Meet the owner of Free City: http://mondette.com/rosewoodandmartel/2011/03/28/portraits-free-city-owner-nina-garduno/

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/30/fashion/30FREE.html?pagewanted=all

My super creative, sweet, talented and lovely frind Liz Orgera has opened a little shop to sell her “taste” in home decore! When I tell you her taste is first class, you better believe it! She is a beach inspired decorator who is passionate and has impeccable taste in design and decor. I cannot wait to swing by her store.

The Shorely Chic Shop is open Friday, Saturdays and Sundays!

Stop by and say hello, she is friendly, beautiful, creative and INSPIRING!

I am so psyched for her!! 

Visit her blog: http://shorelychic.blogspot.com/

Her Store Link: http://shorelychic.bigcartel.com/

Go Liz!

http://www.earthangelstoys.com/index.html

 Jen O’Connor 845-986-8720

Wow, all these creations are incredibly inspiring to me! Jen O’Connor has created this unbelieveable collection of women artists and sells their creations on line! You cannot imagine a more complete dream of all things magical! I love this site and could look at the products for hours and hours. I hope you visit this site and gain more perspective into simple things, creativity, magic and the spirit of life! I am naturally high on inspiration from these images!

a cuff bracelet! to die for...

Seriously, I just stepped into “wonderland”…..

http://www.cookingchanneltv.com/bitchin-kitchen/index.html

Watch her show here: http://www.clicker.com/web/bitchin-kitchen/

You Tube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/BitchinKitchenOnline

I have done some research and discovered that you can totally revamp your skincare to the SAFETY ZONE for about $306 US Dollars.

All the work is done for you here! Good bye Lancome, Dior, Estee Lauder, etc. you were all killing me with all your chemicals, preservatives and additives and fragrance!! I will post about laundry detergent and shampoos another time. This is a great start to take total responsibility for your health topically to eliminate over production of estrogen and to potentially lower your risk of cancer and other feminine reproductive diseases!

Please note, I checked all ingredients and there are no herbal estrogen producing ones in these nor are there chemicals.

Herbs which are estrogen producing are: lavender oil, chamomile, rosemary, sage, soy, pomegranite, etc. please check my other posts to see if I missed any herbs here.

The Products I chose are:

www.bewellstaywell.com

100 Percent Pure Luminous Primer- $3.25

Real Purity Health Glow Foundation- Light Beige- $24.00

Living Nature Clear Lights Tinted Moisturizer- Evening Light- $37.00

Aubrey Organics Silken Earth Loose Powder Blush- AUB Honey Bronze-$11.95

Beauty Wise Mineral Mascara- $14.99

Logona Free Moisture Cream- $23.50

Chae Organics CocoMango Butter- $5.50

Logona Mineral Toothpaste-$5.50

Deep Steep Foaming Handwash-$7.50

Real Purity Eye and throat cream- $25.95

Sea Buckthorn with Ester-C Rejuvenating Antioxidant Serum $15.98

Beauty Wise Mini Restful Concealer Plus Brush Bundle- $16.98

Logona Free Glycerin Soap- $5.50

Logona Cosmetic Eye Defining Pencils, black-$10.50

Sante Cosmetics Eyeshadow Pencil, Pearl- $11.00

Earths Beauty Mineral Loose Face Powder- Satin- $24.95

Beauty Wise Finish Powder- Translucent- $12.00

Primitive Makeup Company Lip Gloss in Fiji and Cozumel- $18.00 each

Real Purity Pressed Mineral Color Eyeshadow in Walnut- $13.99

AND ALL ORGANIC MEALS on top! http://www.mum.edu/index.html

Development of Consciousness courses

Click on course title to see course description:

• MVS 100 Instruction in The Transcendental Meditation Program
• DC 320 The Transcendental Meditation Program
• DC 332 The Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi Programs
• MVS 331 Transcendental Meditation-Sidhi Course, Part I
• MVS 332 Transcendental Meditation-Sidhi Course, Part II

Forest Academy courses

A Forest Academy is a two-week period of study of particular themes of Vedic Science, where students will explore, through direct experience and understanding, the most vital element in creation — the field of pure consciousness that is the inner intelligence at the basis of every individual and the entire universe.

Our students have the option to receive periodic Brain Integration Progress Reports so they can see how their brain functioning improves during their college years.

A research study recently published in the International Journal of Neurosciencefound that students at Maharishi University began displaying a remarkably high level of alpha coherence — especially in the frontal areas of the brain — after only two months of effortless practice of the Transcendental Meditation (TM) technique. The frontal areas serve as the “CEO” of the brain that controls and guides the rest of the brain.

Brain coherence during activity

The study also found that our students displayed higher levels of brain wave coherence even after meditation, during the day. Over the year of the study, students showed increasingly high levels of frontal coherence while they were performing challenging computer tasks.

Developing the brain’s total potential

Why is brainwave coherence important? The greater your brain’s coherence, the greater your intelligence, creativity, and learning ability. You are using more of your brain’s total potential.

This growth of coherence results from transcending — gaining the state of restful alertness — during Transcendental Meditation practice.

The Brain Integration Progress Report enables students to see for themselves how their own brainwave coherence is increasing.

http://www.mum.edu/selfknowledge.html

At MUM, Self-knowledge is not just an intellectual process. It’s the direct experience of your own innermost nature — the state of pure consciousness, the underlying reality of life.

This experience is gained through a simple, natural procedure — theTranscendental Meditation technique. All students and faculty meditate 20 minutes twice daily at MUM.

MUM offers Consciousness-Based education, where you’ll discover how each field of study is connected at the deepest level to your own Self, making learning much more satisfying, relevant, and exciting.

“All that lies before us and all that lies behind us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson, American writer, philosopher, and poet, 1803-1882

“What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.” — Helen Keller, American author and speaker, 1880–1968

“There is a light that shines beyond the world, beyond everything, beyond all, beyond the highest heaven. This is the light that shines within your heart.” — Upanishads, ancient Vedic texts

“Call yourself back then to yourself, O soul, and seek in yourself all that you ought to get knowledge of.” — Hermetic writings, Egypt circa 2nd century AD

“The first peace, which is most important, is that which comes from within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells the great spirit, and that this center is really everywhere — it is within each of us.” — Black Elk, Sioux holy man, 1863–1950

I am determined to feel like I am in control regarding my health and my first step has been to educate myself about xenoestrogens! Please click the word for the definition- these are B-A-D! They create horomonal imbalances in the body therefore elevated estrogen, and disease like breast cysts, fibroid tumors, pms, irregular, heavy periods, or frequent periods. Women need to balance their horomones and natural progesterone is often times necessary, should you find yourself with any of these symptoms. It is a great cancer deterrent as well. It must be all natural and put on the skin. I will blog about a product that I am researching very soon.

First, I urge you to check all your products at home that you use on your skin! Did you know that whatever you put on your skin is 100 times more effective than what you take orally. Or some big number like that.. sorry I don’t have that exact fact available at this moment. Now more than ever, it is crucial that you are mindful about what you use on your skin and hair and YOUR LAUNDRY DETERGENT!

The chemicals that are the offenders are the following: Six common chemicals found in sunscreens, lipsticks and facial cosmetics are

Benzophenone-3

homosalate

4-methyl-benzylidene camphor (4-MBC)

octyl-methoxycinnamate

octyl-dimethyl-PABA

All these behaved like strong estrogen in lab tests and caused cancer cells to grow more rapidly. Only one chemical, a UVA protector called butyl-methoxdibenzoylmethane (B-MDM) showed no activity.

All Parabens – BAD!

Possible Safe Toiletries
Carefully check ingredients as formulations change and some products may be good in a product line but not others for the same brand.    www.bewellstaywell.com, www.needs.com
Sunscreen:
UV Naturals
Hair Gel:
Suncoat Sugarbased Natural Hairspray
Laundry detergent:
Trisodium Phosphate – 1-2 TBS/wash
Soap Nuts
Washing Soda
Sodium Percarbonate – 1-4 oz/wash  (Oxyclean active ingredient. Do NOT use Oxyclean.)
Nature Clean powdered detergent
Shampoo:
Use a bar of soap with NO Fragrance and NO Herbs
A bar of soap – Conti Castile Soap
Logona Natural Body Care – Shampoo and Shower Gel Free Fragrance Alaffia – Everyday Shea Moisturizing Shampoo – Unscented
AFM SafeChoice Shampoo & Body Wash
Clearly Natural Unscented Soap
1 tablespoon of Borax in boiling water in a glass jar, let it cool a bit and wash as normal, rinse, then spray with apple cider vinegar as conditioner.
Carter’s soap company- All Natural Shampoo
Deodorant:
Deodorant Rock
Crystalux Deodorant
Pharmaceutical grade bulk sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) made into a paste
Lotion:
Vegetable oil from the grocery store put on after a shower
Jojoba oil, Shea Butter, Sweet Almond oil, Olive oil, Macadamia nut oil, Walnut oil, Avocado oil, NOT sunflower, NOT safflower, NOT canola
Lipstick
Primitive Lipstick and Lip Gloss
Beauty wise Cosmetics Mineral Lipstick
Mascara
Beauty wise Mineral Mascara
Suncoat Naturals SugarB ased Mascara
Eye Shadow
Beauty Wise Loose Mineral Color Eyeshadow
Earths Beauty Mineral Colour Loose Eyeshadow
Real Purity Pressed Mineral Color Eyeshadow
Nvey Eco Organics Pressed Mineral Color Eyeshadow
Living Nature Pressed Mineral Color Eyeshadow Duo
Eyeliner
Sante Cosmetics Kajel Eyeliner Pencil
Earths Beauty Loose Eye Liner
Logona Cosmetics Eye Defining Pencils
Beauty Wise Cosmetics Eye Defining Liner
Beauty Wise Cosmetics Mineral Eyeliner
Earths Beauty Eye Liner Pencil
Suncoat Naturals Liquid Eyeliner

Eye brows
Sante Cosmetic Natural Brow Pencils
Earths Beauty Eyebrow Pencils
Beauty Wise Mineral Eye Brow Dust Powder
Logona Cosmetics Eyebrow Pencil
Beauty Wise Brow Gel
Foundation
Real Purity Health Glow Foundation
Beauty Wise Loose Foundation Powder
Beauty Wise Cosmetics Concealing Loose Powder
Beauty Wise Corrective Liquid Foundation
Concealer
Earths Beauty Facial Cream Concealer
Real Purity Disguise Cream Concealers
Powder
Beauty Wise Finish Powder
Real Purity Face Powder Compacts
Earths Beauty Mineral Loose Face Powder Plus
Beauty Wise Loose Foundation Powder
Beauty Wise Cosmetics Concealing Loose Powder
Earths Beauty Mineral Loose Face Powder

Resource: WOMEN’S THERAPEUTIC INSTITUTE- 512-275-6963

He calls himself: The most revolutionary and playful teacher you’ll ever encounter

http://lamajigmeessays.blogspot.com/ http://www.LamaJigme.com/

The Buddhist teacher, Lama Jigme Gyatso’s mission is to liberate his students from the tyranny of
pain, sorrow, anger, fear as well as turmoil and increase their experience of health, joy, love,
peace, clarity and Buddha’s wisdom of Letting-go.

Be it physical or emotional, suffering sucks! Whether it ranges from despair to sadness, rage to
annoyance terror to anxiety obvious or subtle… it still sucks!

Lama Jigme will give you simple, effective, fool-proof and specific techniques that are easily
applied and relevant to the stresses of modern life.

These techniques will free you from the tyranny of illness and pain, sorrow and anger as well as
fear and turmoil while simultaneously teaching you how to harness their energy to increase your:

•        good fortune
•        joy
•        compassion
•        bliss
•        love
•        peace
•        clarity and
•        the wisdom of letting go

He is a funny, charming, approachable meditation master, who, has not only studied Buddha’s
path but, traversed it to its upper heights

Why doesn’t prime time television air stuff like this? Why can’t we revere these people instead of the Kardashians? America, WAKE UP! Better yourselves for the betterment of LIFE! If this man doesn’t inspire you to think, get you excited about life, and your potential– then you really need to look inside a little bit more… I am being nice, I want to say something else, but I won’t… Listen to Maharaji- At least once a day remind yourself of your own potential– PLEASE- do it for YOU!

His Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/ThePeaceBeats

His Web Site: http://theypi.net/

Who doesn’t need a metal lantern luminara in pink:

This is a blogger I find inspirational: http://www.hiddeninfrance.typepad.com/hidden_in_france/page/5/

For those who don’t blog, it’s hard to understand. It seems very self serving, and it is, but it is also super wonderful to put into words your life, your feelings and your loves. This woman from France writes, and throws down some super visually appealing images that totally inspire me. I want to find some super beautiful images to throw down too! Angela Jenkins from Lovatron definitely is in the “know” when it comes to finding truly artful images. I wish I knew how. In time… So this is one secret, European Crafting at its finest: http://viewer.zmags.com/showmag.php?mid=rqrhwp&pageid=#/page0/. I love it……