But how to get children started? With babies, toddlers, and even young children, playing meditation music and hertz tones set to gentle music during rest and naptime as well as at bedtime and while they are sleeping is a fantastic way to get them used to being able to tap into those relaxing altered states of being and on a meditation schedule. I've taught young children as young as five years old how to do my effective relaxation techniques and walked them through my guided meditations. They ask wonderful and insightful questions and have a natural curiosity about meditation. They really do take to it quite easily. I've watched while hyper wiggle-worms become still and afterwards looks and speaks in a dreamy manner while telling me just how good they feel. My seven-year-old granddaughter loves to have me walk her through a meditation whenever she comes to visit. Teens also benefit greatly from meditation and have a hunger to learn how to tap into that inner intuitive part of themselves where they can become calm, relaxed, and re-centered. It helps them to relax before a test so they can easily recall test answers or having to remember what they need to say when they present to the rest of the class or even on a job interview. Even pets will feel the energy difference while you meditate and the calm it brings you. I teach online classes for children and teens on Outschool and am in the process of uploading my classes on Udemy for teens and adults. While I hold my guided meditation classes my cat insists on being on my lap or right next to me. And finally there are the adults. From the hard-worker who puts in a lot or hours or is in a stressful job or career to the caretaker of an older parent but still has kids at home and from a dementia-affected adult to the stressed out parent. Even for the ill who is going through treatments, meditation is one of the best gifts you can give to yourself. Music is shown to reconnect dementia-affected adults, so next time you visit play some for them and see the difference for yourself. And when there's chaos building up and swirling around in your home, put on some meditation music with hertz tones in the background. If you'd like to know more about hertz tones you can read my article here. Directly below is my March 6, 2021 Blog Talk Radio show on meditation and how to do it. The second one is my March 11, 2021 show on Hertz, meditation, and more.
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Before we jump into what metaphysics is, let's first begin with what physics is. Simply put physics is the physical realm world. It's the hearing, seeing, smelling, tasting, and physical sensation on our skin and in our bodies that we and all living beings use every day. Metaphysics is that which is beyond physics-beyond those physical abilities that I mentioned above. The word comes from the Greek (ta) meta (ta) physika, literally, the (works) after the physical (works). Metaphysics is the exploration and philosophy of the existence that lays beyond the physical world. It is the realm of the energy of life which connects us all. It's in that vision you had, the smell of roses or of smoke after someone you know passed away. It's the touch on your shoulder by another even though someone isn't really there. It is the energy world from which we began. Where the "real" us exists. A psychic energetically tunes into, connects to, the energy field of the person (the subject or situation) and hears, sees, smells, tastes, and can feel the physical sensations of the subject. Now, intuition is something different. This is a knowing of information of the subject, or a situation. The information is revealed. It's like when you just know the phone is about to ring and you know who's calling before looking at the phone. It's like that. It's a knowing. Can a psychic be intuitive or can an intuitive be psychic? Can you? Absolutely. And quite often information is received both ways. Want to learn more? Look through and sign up for my classes and courses on the "Classes and Courses" tab above. You may also enjoy my March 3, 2021 Blog Talk Radio show below. Yes, I know what some of you might be thinking....but it's loaded with sugar!
And you'd be right. But hear me out... If you and your family uses jam (personally, I love it) you may be buying brands made with high fructose corn syrup and some type of starch as a thickener added. And that's not a good thing. And, yes, jam needs pectin so I'm not referring to that ingredient. But high fructose corn syrup is unhealthy and starch in our foods is unnecessary and is also unhealthy for us yet is everywhere these days. Beverages, yogurt, cream cheese, ice cream, and in many other food items. Some of the names used are guar gum, xanthan gum, or other gums, modified food starch, and there are other names they go by too. Have you ever taken a look at a commercial brand of say, lemonade? There's corn starch in some of them. Why? It gives more "body" to the feel of it in your mouth. They think we want it. They think we'll buy more of it because of it. It's unnecessary. I resent that they add it. Just give me fresh squeezed lemonade any day of the week, especially on a hot day! But back to jam. There's a farm not too far from me that sells truckloads of fresh strawberries each week and people seemingly come by the hundreds to buy their fresh strawberries and indulge in their strawberry shortcakes made with moist cake, a large ladle of strawberry/sugar yumminess and then topped with a mountain of ice cream or whipped cream. It was my dinner the other day. I kid you not. I had mine with whipped cream, in case you wondered. But back to jam. Oh! I just heard a couple "pop!" sounds as I typed this. We home canners know that's our reward for our hot and sweaty work making this gift from the gods. We smile and sigh each time one of our jars makes that sound. I bought a full flat of big, juicy, ripe, and sweet strawberries. My jam is made from fresh strawberries, pectin, and sugar. Period. That's all, nothing else. For those who must watch their sugar intake, there are recipes without sugar! Sing it out loud..."Halleluiah!" So for "those times" you want that gooey, sweet and fresh strawberry yumminess, this is the go-to way. On bread, toast, crackers, scones, with butter, peanut butter or cream cheese, on ice cream, even plain on a spoon...whatever your method of indulging in it, is the way to go. Canning isn't as difficult as one might think it is. The recipe I use it the one that comes with the box of pectin. Canning jars, a good size pot, a tall pot, lifters to put the jars in and out of the pot, cooking spoon, measuring cups, sugar, strawberries, pectin, a couple of hand towels, paper towels, and that's almost all it takes. And now, I have plenty of strawberry jam for my family that I can feel good about. No preservatives, no added colorings, nothing but what I want in there. And making your own saves you money, too because those little jars are expensive! Ahhh.....there goes another "pop!". I think next up is a batch of homemade orange marmalade. Then tomatoes. |
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