Lessons in Skating

Skating with Rhythm through Life

Back in April I went on a trip back to hometown Utah for a family reunion! 

For some of my relatives, haven't seen me since I just started to walk and go to school, and some like my oldest sister hadn't seen me for 10 years prior since I moved down to Texas. 

It seemed like so much time has passed and so much has happened, all we could think to do is to relish in past fun activities we've done as a family. 

One of those was roller skating! We went to the Classic Fun Center, which brought so many memories! 

I remember as a 6 year old I was too afraid to get on the rink, I would watch my older sisters & brother skate to their heart's delight while I admired their skill. 

This time visiting the rink was different, so much reminiscent memories of family fun.

 I was now ready for some risk-taking! 

I even saw a mother skating with their baby in the stroller on the rink! 

I saw all types of people of many different ages zooming past everyone with style, truly enjoying the culmination of skill they've developed in the art of skating. 

I thought, this time I will surely learn something even if I fall down. Sure enough, as I cruised around the outer edges of the  rink with assistance from a Skater-aid I went faster and faster and my turns and control of my balance improved more and more, until I started to feel exhaustion hit me then I began to slow down and lose the rhythm of my feet movement. At that moment that I stopped moving my feet & lifting my knees to maintain balance is when I fell.

From just that night of skating alone it taught me some things that are reminiscent about life. If you never take the chance to learn something, you will never know. 

At the beginning learning to skate, even with a Skater-aid, you are bound to fall one time or another. 

In life even those with the "best" track records have had their set backs & obstacles along the way. 

I learned to "fall on purpose". Let me explain, when I knew I was about to fall, instead of crashing uncontrollably without knowing how it could hurt me, I actually would throw myself down with my leg and side of my arm to the side of the rink with carpet so I don't hurt myself and my body naturally cushion my fall.

Same thing in life, it's important to take calculated risks and have a plan how to "fall with style" or know what you will do to mitigate the inherent consequences of risk.

Something really interesting I noticed was the emotional self - control & concentration needed to successfully keep rhythm while skating. I needed to maintain my breathing as you would do while doing any type of exercise. When I lost concentration is what also caused me to stop focus on my balance and feet movement, therefore causing me to fall as well.

At one point I thought this, 🤔💭

" If I just keep lifting my feet, controlling my turns and body balance then I will continue to roll smoothly in the rink.... I will eventually control my speed and catch my breathe - allowing me to continue skating for longer periods." 

It's the same thing in life! Don't let your mind distract you from what is happening in the here, and now. The present is the pretense before the future, if we can focus on what we are doing NOW that will be the highest indicator of what will be our future.

Happy Skating 😉🛼

Flowers, Fruit, Herb Health Benefits and Spiritual Meanings

Flowers and their health + spiritual meanings

🌺Siraitia grosvenorii (Monk fruit)

Health: fruits extracts (SGFE) possess a wide range of pharmacologic and health-promoting properties including immune enhancement, anti-oxidation, anti-diabetes, anti-tumor and anti-inflammation

Spiritual: Good Health.

🌺Jasmine

Health: treat liver disease (hepatitis), pain due to liver scarring (cirrhosis), and abdominal pain due to severe diarrhea (dysentery). It is also used to prevent stroke, to cause relaxation (as a sedative), to heighten sexual desire (as an aphrodisiac), and in cancer treatment

Spiritual: Uses include snakebite and divination; good for charging quartz crystals. Use in sachets and spells to draw spiritual love and attract a soul mate. Carry or burn the flowers to draw wealth and money. Use in dream pillows to induce sleep or burn in the bedroom to bring prophetic dreams. Helps to promote new, innovative ideas.

🌺Sophora Japonica

Health: promotes healthy blood vessels, it also promotes overall cardiovascular system health. It supports normal heartbeat and helps create an environment that’s less susceptible to blood clot formation. Ease menopause symptoms. Stop bleeding. Anti-hemorragic and anti-hemostatic.

Spiritual: keep away ghosts and evil, protect against the evil eye, and to keep unwanted visitors from your home.

🌺Lemon

Health: aid weight loss and reduce your risk of heart disease, anemia, kidney stones, digestive issues, and cancer.

Spiritual:In bible terms lemons are associated with hope, fertility, perfection, and abundance in the upcoming agriculture year.

Light, love, heart, and soul. They also attract good fortune and help people embrace changes.

Purpose, action and clarity

Longevity, purification, refreshment, unity, clarity, friendship, happiness, aura cleansing, rejuvenation, improved consciousness, love, and fidelity.

🌺Calendula officinalis (Marigold)

Health: antibacterial, antiviral, anti-inflammatory, anti-tumor and antioxidant properties.

Spiritual: positivity and happiness. This flower is associated with fire energy. Sacred affection, joy, remembrance, grief

🌺Mallow flower

Health:anti-inflammatory and antiseptic properties, mallow flower extract is especially helpful for treating acne and skin irritation. Research has shown that it can even help with eczema flare ups, psoriasis, and wound healing. Mallow extract also contains high doses of flavonoids, as well as vitamins C and E.

People use the flower and leaf to make medicine. Mallow is used for irritation of the mouth and throat, dry cough, and bronchitis

Speed wound healing, protect against infection, reduce inflammation, reduce signs of aging, improve respiratory health, optimize digestive functions, improve sleep, and treat headaches.

Spiritual: Used to soften up inflexible mental attitudes, and for those who are hard hearted and unable to feel their own emotions. Ruled by the planet Venus, this flower is also associated with love

🌺(colorful) Chrysanthemum

Health: used to treat chest pain (angina), high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, fever, cold, headache, dizziness, and swelling. In combination with other herbs, chrysanthemum is also used to treat prostate cancer.

Spiritual: Happiness, Love, Longevity and Joy

🌺Don’t forget me (Forget-Me-Not)

Health: can be used to stop the bleeding (use it externally), as a remedy for eye conditions. The whole plant is used to make medicine. Despite safety concerns, people take forget-me-not for lung problems and nosebleeds.

Spiritual: remembrance ―not only associated with love, but for those we've lost. Forget-me-nots also symbolize protection and luck, it's believed that they have the power to protect humans against witches.

🌺 Lemongrass

Health: prevent the growth of some bacteria and yeast. Lemongrass also contains substances that are thought to relieve pain and swelling, reduce fever, improve levels of sugar and cholesterol in the blood, stimulate the uterus and menstrual flow, and have antioxidant properties.

Antioxidant properties · antimicrobial properties · anti-inflammatory properties · may reduce your cancer risk.

The leaves and the oil are used to make medicine.

Lemongrass is used for treating digestive tract spasms, stomachache, high blood pressure, convulsions, pain, vomiting, cough, achy joints (rheumatism), fever, the common cold, and exhaustion. It is also used to kill germs and as a mild astringent.

Some people apply lemongrass and its essential oil directly to the skin for headache, stomachache, abdominal pain, and muscle pain.

Spiritual: Psychic cleansing and opening, lust potions.

🌺Rose petals

Health: Reducing Anxiety.

A cup of rose tea can help to soothe anxiety and reduce stress. ...Improving Digestion. ...Soothing Menstrual Cramps. ...High in Antioxidants. ...Contains Antimicrobial Properties. ...Reducing Inflammation. ...High in Antioxidants. ...High in Vitamin C.

Rose petals contain polyphenols, antioxidants that work to protect your body from cell damage.

Spiritual: Romance, love, gratitude, grace, joy, sex, desire and admiration.

🌺Lavender

Health: Insomnia. Lavender was recommended for people suffering from insomnia or other sleep disorders. ...Anxiety. Lavender may also provide support for people with anxiety. ...Hair loss. ...Headaches and migraine. ...Chemotherapy side effects. Depression. ...Acne. ...Burns.

Spiritual: love, protection, healing, sleep, purification, and peace. Promotes healing from depression. Great in sleep pillows and bath spells. Believed to preserve chastity when mixed with rosemary. Burn the flowers to induce sleep and rest, then scatter the ashes around the home to bring peace and harmony

🌺Foetus Chrysanthemum

Health: In traditional Chinese medicine, chrysanthemum tea is known for its cooling and calming properties. It’s used to reduce a fever and improve cold or respiratory symptoms. It’s also reported to possess anti-inflammatory, sedative, anti-hypertensive and anti-arthritis effects.

• Eye health

Spiritual: Happiness, fidelity, honesty and friendship

🌺Red plum

Health: The Chinese people have been using these flowers for centuries, in order to treat numerous health issues, especially digestive problems, ulcers, and parasites. Also, they have a particular role in blood purification and detoxification.

Spiritual: Celebrated as a protective charm against evil

🌺Rose

Health: Antibacterial. Anti-inflammatory. Antioxidants. Moisturizing. Naturally fragrant. Relaxing. Toning.

Spiritual: Rose buds help soften our energy and open us up to the energy of love

🌺Lily

Health: remedies for nasal congestion and nausea.

• The bulb is diuretic (for increasing urine), anti-inflammatory (for relieving pain), emollient (for moisturizing), emmenagogue (for stimulating menstrual flow), and expectorant (for releasing mucus by coughing). For lungs, they have a sedative effect and are used to treat cough and tuberculosis.

• In Korea, these are used in traditional medicine for sore throats, boils, palpitations, bronchitis, and pneumonia, to name a few.

• used to treat heart diseases, angina pectoris (chest pain due to coronary heart disease), and to relieve pain in the cardiac region.

• The tiger lily flowers, with stamen removed, has a carminative property, meaning it relieves flatulence.

• The flowers also help in treating myopic astigmatism and bring back the strength of eyelid muscles.

• The tincture gathered in the flowers are used in the therapy of uterine neuralgia (damage or irritation of a main nerve in the pelvis). It also helps in congestion, irritation, and pregnancy-induced nausea. Tincture also aids in reducing the inflammation of the pelvis and vagina, as well as relief from fibroids, menstrual and menopausal pains.

• Tiger lily is also important in relieving pain from uterine prolapse, and ovarian neuralgia.

• The flower essence is naturopathic as it aids in suppressing or calming aggressive tendencies in individuals. It also helps in relieving anxiety, stress, and depression, when incorporated in a soup, used as a tea, or packed as perfumes.

Spiritual: Pride, Confidence and Wealth

🌺Albizia flower

Health: relieve stress and anxiety, improve symptoms of depression, stimulate the circulatory system, reduce signs of aging, prevent certain chronic illnesses, help digestive issues, lower cholesterol, prevent respiratory distress, and eliminate inflammation in various parts of the body.

Spiritual: Calms the Spirit

🌺Fig

Health: 1. Promote digestive health

2. May improve vascular and heart health

3. Potential anticancer properties

4. May promote healthy skin

5. May help manage blood sugar levels

Spiritual: strength, faith and enlightenment

🌺Peony

Health: Peony is used for gout, osteoarthritis, fever, respiratory tract illnesses, and cough. Women use peony for menstrual cramps, polycystic ovary syndrome, premenstrual syndrome (PMS), and for starting menstruation or causing an abortion. Promoting liver health. Reduce pain and inflammation. Peonies are recommended in cases of irritability and restlessness.

Spiritual: Protection from hexes and jinxes. Good luck, good fortune, prosperity, and business success. Hang in the home or car for protection. Used to attract fairies. Use in rituals to cure or reduce lunacy. Also:Peony Root (Paeonia suffruticosa)

🌺Lotus seed heart

Health: Lotus seeds bring an extremely good intake of protein to help the development of brain and nervous system of fetuses. Therefore, Lotus seed is highly recommended for pregnant women. effectively promote blood coagulation and maintain muscle flexibility. helps in maintaining the nerve’s cognitive function.

Spiritual: purity, enlightenment, self-regeneration and rebirth.

🌺Gomphrena

Health: Anti Bacterial Properties. Anti Fungal Properties. Antioxidant Properties. Detoxifying & Purifying Properties. For Treating High Blood Pressure & Diabetes

Spiritual: sacred to Huitzilopochtli, an Aztec Sun God and is a suitable offering to Artemis and Demeter. used to call forth the dead.

Immortality and endless love.

🌺Orchid

Health: Increases Immunity · Beneficial for Skin Health · Cures Ulcers · Enhances Eyesight · Aids digestion · Relieves Stress.

Spiritual: beauty, elegance, love, sexuality and fertility, luxury and wealth, and uniqueness.

Economic Inequality

                    Economic Inequality

                          Year : 2021                             

On a first-hand experience scaling from one income class to another, barely making it, to being right above the poverty level or right below the median 60% of the population I can definitely say that I have learned a lot in a short amount of time about the U.S. Government and American economic system. I am currently studying investing and financial literacy.

From my experience I have come to take note of some things in the U.S. economy:

- the poor and below poverty level individuals/families are systematically supported to stay at the income level they currently are at.

.... Why do I say this? 

1) someone having a real job working full-time and even many times overtime hours, neglecting their mental, emotional, and physical health during this process,  receiving somewhere between 24k and 30k per year to pay for rent and utilities will be considered to have "too much income" to qualify for state food or medical benefits which are the most important and expensive costs especially amidst inflation.

2) Therefore ... someone working twice as hard to pay the bills will not qualify for government benefits despite needing them to grow financially and stay healthy.... and someone forced to not work at all or barely work at all, live on public housing and be at the complete mercy of the government assistance systems, such as food stamps and Medicaid, will be limited to their options for financial freedom.

3) Individuals/Families who are solely  dependent on government benefits are stuck with the "rules" the benefit programs imply upon them. They cannot have more than 2k in their bank accounts. They are not supported to work, or else their benefits are taken away immediately upon verification of payment from work and not to mention if they are dependent on Medicaid to pay for their medications or doctor visits, they will most likely have those benefits taken away as well. 

They are not able to be investors in the economy such as owning stocks, bonds, index funds, or real estate... or else their benefits are revoked. Even degrees and certificates from years of schooling free or paid for is not a guarantee of securing a good paying job these days, so even school is not a sure investment for those in poverty level of society.

Do you see the point I am getting to?

U.S. government systems are aimed at keeping the poor, poor. Supporting them to stay where they are at, any growth beyond poverty is case for revocation of benefits,  whether the individual or family is prepared or not.

The stage I am at right now: 

working class...  

in between poverty and middle-class

Notes: How am I supposed to get health care?

How am I supposed to go to school and secure a well paying job where my skills will be valued?

How to achieve a work-life balance for mental, emotional, and physical health?

How to fight inflation of the economy?

How to maximize investments?

How to not live "paycheck to paycheck"?

How to maximize savings?

How to budget effectively?

How to save up for and buy a car?

Thank you for reading my blog, 

I hope this discussion has been useful to expand our consciousness of the current reality

Until next time!

My Spiritual Journey

I have also been on my own spiritual journey for a while and about 13 years ago I had my biggest shift. 

From my 10 years of age and younger I had been hyper aware of the spiritual world, entities, spirit guide(s), and instinctively connected to my intuition. 

 I had been so hyper aware of the spiritual world that I had almost lost touch with this reality and suffered from a disconnection with my identity, my spiritual sensitivity escalated to the point of paranoia, day and night, afraid to be alone because the spirits/entitites would visit me, that I was afraid to sleep because of the intensely vivid and horrifying dreams I would have, afraid to be the last one awake in the house because I would feel and many times see spirits, dark entities, lost souls, or people that have recently died, 

one time I looked at myself in the mirror and honestly asked apart from this flesh suit I wear, 

what truly makes me – me? What makes me decide to be who I am being? The choices I make? All of this at about only 10 YEARS of age!!

I suffered then from a feeling of a deep black hole inside of me of sadness, fear, paranoia that never seemed to be quenched. 

I remember I would receive gifts, hugs, support and encouragement at times from friends and family members and I would barely react, I would just feel the same black never ending hole inside me… 

It was rare that I really smiled or was happy - most of the time I showed myself happy on the exterior for other’s benefit so they wouldn’t be concerned about me even though on the inside I felt the opposite. 

I remember explaining once that I felt as if I was mourning the death of someone at a funeral and as if I didn’t know how long it would take me to get out of this mode of mourning.

During this spiritual journey all of this reached a point that I couldn’t handle anymore I really thought I was on the brink of insanity and didn’t like the way I couldn’t take in the blessings around me, I had chosen to take a really deep and detailed look into myself to understand where is all of this originating. 

 I had realized that a majority of my horrifying experience was fruit of my deep seated fears, sense of lack of control of my life, lack of trust in the universe, deep seated insecurities, not listening to my intuition, and surprisingly general laziness to do the internal and external work I knew I needed to do. 

It was a lot of work and a lot of releasing and letting go, I made a lot of conscious and solid decisions to radically change my life in a positive way no matter what lay ahead of me, accepting my destiny, power, all facets of life, and death. 

No matter what others thought, I knew I needed to follow my truth. One day I pleaded to God to release me from being so sensitive to the spiritual world because it was driving me to insanity and I was afraid what I could become once this spins out of control. 

I was afraid I would completely disconnect from myself. I realized those fears were unfounded and many fruit of my imagination and subconscious programming, also a huge spiritual warning that I had been ignoring my spiritual growth for too long. 

Finally by the time I turned 12 years old and moved to Texas everything changed completely for the better. 

I suddenly and instantly felt like a normal common person, I have a clear sense of who I am, I rarely see spirits anymore and definitely don’t hear them, I normally don’t get nightmares, I just have many regular dreams. 

I began trusting my intuition, especially the small things like smiling to someone, talking, or honestly complimenting them on something I see.

I realized how much even the small things count, how influential I can be and how much power each of us have as a person, a soul. 

When faced with trials I would trust and lean on what I learned from past testimonies with no regrets. 

 Another thing I learned back then that I’m surprised to know is a fundamental basis of manifestation is that like energy attracts like energy. 

In our universe things tend to repeat until stopped by an external force. 

An analogy I like to give is if you threw a stone in a pond the water would continue rippling in the direction the stone moved the water until the ripples reach the edge of the pond. 

The edge of our soul is like that but is far more expansive and energies are infinite and can literally ripple through time.

Or you can take the scientific approach the Law of Inertia- Newton’s first law, what is in motion stays in motion, what is at rest will stay at rest unless it is acted upon by a force. 

 Something I am very interested in understanding is that so far in my life I can say with 100% certainty that I’ve been manifesting things intentionally many times. 

One way I have manifested was declaring what I wanted to God, The Creator, the Universe, verbally - out loud. 

 Another was writing what I wanted on paper, which sometimes took longer but looking back to what I wrote almost all still happened even if it wasn’t in exactly the way I first imagined it would happen.

Roses

So blessed to bring home these beautiful roses today, full of life