High Mesa Happenings & Heartstrings

Ukrainian Story Drawn in Sand

I found neat that this artist uses anew art medium to speak of history and a painful time for her folks. As showing in the clip, many people were deeply touched.

“May all beings and creatures be free of suffering and diseases.”

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Kseniya Simonova's Amazing Sand Drawing
Kseniya Simonova is a Ukrainian artist who just won Ukraine's version of "America's Got Talent." She uses a giant light box, dramatic music, imagination and "sand painting" skills to interpret Germany's invasion and occupation of Ukraine during WWII.

 

Posted by Nadette

United Nations Climate Change Summit

in Copenhagen, Denmark

December 7-18

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Odyssey Networks is following the Climate Change Summit from Copenhagen.

The organization is “the nation’s largest coalition of Christian, Jewish and Muslim faith groups dedicated to achieving interfaith understanding”…read more>

HMHC is “ dedicated to personal & planetary wholeness. To that end we have created a space where individuals can be safe to pursue their spiritual evolution..” HMHC recognizes interfaith in the larger scope of all faith, not solely those embraced by Odyssey Networks.

Thoughts and ideas expressed in the videos offer, in my humble opinion,  opportunities to reflect in many ways of worships, prayers and meditation.

HMHC invites readers to view the video below as an option to follow the unfolding of the world conference. To view more videos on the conference, click Faith at the Summit, where you also will find the opportunity to sign-up for Odyssey Updates.

Video introduction by Odyssey Networks:

“Peace is at the heart of our mission. Our rapidly changing climate is a growing threat to that mission as conflicts over dwindling resources spread across the globe. This is why we are focusing on the world's faith leaders at the most important summit meeting of our time…

The historic United Nations Climate Change Conference has opened at the Bella Center in Copenhagen. The world's faith leaders are in the Danish capital as well to advocate for decisive action on carbon emissions. Join Mark Dowd, producer/presenter of "Faith at the Summit," in a conversation with Reverend Dr. Joan Brown Campbell (Chautauqua Institution), Reverend Richard Cizik (New Evangelicals), and Venerable Bhikku Bodhi (Buddhist Global Relief) as they examine the spiritual crisis that underlies the crisis of climate change. Just click on the video to view. Remember...you can share this discussion with your friends and colleagues…”

 

 

 

Thank you for your time.

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Gift Shopping: Do Something Different this Year

The season when gift buying could turn into a major stress collapse, has well arrived. Barbara Mader, RN, CHTP, Reiki Master and Founder of HMHC, has practiced alternative gift giving for a while now, and more recently when her birthday came around. However she is not the only one at HMHC who is practicing mindful gift sharing.

Who better than a long time friend of HMHC would express such practice?

Susan A. , long time friend of HMHC, has sent this essay to inspire or continue to inspire us in thinking beyond the traditional gift box:

The Gift of Giving

When it came time to celebrate a couple of friends' birthdays at High 
Mesa Healing Center, the subject of gifts came up, of course. Usually 
this group gets together for birthdays at a local restaurant where we 
enjoy a meal and then open cards and presents - little things like 
candles or earrings. For Willy's and Zoe's birthdays we did something 
different. Both women decided they would rather the group donate to 
their favorite charities. Cards are precious but I know personally I 
have great difficulty throwing these away, so consequently I have 
boxes of sentimental greetings that I've collected and stored over the 
years.
When I was told the wish was to not receive these cards or little 
gifts, but that we would donate whatever we could to the Food Bank and 
the Humane Society, I was impressed and pleased. We gathered at 
Barbara's home out on the deck and all shared a salad potluck lunch. 
Everyone brought something different and all the dishes were 
delicious. We had a carrot salad, shrimp salad, mozzarella and tomato 
bowl, cole slaw, chicken salad with crackers, home-grown tomatoes, and 
other wonderful salads. After we finished our lunch we sang Happy 
Birthday and enjoyed home-made carrot cake. The donations were 
collected in beautifully-wrapped little boxes with slits on the top. 
Willy and Zoe took their donations and a last piece of birthday cake 
and that's all. We all agreed this is how we will celebrate our 
birthdays from now on. The gift of Giving is the best gift of all!

8/7/09

Thank you Susan for taking the time to write to all of us HMHC readers, and happy gift giving this Holiday Season!

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Busting Junk Mail

I thought my mailbox wouldn’t burst but it is: with catalogs and more catalogs, charities and more donations requests, magazines and more subscriptions. Most of them wandering into my clueless box. Darn, I thought I escaped mail tsunami last time I moved. Well, I can’t afford and don’t want to move again. So, I researched and found this below:

 

How Do I Get Rid of It?

• To reduce junk mail, you need to reduce access to your name and address so that it won't be traded, rented, or sold to companies who send you unwanted mail.
• If you do nothing else, follow steps one and two to keep additional junk mail from entering your mailbox. Then you can focus on reducing your current flow of unwanted mail.
• If you are short on time or prefer the convenience of having someone else contact the companies for you, you may want to see if Greendimes, a junk mail reduction service is for you. They'll take your and other family members' names off major direct mail lists, reduce unsolicited credit and insurance offers and unsubscribe you from unwanted catalogs. Go to www.greendimes.com for more information.

Step 1. Prevent junk mail before it starts.

• Remove your name from mailing lists of companies who send you catalogs, sweepstakes entries, and coupons by sending letters or postcards to the companies listed below. Include the following information in the letters or postcards:

Your name
Your address, including city, state, and zip code

This message:
"I am instructing you NOT to LEND, SELL, or TRADE my name to any other organization for its mailing lists.
I want to reduce the amount of paper and resources being spent to generate unwanted mail."

Sign your name and date the card.

• Send separate cards for each person who receives unwanted
  mail at your address, and for any variation of your name that you
  find on your unwanted mail, for example:

Linda Ann Brown
Linda Brown
L. A. Brown
L. Brown

• Contact the companies listed below and ask that they remove your name and address from their mailing lists:

The Polk Company
26955 Northwestern Highway #100
Southfield, MI 48033-4713
No online resource, request must be in writing.

The DMA
Mail Preference Service
P.O. Box 643
Carmel , NY 10512
www.dmaconsumers.org/
This service will cost $1

Haines & Co. Criss-Cross Directory
Attn: Director of Data Processing
8050 Freedom Avenue., NW
North Canton, OH 44720

ADVO Inc.

Consumer Assistance
PO Box 249
Windsor, CT 06095
www.advo.com/consumersupport.html

Harte Hanks Direct Marketing

Attn: Resident List
6701 Bay Meadow Drive, Suite D
Glenburne, MD 21060
Email: contactus@harte-hanks.com

Carol Wright Gifts

Customer Service
100 Nixon Lane
Edison, NJ 08837-3804
Email: CWSupport@carolwrightgifts.com

Donnelley Marketing

Database Operations
416 South Bell
Ames, IA 50010
No online resource, request must be in writing.

Call the companies listed below and ask that they remove your name from their mailing list.

Call these Toll-Free numbers:

Pennysaver Circulation
800-422-4116
2830 Orbiter St. Brea, CA 92821
(Removal from Pennysaver publication mailing )

Experian Consumer Services
800-407-1088
901 West Bond St.
Lincoln, NE 68521
(Removal from coupon, product sample, and catalog mailings)

Polk Company Consumer Response/Name Deletion
800-873-7655
26955 Northwestern Highway #100
Southfield, MI 48033-4713
(Removal from catalog and service coupon mailings)

1-888-5-OPT-OUT
(1-888-567-8688)

The National Opt-Out Center will remove your name from major credit bureaus including Equifax, Experion, Trans Union, and Novus. It is suggested that the Center be contacted every two years to keep your name from being sold for credit and insurance offers. If you call this number, you don't need to individually call the four major credit agencies. This telephone number connects you to an automated system where you will be asked to leave personal information, including your Social Security number. These agencies already have your Social Security number. It is the most unique piece of information to match you with the many name variations that are sold within the lists and with which junk mail is addressed to you.

• When making donations, ordering items through the mail, or subscribing to a publication, include a note that instructs the organization or company to not lend, sell, or trade your name to other mailing lists.

Step 2. Reduce your current flow of junk mail.

• Remove your name from any mailing lists as soon as you receive an unwanted piece of direct mail. Most catalogs include an 800 number. If so, request that your name be removed from their mailing list (it will take a few months for your name to exit their mailing system). If you receive unsolicited flyers, newspapers, or advertising circulars, call the subscription department, or the company's information number and ask them to remove your name from their list.
• Some junk mail is marked "address correction requested" or "return postage guaranteed." If your mail has this wording, return it unopened to the sender by writing "Refused-return to sender" on the envelope.

Step 3. Recycle the junk mail you do receive.

• Some unwanted mail will undoubtedly get through, so please recycle it!

Step 4. Additional Tips for Reducing Junk Mail:

• Post Office Change-of-Address Cards
  The Post Office rents the information from Change-of-address cards to private businesses. This is how national list brokers, credit bureaus, and others may get your name in the first place. As an alternative solution, send out your own postcards announcing your new address to those whose mail you want to receive. You can also ask the Post Office to hold your mail for pick up until everyone knows your address.
• Warranty Cards
  It isn't necessary to complete warranty cards to be covered by warranty. The only reason to return a warranty card is to find out about product recalls. If you want to return the card for that reason, only provide your name, address, and product serial number.
• Stop Junk Mail Association
  This organization lobbies on behalf of postal privacy rights.
  For more information, call them at 800-827-5549

Why Do I Get So Much Junk Mail?

• When you subscribe to a publication, place a credit card order, order items through the mail or the Internet, join an organization, donate to a charity, or enter a sweepstakes chances are your name is being added to a mailing list of some kind. In addition, there are companies who are in the business of selling your name to other companies who believe you may purchase their products or services.

(Courtesy of Zero Waste, City of Palo Alto, CA)

Sounds like a lot of work. Then  again, the time I spend  removing and shredding name and address labels I tear out from catalogs, envelops and so forth, might as well be spent in going through ALL of the steps above.

Not before I solicit an army of my guardian angels for I sure will need all the patience I can muster!

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How to Relax this Season

Holidays, Holiday Season! A time that can bring joy and warm, fuzzy feelings; maybe also some stress. Here are 9 Holiday Relaxation tips from the Chopra Center:

1. Do one thing at a time

2. Commit less

3. Communicate consciously

4. Maintain a restful sleep routine

5. Learn to meditate

6. Eat warm Vata- pacifying food

7. Don’t skip lunch to do holiday shopping

8. Exhale your stress

9. Nurture your senses with aromatherapy and essential oils

In a nut shell, this season, just enjoy the moment, take it easy, be kind, party less, slow down, eat your soup, spend less, take a deep breath, and pamper yourself.

Easier said than done, at times. We deserve it, though.

                                   

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Thanksgiving

Posted by Barbara:

Obama for America

 

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


(Paid for by Organizing for America, a project of the Democratic National
Committee -- 430 South Capitol Street SE, Washington, D.C. 20003. This
communication is not authorized by any candidate or candidate's
committee.)

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.

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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
through the production and distribution of media

Posted by Nadette

To All Sisters and Those They Love

Watch    The Home Run

“to see an inspiring example of what a more evolved community might actually look like,  to view women who seem to understand the true meaning of the word "compete" which, at it's root means to "strive together".

If you have not connected yourself to or invited women friends to join

Women on the Edge of Evolution:

Awakening to the power to co-create our lives and shape our collective future

do so now! Click  FREE Teleseminar Series , uniting women all over the world with notorious guests speakers “to create a forum for us to collectively engage the most important and pertinent questions facing us today on our pathway to realizing our collective power to create the future of our world.”

All previous discussions are available to those who join now.

Quilt by Marion Coleman

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,

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