Mind Set |

July 21, 2009

Can You Change Your Life With Love, and How Can the Total Eclipse of the Sun Help You Do That?

The New Moon today, the 21^st of July, will create a Total Eclipse of the Sun.

Even though it will only be visible in the Northwestern United States, Alaska and Hawaii, eastern India, Shanghai, Southeastern Asia and Northeastern Oceania, it will have a profound effect on all of humanity.

Peace on earth is more likely right now than ever before!

Do you believe that the alignment of the stars makes people a bit crazy from time to time?

I for one feel unusual astrological influences, usually BEFORE my astrologer friends share the sky news with me.

Well the sky news is pretty huge this month!

As well as the Total Eclipse, we are also experiencing 2 lunar eclipses in early July and early August that increase the effects of the Total Eclipse of the Sun.

The Moon is much smaller than the Sun, but when it passes directly in front of the Sun, its’ magnetic energy is so powerful that it blocks the light of the Sun from the Earth by absorbing the light.

If you have done much reading around here, you know that the fuel you burn is electricity, and your emotions are magnetic.

My astrologer friends have been educating me that the Sun is electric energy and is masculine.

The Moon is magnetic energy and is feminine.

(Let me qualify that by saying that the only Astrologers I consult with are very spiritual people. Heck, for that matter every professional that I rely on is a highly spiritual person. I trust only those spilling love into the world. It’s a policy that has served me well.)

During a Total Eclipse there is a fusion of energy that occurs between the Sun and the Moon.

This has huge implications for the inhabitants of Earth, because you receive messages from God through your intuition when you can marry the feminine and masculine aspects of your being.

Humor me for a minute here, I’m not trying to get all woo woo on ya!

The fuel that drives you is masculine.

Your emotions which give you direction in your life are feminine.

It is not hard to imagine that the union of these 2 aspects will give you peace.

By uniting these two aspects of your being you are actually creating a devign union with all of life.

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Social Connection |

July 8, 2009

| by Carrie Tucker

Are There Symptoms of Depression In Your Community?

Hump day already!?

Did the fireworks over the weekend launch you into the week?

I seem to have found myself at Wednesday, wondering how I got here. It’s been a GREAT week so far!

How was your 4^th of July holiday?

I really wanted to go down the mountain to the canoe races and old car show on the beach myself. Many of my friends were going, and invited me to come along.

Every year there is a parade in Volcano Village.

Every year for the past 7 years my family has attended the parade.

You could say I was feeling a seven year itch.

I decided to ignore the itch and turn down my friend’s kind invitations, because my daughters, Briana almost 16 and Makayla almost 13, were marching in the parade and singing afterwards at the Community Center with the cast of their Summer Musical. (They both have birthdays this month!)

The parade is usually very big with lots of attendance, and has been getting bigger and bigger in the past few years.

As I headed up the mountain on the fourth, the sky was clear and the weather was beautiful. Volcano Village is breath taking in the morning!

This year, the parade turn out was pretty small, but we still had some pretty cool old cars, and all the community organizations from the village were represented.

Everyone was having a really great time visiting, eating and laughing at the Community Center after the parade. There was such a strong sense of community in the air.

I have been too busy this year to watch any rehearsals, so when my daughters sang some of Kiss Me Kate with their friends and cast mates it was the first time I had heard it. They were great!

Opening night is Friday! It should be fun!

With no crowd to fight, I shared a bit of every tasty food I could find with my 3 kids. We thoroughly enjoyed the variety and washed it all down with plenty of watermelon!

I even found some time to chat with old friends I don’t get to see much!

The icing on the cake was watching shy timid Briana get drug onto the dance floor by a jitterbugging wild man! The entertainment value was priceless! Brina is a quick study!

Later she said she was glad her girlfriend pushed her out there. She loves to dance, and “that was a ball!”.

There were quite a few beautiful hours of sunshine before our traditional trip to the fireworks show in Hilo Town. My little 4 year old, Nickolas, took advantage and played his little heart out. What a joy to watch a young one completely engaged in play.

It wasn’t surprising that Nick was sound asleep by the time we reached the waterfront. I dropped my girls off to meet their friends, and continued on down Kamehemeha Avenue.

The crowd was thick so I had to travel quite a distance before I finally found a place that I could park and see the fireworks with my little one sleeping peacefully in the back seat. I was shocked that the open space was right next to the band stand and a large band was playing patriotic music.

An evening rain had thoroughly drenched Hilo by the time we arrived, but the sky cleared up just as the fireworks began.

I crawled out my window and sat on the roof of my van. The colorful lights were a captivating show and the band was providing the perfect background music.

I thought of my beautiful daughters, sitting on the beach directly under the entertainment that the whole city was watching. I pictured their smiling faces and saw them laughing with their friends.

For just a few minutes, I felt so connected to all the souls watching the sky.

Abruptly the music ended.

“Da ta da da da. Happy 4^th of July Everybody!”

The beautiful display in the sky continued but the band packed up their horns and called it a day.

The car next to me turned on some nice local music and we continued to enjoy the show, until they had to start their car and move because the band was leaving and he was blocking their path.

As I sat in silence staring at the sky, rain began sprinkling down. I crawled back in my window and watched the fireworks through the steady stream of traffic caused by the exiting band members who never even turned toward the beautiful display in the sky. It was wasted on them.

The contrast kinda suffocated me. Just a few moments earlier, I felt every heart beat in every soul sharing the celebration in the sky with me, and now I felt like a lonely soldier in battle.

As the rockets red glare, and the bombs bursting in air continued, I felt my spirits fall. I glanced over my shoulder at my sleeping angel, and a slow smile came to my face.

I closed my eyes and felt the peace of a sleeping baby. I felt my connection to every other soul on the planet. Love filled my heart and overflowed.

When everyone around you is throwing in the towel, you can still find love in your heart!

Have you checked out of life? Do you call it a day before you have celebrated your successes?

Symptoms of Depression may be no more than subtle signs of disconnect.

Get in the game, before it is too late!

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Many blessings,

Carrie Tucker, RCP

The Life Breath Club

Heart Failure Solutions

PS– Remember everyday:

Relax and Release tension
Exhale Slowly
Be active in a way that adds Joy to your life

Plus pure water ~whole foods~sunshine~and laughter

Sleep |

June 28, 2009

| by Carrie Tucker

Why Can’t You Sleep?

Do you find yourself awake in the middle of the night unable to sleep?

What do you do when you can’t sleep?

Read?

Drink warm milk?

Watch television?

Claudia takes advantage of the time she can’t sleep, to do things like paint her living room! During the day she is so tired she often worries that she will fall asleep while doing the shopping or driving her mother to her many doctors appointments.

When Claudia tries to help her daughter, Cassie, with her homework she is so fatigued that the cob webs are too thick to think! Cassie is on her own.

She was in tears the other day when we had lunch because Cassie’s grades are sliding and her mom’s bed sore is getting worse, since she’s been too exhausted to keep up with the frequent repositioning suggested by the nurse.

“What am I supposed to do?! Why can’t I sleep?” Claudia sobbed.

Why Can’t You Sleep?

If you are sedentary you can expect to have difficulty sleeping.
Overuse of technology is a great way to cause sleeplessness.
Eating empty calories interferes with sleep in several ways.
Your chaotic bedroom will definitely contribute to sleeplessness and poor quality sleep.
Your breathing can make you sick AND drastically effect the quality of your sleep.

Claudia didn’t think any of these issues were her problem. Nothing she tried seemed to help.

Though she admitted that she, “just didn’t get the breathing aspect and what that had to do with it.”

I challenged Claudia to show up each week for The Life Breath Club’s 60 minute discussion of breath awareness and get serious about her Personal Sacred Breathing Program.

Claudia didn’t think that she was sick, so she didn’t think the information applied to her for a few weeks, but she kept coming.

One week, Claudia heard something on the call about emotional processing.

“That was a light bulb moment,” she admitted later.

“I see that it is hard to allow the emotions I feel watching my mother suffer.”

“I see that I feel guilty for feeling burdened with her care.”

“I see that my depression is effecting my ability to mother my daughter and I want to do something about it.”

Claudia’s light bulb moment helped her to see that natural cures for insomnia weren’t working because she was too depressed to consistently apply any of the action steps to implement them!

Just becoming aware of the emotions she was stuffing helped Claudia to stop holding her breath and breathe through all the challenges that normally caused her to self sabotage.

What Can You Do To Get More Sleep?

Find a way to be active everyday.
Soak in a warm epsom salt bath for 20 minutes before climbing in bed.
Make whole organic fruits and vegetables a large percentage of your diet and/OR supplement.
Create a clean organized sleep space and seek stillness daily.
Find out how your breathing is making you sick and do something about it.

Claudia says that joining The Life Breath Club was the first step in recognizing her suppressed emotion.

“I use to wake up at 2am and curse at the clock, now I turn my attention to my Sacred Breath.”

For Claudia, the change came when she accepted night time waking as the perfect time to feel those difficult feelings she couldn’t allow during the day.

“The magic happens after I allow my feelings and maybe cry a bit. I sleep like a baby for blissful chunks of time. I will repay my sleep debt with pleasant naps. I’m glad I know that now.”

Your magic sleep will happen when you prioritize it.

All of the suggestions above may seem just too simple.

You will find that simple change will make a measurable difference in your sleep debt!

Go back to bed!

Many blessings,

Carrie Tucker, RCP

The Life Breath Coach

Heart Failure Solutions

PS– Remember everyday:

Relax and Release tension
Exhale Slowly
Be active in a way that adds joy to your life

Plus pure water ~whole foods~sunshine~and laughter

Ideal Weight |

June 20, 2009

| by Carrie Tucker

If You Drink Soda, Is Your Healthy Diet Plan Legit?

Does the thought of a tall bubbling glass of soda on ice make you thirsty? I mean doesn’t it make everyone salivate?

Have a Coke and a smile, right?

The craving for that bubbling glass of smiling goodness has become an epidemic.

Are you addicted to soda? Is it your drug?

Do you know why you should consider giving soda up?

Soda habits play a key role in obesity.
Sugar loaded sodas feed inflammation and inflammation is the cause of all chronic illness!
Phosphorus in soda will WEAKEN YOUR BONES!

Soda Undermines Your Health!

Healthy Diet Plan?

If you have a soda plan, you can’t really say you have a healthy diet plan, can you?

Loading up on sugar without nutritional value is a recipe for disaster. Obesity is a deterrent to living an active lifestyle, as is the stimulating effect of caffeine.

The effect caffeine has on your biochemistry is much like borrowing energy like you would borrow money from the bank.

You eventually gotta pay back that borrowed energy.

Maybe that anchor you are dragging around has more to do with your soda, coffee and tea habit than it does age. You really can’t tell what effect caffeine is having on you until you have been “clean” for at least 90 days!

When you have with drawl from caffeine, or any other drug for that matter, you can be sure that you are upsetting the normal balance of neuro-chemistry in your brain.

A Healthy Diet Plan is about what you don’t eat as much as it is about what you do!

Seriously! Dealing with this one health issue can help you avoid osteoporosis, obesity and sedentary lifestyle!

Have you considered a healthy energy drink option?

You might want to give it a money back guaranteed try!

Click on the link below and consider this option.

Healthy Soda Alternative

Many blessings,

Carrie Tucker, RCP

The Life Breath Coach

Heart Failure Solutions

PS– Remember everyday:

Relax and Release tension
Exhale Slowly
Be active in a way that adds Joy to your life

Plus pure water ~whole foods~sunshine~and laughter

Ideal Weight |

June 19, 2009

| by Carrie Tucker

Do Processed Foods Have Any Place In Your Healthy Diet Plan?

What does the term “processed foods” actually mean?

Do visions of t.v. dinners, cookies and chips (or do you call them crisps?) come to mind?

Do you think of canned meats and roasted nuts?

Is bread a processed food, or part of a healthy diet plan?

The term “processed foods”, for all practical purposes, means food that is less wholesome and possibly harmful.

Fruits and veggies become less and less wholesome from the moment they are picked, but are far more wholesome than anything that comes out of a box or can.

Any type of cutting or grinding allows oxidation of the food stuff, and nutrition is lost.

Flour is completely pulverized grains.

Just because your bread is brown, doesn’t mean it is more wholesome!

Eating 100% whole wheat products is a step in the right direction, but you are still eating a grain that has been through a lot since it left the field, and wheat is a common allergen.

Genetic modification takes bread to a new level of processed!

Wheat AND ALL white flour foods are problematic!

Flour Foods

breads/muffins (except those of the sprouted variety)
pastries/doughnuts
cakes
pies
cookies
pasta (GASP!)

The foods that are part of the culture that you grow up in become more than just your favorite foods. They become a connection to the past, comfort foods.

Making healthy diet plan choices is about seeing food from a different perspective!

Process emotional “stuff” and you will eat less junk food!

Unconscious eating (and shopping) isn’t planning for health by any stretch of the imagination.

You don’t want to worry about your food, but planning for health means putting more organic produce in your shopping cart and on your plate.

As The Life Breath Coach I teach that the secret to processing emotions WITHOUT emotional eating is Sacred Breathing.

Discover how your breathing contributes to emotional eating and what you can do about it.

Click on the link below to learn about the benefits of becoming a member of The Life Breath Club.

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This is a private membership site to protect your medical privacy.

It’s FREE!

Many blessings,

Carrie Tucker, RCP

The Life Breath Coach

Heart Failure Solutions

PS– Remember everyday:

Relax and Release tension
Exhale Slowly
Be active in a way that adds Joy to your life

Plus pure water ~whole foods~sunshine~and laughter