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Mother Earth , why are you crying?     Your summers are green Your autumns are gold Your winters pure white And your springs are pink But mother earth why are you crying?   I can hear the birds sing The wildebeest migrating in the Serengeti The whales celebrating the newcomers in St Sebastian bay And the cheetahs running on the open Namib plains But mother earth why are you crying?   I can smell the crisp air after the bushveld rain The sea breeze that the south Easter brings The big five in the Kruger And the purifying mountain air …

How many hours in any day can you be complaint free? Note that being disappointed, worrying, being fearful, anxious are actually forms of self- complaining. This is an interesting exercise to do with oneself, which brings forth one’s awareness around one’s habitual negative thinking patterns. Some years ago, there was a church minister from Kansas City, USA who was encouraging people to embark on a twenty-one day no complains challenge. Apparently more than ten million people tried this, each wearing a rubber bracelet on one wrist and when the person complained they were to move the rubber bracelet onto the …

My Awakening Experience – by Faine Bisset If you had to ask me to describe what awakening to my true essence feels like, I would probably just respond by sitting in silence. There are no words that can do it justice. There are no words that can actually help you understand it. Simply because it is not something that can be understood by the mind. It can only be experienced. Most of us spend our entire lives trying to understand everything better; “Why am I having these experiences? Why is this happening to me? What do I need to learn …

Daily mindfulness practice and meditation by Shelley Ruth Wyndham I am a big fan of daily mindfulness practice and meditation work and especially in a busy world these days where distractions and stress are forever increasing, mindfulness practice is a wonderful and effective tool to incorporate into one’s life no matter where you live or what you do professionally or otherwise, to help assist to centre and re balance oneself. Interestingly trends show that brief conscious periods of mindfulness in the workplace, and in important social situations, tend to generate greater happiness, satisfaction, contentment and success. But what is mindfulness? Simply put, it’s entering a state …

How to Improve your Gut Flora or Microbiota   Encourage   Discourage   Eat plenty of fermented foods: Healthy choices include lassi, fermented grass-fed organic milk such as kefir, natto (fermented soy), kombucha, yogurt, kimchi, sauerkraut, tempeh and fermented vegetables. Antibiotics, unless absolutely necessary, and when you do, make sure to reseed your gut with fermented foods and/or a high-quality probiotic supplement. Take a probiotic supplement: When  you don’t eat fermented foods on a regular basis take probiotics. Conventionally-raised meats and other animal products are routinely fed low-dose antibiotics, plus genetically engineered grains loaded with glyphosate, which is widely known …