High Mesa Happenings & Heartstrings

Thanksgiving

Obama for America

 



Barbara
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Tomorrow, Thanksgiving Day, Americans across the country will
sit down together, count our blessings, and give thanks for our families
and our loved ones.

American families reflect the diversity of this
great nation. No two are exactly alike, but there is a common thread they
each share.

Our families are bound together through times of joy
and times of grief. They shape us, support us, instill the values that
guide us as individuals, and make possible all that we achieve.

So
tomorrow, I'll be giving thanks for my family -- for all the wisdom,
support, and love they have brought into my life.

But tomorrow is
also a day to remember those who cannot sit down to break bread with those
they love.

The soldier overseas holding down a lonely post and
missing his kids. The sailor who left her home to serve a higher calling.
The folks who must spend tomorrow apart from their families to work a
second job, so they can keep food on the table or send a child to school.

We are grateful beyond words for the service and hard work of so
many Americans who make our country great through their sacrifice. And
this year, we know that far too many face a daily struggle that puts the
comfort and security we all deserve painfully out of reach.

So when
we gather tomorrow, let us also use the occasion to renew our commitment
to building a more peaceful and prosperous future that every American
family can enjoy.

It seems like a lifetime ago that a crowd met on
a frigid February morning in Springfield, Illinois to set out on an
improbable course to change our nation.

In the years since,
Michelle and I have been blessed with the support and friendship of the
millions of Americans who have come together to form this ongoing movement
for change.

You have been there through victories and setbacks.
You have given of yourselves beyond measure. You have enabled all that we
have accomplished -- and you have had the courage to dream yet bigger
dreams for what we can still achieve.

So in this season of thanks
giving, I want to take a moment to express my gratitude to you, and my
anticipation of the brighter future we are creating together.

With
warmest wishes for a happy holiday season from my family to
yours,

President Barack Obama





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About that N1H1 Vaccine

So a lot has been said, written and published about the N1H1 vaccine against the less stylishly named Swine Flu. What to do? To vaccinate or not to vaccinate?

 

Barbara  Mader, RN, CHTP, Reiki Master, and Founder of HMHC writes:

“I am very much against it and feel that it is a hoax on the American people by the Pharmacia. I have received several emails from sources that I trust say the same thing. They have all this vaccination that they want to give so as not to lose dollars on it. It is greed as I see it. Keeping your self healthy is the way to go--and taking simple precautions like washing hands often and sneezing into your sleeve. So put it out there that this retired public health nurse no longer believes in vaccinations, ironic now isn't it?”

Peter S., a long time friend of HMHC often writes to HMHC no matter matter where he lives at the time of his writing! Below he shares simple Flu preventive steps:

* Frequent hand-washing: (well highlighted in all official communications). 

* "Hands-off-the-face" approach. Resist all temptations to touch any part of face      (unless you want to eat, bathe or slap).

  *Gargle twice a day with warm salt water: (use Listerine if you don't trust salt.) H1N1 takes 2-3 days after initial infection in the throat/nasal cavity to proliferate and show characteristic symptoms. Simple gargling prevents proliferation. In a way, gargling with salt water has the same effect on a healthy individual that Tamiflu has on an infected one. Don't underestimate this simple, inexpensive and powerful preventative method.

*  Clean your nostrils at least once every day with warm salt water. Not everybody may be good at Jala Neti or Sutra Neti (very good Yoga asanas to clean nasal cavities), but blowing the nose hard once a day and swabbing both nostrils with cotton buds dipped in warm salt water is very effective in bringing down viral population. Neti pots and sinus rinse kits are available at the drugstore and relatively inexpensive, under $15.  Dr. Vinay Goyal, MBBS, DRM, DNB states “the only portals of entry are the nostrils and mouth/throat. In a global of this nature, it's almost impossible to avoid coming into contact with H1N1 in spite of all precautions. Contact with H1N1 is not so much of a problem as proliferation is. While you are still healthy and not showing any symptoms of H1N1 infection, in order to prevent proliferation, aggravation of symptoms and development of secondary infections, some very simple steps, not fully highlighted in most official communications, can be practiced (instead of focusing on how to stock N95 or Tamiflu. “

* Boost your natural immunity with foods that are rich in Vitamin C (Amla and other citrus fruits). If you have to supplement with Vitamin C tablets, make sure that it also has Zinc to boost absorption. 

* Drink as much of warm liquids (tea, coffee, etc) as you can. Drinking warm liquids has the same effect as gargling, but in the reverse direction. They wash off proliferating viruses from the throat into the stomach where they cannot survive, proliferate or do any harm.

Yo, yours truly editor, I like to add the importance of reducing stress. Stress is upon us whether we live a hectic schedule or a more even one. Stress after all is said and read, in the end kills. Luckily, our body tells us before the fatal stage. (I write this with much gratitude.) I know we know, how many times we are hearing this. BUT, let’s ask ourselves: do I have the constant required vigilance to be aware when  dis-ease lurks around my corner? 

Five Steps to Reduce Stress, according to The Chopra Center :

1. Connect to Your Body

2. Meditate

3. Understand Your Unique Stress Response

4. Practice Yoga (or in my opinion any other relaxed energizing exercise; massage also)

5. Learn the Skills of Conscious Communication

Click on the first link above to read in details how these steps work for the body.

Also visit HMHC Practices and Classes or call  HMHC Center to find which tools HMHC has available to slay the killer.

Posted by Nadette    

   

Compassion: What it is…

… in our daily lives; moment by moment; from places to places;

from one to another… click below.

 

 

 

by Odyssey Networks:

The nation's largest coalition of Christian, Jewish and Muslim faith groups
dedicated to achieving interfaith understanding
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Posted by Nadette

To All Sisters and Those They Love

Watch    The Home Run

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Quilt by Marion Coleman

Third Party Rape Revisited ©

Barbara would like to share the below with all readers.

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THIRD PARTY RAPE REVISITED (C)

C. Norman Shealy, M.D., Ph.D.

When Johnson pushed Medicare, I predicted that it would bankrupt the country because government has never run anything economically sound.  Medical costs jumped from 4.5% of GNP to 12% within 5 years and the crisis in medical costs has continued since at least 1970, WITH NO IMPROVEMENT IN HEALTH OF AMERICANS! Those costs are now 17% and health is no better. In 1981 I wrote a book THIRD PARTY RAPE.  The first sentence was "In the beginning Blue Cross-Blue Shield begat the evil empire."

Medical insurance policies began with Blue Cross in the 1920's when two Dallas hospitals offered policies which provided 20 days of hospitalization annually for a premium of $6.  Ten years later Blue Shield began in Oregon, with policies that provided payments to physicians, WHEN THEY CARED FOR PATIENTS IN HOSPITAL! Incidentally, those physicians who initially agreed were kicked out of their local medical society!

The battle between various factions has never ceased and has grown to include a variety of greedy entities.  In the state of Missouri, Blue Cross-Blue Shield has been one of the most corrupt and obnoxious in the country.  Twenty years ago I entered a 5 year battle against them and eventually received 37 judgments against Blue Cross-Blue Shield of Missouri.  The federal judge said "I find Dr. Shealy credible.  I do not find Blue Cross- Blue Shield or HICFA credible."  A year later, based on other fraud charges, the President of BC-BS was sent to jail for two years.  Shortly after that BC-BS tried to go from non-profit to for profit legal status taking with them $3 billion in "assets".  Those assets were eventually left in a non-profit foundation, theoretically to be used for the welfare of Missourians.

A recent TIME article "Health-Care Grudge Match!"  (Oct. 26, 2009) emphasized the battle between two "colleagues", government and the insurance mafia.  Not surprising-different groups of crooks rarely maintain working relations long term!  Actually, especially since Medicare, the Third Party has consisted of the insurance moguls, the legal profession, government and the PharmacoMafia-surely the most corrupt alliance in history! I would not trust any one of them to tell me the time of day! All they have been interested in is money and power.  There has never been a Health Care or Health Insurance system.

The only sane solution to the medical disease financial fiasco is a true non-profit foundation, remarkably overseen by a Board that largely consists of independent monitors, mainly non-industry independent public members who must have a Board membership limit of not more than 3 years. And of course, unless Americans take more personal responsibility for their health habits, no system can handle the costs of the 85% of diseases that are the result smoking, obesity, crummy nutrition and slothful inactivity. Remember that only 3% of Americans have all 4 basic health essentials which are the opposite of the 4 disease habits!  Meanwhile Third Party colleagues will continue to rape everyone, including each other.

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NWHP Women's History November Calendar

Sisters! November is a great month :-)

November Highlights in US Women's History
Nov 1, 1848 - First medical school for women, the New England Female Medical School, opens; in 1874 it merges with Boston University to become one of the world's first coed medical schools.
Nov 8, 1910 - The state of Washington passes a constitutional amendment to permit woman suffrage. 
Nov 8, 1984 - Dr. Anna L. Fisher, a physician, launches into space as the first American mother and third American woman to fly into space on the shuttle Discovery.
Nov 11, 1979 - Bethune Museum and Archives opens in Washington D.C. D.C. as a center for African-American women's history, honoring Mary McLeod Bethune.
Nov 11, 1993 - The Vietnam Women's Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C. Conceived by former army combat nurse Diane Carlson Evans and sculpted by Glenna Goodacre, it honors the 265,000 women who voluntarily served during the Vietnam era.
Nov 13, 1938 - Mother Francis Xavier Cabrini is beatified. She is the first American woman citizen to become a saint.
Nov 14, 1889 - Journalist Elizabeth Cochran, aka Nellie Bly, sails around the world in 72 days, 6 hours, 11 minutes, and 14 seconds, beating the fictional record set by Phileas Fogg in Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days.
Nov 14, 1903 - The U.S. Women's Trade Union League is established. 
Nov 14, 1946 - Emily Greene Balch, co-founder of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Nov 28, 1881 - The first organizational meeting is held for the predecessor group to the American Association of University Women (AAUW)..

November Birthdays
Nov 5, 1857 (1944) - Ida Tarbell, investigative reporter, wrote expose on Standard Oil that led to federal investigation and break-up of the company.
Nov 8, 1897 (1980) - Dorothy Day, social reformer, cofounded "The Catholic Worker" newspaper; active in the Catholic Worker movement.
Nov 11, 1744 (1818) - Abigail Adams, politically influential First Lady; early advocate for women's rights
Nov 12, 1815 (1902) - Elizabeth Cady Stanton, feminist, suffragist, organized first U.S. women's rights convention in Seneca Falls in 1848, first president of the National Woman Suffrage Association.
Nov 15, 1887 (1986) - Georgia O'Keefe, innovative painter, known for her paintings of flowers
Nov 18, 1857 (1950) - Rose Knox , one of America's foremost businesswomen, cofounder of Knox Gelatin Co. Following her husband's death, she revolutionized the company, initiating a five-day work week and two-week vacations.
Nov 18, 1945 - Wilma Mankiller, first female Chief of the Cherokee Nation, 1985 to 1995
Nov 20, 1896 (1965) - Rose Pesotta, union organizer and first woman vice president of the International Ladies Garment Worker Union (ILGWU), 1934
Nov 20, 1910 (1985) - Pauli Murray, civil rights lawyer, Episcopal priest, first black person to earn a doctorate at Yale Law School Law School Law School Law School, 1965.
Nov 22, 1943 - Billie Jean King, tennis champion, won 20 Wimbledon titles; first female athlete in any sport to earn $100,000 (1971).
Nov 24, 1921 (1992) - Yoshiko Uchida, author of more than 30 books dealing with the Japanese-American experience.
Nov 29, 1832 (1888) - Louisa May Alcott, author of Little Women.
Nov 30, 1924 (2005) - Shirley Chisholm, first African-American Congresswoman, (D-NY) 1969-1983, first woman and first African-American presidential Democratic nominee,receiving 151 delegate votes at the Democratic Convention in 1972.

 

This information was sent by Cindy Wilson, Chair, Roswell's 2010 Women's History Month Celebration. And,

Posted by Nadette

Gifts to Juarez

Several weeks ago Kathy Golightly gave us some tapes to gift to others on the Course of Miracles. Then we received all these books and tapes from a friend in High Rolls--what to do with all these tapes--everyone seems to have only CDs these days. Well, my prayers were answered last week when this lady came in from Juarez, Mexico and I offered the tapes to her. She left here so happy for there is a Course of Miracles group in Juarez who would be so happy to have them. It not only warmed my heart to know that they are in the right place to do the right thing, it also warmed the gifters knowing that they carry the energy into Juarez.

 

Barbara

Massage School

Yesterday I had the pleasure of being on the receiving end of some body massage by one of our students* . It was so good to be lying there in the yurt having a beautiful young lady work on my shoulders. She did not know it but it was a compliment to the Physical Therapy I had in the morning. It was just great to be in the energy of the students as they learned and worked together on each other. They seem so happy to be learning a new profession and Shiva is right there with her enthusiasm and love of teaching. Now, am I a lucky woman or what? 

 

Barbara

 

 

* Students of the Mountain Meadow Massage School

Gift giving

Over the past several years our family has gone into giving to non-profits for special occasions. I would much rather receive a flock of chickens sent to a family in one of the developing nations than to have yet another dust catcher. I recently read where most of these gifts will go into the solid waste in just a few months. That does not make sense to me to take our diminishing resources, have some factory worker make it only to go into our overflowing landfill sites. I am so much happier to know that a family somewhere is providing for themselves with the contribution from family and friends. One year they purchased rabbits and another year it was a hive of bees. How fun is that?

This year for my birthday, I requested that if you wanted to make a gift it be designated to the Peace Village Scholarship Fund. So Peace Village 2010 now has $200 added to that fund. I love it that we can make a difference by giving locally and globally. With Peace Village I can see and know how much impact we are having on the youth of our community. Both ways of gifting are important for I can know what effect the gift has on the larger picture. What is it doing to our environment? Did someone have to work in a sweat shop to manufacture it and how useful is it going to be to me? And for how long? I am a part of the web of life and what I do effects the whole of life. I take that responsibility for my own actions. Let's create a sustainable world community. Together we can do it! 

 

Barbara

Small Business Opportunity

Community Connection

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SBA: News RELEASE

SBA Launches New Online Training Course: Winning Federal Contracts – A Guide for Women Entrepreneurs

WASHINGTON ─ Women who own small businesses will be able to use a new online U.S. Small Business Administration training course to learn how to identify and take advantage of federal contracting opportunities.  The new training course, Winning Federal Contracts: A Guide for Women Entrepreneurs, is part of an ongoing government-wide initiative to promote opportunities for women-owned businesses in the area of government contracting. 
This free online tutorial is a practical and easy to use guide that walks a woman-owned small business through the contracting process.  SBA is committed to ensuring that women-owned businesses receive at least 5 percent of federal contracts and believes better training opportunities are central to meeting this government-wide goal. 
“Federal contracts can provide unique opportunities for women entrepreneurs and small business owners to grow their businesses and create jobs, particularly during these tough economic times,” Administrator Karen Mills said.  “It’s also a win for federal agencies, by contracting with women-owned small businesses; they are working with some of the most innovative and dynamic companies in the country.”
The SBA’s Office of Women’s Business Ownership oversees a national network of more than 100 Women’s Business Centers (WBCs) that provide education and training to help women start and grow small businesses.  In addition, the SBA has 68 district offices and other resource partners throughout the country available to train and counsel women-owned small businesses and entrepreneurs seeking government contracts.
“This online training course makes critical information and training available to an even wider array of women entrepreneurs and small business owners,” said Ana Harvey, assistant administrator for SBA’s Office of Women’s Business Ownership.  “SBA wants to help ensure they have the tools and resources they need to compete for and win federal contracts.”
The Winning Federal Contracts course is designed to help women entrepreneurs learn about the federal procurement process and to prepare them to compete for contracting opportunities.  The self-paced guide uses audio and script to provide information about contract rules, how to sell to the government and where to find contracts.
The Winning Federal Contracts course is available on SBA’s Web site at www.sba.gov or directly at www.sba.gov/fedcontractingtraining.  It is indexed by subject matter, and includes direct links to additional contracting resources.

Sneezing 101

Bless You All !

 

Come see China through Barbara's eyes.

Barbara Mader will be presenting a lively talk & slide show on her recent experiences in China, where she traveled with the Delegation of the Nightingale Initiative for Global Health. Join her at High Mesa Healing Center on Saturday, October 24^th at 6:30 to hear her speak about, and show us, some of the ways in which the Chinese have integrated modern Western medicine with TCM, traditional Chinese Medicine. She will include her impressions of the differences between the Chinese culture as she saw it and the perceptions we have seen portrayed in the American media, and talk about the warmth & friendliness of the Chinese people.

 

In this time of intense conversation about health care, you may find it interesting to learn how such an ancient culture as the Chinese has managed to integrate traditional and modern practices to gain the maximum benefit from both.

 

The Nightingale Initiative works in conjunction with the People to People Citizen Ambassador Program which began in 1956. The trip to China was led by Barbara Dossey, PhD, RN, AHN-BC, FAAN.

 

Barbara Mader, RN, CHTP, Reiki Master, has been a registered nurse for 56 years, has been active in energy medicine for 23 years, and is a member of the AHNA, the American Holistic Nurses Assoc. She is the owner/operator of High Mesa Healing Center in Alto, New Mexico, where she specializes in Healing Touch and a wide variety of energy work.

A Warm THANK YOU to the women of our Chamber of Commerce

I want to thank the Chamber of Commerce staff for taking time out from their very busy schedules to visit the campus of High Mesa Healing Center. My special thanks goes to Georgia Underwood who coordinated the whole event. I found these ladies to be very open to new things, reaching out into our community, that they might even better represent the membership of the Chamber. I also found them to be fresh and enthusiastic about where they are and how they are serving our beautiful community. The team spirit among them was most gratifying to observe. I can see that they are about community building and promoting this very special community. We are indeed fortunate to have them down there on Sudderth welcoming the many visitors to Lincoln County, knowing that they are giving a very welcome and positive impression to all. I have a whole new appreciation for who they are and what the do for all of us.

 

Barbara 

Agora: a Movie Recommendation

Cindy Wilson/Oly of Temple of Hekate's Torch would like to recommend the movie Agora  from famous film director Alejandro Amenabar and recently released in Europe.  Cindy writes:

”The Spanish movie 'Agora' is released this week.  There isn't an American company as yet to sponsor it in the US.  I hope one will soon.  I would very much like to see this history-based movie.”

The movie recounts the story of Hypatia, the last great philosopher and mathematician of the Hellenistic Age, who was brutally assassinated by a fanatic Christian mob in 415 a.D.

Agora was a public place of assembly in ancient Greek city-states. Read more>

Hypatia of Alexandria (350 and 370 – 415) was a Greek scholar from Alexandria in Egypt considered the first notable woman in mathematics, who also taught philosophy and astronomy… Read more>

“Unfortunately,” continues Cindy, “ the nay Sayers  are already out in force:   Civil Groups Protest

The comments seem to fear this movie as an attack upon their religious institution. 

I have a different attitude...history should not be silenced simply to keep ignorance intact.  The movie as I understand it is not an attack on any particular religious organization, but rather the mob mentality which used religion as the excuse and right to murder and destroy. Surely that message is worthy of repeating again so we can learn and not suffer through it again - regardless of religious preference.

Spread the word...let's see the movie Agora.”

Thank you Cindy, for sending this recommendation. I find Amenabar’s choice of a heroine, of the film cultural context, and of religion as the catalyst of the end of an era most interesting and a-propos.

Nadette

 

 

Time-Honored and Skilled Sweat Lodges at HMHC

Sweat Lodge participants are expressing concern, following an ill-fated Sweat Lodge incident in Arizona. Shirley, a HMHC Reader, sent the following message to our mailbox:

“Just wanted to let you know about this concerning sweat lodges.  Two deaths at a sweat lodge in Sedona Arizona at Angel Valley.  We have been to this place. James Arthur Ray was holding a retreat there. We have met the owners Amayra and Michael. Just want y'all to be careful inviting people to a sweat lodge 'right now' and take proper precautions. Please read: “

Author hires investigators to review sweat lodge deaths

Early yesterday, Memo Licona, Pourer and Singer/Sweat Lodge at HMHC, had already sent out the following message to Sweat Lodge attendees:

“Some of you have asked, and been concerned about our sweat lodge practices and here is how my Sundance chief responded, I hope it helps. “

Chief Michael Hull writes:

I have been asked about this question and so I will respond as well as I am able. 
Our ceremonies are traditional. We who lead them have been taught and trained to lead them in that manner and we do so. We lead them under the guidance of the Spirit hearing and following that guidance as well or as poorly as we are able. Our lodges follow the traditional teaching about size and shape and components. Participation and how the ceremonies are done are all traditional. 
 
In my lodges no one must come in and you are welcome to leave, and if that changes for a particular lodge for a particular reason, then you are told in advance. We don't charge for our ceremonies. 
 
I don't know anything about what happened in AZ. Based on news reports it would appear that the leadership did not have the training we have, did not use the structure we use, and used a different set up in terms of what happened inside. 
 
A lodge is a place of healing and purification, not a place to be macho or tough. 
 
With all that said however, please also remember that I was taught that a lodge, a vision quest and other ceremonies are ceremonies of health and healing, of life, death and rebirth, of prayer and purification. Events like the one reported in the news, whatever happened there, serve as reminders that what we do is not a game, is not an "experience", is not a workshop or a time to trot out to the country and play Indian. 
 
Ceremonial time is a profound encounter with the Divine, at a very basic and core level, a time that continues as a way of life for a people. It can be an encounter with life and death and rebirth for people and absent a willingness to chance that encounter one should not enter into the ceremony. 
 
When you hear our Lakota friends complain about the wannabe white "Indians" you will understand that the kind of thing that the news makes AZ out to be is a prime reason for the wannabe complaints. Our Lakota friends who have been living in the ceremonial way for eons will now have to use part of their time explaining why what they do is not what was done there. For as long as the people remember people have gone to lodges to pray, without publicity or fanfare, but the event that people will remember for a very long time, an occurrence that is not really a lodge, will be an event labeled by the media as a "sweat lodge". AZ will become the image for many of what we do. When we understand that, then we can remember that our responsibility to those who came before us and shared this way of life with us includes the responsibility to represent the ceremonies responsibly. 
 
Mike
gracesanctuary@yahoogroups.com

Thank you Memo, for taking the responsibility to ease concerns about Sweat Lodges.

Thank you Chief Hull, for taking the time to recount the true meaning of a Sweat Lodge Ceremony.

 

Just Some Thoughts: from Barbara

This comes to me from a nurse colleague in El Paso. I think that it carries a very vital message, a wake up call to all of us.. It got me to thinking about my priorities. Would I have been one of those who just walked on by, too busy to look and listen? I wonder?? How do you think that you would respond?

I ask myself am I hurrying through life so fast that I am missing the beauty?  What is the hurry? Where are we all rushing to be? I no longer choose to spend the rest of my life rushing here and there and miss out on the present now.

Just some thoughts…

9/28/09

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PERCEPTION

Washington, DC Metro Station on a cold January morning in 2007.

 The man with a violin played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time approx. 2 thousand people went through the station, most of them on their way to work. After 3 minutes a middle aged man noticed there was a musician playing. He slowed his pace and stopped for a few seconds and then hurried to meet his schedule.
4 minutes later:
The violinist received his first dollar: a woman threw the money in the hat and, without stopping, continued to walk.
6 minutes:
A young man leaned against the wall to listen to him, then looked at his watch and started to walk again.
10 minutes:
A 3-year old boy stopped but his mother tugged him along hurriedly. The kid stopped to look at the violinist again, but the mother pushed hard and the child continued to walk, turning his head all the time. This action was repeated by several other children. Every parent, without exception, forced their children to move on quickly.
45 minutes:
The musician played continuously.  Only 6 people stopped and listened for a short while. About 20 gave money but continued to walk at their normal pace.  The man collected a total of $32.
1 hour:
He finished playing and silence took over. No one noticed. No one applauded, nor was there any recognition.
No one knew this, but the violinist was Joshua Bell, one of the greatest musicians in the world. He played one of the most intricate pieces ever written, with a violin worth $3.5 million dollars. Two days before Joshua Bell sold out a theater in Boston where the seats averaged $100.
This is a true story. Joshua Bell playing incognito in the metro station was organized by the Washington Post as part of a social experiment about perception, taste and people's priorities.
The questions raised:

*In a common place environment at an inappropriate hour, do we perceive beauty?
*Do we stop to appreciate it?
*Do we recognize talent in an unexpected context?
One possible conclusion reached from this experiment could be this:
If we do not have a moment to stop and listen to one of the best musicians in the world, playing some of the finest music ever written, with one of the most beautiful instruments ever made.
How many other things are we missing?

More Books on 50% sale

We have just lowered the prices on our books to 50% off retail price. Just in time for early Holiday shopping, consider giving books this year and $ave. These babies need to be out there in good homes rather than sitting on our shelves. This all started with a generous donation from a bookstore in California. So to sweeten the pot even more we have added our own merchandise on $ale! Come early and come often for the best selections! If you have the time we might sit down for a cup of tea!

Art Show

 

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I just got home from an art show and I am so glad that I went. It was a different kind of art show, one in a designer home. The home is a piece of art, filled with beautiful pieces of creations from our local artists.  It was such a comfortable setting, maybe it was the water that you could see outside every window and there were lots of windows. Very relaxed and calming atmosphere.

I am so glad that Vicky Mauldin and Jamie Slack invited the "Open Circle" to attend, It was well worth the trip.

It is on tomorrow as well (Sunday) You just find the balloons on Gavalin and turn onto Homestead Acres follow the balloons one more time and you are there! Enjoy!

Trading Boots for Sandals: Yet A Friend Forever

Today I am thinking of my dear friend, Fr. Larry, who is opening San Miguel Mission this weekend. It was closed in the '90s following earthquake damages that left it unsafe for people to attend mass.
When I spoke with Fr. Larry in May he was so excited to be going to San Miguel to oversee a renovation project. With a $13 million grant from the Hearst Foundation they were ready to begin the project. He expressed his strong connection with the mission, having been assigned there just prior to coming to NM.
On my way home from China I drove up from L.A. to see him and the renovation project, which was well underway with artisans everywhere with paintbrushes and other tools of their trade, bringing this place back to life and into service to the community.
I was fortunate to spend a couple of hours with Fr. Larry climbing ladders and walking over scaffolding to see the renovation in progress. Everywhere we went everyone was so warm and friendly displaying a warm respect for Fr. Larry.
So I am happy for Fr. Larry and the community of San Miguel for this wonderful event.
On a more personal level, I must report that Fr. Larry has traded in his boots in for sandals. It might have something to do with the fact that it is very hot in San Miguel, Ca. He may have retired his boots but he has not forgotten his friends in New Mexico.
He promised to let me know when he comes to NM to teach a workshop/seminar in the future.

Barbara

9/27/2009

Please Note

Oops!

There is a date error in the latest edition of

High Mesa Happenings Newsletter

(of October 5th)

Please note the corrected date for the October Mixed Sweat Lodge at HMHC :

Sunday, October 25th

Thank you for updating your calendar and

My sincere apologies to all concerned.                   

Nadette W-H

Never Too Late to Heal

Last year when I went to renew my drivers license I was totally bummed that I could not pass the vision test. Try as I may I could not make out those letters. This event seemed to start me on a downward spiral of the aging process; or, at least, my thoughts on that process. I was convincing myself that I might as well just hang it all up and go into retirement. Well, that option was not very attractive to me, but what was I to do when this body would not do what I wanted it to do? I was diagnosed with dystrophy of the cornea many years ago and it just got progressively worse. I had cataract surgery several years ago and that did not do that much for my vision.

As synchronicity would have it, someone came into my life only long enough to tell me about her doctor and teacher at the Eye Associates of NM. and then she was gone, off to do other things. I did get in to see the doctor who founded the clinic and he immediately referred me to the corneal specialist who looked at my eyes and said you will have to have surgery sometime and you might as well do it now. Well, he is one of the few doctors who are doing this new corneal surgery and I found him right here in Albuquerque. I had the first implant in April, which did not take but the one in May did take. The vision improvement was slow and I was still wondering if I would ever be whole again. Slowly I began to regain my vision and I began to become more hopeful for an active life again.

I guess on some level I set an intention to continue to heal for the next thing I knew I was going to a sweat lodge with my friend Lydia and she mentioned that her new TurboSonic machine was in and wouldn't I like to come try it out.  Well, sure, I am always open to experience the newest and the latest. When I went in to use the TurboSonic, Lydia asked if I had any condition that might qualify this treatment for Medicare to pay for some sessions. Well yes, I had this white water river accident 22 yrs ago that left me with a right arm and shoulder that had restricted movement. Following an evaluation we began PT treatment 2 -3 times a week. We were both amazed that this body wanted to heal after all these years.

So these two events proved to me that it is NEVER too late to heal; it is a life long process.  And to think that I was beginning to believe that it was over and time to throw in the towel! Well I did not, and I am back in the game of life to it's fullest.

Then in January I get this invitation from Dr. Barbara Dossey to be a part of a Holistic Nursing Delegation to China. I read it and put it aside until Kate came in and I showed it to her. Her remark was "and you are going of course" ? No, I can't go and spend all that money, that's my kids inheritance. Actually, in retrospect, it was more about me still feeling too old to go to China. I am so grateful that Kate responded with "and how many more times do you think that you will be invited to go to China this lifetime?" That was my wake up call, the light bulb went on and I saw things differently. I no longer saw myself too old or too unworthy to take this wonderful opportunity.

So off to China I go with 18 other holistic nurses and what an experience that was for me. The time was just right for I returned with an inner calmness and self confidence.

Barbara Mader

9/25/09

 

Image courtesy X-ray: NASA/CXC/JHU/K.Kuntz et al.; Optical: NASA/ESA/STScI/JHU/K. Kuntz et al; IR: NASA/JPL-Caltech/STScI/K. Gordon

 

A Treasure Chest of Books

HMHC has received 12 boxes of new books from a book store in California and we are pleased to offer them to you, our community, at a 50% discount! Some of the well known authors are:

Manley P. Hall
Rudolf Steiner
Catherine Ponder
Andrew Cohen
Alice Bailey
John Powell
Scott Peck
Dan Millman
Gregg Braden
Mary Baker Eddy

And so many more!
We also have some of the Seth Books and the Right Use of Will books.
There are several Tarot decks and books as well.
The cassette tapes, we are offering free.
And many many more, come check them out get some new books and save some money at the same time!

I’d Like a Barbara Hug

 

We moved to Ruidoso in 2000. We built a house at the end of Cedar Creek, and I started teaching English at Ruidoso High School just as the World Trade Center fell. A Google search before we left Austin lead me to High Mesa Healing Center. I was shy at first to venture to Alto for a visit to High Mesa, but finally I did, and I was greeted warmly and with a room filled with books. I knew immediately that I’d “come home.”

Like so many I have been aware of my spiritual journey my entire life, and my path has been circuitous. Though I felt often like I’ve wandered rather aimlessly, at High Mesa I began to sense the pattern to it all. Pieces fell into place and prepared me for the next difficult stage of things. I was free at High Mesa to believe or not believe as spirit led me. No one judged, and everyone loved generously.

I took classes, weeded the labyrinth, enjoyed healing touch therapy, and found a safe haven among kind people. A group of like-minded women came together as a Sacred Circle, and we met for two years – until I left the mountain strengthened for the next leg of my journey. No doubt, the mountain is a sacred place, and the good energy there is palpable. But High Mesa focused that energy for me and still does to this day.

I left the mountain five years ago, but High Mesa remains in my heart. As I write this I tear up longing to be there walking the labyrinth or engulfed in the warmth of a circle of women.

I’d like a Barbara hug right now.

Carol Knox

Not Picking Up the Rope

I have been receiving some forwarded political emails that are filled with fear, hate and are just downright nasty. As I was pondering on how to deal with this issue this quote came from Abraham this morning.

“There is a big mix out there, and there's lots of different things going on, and there is not one way that was intended to be the right way. Just like there's not one color or one flower or one vegetable or one fingerprint. There is not one that is to be the right one over all others. The variety is what fosters the creativity. And so you say, "Okay, I accept that there's lots of variety, but I don't like to eat cucumbers." Don't eat cucumbers. But don't ask them to be eliminated and don't condemn those who eat them. Don't stand on corners waving signs trying to outlaw the things that you don't like. Don't ruin your life by pushing against. Instead, say, "I choose this instead. This does please me. --- Abraham”

(Excerpted from the workshop in  Rye, NY on Sunday, October 12th, 1997, #204)

It makes perfect sense to me for I do not want to resist the fear and hate, for that would only give it more energy. I know that what I resist persists.  My first thought is to argue with them, to show them how wrong they are, which gets me enmeshed with them and with the issue.This is a no win solution and I am stuck, sucked into that downward spiral of fear, hate and resentment. It is so easy for me to get into righteous indignation! And what would that get me? Stress, separation, anxiety, loss of sleep and all that good stuff. 

It takes discipline for me to just unplug from that energy without judgment or anger. Sometimes I am successful and sometimes I fall short. With practice and patience I am getting better at letting go, or of "not picking up the rope" and playing tug of war.

So how is it with you, my friends, are you affected by all this mud slinging and madness? What gets you out of it? I am grateful when my friends remind me to stay out of the craziness. Is this something that we as a spiritual community might work on together? Suggestions, please!

Peace, Love and Blessings,
Barbara

 

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They Used to What ?!!

Cindy W., a long time friend of HMHC sent this interesting and entertaining piece. Thanks Cindy for this edifying talk into the past!

They used to use urine to tan animal skins , so families used to all pee in a pot and then once a day it was taken and sold to the tannery. If you had to do this to survive you were Piss Poor.
But worse than that were the really poor folk who couldn't even afford to buy a pot.They didn't have a pot to piss in and were the lowest of the low.

Here are some facts about the 1500s:

Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May, and they still smelled pretty good by June. However, since they were starting to smell, brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odor. Hence the custom today of carrying a bouquet when getting married.

Baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water. The man of the house had the privilege of the nice clean water , then all the other sons and men, then the women and finally the children. Last of all, the babies. By then the water was so dirty you could actually lose someone in it. Hence the saying: don't throw the baby out with the Bath water!

Houses had thatched roofs-thick straw-piled high, with no wood underneath. It was the only place for animals to get warm, so all the cats and other small animals (mice, bugs) lived in the roof. When it rained it became slippery and sometimes the animals would slip and fall off the roof. Hence the saying: it's raining cats and dogs.

There was nothing to stop things from falling into the house. This posed a real problem in the bedroom where bugs and other droppings could mess up your nice clean bed. Hence, a bed with big posts and a sheet hung over the top afforded some protection. That's how canopy beds came into existence.

The floor was dirt. Only the wealthy had something other than dirt. Hence the saying: dirt poor. The wealthy had slate floors that would get slippery in the winter when wet, so they spread thresh (straw) on floor to help keep their footing. As the winter wore on, they added more thresh until, when you opened the door, it would all start slipping outside. A piece of wood was placed in the entrance-way. Hence: a thresh hold.

Getting quite an education , aren't you?

Sometimes they could obtain pork, which made them feel quite special. When visitors came over, they would hang up their bacon to show off. It was a sign of wealth that a man could , bring home the bacon. They would cut off a little to share with guests and would all sit around and chew the fat.

Those with money had plates made of pewter. Food with high acid content caused some of the lead to leach onto the food , causing lead poisoning death. This happened most often with tomatoes, so for the next 400 years or so, tomatoes were considered poisonous.

Bread was divided according to status. Workers got the burnt bottom of the loaf, the family got the middle, and guests got the top, or the upper crust.

England is old and small and the local folks started running out of places to bury people. So they would dig up coffins and would take the bones to a bone-house, and reuse the grave. When reopening these coffins, 1 out of 25 coffins were found to have scratch marks on the inside and they realized they had been burying people alive. So they would tie a string on the wrist of the corpse, lead it through the coffin and up through the ground and tie it to a bell. Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard all night (the graveyard shift) to listen for the bell; thus, someone could be, saved by the bell or was considered a dead ringer.

And that's the truth. Now , whoever said History was boring ! ! !