Showing posts with label 2012. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2012. Show all posts
Maya 2012 series: Misconceptions 2012 & Understanding Maya Calendar (part 1 and 2) | Carl Johan Calleman by lilou mace
2012 Goals
I loved making goals, not resolutions last year. In fact, I decided to do it again. And while I maybe didn't achieve all that I set out to this year, I am really proud of what I did accomplish. Look out 2012, I'm here to take you over this year!
2011 Goals Reviewed
2. Complete an Olympic distance triathlon. Unfortunately this didn't happen. I did a few more Sprint distance races, but didn't commit to swimming enough to be successful with a Olympic. Plus with the August half training, I was more run focused than tri focused this year.
3. Run 1,000 miles. I made it to 780. I honestly didn't think I would make it to 1,000, so I'm really Impressed I almost made it to 800. I did make biking a more regular part of my schedule though, and between swimming, biking & running, I hit over 1,107 all together.
4. Strength training as a regular part of my workouts. I've made it a priority of going to work out with Krystal @ Bia Fitness. A combo of Bootcamp classes & TRX has made me stronger, and I love it!
5. Follow the new weight watchers program. I did for a while when we did weight watchers at work. I lost about 10 pounds and felt good, but lost focus when the work group fell apart.
6. Start planning my wedding for spring 2012. This also didn't happen. While we're still working towards it, I'm not sure if it was a good goal to make, since I have little control over it. It will happen when it happens.
7. Start training for my first marathon. I'm heading to Disney on Friday, and can't wait to cross that finish line on Sunday!!
8. Work less weekends. I managed to do this. I stopped working my per diem job, and worked only 1-2 saturdays a month. I spent more time running, riding, and enjoying time with Kevin.
9. Raise more than $1,000 for Run to Home Base 9K. I raised over $1,000 with help from friends and family & bloggers!
2012 Goals
1. Half Marathon PR & Sub 30 5K. I'm hoping I can make my RnR DC a new PR, if not there's a few races I have my eye on for the fall. I may have to hunt down some 5Ks, but hopefully with speedwork working toward a faster half, I can speed up for my 5Ks as well.
2. Complete an Olympic Distance Triathlon. This time I'm serious. I have a couple on my radar. Most specifically Rev3 Maine or Quassy. There's a couple other local ones I'm considering as well.
3. Run, Bike, Swim 1,500 miles combined. Instead of a running only focused goals, I want to include all 3 sports more, and especially get my darn butt in the pool more!
4. Focus on healthy eating, feeling good, and getting to a happy weight. I don't want to say "goal" weight, so I won't be disappointed if I don't get there. I want to think about it in a positive way, and work my best at losing weight and becoming more healthy.
5. Save more money. I need to work on spending less on my credit cards, and socking some money away each month. I would like to triple my rainy day account.
6. Do some home improvements. Specifically, I want to install a kitchen backsplash & finish the basement.
7. Become more even-tempered. Avoid emotional meltdowns, excessive anxiety, and over-reacting to situations. I want to work on dealing with problems more calmly, and dealing with not calm people calmly as well.
8. Look for ways to be happier work wise. This past year has been miserable for the most part at work. A coworker and I are working together on this one. We want to either figure out how to be happier with our current workplace, find a new workplace, or become a little more serious about the idea for a new company we came up with. Our medical director loved the idea, and asked for a business plan, so we're planning to work on that.
Don't forget to check out my 2011 year in review, HERE!
What are your goals for 2012?
Here comes 2012!
I'm feeling so behind on everything!
I really wanted to recap my 2011 goals and post my new ones for 2012, and I'm running out of time for this year! I'm heading to work now, and then off to the Casino to celebrate the new year's arrival. Hopefully, once I get home Sunday, I'll have some time to spend with the blog, and sharing my plans for the next year.
The last 2 days have been a wash on workouts. Thursday, I was so tired, and the knee was achy from TRX. I ran a mile at the gym, then came home showered, and went back to bed for an hour before work. Then Friday I set my alarm for PM instead of AM... nice! I'm getting in my longrun today after work, then hopefully the 5-6 of my tempo run I missed Thursday on Sunday.
Add that to the mountain of things to get done before Disney & I'm stressing!!
In fact, I asked for the day off before I leave now, so I can be a little calmer about getting everything done.
I'm looking for guest bloggers while I'm away on vacation! Any takers? Leave me a comment or email me at sgrigely at hotmail.
Have fun ringing in the New Year, & I'll see you all in 2012!
Gerald Celente: Top 12 Trends 2012
'Hold onto your hat, your wallet, and your wits. After a tumultuous 2011 in which many of the trends we had forecast became headline news around the world, we are now forewarning of an even more tumultuous year to come.
While it would give us great pleasure to forecast a 2012 of joy and prosperity – all brought about by the wisdom and benevolence of our fearless leaders – since we are not running for office or looking to profit by gulling the people, we tell it as we see it in our 12 Top Trends 2012.
One megatrend looms on the near horizon. And we forecast that when it strikes, it will be a shock felt around the world. Hyperbole it’s not! Our research has revealed that at the very highest levels of government this megatrend has been seriously discussed.'
Read more...
Celente - People Should Brace For 'Greatest Depression'
 So Let Us Not Talk Falsely Now The Hours Getting Late All Along the Watchtower There must be some kind of way out of here Said the joker to the thief There's too much confusion I cant get no relief Businessman they drink my wine Plow men dig my earth None will level on the line Nobody of it is worth Hey hey No reason to get excited The thief he kindly spoke There are many here among us Who feel that life is but a joke but uh But you and I weve been through that And this is not our fate So let us not talk falsely now The hours getting late |
Jeff Rense Talks To Gerald Celente - Dark Days Ahead- Oct. 7, 2009
Go to Rense.com at the top of the 'Featured Stories' on the far left side, as you face Rense's website you can listen to the Celente interview.
LISTEN FREE at Rense.com while it's available.
Gerald Celente has a knack for getting the zeitgeist right.
— USA Today
Health Maven Commentary
There are so many possibilities about what may happen negatively in the near future that it is a challenge to maintain your equanimity and health. But knowing what likely probabilities lie ahead gives you the precious time you need to prepare for the inevitable. Being prepared in this sense means getting healthier, more aware, calm and centered by connecting more to your spiritual roots.
Bracing for "The Greatest Depression" includes ensuring you will have wholesome, high quality food and supplement sources readily available when things get rough. Growing your own food and making your own medicines from your backyard garden is a must do. What are you waiting for? You can order heirloom seeds on this site. Look to the right narrow blue field column of the blog and scroll until you see the title "grow your own" with a banner link under the title. This is an excellent source for seeds. It's called"Heirloom Organics." Take a peek. Start planning/planting now.
While you're at it, check-out the banner link for purchasing organic, medicinal herbs: Mountain Rose Herbs. And Mike Adams (The Health Ranger) has an audio course you can order called How to Survive the Financial Tsunami and Prepare for the coming "Economic End Game."
The value of possessing good sense is in using it.
--Hausa proverb
The Celente recorded interview (Rense.com) has some insights on the vaccination dilemma coming soon and the increased purchases of firearms by American citizens. He is all for the right to arm, but knows it's crazy to think armed citizens will succeed against the world's biggest, meanest killing machine.
Celente calls for an intellectual revolution. An awakening. A massive paradigm shift. One where people realize they need to stop supporting an evil empire that is turning against them while not drastically jeopardizing their survival, and look for solutions outside of government and big business while ignoring main stream media propaganda.
All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.
--John Arbuthnot
It's best to abandon all notions of government and free enterprise coming to the rescue. We have been totally betrayed and deceived by both. Mass civil disobedience may create enough chaos to hinder the puppet master cabal's plans for forced vaccinations, for example. Those who survive that madness can be around for a possible renaissance in the world.
The illusion of freedom [in America] will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.
--Frank Zappa
READ: Fall of the Republic: Crash Course in the Globalist Agenda
Fluoride, the Pineal Gland and 2012
There has been some controversy over the activity of adding synthetic fluoride to municipal water supplies and elsewhere, but not enough. The seriousness of this issue is more than what most realize. Fluoridation ranks with GMO's and tainted, forced vaccinations among the great crimes against humanity.
Understanding the Different Fluorides
There are two types of fluoride. Calcium Fluoride, which appears naturally in underground water supplies, is relatively benign. However, too much consumed daily can lead to bone or dental problems. Calcium is used to counter fluoride poisoning when it occurs. This redeeming factor indicates that the calcium in naturally formed calcium fluoride neutralizes much of fluoride's toxic effects.
On the other hand, the type of fluorides added to water supplies and other beverages and foods are waste products of the nuclear, aluminum, and now mostly the phosphate (fertilizer) industries. The EPA has classified these as toxins: fluorosilicate acid, sodium silicofluoride, and sodium fluoride.
For this article, the term Sodium Fluoride will include all three types. Sodium fluoride is used for rat poison and as a pesticide. According to a scientific study done several years ago, Comparative Toxicity of Fluorine Compounds, industrial waste sodium fluorides are 85 times more toxic than naturally occurring calcium fluoride.
Health Hazards of Sodium Fluoride
Generally, most fluoride entering the body is not easily eliminated. It tends to accumulate in the body's bones and teeth. Recently, it has been discovered to accumulate even more in the pineal gland, located in the middle of the brain.
This consequence of dental fluorosis, which seriously harms teeth, from daily fluoridation has been documented. Yet, the American Dental Association (AMA) continues beating a dead horse, promoting fluoride. There is a refusal to admit that instead of preventing tooth decay, fluoride causes even more dental harm.
The flood of sodium fluoride in water and food also creates other more serious health problems that are not widely publicized, even suppressed. Nevertheless, in addition to fluorosis, independent labs and reputable researchers have linked the following health issues with daily long term intake of sodium fluoride:
*Cancer
*Genetic DNA Damage
*Thyroid Disruption - affecting the complete endocrine system and leading to obesity
*Neurological - diminished IQ and inability to focus, lethargy and weariness.
*Alzheimer's Disease
*Melatonin Disruption, lowers immunity to cancer, accelerates aging, sleep disorders.
*Pineal Gland, calcification, which clogs this gland located in the middle of the brain.
How Did We Get Stuck With Stuff?
According to investigative journalist Christopher Bryson, author of The Fluoride Deception, getting large quantities of sodium fluoride into the water and food system was a ploy of public relations sponsored by the industries who were saddled with getting rid of the toxic materials.
Fluoride was necessary for the processing or enriching of uranium. The pro-fluoride propaganda was started during the Manhattan Project to create the first atom bombs in the 1940's. The spin was to convince workers and locals where the largest nuclear plant was located in Tennessee that fluoride was not only safe, it was good for kids' dental health.
In the early 1950's, the notorious spin master and father of advertising, Edward Bernays, continued the campaign for adding fluorides to water supplies as an experiment in engineering human consent! Then the AMA picked up on the dental issue and endorsed sodium fluoride's addition to water supplies. The few dissenting health studies and reports were usually squashed. Those dissenting voices were dismissed as quacks regardless of their credentials.
Approximately 2/3 of the USA water supply is laced with sodium fluoride. Sodium fluoride is a common pesticide. So that residue is in some foods. Some sodas, packaged orange juices, and even bottled drinking water for babies contain fluoride additives. Buyer beware. Read your labels carefully.
Avoiding Fluoridation
Keep in mind that boiling only increases the concentration of fluoride to water more. But removing fluoride from tap water is not so difficult. Reverse osmosis works well for removing fluorides. If you own your home and can spring for the bucks, you can have one installed under the sink in your kitchen. That makes things very convenient for your fluoride removal from tap water.
If this is not your situation, grab a couple of large jugs and fill them up from reverse osmosis machines in health food stores, supermarkets, and other locations. There are several such machines around, usually labeled as using reverse osmosis, and they usually take coins. So it is the most accessible and cheapest way to go if you can't install one where you live.
The Physiological Importance of the Pineal Gland
During the late 1990's in England, a scientist by the name of Jennifer Luke undertook the first study the effects of sodium fluoride on the pineal gland. She determined that the pineal gland, located in the middle of the brain, was a target for fluoride. The pineal gland simply absorbed more fluoride than any other physical matter in the body, even bones.
Because of the pineal gland's importance to the endocrine system, her conclusions were a breakthrough. Her study provided the missing link to a lot of physiological damage from sodium fluoride that had been hypothesized but not positively connected. A veritable root source for the chain reaction of blocked endocrine activity had been isolated.
Good news though. Frequent exposure to outdoor sunshine, 20 minutes or so at a time, will help stimulate a fluoride calcified pineal gland. Just make sure you take off your hat. This is more important than most realize, because the pineal gland affects so much other enzyme and endocrine activity, including melatonin production.
The 2012 Connection
First a bit about 2012, a date many have heard about. According to Carlos Barrios, anthropologist, historian, and investigator who was initiated as a Mayan ceremonial priest and spiritual guide, "Anthropologists visit the temple sites and read the inscriptions . . . but they do not read the signs correctly. . . . Other people write about prophecy in the name of the Maya. They say that the world will end in December 2012. The Mayan elders are angry with this. The world will not end. It will be transformed."
Carlos Barrios goes on to say that the transformation will be both spiritual and physical. The transition started in 1987. He says that we are in a spiritual transition from the rule of materialism, greed, and enmity to a new period of cooperation and peace - but not without difficulty. The current oligarchy is happy with what they have and don't want to give it up, and they are powerful. The Mayans claim that 2012 marks the end of the period of the fourth sun and the beginning of the fifth sun.
Carlos points out that adversarial revolution against the ruling class will not work. It is up to those who want this shift to connect with others of like mind and begin actively creating networks of real cooperation. The old will crumble. The new period will dawn with its growing pains, the severity of which depends on our ability to accept what is happening and go with the flow. This, he says, requires evolving to unconditional love, with an open and simple heart, forgiveness, and cooperation with less ego competition.
Connecting the Pineal Gland to 2012
Well, what does all this have to do with the pineal gland? A lot. It is considered a portal to the inner or higher self by yogi masters, including Paramahansa Yogananda, author of Autobiography of a Yogi. Psychics consider it to be the link for inter dimensional experiences. It is associated with what many call the third eye or sixth chakra, which is a doorway to higher consciousness and bliss.
And it is vital for supporting intuition, an ability that will be needed during hard times. So it is necessary to evolve spiritually in order to help create better understanding, acceptance of our fellow humans, and easier group cooperation. Meditation is a part of this evolving. That and a little sunshine, good rest and food, can cause a calcified pineal gland to loosen up and allow that portal to open.
An unusual psychiatrist, professor of medicine at University of New Mexico, and practicing Buddhist, Dr. Rick Strassman, MD, has written a book based on actual human studies of people under the psychedelic drug, DMT, titled DMT, The Spirit Molecule. He has discovered, among other things, that the pineal gland is a source of DMT production during birth and at death, and during near death or mystical experiences. This chemical approach corroborates the idea of the pineal gland as a portal, where the spirit passes through to other dimensions, either entering this physical realm or leaving it.
South American and Central American shamans use Ayahuasca, an herbal potion that stimulates DMT for psychological healing and spiritual initiation ceremonies. They have expanded their ceremonies with Ayahuasca by traveling throughout the world or opening their local facilities to non natives. They are doing this urgently in anticipation of 2012. Their desire is to jump start and expand individuals' consciousness so the transition of consciousness will be facilitated and incorporate as many as possible.
This information is meant to link the physical realm's pineal gland to higher states of awareness and other realms. The point is not to advocate or discourage psychedelic drug use, but to encourage health, meditation and spiritual growth by maintaining a fluoride free pineal gland. 2012 is approaching. Time to get in shape!
Sources:
Fluoride: Friend or Foe? By Devid De Santo (www.lewrockwell.com)
Germans and Russians Used Fluoride to Make Prisoners Stupid and Docile, by Devvy Kidd
(www.newswithviews.com)
Fluoride Accumulates in the Pineal Gland, by Sepp Hasslberger of Health Supreme (www.newmediaexplorer.org)
Transcribed interview of journalist Christopher Bryson: The Fluoride Deception: How a Nuclear Waste Byproduct Made Its Way Into the Nation's Drinking Water http://www.democracynow.org/2004/6/...
Article by Ingrid Nairman highlighting Mayan lecture in Santa Fe, NM by Carlos Barrios
ingridnaiman.com/subscription_lists/email_index.html.
The Pineal Gland: Interface Between the Spiritual and Physical Planes?
(http://circleof13.blogspot.com)
The Fluoride Debate - (www.fluoridedebate.com)
Fluoride: Adding Death to Water
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