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Monday, April 28, 2014
Thursday, April 24, 2014
Namaste
Think about it...
We reside in this huge universe. That entire universe is also inside us. Instead of the time we use with our head down looking at our cell phones, imagine if we went inside and explored the universe within. Realizing the constant life and death taking place by our cells.
Finding stillness during all of the change.
Connecting with our higher self, so that we can connect with others in this sacred space more easily.
We reside in this huge universe. That entire universe is also inside us. Instead of the time we use with our head down looking at our cell phones, imagine if we went inside and explored the universe within. Realizing the constant life and death taking place by our cells.
Finding stillness during all of the change.
Connecting with our higher self, so that we can connect with others in this sacred space more easily.
Wednesday, April 23, 2014
Monday, April 14, 2014
Information from the book Fruitless Fall by Rowan Jacobsen
I used this book in part to help with my writing topic on yoga and bees and how they connect. Here is one thing that really stuck out to me from page 253-254:
"McInnes has spent a decade researching the role of glycogen in enhancing restorative sleep--the type of deep sleep when most healing and growing takes place. Glycogen is brain fuel; the brain needs a steady supply all the time, even during sleep. If it runs out, brain cells begin to die. Yet at any given moment, the brain has only a thirty-second supply of glycogen, which is manufacture by the liver. So the liver steadily feeds glycogen to the brain all day and all night. But the liver itself can store only about eight hours' worth of glycogen, so if you eat an early dinner and then nothing before bed, your liver runs out of glycogen during the night. That's an emergency for your brain, which floods the body with stress hormones, particularly cortisol. Cortisol sounds the alarm, making your body melt down muscle tissue and convert it to glycogen for the brain. This keeps the brain going through the night, so you don't fall into a come, which is nice, but the stress hormones also shut down restorative sleep. Instead of repairing bone and muscle, building immune cells, and other maintenance projects (which are all fueled by fat-burning), your restless body spends the remainder of the night in a cortisol-fueled "fight or flight" state. The heart beats faster and glucose and insulin levels rise in the bloods (to fuel motion that never comes), and fat gets stored instead of metabolized. The results: diabetes, obesity, heart disease, immune breakdown, and accelerated aging.
The key to preventing this chain reaction is to fully fuel your liver before you go to bed. It doesn't take much: just a hundred calories equally divided between fructose and glucose--the liver's two favorites--plus some minerals to act as metabolites. McInnes searched until he found the ideal source. You're way ahead of me again. If McInnes is right, a teaspoon or two of honey before bed promotes deep, restful sleep, weight loss, and long-term health. In children, it promotes learning and growth."
The Birth of Beauty was a fantastic chapter as well.
Jacobsen, Rowan. (2008). Fruitless fall: The collapse of the honey bee and the coming agricultural crisis. Bloomsbury USA: New York.
"McInnes has spent a decade researching the role of glycogen in enhancing restorative sleep--the type of deep sleep when most healing and growing takes place. Glycogen is brain fuel; the brain needs a steady supply all the time, even during sleep. If it runs out, brain cells begin to die. Yet at any given moment, the brain has only a thirty-second supply of glycogen, which is manufacture by the liver. So the liver steadily feeds glycogen to the brain all day and all night. But the liver itself can store only about eight hours' worth of glycogen, so if you eat an early dinner and then nothing before bed, your liver runs out of glycogen during the night. That's an emergency for your brain, which floods the body with stress hormones, particularly cortisol. Cortisol sounds the alarm, making your body melt down muscle tissue and convert it to glycogen for the brain. This keeps the brain going through the night, so you don't fall into a come, which is nice, but the stress hormones also shut down restorative sleep. Instead of repairing bone and muscle, building immune cells, and other maintenance projects (which are all fueled by fat-burning), your restless body spends the remainder of the night in a cortisol-fueled "fight or flight" state. The heart beats faster and glucose and insulin levels rise in the bloods (to fuel motion that never comes), and fat gets stored instead of metabolized. The results: diabetes, obesity, heart disease, immune breakdown, and accelerated aging.
The key to preventing this chain reaction is to fully fuel your liver before you go to bed. It doesn't take much: just a hundred calories equally divided between fructose and glucose--the liver's two favorites--plus some minerals to act as metabolites. McInnes searched until he found the ideal source. You're way ahead of me again. If McInnes is right, a teaspoon or two of honey before bed promotes deep, restful sleep, weight loss, and long-term health. In children, it promotes learning and growth."
The Birth of Beauty was a fantastic chapter as well.
Jacobsen, Rowan. (2008). Fruitless fall: The collapse of the honey bee and the coming agricultural crisis. Bloomsbury USA: New York.
Thursday, April 10, 2014
Eclipse Next Week!
Check out all the details of the eclipse happening April 14 - 15 next week:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/04/140410-lunar-eclipse-blood-moon-space-viewing-guide/
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/04/140410-lunar-eclipse-blood-moon-space-viewing-guide/
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