A Prayer For Peace On Earth by Tarra Light

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Nahko and Medicine for the People - Love Letters To God

Published on May 17, 2016

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Nahko and Medicine for the People is a music collective fronted by Nahko Bear. They have a new record this year, called "Hoka". We met the guys some time ago - this is "Love Letters To God".

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Lyrics

[Chorus]

Love letters to God

Wonder if she reads them, or if they get lost

In the stars, the stars, in the stars

So many parts to a heavy heart

If there’s no beginning, then where would you start?

Start, start, where would you start?

[Verse 1]

Give, Always give what you can
Even if your allies draw lines in the sand

And dig, always dig a little deeper

Sometimes it’s hard to be my brother’s keeper

Love. So you let love in

Baby I am home in the wake of your skin, and it’s crazy

How we wear our ceremonies
Always be open to your path and your journey

Yes, she cradles my loneliness
A home in a forest nest

Universal test, feel the weight of my love put your hand on my chest

And rest

In the cradle of my arms

The battle that we face is a place where our scars come from

And to pick up that gun

My love we are destined to teach these ones to be brave

And never run away

Courage is birthed from the womb on the first light of day

Yeah, the day you were born you came out perfect never meant to be torn

In silence, never been so loud in the violence

Never been so proud of a people

When we’re fighting for a change, not afraid to lose it all despite all the rage

We are animals

And we cannot be caged

Provoke us to fight

So we burn a little sage and write poetry

Wiser than the enemy will ever be

The minority

And authority

Are you here to protect or arrest me?

I can’t tolerate the hate, and we’re losing sleep

Can’t breathe because they’re choking out a war in me
Immorality

[Chorus]

Love letters to God

Wonder if she reads them or if they get lost

In the stars, the stars, in the stars

So many parts to a heavy heart

If there’s no beginning, then where would you start?

Start, start, where would you start?

[Verse 2]

Human souls, so we carve them to a story Totem poles

Because we’re always searching for a certain goal
A pattern of physics, a role

Don’t believe all you’re told

And open

Open up your fist
A misconception, you can fight like this

In praise. With the power of prayer

If God’s on our side we can take the stairs

To the heavens

Flipping through my chapter seven

I live with the snakes in the great deception

No court, in this country for men
Who steal from their mother on paper with pen

And we’re tripping

Down a red dirt road

And we’re asking

Is this the way we should go?

Kissing, soft top feet of my goddess

We walk the earth, baby yeah we got this

Focus, and it’s redirected

Grateful, and I’m resurrected

Stubborn, But I know the way

You’re the skin of my drum
To your rhythm I will sway

Take my hand

I won’t lead you astray

We will not go gently into the darkest of days

Grandma’s here, and she says persevere

Take a walk in her mocks sees a trail of tears

And our fears, are the same as they ever were beers[?]

Numb the pain of our holocaust years

Always mobbing and motion

Maybe, baby be an island over an ocean

Your arches, how they bend and contract in my Conscious
Never slipped through the grip of my thesis
And my theory is I shine in your presence
A deliverance

[Chorus]

Love letters to God

Wonder if she reads them or if they get lost

In the stars, the stars, in the stars

So many parts to a heavy heart

If there’s no beginning, then where would you start?

Start, start, where would you start?

The Rise of Tart Cherry As A Medicinal Food by Linda Woolven & Ted Snider

The Rise of Tart Cherry As A Medicinal Food

by Linda Woolven & Ted Snider

Green Med Info.         18 May 2016

Tart Cherries are one of nature's unsung healing agents, able to help the body recover naturally from a myriad of different ailments. 

A Cherry on Top? The Rise of Tart Cherry       

Though proverbially, the cherry has always been on top, medicinally, it has always laboured near the bottom. While bilberry was accumulating studies on eye health, hawthorn berries were accumulating studies on heart health, cranberries were achieving fame for urinary tract health and blueberries were resolving high blood pressure and staking a claim to the antioxidant crown, cherries were seen as simply pleasurable, placing the entire weight of their health claim on a single half century old study showing that they could prevent attacks of gout [1].

In the past half dozen years, though, all that has changed, and the humble cherry is moving up the herbal hit list. Maybe there really is a cherry on top.

Gout

The first early gout study took sixty-two years to be replicated. A modern study of 633 gout sufferers found that eating cherries reduced the risk of having a gout attack by 35% and that supplementing a cherry extract reduced the risk by an even more impressive 45% [2]. After waiting over half a century, the next study took only one year to follow. This study gave gout sufferers a cherry juice concentrate (1tbsp=45-60 cherries) while they continued to take their medication. In the first part of the study, more than 50% of the cherry group were attack free at 60 days and could cut back on their meds. In the second, attacks were reduced by 50% in half the people taking cherry juice for four months or longer [3].

Insomnia

Soon it would be discovered that cherries could do more than prevent attacks of gout. In truly surprising research, cherries, it turned out, treated insomnia. The first evidence came from a double-blind study of fifteen healthy, elderly people with insomnia. Their average age was 71.6 years. For two weeks, they drank either two 8 ounce servings of Montmorency tart cherry juice and apple juice or a similar looking placebo drink. Though at the end of the study, the people still had insomnia, those who drank the cherry juice had moderately improved sleep. 

They experienced significant improvement on the Insomnia Severity Index, on how long it took them to fall asleep, on how often they woke up and on total sleeping time [4].

A second study found out how tart cherries treated insomnia. This double-blind study gave twenty healthy men and women 30mL of tart Montmorency cherry juice concentrate in 200mL of water twice a day for seven days. The dose was equivalent to approximately 90-100 tart cherries. Compared to a placebo fruit drink, the tart cherry juice significantly increased melatonin by about 16%. Cherries, it turned out, were improving sleep because they were a natural source of the sleep hormone melatonin. Compared to a placebo, the cherry group significantly increased the time spent in bed, had a significant 34 minutes more sleep per night and a significant 5-6% increase in the time in bed spent sleeping. The people on the cherry juice also spent significantly less time napping [5]. An earlier study had also found that Jerte Valley cherries increased melatonin and improved sleep [6].

Later, a fourth study would also find that, compared to placebo, a cherry product improved sleep efficiency, time taken to fall asleep, number of awakenings and total sleep time and that it increased melatonin [7].

Surprisingly, then, in a novel use of cherries, there is evidence that they improve sleep because they are a natural source of melatonin.

Exercise

In the same year the studies began to appear on insomnia, studies began to appear that demonstrated benefits for cherries for exercise. According to double-blind research on 54 healthy runners, when 355 mL of tart cherry juice was taken twice a day for seven days prior to a long distance run and again on the day of the race, the runners had significantly smaller increases in muscle pain than runners given a placebo cherry drink [8].

Subsequent studies would show that cherries improved the free radical damage and inflammation that resulted from exercise. In the first, twenty recreational marathon runners drank either cherry juice or a placebo for five days prior to a race and continued drinking it until two days after the race. Strength recovery was significantly faster in the cherry group. Furthermore, inflammation was significantly reduced and total antioxidant status was significantly greater in the cherry group [9]. A subsequent double-blind study would give either 30 mL Montmorency cherry concentrate (equivalent to about 90- 110 whole cherries) or a placebo in 100mL water twice a day for a week to sixteen healthy male cyclists. Blood samples were taken after the cyclists completed high intensity exercise. Markers of free radical damage and inflammation were again significantly better in the cherry group [10].

Although exercise is good for every aspect of health, prolonged exercise can suppress immunity. Because of this immune suppression, prolonged exercise is associated with increased respiratory infections. So, researchers tried giving twenty recreational marathon runners either tart Montmorency cherry juice or a placebo, starting five days before they ran their marathon and continuing until two days after they were finished. The dose of cherry juice was 236mL of fresh-pressed Montmorency tart cherry combined with apple (equal to 50-60 cherries) twice a day; the placebo was the same amount of a sugar-free fruit flavoured drink that looked like cherry juice. As in the earlier studies, the cherry juice significantly reduced inflammation after the race. C-reactive protein, a marker for inflammation, increased significantly less in the cherry juice group. 

Importantly in this study, both the number and the severity of upper respiratory tract symptoms (URTS) were significantly worse in the placebo group. Only the placebo group suffered more URTS after the race: while 50% of the runners who took the placebo had URTS at 24 and 48 hours after the race, not one of the runners who drank the cherry juice did [11].

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Green Med Info.

Teachers Only Open Doors - A Chinese Proverb

A Man Or Woman Who Conquers Oneself - The Wisdom Of Buddha

It's Not The Length Of Life.... A Quotation from Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nahko & Medicine For The People & Mihali Savoulidis - "Wash It Away"

Published on May 18, 2016

Nahko & Medicine For The People "Wash It Away" with Mihali Savoulidis of Twiddle.
Live at Higher Ground
Burlington, VT
5.12.16

Additional footage by Bob Wagner

www.goodwolfproductions.com

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Lyrics:

We are part of something special
we are part of something special we're a part of something special It's a crack in time a wrinkle Fallen from the nest, young eagle I will pull my feathers out stay humble stay humble stay humble stay humble stay humble Uncle Mana taught us like an elder took asunder older brother he said this is powerful country this is powerful country we felt like we were returning to our land rebels and the shepherds in the sea takers are taking what the leavers will leave so grieve me the black prince cicada such a loud voice for a tiny creature teach me to let go of all of my pain I do forgive, I don't forget these things I do forgive, I don't forget these things We burn the bluegum for a safe passageway drink of the earth smoke of the dirt and my warpaint was red ochre clay Hoka hey Red ochre clay Hoka hey Red ochre clay Our prayers igniting, cast out into the shire and the song of our struggle came straight from the fire, it goes: holy holy grandmother, we sing wash us clean of our pain and suffering give us strength for our new beginnings From my deepest grace I sing wash away, it will wash away lift ‘em up wash away, it will wash away lift ‘em up wash away, it will wash away lift ‘em up wash away, it will wash away lift ‘em up ooh lift ‘em up ooh lift ‘em up in my dreams a whirling aboriginal man gave me your hat and your past in one hand he said, you've come to be with rainbow serpent red hands red land red worship red hands red land red worship just then I heard bush mama crying in the chasms for the stolen generation and the children who haven't come home come home stay home come home come home stay home my bullets are my words and my words are my weapons so chain me to the pipeline for our rivers and mountains we sing today's a good day for my ego to die today's a good day for my ego to die spirit live on in my heart, in my body, my mind then sister crow came with the murder that day so he tattoed the bird nation onto our faces she said we sing to let go of all of our pain we dance the story to remember when things changed remember when things changed remember when things changed holy holy grandmother, we sing wash us clean of our pain and suffering give us strength for our new beginnings From my deepest grace I sing wash away, it will wash away lift ‘em up it'll wash away, it will wash away lift ‘em up it'll wash away, it will wash away lift ‘em up it'll wash away, it will wash away lift ‘em up ooh lift ‘em up ooh lift ‘em up ooh lift ‘em up ooh lift ‘em up ooh lift ‘em up ooh lift ‘em up We danced the ghost dance in two separate countries To this old song so familiar to memory the road will teach you how to love and let go it can be lonely but it's the only thing that we've ever known it can be lonely but it's the only thing that we've ever known Our mommas told us let go of jealousy and for vagabonds and vagrants, that won't come so easy we've come from nothing nothing we have come from nothing nothing I traveled halfway across the country and back only to find love undefined and I'm OK with that cause I'm gonna be a guardian be a man among men be a guardian be a man among men or be a woman among women be a guardian be my friend ooh be my friend teach me to love you in a different way same cuts same guts same crazy same cuts same guts same crazy it'll wash away, it will wash away lift ‘em up it'll wash away, it will wash away lift ‘em up it'll wash away, it will wash away lift ‘em up it'll wash away, it will wash away lift ‘em up

7 Versions Of The Same Golden Rule

Nahko and Medicine for the People - Make A Change - CARDINAL SESSIONS

Published on May 17, 2016

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Nahko and Medicine for the People is a music collective fronted by Nahko Bear. They have a new record this year, called "Hoka". We met the

Ringing Cedars Of Russia - Book 1

To read the entire book, please click on the pdf link below:

http://loving-wi.se/ANASTASIA-Book1-Anastasia.pdf


I can highly recommend this Ringing Cedars of Russia book series to all.  I recommend the you put it on an USB and save it for future reading.

For What Is The Purpose Of Man? - A Quotation from Christina Conti

Source:

Songstress Syren G+

BREXIT - The Full Length Film

Published on May 12, 2016

The full-length Brexit: The Movie - the crowdfunded film making the case for Britain to LEAVE the EU on June 23rd.

Segments of the film available on this channel and at:  

http://www.brexitthemovie.com/#!the-movie/c2sa

THIS IS MY LAND - A Song by Sofia Jannok

Published on March 22, 2016

Reclaiming the land.

Song: This Is My Land (Sápmi)
Music & lyrics: Sofia Jannok
Producers: Sofia Jannok & Henrik Oja
Director: Sofia Jannok
Edit: Mattias Andersson
Photo Romsa (Tromsø): Matti Aikio
Photo Paris: Ayşe Gürsöz John E Utsi, Dan Jåma
Photo Svalbard: Marcus Krogtoft
Photo collage from all over Sápmi: Nila Jannok, Mats Berg, Pávva Pittja, Ina-Theres Sparrok, Emma Charlina Graméus, Ánne Márjá Guttorm Graven

Most thanks to Indigenous Environmental Network for clips from Paris during the direct actions around COP21, Dec 2015. Stay posted at www.ienearth.org
www.sofiajannok.com

LYRICS

Introduction:

“The State is of the opinion that the claim put forward by the Sámi reindeer herding community with regards to their long tradition of being engaged in reindeer husbandry, hunting and fishing in the area is of irrelevance to the case. In order to be eligible to claim immemorial prescription, said claim has to be based on a 90 years long use of an area. Any additional use for a longer period of time is of irrelevance to the legality of the claim.”
“Because of the claim that it is of importance that the Sámi have been using this area, the State is of the opinion that it is of utmost importance to define what is meant by the term Sámi, and how specific such a definition really is.

This is what the following material is meant to do.”

(Excerpts from the State Attorney’s intervention during the hearing in the court case between the Sámi reindeer herding community Girjas - from whence Sofia Jannok’s grandmother came - and the Swedish State. Gällivare Lapland District Court, June, 2015.)


Song lyrics:

This is my land, this is my country and if I’d be the queen you’d see that I’d take everyone by hand and sing it so it’s out there
that we’ll paint this land blue, yellow, red and green

If you say that this girl’s not welcome in this country, if she must leave because her face is brown

Well, then I’d say you go first ’cause frankly this is my land and here we live in peace, I’ll teach you how

This is my pride, this is my freedom, this is the air that I breathe and you’ll find no kings, no queens, here everybody’s equal - men, women and all who are in between

This is my home, this is my heaven, this is the earth where I belong and if you want to ruin it all with big wounds in the mountains then you’re not worthy of listening to this song

This is my land, this is my country, these lakes, rivers, hills and woods If you open up your eyes you’ll find someone is lying

I’ve always been here, welcome to my hood

Sameland is the area in yellow.

The Incredible Healing Effect of Mother's Touch by Eleni Roumeliotou

The Incredible Healing Effect of Mother's Touch

by Eleni Roumeliotou

Green Med Info.         8 May 2015

Skin to skin contact between the mother and her new-born baby can have impressive healing and even life-saving effects for the infant. 

The human body is not just a dynamic sophisticated biochemical and genetic system; there are strong energetic, emotional and psychological aspects that interact decisively with the physical counterparts of the body and can make a very measurable difference in our physiological functions.

A valid proof of this comes from the neonatal Kangaroo care method (K method), which requires skin to skin contact between the mother and the newborn baby. While this simple intervention provides superior support for preterm, low-weight babies, in comparison to conventional practices, such as the use of incubator, it is rarely included in official hospital policies or recommended to mothers by mainstream experts.

Pediatricians have expressed fears that keeping a preterm baby outside of an incubator during the Kangaroo interaction, may expose the infant to cold with subsequent loss of body heat and lower body temperatures, which can be critical to the survival and wellbeing of weak babies. Research however shows that the exact opposite is happening during the K care method. A study involving low-weight preterm babies (less than 1.5 Kg) and their mothers, published in the Journal of Pediatrics, found that the body temperature of the newborn actually rises when the infant is skin to skin in touch with the mother's chest.

Perhaps the most remarkable story that was brought to the public's attention is the miraculous revival of premature baby boy Jamie Ogg, who, following his birth was pronounced dead by doctors after 20 minutes of resuscitation efforts. His mother put him on her chest and held him for 2 hours, when he suddenly started to gasp for air and was soon breathing normally.

Apart from such dramatic recoveries, clinicians have recorded impressive positive impact of the K method on a variety of physiological and behavioral parameters on newborns. For example, doctors from the Pediatric Department in New Delhi hospital in India conducted a randomized control trial of the effects of the Kangaroo mother care method. 28 mother and low birth-weight baby dyads (baby weight less than 1.5 Kg at the time of birth) were assigned either to the control group (incubator or standard open care) or the K group, where the mother kept the baby in touch with her skin for at least 4 hours per day in no more than 3 sittings. 

The authors concluded that:

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Look Within - A Poem by David Carse

Look within

Look within

Unimginable, perfect beauty

In the still, silent heart.

The one perfect blazing radiant Jewel

All that is

What you Are  
True Self

Look and see in the Brilliance.

Nothing to do to know this:

Do not think, and this is known.

When the mind is still

When the mind is not other than the heart

Still, silent, radiant heart.

Look within

Don't miss this!

Don't live a life not seeing, not knowing

This ultimate blinding beauty

Look and be

Do not think - look within - you will know

Who you Are.

David Carse

A Blessing For Peace from John O'Donahue

A Blessing for Peace

 

As the fever of the day calms toward twilight

May all that is strained in us come to ease.

 

We pray for all who suffered violence today,

May an unexpected serenity surprise them.

 

For those who risk their lives

each day for peace,

May their hearts glimpse providence

at the heart of history.

 

That those who make riches

from violence and war

Might hear in their dreams

the cries of the lost.

 

That we might see through

our fear of each other

A new vision to heal

our fatal attraction to aggression.

 

That those who enjoy

the privilege of peace

Might not forget their

tormented brothers and sisters

That the wolf might lie down

With the lamb,

That our swords be beaten

Into plowshares

 

And no hurt or harm be done

Anywhere along the holy mountain.

 

~ John O'Donohue ~