This is a painting I did and edited on Microsoft Publisher with a quote that I recently came across that fits right in with my new path. If you'd like to join me on a healthier path, please message me.

Here's a great message for all those who struggle with negativity

Positive thoughts    
It is not easy to think positive thoughts when the world around you appears to be so negative. In fact, it can be as difficult as anything you've ever done.   
However, it is absolutely possible to fill your mind with positive thoughts no matter what your circumstances. Doing so empowers you like nothing else can.   
To think positively is to align yourself with the truth that you're immersed in a universe of limitless, growing abundance. To think positively is to graciously accept that your life is destined for meaningful and unique fulfillment.    
Instead of placing a judgment on your situation, apply your most positive intentions to that situation. Instead of seeing the world as negative, see yourself as a powerful agent of the positive possibilities.    
If you find yourself giving in to negativity, you are selling yourself short. The moment you feel the slightest twinge of a negative thought, stop and remind yourself how powerful you are.    
Do the disciplined, intentional work to keep your thoughts positive. Because whatever you most consistently think, is where your life will surely and steadily go.     Ralph Marston

No need

No need

You get what you do not need. What you need, you do not have.

So long as you focus on need, you push away the object of your need. As soon as you can truly let go of the need for something, you can begin to experience more and more of it in your life.

Desperation builds a wall around you that lets nothing good come in. Thus, desperation leads to nothing but more desperation.

Every reality you create in your life begins with what you imagine. So use the power of your imagination to imagine abundance, instead of focusing your thoughts on need.

See yourself not as lacking, but as fulfilling. Let your thankfulness for what is possible crowd out any limiting thoughts of need or apprehension.

What you need, does you no good. With a grateful heart get beyond the need, and open yourself to all life's abundance.

Ralph Marston

Remedy for oncoming headache without drugs

Give Your Face a Workout
  All you need is your own handsome face and a mirror and you're ready to do some face and scalp calisthenics, courtesy of Harry c. Ehrmantrout, PH.D, author of Headaches: The Drugless Way to Lasting Relief. The exercises are designed to relax the muscles of the face and scalp and teach you conscious control over these muscles so you can go into action at the first sign of a headache.
   Here in summary are 11 face abd scalp calisthenics Dr. Ehrmantrout recommends.

• Eyebrows up and return: Lift both eyebrows up quickly, then relax and let them down.
• Right eyebrow up and return: This move could be tough to do.  Start by holding the other eyebrow in place and then m,ove the right eyebrow up, as you did before.
• Left eyebrow up and return.
• Squint both eyes closed and release: Do this quickly, hold briefly, the relax.
• Squint right eye hard and release: Squeeze the right side of your face hard enough to raise the corner of your mouth.
• Squint left eye hard and release.
• Frown deeply and release: Squeeze eyebrows down and in toward the bridge of your nose.
• Yawn wide and close: Slowly open your mouth by lowering your jaw gradually to a wide position.  Then close slowly.
• Open Jaw, move right and left: Open mouth slightly and slide jaw from right to left, and then from left to right. 
• Wrinkle nose: Squeeze nose upward, as if smelling a foul odor.

• Make faces: Ad-lib this one, just like when you were a kid.  And don't worry, your face won't get stuck.

I have not tried the above suggestion because I rarely get a headache. I attribute that to having converted my home to safer products. I hope it helps those of you who do. Please let me know if it helps because I like to know if the information I am providing is beneficial or not. Thanks for visiting!

Happy Mother's Day!

Happy Mother's Day to all the mothers out there! Whether you are a mom, a mom to be, an adoptive mom, foster mom, grandma, or have a child in heaven, I wish you all the joy and happiness that comes with being a mom. May your day be as happy as the day you became a mom!

Spring Cleaning - Asthma & allergy triggers?

Many Americans follow the long standing tradition of spring cleaning. Dusting, vacuuming and cleaning indoor surfaces can help to eliminate many potential asthma and allergy triggers, but can also introduce new ones into the home environment.

* Beware of cleaning products. While cleaning the home is important and can eliminate triggers such as mold, ingredients in cleaning products can cause asthma and allergy symptoms. American Lung Association 

Would you like a safe alternative? If so, please send me a message and I'd be happy to provide you with more information! You'll be glad you did!