I could not help but notice the similarities between an auction and the auctioneering off of our healthcare system, all because America doesn’t have a Single Payer System. Any other system by comparison is suboptimal.

I continue to enjoy Elizabeth Scala’s Art Of Nursing. Her guests are super aligned with the changes which must take place in nursing and healthcare. 

When healthcare becomes a political issue as we see in Washington and on the state level, patients are the ones who suffer. And everybody else who takes care of them suffer, as well, all because our political system is the laughingstock of the world.

Enjoy the podcast!

I am listening to the whole week however, and I am impressed with the  direction that nursing seems to be going. The Affordable Care Act a.k.a. Obamacare has something to do with this new direction in health care.

This is what today’s podcast is all about.
In order to register for Elizabeth Scala’s event here is the link to it.

Our lives are Precious.

Our lives are impermanent.

What is the truth of cause and effect?

What is the truth of suffering?

Remember why you are here and who you really are.

I return again to Joan Halifax’s book called Being With Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness In The Presence of Death.

Today’s podcast talks about caregivers falling prey to certain behavioral traps.  These serve as red flags and psychological impairment blocking enlightened responses for the person who is dying. Archetypes serve to act as guides to these challenges.

There’s a shadow side to every archetype and this podcast touches on them.

We are first of all human beings. We have the good the bad and the ugly contained in our potential. The anecdote is humility and the beginners mind.

Science tries to explain the birth and the death process. They fall far short of explaining anything at all, especially the mystery of life. And it is the mystery that makes for the spiritual experience.

When you look to science for all the answers, you can only go so far before you realize that many dimensions are missing from science’s long explanation as to how things work. Quantum physics may be an exception to this. 

Life begins at conception. Life ends at death. What a ridiculous worldview of life.

I discuss lifestyle changes regarding the food we eat, life style changes regarding those we love who are dying, or as we approach our own death. Birth is a big life change in a parent’s life. Not to mention the baby.

The “The Gentle Birthing Podcast” is evolving. Stay tuned.

I got a call last evening from a physician from Columbia University. He wanted me to know that the doctors who want to oust Dr. Mehmet Oz from the Columbia University faculty are not doctors from Columbia University. We can only surmise that those doctors are GMO advocates (whores).

The doctors at Columbia University may not necessarily agree with Dr. Oz, but they believe in his right to free speech.

Imagine my surprise.

Can we believe anything the mainstream media reports?

Henry Miller can be for anything he wants, but unfortunately he and his sidekicks want to impose this on everyone in America. There is a key Bill going up for a vote in Congress called the “Safe And Accurate Food Labeling Act.” This bill would take away the American right to know whether foods or GMO’d or not. This law would make it impossible for the FDA to mandate labeling on foods state to state. All previous GMO labeling laws would be wiped off the books.

Have you ever heard of a GMO Apple? It is called the Arctic Apple. They change the blueprint of the Apple by injecting some sort of toxic chemical into it, so that when you cut into the Apple, it will not brown.

When I was a kid, and was recovering from an intestinal virus, we used to cut up apples and wait for them to get brown, and eat them when they were brown for the healing it brought to the stomach. It is an old remedy and it works fantastically. These anti-labeling GMO nuts want to take away our brown apples.

Go to https://takeaction.takepart.com/actions/oppose-the-dark-act and signed the petition to put a halt to the “Safe And Accurate Food Labeling Act.”

We cannot let them get away with this.

https://takeaction.takepart.com/actions/oppose-the-dark-act

Furthermore, Dr. Oz’s  life mission is to offer Americans an avenue to good health practices.

Dr. Oz used to be a Cardiologist at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital. He employed Therapeutic Touch Healers to meditate in the next room while he performed heart surgery in the surgical suite. The recovery times were consistently cut in half over those who did not have the benefit of Therapeutic Touch Healers in the next room.

Prayer works the same way. Prayers for healing create miracles every time.

In 1998, I wrote a letter to the New York Times which was not published. Nevertheless, the letter addressed a fourth grade science project that sought to disprove the validity of Therapeutic Touch. JAMA (Journal Of The American Medical Association) wrote it up and the New York Times responded soon after. 

The New York Times stated that seeking to disapprove or debunk at the onset of any scientific experiment is not the way of pure science. And the nine-year-old fourth grader at the onset of her project set out to do just that.

The article was entitled “A Child’s Paper Poses A Medical Challenge,” written in response to the JAMA article “A Close Look At Therapeutic Touch.”

My letter addressed the JAMA article itself. At the time, I served an indigent population as a Nurse Practitioner in York, Pennsylvania. I practiced one form of energy healing, as taught by Dr. Leonard Laskow, author of Healing With Love, without the permission or knowledge of the attending physician.

When I pray for someone’s recovery, I could ask them for permission and often do, but don’t ask permission of their physician. 20 years later, these attitudes still persist. Dr. Oz is a Maverick and I have the utmost respect for him.

And I love his magazine, The Good Life. It is chock full of health tips. I’ve tried many of them, and they work! Whatever you do, buy it at your local CVS pharmacy or supermarket.

I will listen to messages from Divine Potential today through dreams, nature signs, through music I listen to, through pictures and painting and photographs I surround myself with. 

I will hear Divine Potential through conversations I have or hear. I will watch the dogs Pearlie and Schizzo and wait for all the messages of love they send my way. 

We are all Heroes on this mystic journey we call Life. Sometimes we struggle to make the right choices. We are called upon to rise above mere survival to the pinnacle of self-actualization. 

As we work through the symbols that show up, we learn to see with symbolic vision. Emotional and spiritual wounds heal more quickly. We learn to trust in Divine Timing in our lives: that the right people show up at the right moment, and the flow of Divine Blessings is never ending.

We cannot do this with our mind or intellect. We develop the heart’s intuition so that love springs easily with every possible interaction.

The effort involved with all of this is to make the only choices to further our spiritual growth: to love, forgive, let go, and meet resistance with a willingness to try once again perhaps in another season of time, to fulfill our mission in this lifetime.

The Divine works through our animals to teach the universal truths of life. If we are open to this, our spiritual evolution is hastened by what I call a  celestial speed up. When I got Mukunda after 28 years of not having a dog, my perception of love, forgiveness and creativity flourished. I will never go another second without having a dog.

Om Peace Amen