Happy Sunday !

Positive vibes this morning.

God In The Trees

     You are fortunate if you love trees, and especially the wild ones growing where the Great Creative Force placed them, and independent of man's care. For all things we call "wild" or "natural" are nearer the Infinite Mind than those which have been enslaved, artificialized and hampered by man. Being nearer the Infinite they have in them the more perfect Infinite Force and Thought. That is why when you are in the midst of what is wild and natural--in the forest or mountains, where every trace of man's works is left behind you feel an indescribable exhilaration and freedom that you do not realize elsewhere.

      You are fortunate when you grow to a live, tender, earnest love for the wild trees, animals and birds, and recognize them all as coming from and built of the same mind and spirit as your own, and able also to give you something very valuable in return for the love you give them. It is felt by the spirit of the tree. You represent a part and belonging of the Infinite Mind. The tree represents another part and belonging of the Infinite Mind. It has its share of life, thought and intelligence. The tree has an organization like your own in many respects. It has for blood its sap. It has a circulation. It has for skin its bark. It has for lungs its leaves. It must have its food. It draws nourishment from soil, air and sun. It adapts itself to circumstances. The oak growing in exposed situations roots itself more firmly in the soil to withstand the tempest. The pines growing thickly together take little root, for they depend on numbers to break the wind's force. 

     The tree is then literally one of God's thoughts. That thought is worth our study. It contains some wisdom we have not yet got hold of. We want that wisdom. We want to make it a part of ourselves. We want it, because real wisdom or truth brings us power. We want power to give us better bodies, sounder bodies, healthier bodies. We want entire freedom from sickness. We want lighter hearts and happier minds. We want a new life and a new pleasure in living for each day. We want our bodies to grow lighter, not heavier with advancing years. We want a religion which will give us certainty instead of hopes and theories. We want a Deity it is simply impossible to doubt. We want to feel the Infinite Mind in every atom of our beings. We want with each day to feel a new pleasure in living and, commencing where we left off yesterday, to find something new in what we might have thought to be "old" and worn out yesterday. When we come into the domain of the Infinite Mind and are ever drawing more of that mind to us and making it a part of us, nothing can seem "flat, stale and unprofitable."

     If you can look on trees as fit only for lumber and firewood you get very little life from them. They feel then toward you as you would feel towards a person who regarded you as a thing without mind or sense and fit only to he sawed into lumber or firewood.

-Prentice Mulford, author of Thoughts Are Things

8 Weeks to Optimum Health: Week One

"The eight-week program consists of small steps that build on each other until, by the time you complete it, you have laid the foundation for healthy living. You can then decide how much of the program you want to maintain on a permanent basis. It's all about changing behavior. You are probably not addicted to drugs, but you may have other habits that are keeping you from experiencing optimum health." -Andrew Weil,  author of 8 Weeks To Optimum Health

I found this book on my mothers bookshelf... or it found me.  - M-Z

WEEK ONE. (of Andrew Weil's Eight-Week program)
Congratulations! You are about to embark on an exciting and healthy adventure of restyling your life in order to attain optimum health.

Projects:

The Pantry & Refrigerator Make-Over

-throw out all oils other than olive oil (The best all around oil to use is olive oil. Olive oil contains mostly monounsaturated fat, which is much better for our bodies than either polyunsaturated or saturated fat.)

-get rid of any margarine, solid vegetable shortenings, and products made with them (the process of hardening vegetable oils to create solid spreads increases the advantage over butter in the realm of cardiovascular friendliness. If it comes to choice between butter and margarine, always take butter.)

-throw out any artificial sweeteners, any products w/ artificial coloring (there is not a shred of evidence that the availability of artificial, noncaloric sweeteners has helped anyone lose weight. You are much better off eating moderate amounts of sugar than any of these unnatural products.)

-start reading food labels! Do not buy products whose labels list more chemicals than recognizable ingredients.

Diet: 
-Have fresh broccoli twice this week. (one of the most healthiest members of the cabbage family.)
-Eat salmon at least once this week. (excellent source of omega-3 fatty acids, special fats that have beneficial effects on many body functions.)

*the dietary changes recommended in the eight-week program are intended to move you in the direction of eating less fat.

Supplements:
Start taking vitamin C. 1,000-2,000 milligrams with breakfast, dinner, and at bedtime.

*Only human beings , other primates, and a few other species have lost this ability and need to get the vitamin every day from dietary sources, principally fresh fruits and vegetables.

Exercise:

Try to walk ten minutes a day five days this week. (Walking is the best exercise. It will satisfy all your exercise requirements throughout your life, even into old age.)

*Exercise is the key component of a healthy lifestyle. 

Mental/Spiritual:

Think about your own experiences of healing. Make a list of illnesses or injuries or problems you have recovered from in the past two years. Note down anything you did to speed the healing process. (Illness in the physical body is often the result of imbalance in the mind or spiritual realm.)

Begin to practice observing your breathing for five minutes every day. (The very simplest technique of breath work is simply to observe it, to do nothing other than follow the breath cycle with your observing mind, without trying to influence it in any way.)

Buy some flowers to keep in your home, where you can enjoy them. (Flowers manifest the beauty and wonder of nature and delight the senses. It feels good to be around them. They raise our spirits.)

*Recommendations that fall under this heading are most important. 

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Good luck, have fun, see ya on Sunday !

Love,

Maryam

Where Do Wild Horses Roam?

Do you see her posing for me? - M-Z

2012 Dacula, Georgia

High tide

The tides may have changed

However, my feelings are the ocean

My love... the moon.

March 7th, 2012

Song: Here Comes The Bride
Written & Performed by: Maryam "Alexandria." Zee
Beats by Genysis

Tell me why lately all we do is fight? If my intentions were clear and what i'd tried to do was right. You might as well look in me in my eyes and tell me my love was a lie. And if its here tonight --Well its wrapped in white. I paid the price. Its me or your prize. Here comes the bride. All dressed in a lie. I think its time to let you go, I think its time I let you go. I think its time to let you know, I think its time I let you know. I think its best if you go, I think its best if you'd go.
I think its time to let you go.
I think its time I let you go. I think its best if you leave. While I fought to make it right. You up and just would leave. Go ahead and roll your trees. You'll be back boy please next week. But we done for it and you sowed it. You love me boy and you know it. Sad that you cant show it. So I vow to give you good moments.  I'll teach you about romance. Sip slow this heres a slow dance. You drunk now off that champagne, and that purple, and that yurple.  His world moves and hers does too. In that same room where the bride glooms. Quick spin as the party grooves cause they're coming back to earth soon.
Here comes your bride.


LISTEN TO THE TRACK http://soundcloud.com/itsalexandria/here-comes-the-bride
WATCH THE VIDEO http://youtu.be/Un2t2OGlBrY

R.I.P. Byrdie

"I did not begin when I was born, nor when I was conceived. I have been growing, developing, through incalculable myriads of millenniums. All my previous selves have their voices, echoes, promptings in me. Oh, incalculable times again shall I be born." —Jack London, The Star Rover