calories — moderate protein, high fiber, balanced fats and avoiding most refined carbs. She was taking a weekly aquaerobics class and biking several days a week, as well. At a follow-up visit with Dr. Stengler one year after she first saw him, she reported she was 80% better and that although she continues to take collagen-containing hyaluronic acid, she no longer has any need for pain-killing drugs.
Source(s):
Mark A. Stengler, ND, a naturopathic physician and leading authority on the practice of alternative and integrated medicine. He is director of the La Jolla Whole Health Clinic, La Jolla, California, and associate clinical professor at the National College of Naturopathic Medicine, Portland, Oregon. He is author of the newsletter Bottom Line Natural Healing, http://www.DrStengler.com.
January 7th, 2009 at 11:18 am
Anonz
Will you stay in touch with your fans? We would like to know how you are doing in the wild, wild, west of the Sudan and the rest of Africa.
We here in the wicket love you. The Aussie men have no sense of romance. You make our panties sweat when you swoon about Zen Lill. You weight our hearts with the need to hold you close to our breasts when you speak of Nia.
Your broken heart hurts me. I am a 68 year old woman. I’ve been happily married for 43 three years. My two daughters and three sons can’t believe how much I love you( I am constantly quoting you or saying how wise you are.). They say that they thought my world began and ended with their father.
I wrote this way back when. I got no answer. I wish you the very best. You are in my prayers.
January 7th, 2009 at 12:42 pm
Madaline
Please save Anonz. He has a very good heart.
Linda
January 8th, 2009 at 12:59 am
Adam
Both houses of congress acquiesced to the illegal propositions bush made. They anointed Caesar in the same cowardly manner Rome’s senate did with their Caesar. Now they refuse to indite the bastard.
Butler