2014 The Year of the Eagle
It’s not everyday you get to see a bald eagle.
Let alone 4, in your neighborhood, sitting in a tree.
As we were getting ready to turn a new year I proclaimed 2014 as the year of the Eagle.
Zuni Fetish: Eagle = creator, teacher, loyalty, great integrity, spiritual connection to the great divine.
Eagle, I fly with you!
I made a commitment to myself and to Zoefitness to soar above and beyond, to not fall weakness to those around me who try to bring me down.
The eagle is much more to me than just that.
This is a creature who on the brink of extinction has come back, in strength and in numbers.
They used to call me ‘the canary’.
The canary would be sent down into coal shafts, and if the canary came back out alive, they would consider the shaft safe to go into for a recovery effort.
They called me the canary because my health was negatively effected by the Oil and Gas Industry.
That was 2010; and I have had a lot of time to meditate on that.
I am not the canary; I am the Eagle.
I am all of the things the Native American tie to the Eagle. Most importantly for today’s blog, I am the teacher.
I am not the anomaly, I am the predictor of things to come. And we should all look to me for answers when it comes to health, because I know, before all other people if something is good or bad for our health.
Let me explain.
1. It started in the 1990’s with Nutrasweet, Aspartame is a methyl ester of the aspartic acid/phenylalanine dipeptide.
I gave up Diet Dr Pepper for a few weeks, and then, I decided to have one. My heart was racing, I thought it was going to explode. I haven’t touched a diet soda since.
For good reason too. It’s horrible for us. It’s likely, I was one of the first people who suffered negative health implications from Aspartame. And now, we know a long list of negative side effects from the chemical ranging from increase heart rate, migraines, black outs, and negative effects of blood sugar.
If you’re going to drink coke, at least drink one with sugar. And yes, that’s better than corn syrup, and you can still find them!
2. Wheat Sensitivities===>Gluten Intolerance===>Celiac’s Disease. I have been wheat free since 1996. Did you know you’re not supposed to poop every time you go to the bathroom? And they aren’t supposed to look little fingers? There’s a ton of information out there now. GMO crops of wheat, dwarf wheat, and actually GMO corn are related to developing this. The GMO corn does exactly what it does to us, as it does to the insects that eat it, it tears up our stomachs. And the Dwarf Wheat? Well, that has 3x the gluten as regular wheat. It’s a no wonder.
Some of these foods we are eating, our bodies no longer recognize as foods, because they aren’t. They are food products.
3. Cell Phone Radiation. I can feel it. Not many people can, they say only 1% of the population, it’s so awesome to be so special. There’s not a chance I will hold that thing up to my head. Why? Because cell phones cause the proliferation of cells, which is exactly how cancer is started. Now a days you hear stories of Mom’s, Aunts, etc. who have put their cell phones in their bras, that have developed tumors, in the shape of a phone, right where they used to keep their phones in their bras. There was even a case of a young 20 something year old, who was speaking out about her tumor, and how she knows it was caused by where her phone was kept. So parents, don’t let your kids hold their phones up to their heads. And little girls who are putting their phones in their back pockets, I would guess, based on history, it will be another 3-5 years before we see tumors in people’s butts.
4. Oil and Gas Production: and specifically refining, and horizontal hydraulic fracturing are really bad for our health. It’s effected every cell in my body. I haven’t lived on the shale for 2 years, and although my health is better, it’s not 100% and I still have a pretty extreme sensitivity to chemicals, especially petrochemicals, all derivatives. Since my exposure was hydrogen sulfide, I become extremely ill around sulfur, organic and inorganic. Well, I guess it is all organic if it comes from the earth; whether or not it’s attached to oil and gas or not: swamps, mining piles, soil high in concentrations all make me very ill.
This is a big one and I really want you to pay attention to this one because they are putting derivatives of fossil fuels in everything. Which I guess, if it didn’t make me sick, I wouldn’t know this.
Lotions
Hair Care Products including shampoo and conditioner
Make Up
Medicine (all over the counter medicines now contain a derivative of radiator fluid)
Food (TBHQ, BHA,BHT, other preservatives, dyes) from butane (all over the counter, or “normal” food, cereals especially)
Cleaning Products, unless you’re buying it at a health food store and using vinegar it is highly likely stock pack full of petroleum
Perfumes
Paint/varnishes etc (unless you buy no VOC)
Fabric Softener
Air Fresheners
Candles
Carpet
I looked at shaving creme the other day and it had 3 different kinds of petroleum products in it!
Fertilizer
Weed Killer
Pesticides
It’s in everything.
I would like us to get back to using fossil fuels in our cars, engines, including bicycle lubes and keep it out of the stuff we slather onto our bodies. The skin is a great conductor to our blood supply.
Imagine, if you would, how the price of gasoline would drop, if we all just stopped using, eating and taking products that contain some form of petroleum or the other.
Remember, I am not the canary, I am the Eagle.
And while you may not be able to see one every day;
I have new neighbors.
The are majestic, beautiful, and strong.
They are a miracle bestowed upon us to teach us that on the verge of extinction, we can come back.
The Eagle is our Teacher.
And I hope we learn.
I have not side noted this; if you don’t believe something you read, then, I invite you to Google it and confirm exactly that which is public knowledge.