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Monday, November 27, 2017

Disease As DIS-EASE Part 6 Key to Survival & Cancer



We are busy trying to survive that we do not have time to express ourselves as beings. We only become aware of what is happening the moment we are DIS-EASE-D. 

Bacteria and viruses are part of this Life. They are also a part of the whole - that is Life, and they have a right to get our attention back to what is really happening in our body.

The video below is about disease as DIS-EASE where we are not at ease because the organism is not expressing optimally. 

Our struggle to survive is limiting our expression as beings.
 We are into survival mode most of the time. We do not have much time left to care for our body for real, so much so that we do not have much time to look at the definition of the words we speak and write and we fail to investigate who we really are within these. 

We let our limited concept of who we are as individuals, perceived separate from the whole to guide our actions, which are driven by self-interest - to survive.

Life is a movement of oneness and equality as Team Life.
Words guide our decision which becomes our behavior.

Look at the definition of words and align it to who we really are - as All Life,  to a point where our expanded definition leads to bridging a haven on earth. 

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Disease As DIS-EASE Part 5 Limited Expression & Expansion





This me, the sweet potato and the butter communicating a point in my video below.
The video below is about what happens when we limit our expression in the way we prepare food, or prepare a salad, and the way we define ourselves and the expansion that happens in our expression when we expand the definition of words we speak and write.

Note: My relatives playing mahjong in the background


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Disease As DIS-EASE Part 4 Eating & Key to Being Vegan





I experienced heart pains when i was in high school and my way of dealing with it was to accept someone else's  suggestion that led me to judge meat as bad. 

This was what happened when i did not 
look at the definition of words and this resulted in me trying to boost my worth through adopting first, the vegetarian diet for 29 years, then becoming cooked vegan, raw vegan etc. and being diagnosed with 4th stage breast cancer at the middle of all these in 2008. 

Years after i was declared free of cancer (2009), I looked at my fears and my word definition of CANCER.  I realized i was trying to get CANned CERtificates to boost my worth through being in these diets rather than me as the one who CAN SEE (CE) the R-esponsibility to initiate the bridging of a haven on earth. Enjoy my video below.

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Disease As DIS-EASE Part 3 Heart Disease & Key to Vegetarianism





                              Why did i become vegetarian when i was diagnosed with angina? 

This was the decision that was driven by fear of having a heart disease. This decision prevented me from looking at the definition of the word "health" and expanding its definition.

I missed this door that was opening right before me which brought me back to - today. 

I am now opening this door and expanding the definition of myself as who i am - as part of the whole, that is Life and bringing a message of how we can bridge a haven on earth to reclaim our real identity - for real.

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Disease As DIS-EASE Part 2 Mind Starting Point


What is our starting point when we make a salad? 
Salad is food. 
We have to look at our definition of the word "food", the benefit it is going to give the body and whether the body accepts it or not. Enjoy the video.

Note: My relatives are playing mahjong in the background.

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Disease As DIS-EASE Part 1 The Sweet Potato & Butter Salad?


Normally, we look at a salad and we associate it with 
sweet potato with mayonnaise or other kinds of dressing. This time, i will be talking about
the sweet potato with butter. I call it a "salad" since it consists of a mixture of ingredients with a dressing (butter). I do not normally prepare a salad this way. 

My limited definition  of a salad stopped me from calling it a salad in the past. I also judged carbohydrates and fats as bad at that time because of my inability to expand the meaning of words where i saw "butter" as something that will make me fat rather than seeing what it is and that we separated the milk fat from the milk so that we can entertain our tongue with the taste of "butter" rather than giving it to the body when the body needs it so it can get what it needs from the butter - which the human mind cannot understand because of the limited definitions it's working from.  

This time, we are expanding the meaning of a salad and looking at DIS-EASE in the middle of a family gathering where there are so many things and mind view points going on in the family setting while my relatives are playing mahjong. This is me capturing what is really going on in real life and this is where my journey will take you - real walking of my process in the midst of a family gathering. 

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Monday, November 6, 2017

Expanding The Word "Salad"









The word "salad" as we know it...
Google says it is a
 "mixture of specified ingredients served with a dressing"

I am looking at the limits within the meaning we give this word and then i will expand it so we can expand our expression and discover the potential of preparing it with awareness as who we are in relation to the food items we are preparing plus the tools we use when we do a salad. 

I will also look at the context of where we are coming from when we use this word.

First the context...

The real context of the relationship of the ingredients to each other and to the one preparing the salad is not present.

In this context, the liquid ingredients etc. in the dressing within the salad were perceived separate from the solid components. 

The real identity of the ingredients - as plants and animals, were not mentioned. They are beings that are parts of the whole - that is Life. 

The one preparing the salad is me/you/us, as human beings

ME AN ING-redient
(Phonetics)

ME as AN ING-redient (part) of the whole - that is Life.

The context of how we use the word "salad" at present is coming from the context that we are individuals separate from the whole - that is life. 

This is not so. we come from the dust and we go back to the dust - "dust to dust"

Next, let us look at the limitation in the meaning we give the word "salad"...

When we use the word "salad" directed by a limited  definition where the identity of ingredients, the tools used, the environment where it is being prepared and the one preparing the salad are not being defined as what they really are - where they are perceived separate from each other and therefore separate from the whole, creating a fragmented whole, we use it out of context.

This mis-take has a huge consequence outflow in different areas of our lives since the meaning of words we use affect our decisions and our behavior in all areas of our life.

This mis-take can lead us to the problems that we are facing right now in the food industry:

1. We do not see the ingredients for what they really are. We devalue them.

This happens when we "dress" the products (or ingredients) to look more so their value will be more. The packaging of the food or salad with the idea that many will buy it if it looks according to what consumer survey says, becomes a dress-ing that hides what the salad really is - a mixture of ingredients that are parts of the whole that is life. 

Rather than buying based on commonsense - where we choose products or ingredients (all being parts of the whole - that is life) that will benefit the body according to what we tested based from our unbiased inquiry from what is available where we are and looking at the availability of finance as the means to get them, we buy or make a salad to follow the information we get from the media, creating a belief and manifesting these beliefs through our food preparation choices or eating choices - as if they are true.

2. Law makers create laws that is out of context (not seeing or treating ingredients as who/what they really are - as parts of the whole, that is life)

The laws governing the health food store i visited in Dallas which has grocery chains in the US and Europe throws food items that were left by shoppers in the trash can. 

The food items were inside unopened bags. 

When i asked inside the store, they said "they are just complying with the law". 

Rather than the law spearheading the expansion of the meaning of words to direct the actions of all - including the people working in businesses, we are using the law (within the limited meaning of words taught in schools) to limit the reach of where the food items can go - as per a limited parameter of what life is according to a limited perception of the law.

3. Physical and mental stress in food preparation 
The educational standards set by authorities in the food industry is not based on commonsense. It is based on how to prepare food in a certain way, defining the limits (as right or wrong) in the way of preparing food to make the food look and taste better for financial gain - rather than using commonsense in food preparation while looking at the context and expanded meaning of what one is preparing plus the availability of finances to buy the food items the body needs.

4. Substance addiction
When we see the ingredients used in food preparation as either a super animal or plant  or an inferior animal or plant when it is an animal (being) or a plant (being) equal to the human (being) - as the one preparing them (also defined as either "sickly"or "super healthy", we tend to believe we are lacking something, so we become addicted to the ones we defined as a super animal or plant which we believed can give us a "good feeling", long life or a super human status. 

4. Confusion
A confused mental state arise from a biased perception of the undressed salad for example (labelled as "not delicious" but "healthy") or the dressed-up salad (labelled as "delicious" but "unhealthy") or dish based on information coming from biased sources - either labelled as inferior or superior driven by profit.

The media caters to both groups of people in either category - who are "for" or "against" a particular "leaning" set by the popularity polls, so competitions are encouraged.

In these food competitions, we accept and allow judges to declare a winner and a loser where the real identity of humans, plants and animals etc. are seen within bias. This is encouraged in tv networks and in groups for the sake of higher ratings.

5. Poverty
Our limited definition of words and in this context, the word "salad" creates a bias in our perception of the value we give ourselves - since we assign values to people and things including the salad (the ingredients of which are composed of plants and animals, that are parts of the whole that is life) according to our ability to purchase products and services, we tend to assign a higher value to the one who has the means to buy the food or the one who is able to prepare different kinds of salads to "please ones appetite",  eat at restaurants, entertain friends and family with "tasty" salads/food and the one who does not have the means to buy food, or has nothing to survive on becomes associated with the lower strata - assigned a lower value. 

The context of eating as humans that are parts of the whole - that is life, is lost. We all need to have means to get the food and eat food when the body needs food.

We do not have a clear starting point in preparing food and in this blog context, preparing a salad. This brings us back to the problems that we have coming back again and again to be corrected - the correction of which will lead us to HERE.

The humans who will be eating the salad are a part of the whole - that is Life and the plants and animals where our body gets nutrition from - are also parts of the whole that is life. We are essentially equal and one - "dust to dust".

The word "salad", when being used in food preparation, has to be prepared within  awareness that we are handling/preparing plants and animals that are parts of the whole - that is life.

The tools we use to make the salad like the stove, knife, bowls, plates, cups, teaspoons, tablespoons, cooking pots, shredders, blender, food processor etc. are parts of the whole - that is life.

The water and the air that we breath are parts of the whole - that is life.

The humans who are going to eat the salad are humans - who are parts of the whole - that is life.

We can expand the meaning of a salad for now by saying...

A salad is 
"a mixture of ingredients with or without a dressing, that we use to nourish the body of the one who is going to eat it - humans, animals etc. who are essentially parts of the whole - that is Life.

The purpose of making a salad is to give the body of humans, animals etc. what it needs to survive.

The addition or subtraction of other ingredients to it, will not alter the essential identity of the food items that are being used when preparing a salad.

A salad can be prepared with or without salt.

A salad can contain ingredients that are warm and/or cold.

A salad can be prepared with a dressing

A salad can be prepared without a dressing

A salad can be a mixture of gasses as in - the air salad

A salad can be a mixture of tablets and capsules - as a medicine salad

A salad can be made from meat formed into a meatball

A salad can be made from meat formed into a burger 

A salad can be liquid - as in the liquid vegetable salad

A dressing can be the liquid salad

A dressing may contain more or less liquid. 

The dressing may or may not contain oil. 

The dressing may or may not contain vinegar or juice of citrus.

The dressing may or may not contain a mixture of herbs.

A salad can be added to another salad - like a soup salad or a stew salad. 

The salad in essence consist of plants and/or animals.

The salad is food.

Food is a substance that nourish the body - as plants and animals etc. - that is a part of the whole, that is LIFE. 

The salad - as plants and/or animals sacrificing their lives for the body to function, is a part of the whole, that is LIFE.















S AL AD

SELF as ALL as ADDITIONS


BELOW Are EXAMPLES of 
EXPANDING THE EXPRESSION of the SALAD

The Medicine Salad

                     

The Soup Salads


 

The Turkey Salad

Saturday, November 4, 2017

Is This A Salad or A Pickle? A Case of Mistaken Identity




         Is This A Salad or A Pickle? 

         A Case of Mistaken Identity

Why Do We Need To Redesign/Redefine The Meaning of Words?















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Sunday, November 29, 2015

The Real Key of A as Art, Apple, Farmer, Chef


'an apple is an apple
Do not change it
to make it pretty and tasty
food art
is about money

the more the store 
want pretty apples
the more we trample on the farmer
who grow our apple
=
let’s work with the farmers
because they are the growers
tending to the soil and giving water to the apple'
=
'we do not like genetic engineering 
but we engineer food in the home kitchen

what are we doin?

we cannot see the problem
we hear too much music 
that gives us lyrics that is made for money you see

we become groggy
so we cannot see what is in reality'

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Thursday, July 10, 2014

Realizing and Living My Utmost Potential 5 Redesigning The Cake

21 Days Mind Investigation on Sugar
Physical  Support
Awareness of How Much Sugar We Take: The Sugar Log Project



I have known the cake to be a source of pleasure since I was a child. We had birthday cakes, graduation cakes etc.We have native cakes like purple yam cake, rice cakes etc. Recently, after my sugar investigation, I realized that cake is food and food is here to nourish the body - it is NOT here to satisfy mt craving for pleasure when I am bored or sad. 

I realized that the body has to agree with what I eat. When the mind directs my behavior, it leads to consequence outflow - disease. An example of this would be - diabetes, cancer, hypertension, stress etc because the mind works with 'good and bad, right or wrong, and positive or negative' . Acting out thought patterns based on my psychological craving for pleasure which is fueled by my fear of boredom will be directing me to eat, rather than be in physical reality behaving sensibly when eating and physically enjoying the food - its taste, smell etc.

Rather than put so much sugar in the cake, what is sensible for me is to add food items and the amount of meat etc. that i know assist my body. I can cross-reference by looking at my weight, my blood sugar etc.

The Next Day Reading After I ate 1 slice of this meat cake
Fasting Blood Glucose Reading


I can see that it is not spiking my blood sugar level where it disturbs homeostasis in the body - creating chaos within my body. I play with the taste that will get the cake to the stomach to be processed so the nutrition can be distibuted to the cells realizing meat has its own nutrition:
Pork: B6, B12, C, D, Phosphorous, Potassium, Zinc etc.
Pork
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pork

Beef: B1 Thiamin, B2 Riboflavin, B3 Niacin, B6, B9 Folate, B12, Choline, D, E, K, Calcium, Iron, Magnesium etc.
Beef
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beef

Here's how i redesigned the cake,
http://junejourneytolife.blogspot.com/2014/07/a-pancake-that-turned-into-meat-cake.html
 I put some meat on top of the cake for protein. 
This will still 'evolve', so stay tuned.

I saw that when I eat meat with other food stuff in the' right' portion (which I tested), it helps in stabilizing my blood glucose. What is also affecting the blood sugar is the mind - stress can spike the blood sugar.

The batter was made of almond flour and eggs. I topped it with uncooked ground pork seasoned with a pinch of salt and onions. I baked it in the oven, then piped some mayonnaise and tabasco sauce on top (optional). I had some cherries at that time so I put 4 cherries on top. 

Our body needs nutrition yet what is happening is that we are eating for the sake of satisfying our desire for 'sweets' - for 'pleasure' or to entertain our taste buds with different taste sensations which we connected to our past experience of the food item we are eating in the present.

. Let's not choose what to eat because of fear (fear of boredom, fear of getting fat, fear of dis-ease and death).

Let's prepare our food to align to what food really is - a substance that nourish the body.
Let's align eating to what will assist the body to function optimally and not based on our ideas of what tasty food is in our mind.





Monday, December 31, 2012

Pork Roast : Gravy or No Gravy Part 3: Day 232 Fear : Survival: Postponement





  


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This Blog is a continuation of this blog
http://junejourneytolife.blogspot.com/2012/12/pork-roast-gravy-or-no-gravy-day-230.html

Event: X-mas gathering with my partner's family

My Decision: Make a gravy out of pan drippings and serve it with the pork roast 
My partner's decision: Leave the pan drippings as it is - do not make a gravy


I will use self-forgiveness in this blog for fears i saw and continue from Part 2.


I highlighted the Fears i will do self-forgiveness for in this blog - below

I am doing self-commitment in blogs to come and live the correction in my breath by breath movement to birth me here as life.


Fears behind the decision to make a gravy: 


Fear of the texture of the gravy (using pan drippings as gravy) not being 'right' as per the culinary standards/rules

Fear of  being a bad chef

Fear of not being popular

Fear of not being liked by my partner's family when i bring a pork roast with a thin, runny gravy

Fear of being alone

 
Fear of being bored by being just by myself

Fear of going crazy

Fear of being in a mental institution

Fear of not being in control

Fear of being bad

 Fear of hurting/killing others

Fear of being in prison

Fear of not having the freedom to live life and not do what I like

Fear of being sad

Fear of wasting my time on Earth
                                                                                                                 Mind Loop 

Fear of REGRETTING the way i lived my life

Fear that I did not use the time that I had to live life fully

Fear of blaming myself that I did not live life fully

Fear of feeling guilty
Fear of re-doing what i postponed to do

Fear of starting from the beginning again/reincarnating

Fear of being in a loop and not getting the whole point of what life is about

Fear of not knowing who, what, where, when, how I am

Fear of not doing what is needed of me to be who I am as life

                                                                                                                     Mind Loop
  

Fear of REGRETTING living my life the way i did
 
Fear of not being someone who is happy all the time
 
Fear of going through a longer process

Fear of not enjoying the fruits of life fully while lived
 

Fear of eternal pain/suffering

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Self-forgiveness Statements

What is Self-forgiveness?
http://juneroca.com/my-process/self-forgiveness/

Fear that I did not use the time that I had to live life fully

I forgive myself that i have accepted and allowed myself to participate in the design of/as 'fear of surviving - as space and time'

fear regretting that i did not use the time i had on earth to live fully after i die - defined within the past, present and future - instead of  realizing that i am here in every moment of breath moving me - directing me.

Fear of blaming myself that I did not live life fully


I forgive myself that i have accepted and allowed myself  'as fear of not surviving - as emotion' regretting not having lived fully  and blame myself 
perceiving a life fully lived as experiencing a happy life - not realizing that i am projecting my fears in the future


Fear of feeling guilty
I forgive myself that i have accepted and allowed myself to participate inthe design of/as ' fear of surviving  - as guilt' be guilty 
for not living life fully - after death -believing life has to be spent in bliss and happiness here on earth - not realizing that i am here as breath in every moment and so live life in /as every moment

Fear of re-doing what i postponed to do
I forgive myself that i have accepted and allowed myself to participate in the design of/as' fear of surviving -as doingness - as postponement' fear re - doing what i postponed to do believing that it will cause suffering, pain and difficulty to re-do something, believing that i have to know who i am now so i can do what needs to be done to live life fully.

Fear of starting from the beginning again/reincarnating
I forgive myself that i have accepted and allowed myself to participate in the design of/as ' fear of surviving - as space and time - as positive energy'  fear starting from the beginning again or reincarnating again believing that i have wasted so much time by then as i did not do what i need to do  because i postponed doing a lot of things- believing that i deserve to rest and enjoy myself in a peaceful blissful place after my struggles on earth as a human - desiring a positive energy experience - not realizing that desire for peace, bliss and happiness started/originated from fear of sadness, difficulty and pain - not realizing i have to face my fears of sadness, difficulty, pain etc. 

Fear of being in a loop and not getting the whole point of what life is about
I forgive myself that i have accepted and allowed myselfto participate in the design of/as ' fear of surviving - as information and knowledge' fear being in a loop and not getting the whole point of what life is about believing that i should know all the details of what life is about first before i can live life fully - as information and knowledge separate from who i am - not realizing that i am here as breath in every moment - and  that i can stop my mind and directly see the state/condition of all that is here as this physical existence - yet because i am participating in my mind i cannot directly see 

Fear of not knowing who, what, where, when, how I am
I forgive myself that i have accepted and allowed myself to participate in the design of/as ' fear of surviving -as an individual' fear not knowing who, what, where, when and how i am -believing that i have to know so i will know how to navigate and live life - not realizing that who i am is here as breath in every moment, and to realise that what i am is a human in a body in/as breath, where i am is HERE, and that 'when i am' is here referencing the moment in this physical existence, and that 'how i am' is the same in every moment moving me here as breath

Fear of not doing what is needed of me to be who I am as all life
I forgive myself that i have accepted and allowed myself 'as fear of not surviving - as all Life'
 to fear not doing what is needed of me to be who i am as all Life - believing that i am inferior and can only survive as an individual and take care of the family and groups that i belong to

- believing that to birth me here, as all life is very difficult and is almost impossible 
- believing that to survive as an individual is difficult enough and to survive as one and equal as all life is almost impossible 

-not realizing that who i am is HERE as the breath in every moment able to see the state and condition of all that is HERE in this physical existence in every 'holding moment' of breath and change and move in the in-breath and the out-breath moment by moment

- not realizing that  to stop mind participation in an alternate reality, being with the physical as who i am, standing for what is best for all life, moving me and expressing me as who i am,  birthing me here within my process of self-perfection and assisting in establishing a world that truly honors life - is a commonsensical thing to do

Continued

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