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Tips for Green Living in the Home


Do you care about the environment and your health, but want to be stylish with your home décor at the same time? Luckily, there are plenty of green living options that can be implemented in your home in order to create a great look while remaining eco-friendly.

Making Sustainable Choices

Making sustainable choices are an important component of green living. Making sustainable choices means purchasing products that don’t cause a negative impact on the environment and that will not make it more difficult for future generations to continue to sustain themselves. Making sustainable choices during the design process is referred to as ‘green design’ or ’sustainable design’. Some great sustainable choices to consider when decorating include:

• Natural stone counter tops

• Cabinets and other products made from woods such as bamboo, eucalyptus, or recycled wood

• Carpet made from natural fibers, such as wool and cotton, or made from recycled materials

• Green-friendly paint and home wallpaper, which is being offered by a growing number of manufacturers

• Antiques – after all, they are being recycled!

You don’t have to create a bland and boring home décor in order to enjoy green living. In fact, there are numerous options out there that will allow you to make your home look great while still protecting the planet.

Appliances for Green Living

When it comes to green living, a great place to start is in your kitchen. Remodeling can add a great deal of value to your home, can make it more functional and attractive, and can help you make your home more eco-friendly.

When buying for your kitchen, look for modern appliances to help bring your home up-to-date. By purchasing those appliances with the Energy Star rating, you can potentially cut the amount of energy you use to power those appliances in half. Adding faucet aerators to your kitchen and bathroom faucets will also help reduce the amount of water you use while still providing you with a high pressure stream of water.

Obtaining Green Products

Fortunately, green living is rapidly growing in popularity. In response, many manufacturers are offering lines of eco friendly products that can be used for decorating purposes. In addition, a growing number of online and offline stores that are dedicated solely to green living are becoming a more common occurrence.

One great resource for green living products is www.greenhome.com. This site carries only eco-friendly products, including furniture, bedding, and home furnishings. Home furnishings offered at www.greenhome.com include candles, picture frames, tableware, home accessories, clocks, lamps, rugs and carpet. Another great online resource for green living products is www.livingreen.com. Here, you can find wall coverings, furniture, flooring, and more. Go to www.vivaterrra.com for fabulous green gifts for the home and garden.

Although it may take a little more time and effort to find and purchase eco products for your home, the effort will be worth it. Not only will you be doing your part to help conserve and protect the environment, green living is better for your health and can save you money in the long run.



Natural Medicine: the Way Home


Western medicine plays a significant role today. Their diagnostics and surgical procedures are world class and there are many doctors today tending towards recommending healthy alternative therapies. However, the tradition of prescribing medications that are heavily marketed by the multinational drug Corporations and the societal side effects have to be addressed.

 

These drugs have power over us. They corner us and make us feel small. We turn to the western model for help when we are trying to seek balance and their medicinal options make us become needy and weak. They do not arm us with the tools necessary to face this world and our role in it. All purpose is lost when all we are doing is surviving by synthetically detaching. There is a general belief when seeking this help that the antidepressants and painkillers prescribed are the doorway to doing the right thing for your life, ‘taking control’. Western pharmaceuticals are the Backdoor OUT of people’s lives and people are taking them because they want to feel better. How can you feel better when you have no control over yourself? When something external is dictating whether you will experience happiness today?

 

The next step down from legal drug users are those who choose to self medicate with illegal substances. The people who take these are frowned upon because it’s illegal. These substances can be more powerful and potentially more dangerous but ultimately are a solution to the same problem, our society is desperately unhappy! Our society has become segregated, disconnected and impatient with a constant undertone of incredible fear. Fear of living. Fear of dying. Fear of loving. Fear of getting it wrong. Fear of getting it right!

 

There is no sense of community any more. People believe that they have to ‘be strong’ and do it on their own. It’s bullshit because they are not doing it on their own, they are using external substances to support themselves: legal or illegal is not even relevant. Everyone just wants their problems fixed today and no one wants to have to fight for their own wellness and balance. If someone else fixes it, people don’t ever really have to own how they got there in the first place, and look at how much of it they created themselves.   

 

The human qualities that have been lost in this system are connection, trust, kindness, patience, persistence and commitment. How can you develop connection with your doctor when the outcome of the appointment is you being handed something that helps you to avoid addressing anything (whilst creating another problem entirely)? How can we develop trust with our community when a major side effect of drug taking is paranoia, and to support ever growing habits, deceit must be used? How can we be kind to others when we are not being kind to ourselves? What will teach us patience when our society celebrates the quick fix? How will we develop persistence when the core of the ‘quick fix’ is to give up? Where in our lives will we demonstrate commitment when this system is about avoiding it?

 

 

 

 

Our society is in a state of spiritual emergence and there is only one thing that will lead us in a movement of healing, Natural Medicine. Natural Medicine has existed for Eons. It is quiet and humble by nature and has always survived the overwhelming, bombastic presence of the Western model. Acupuncture, Massage, Natural Herbs and supplements, Kinesiology, Yoga and Qi Gong all provide a space for which we can self discover. These modalities work on the bases of connecting with the deeper and subtle vibrations of the body, mind and spirit and then correcting the imbalance, gently.

 

Therapists in the world of Natural Medicine are there to take the time to listen and help you work on yourself. This develops a connection, a bond, where it is safe to peel back the layers and re build yourself slowly. It is in this space that you learn about trust. It is the time taken and also the depth of these therapies that allow trust to develop. Seeking Natural therapy for yourself comes from an authentic place in your heart, you are being kind to yourself by doing so.  The process of these therapies naturally takes time, which teaches us patience. Through the time spent we also learn respect and admiration for ones self. The quality of persistence develops through a balanced combination of external bodywork and internal realisation, ownership and release of all that is old and no longer serves you. Finally: Commitment. What you are doing for yourself by embarking on the journey of Natural Therapies is making a commitment to yourself. It is a commitment to obtaining the best quality of life you will ever find. It is a commitment to taking responsibility for yourself, your feelings, your actions and most importantly your destiny. Your destiny can only be followed when everything that makes you, is consciously chosen by you.

 

Our society is currently experiencing a desperate craving for something more than what is. It is this very craving that will lead us back to our roots where we were once tribal. Connected to mother earth, each other and ourselves. Where Life’s purpose was to live in harmony with the earth, share, love and create. Natural Medicine is the medium for which we will begin to heal the damage that has been done. It is the path to learning how to live again. It is the way back to hearts. Natural Medicine is the way home. 

 



The Role of Monavie and Extenze for a Healthy Life


As you age, you become very slow because of joint pains and other ailments that hinder or limit your movements or just limit what you can, and what you are allowed to do. Because most of the time people in the prime of their lives do not watch what they eat and they never think seriously about the risk of its bad effects to their health.

This is so, that some people usually end up regretting it at the late, and they end up depriving themselves of the food that they love to eat, when they could have enjoyed it in moderation for the rest of their lives. And that is why taking the time when you are younger to educate yourself and learn about the harmful toxins and bad foods we put in our body daily, if we learn and understand what we are doing, we can manage and help ourself in the long run become more nutritionally sound.

In a society where everything is made easy and instant when it comes to food and even drink, there is no doubt the average American take in more junk food than he or she takes healthy food in. And as time passes by, the society is plagued by diseases that are getting deadlier by the second.

Sweet and salty manufactured food with preservatives are regular in the average person”’’s diet three times a day. Only a few have become aware of its dangers and listened to their bodies. If you are one of the now health conscious people, then, Monavie pulse is for you.

Acai berries have been found to have numerous antioxidants and lipid pre-oxidation that help keep the body healthy and on tip top shape for optimum performance in your everyday activities and even your personal once in a while recreation that you should enjoy.

The Monavie pulse blends are reconstituted juice and puree blends with plant sterols, polyphenol blends, omega 3, resveratol, natural flavorings, potassium, sodium benzoate, citric acid. All of which has been claimed to help keep a healthy heart, low cholesterol and pain free joints.

So if you want to keep healthy and have an active life even in your senior years like the average American does, take Monavie pulse.

Like in the times of the ancient amazons, eating acai berries has been believed to cause a boost in energy. This is surely suitable for those of you who love adventurous activities and who love to do extreme sports, and death defying activities. You will surely be able to enjoy and keep up with the young ones while you are at it, without worry about your blood pressure and your joints.

Plant sterols in Monavie is claimed to help the body lower cholesterol and again reduce the risk of heart disease and even reduce the risk of certain kinds of cancers, like cancer of the colon. So what are you waiting for? Drink up and cleanse your body from a lifetime of toxic and live longer.