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Unreasonable Happiness - The Key To Lasting Fulfillment and Joy

Why Be Unreasonable
with
Your Happiness?


The short answer is:
because it is who you are and understanding is not a prerequisite for experience. It’s not about knowing it; it’s about living it.

The longer answer is: Well… It starts with some questions. Where does happiness come from?... Where does it reside?... What does happiness depend on?... Your circumstance – your affluence – what people think of you - a good meal - pleasure?

The challenge with any one of these things is that eventually they all fail. Not to say that all of these things do not have anything to do with happiness – of course they do. They are the triggers that remind you of happiness. The mistake that we all make is confusing the trigger with the feelings. Assuming that the trigger is the cause of the feelings, when in reality it is the feelings that allows you to enjoy the trigger.

Of course, this just seems perfectly reasonable that when “X” happens and you usually feel happy, then “X” must be the cause of your happiness. But what happens when all of your “X’s” go away? Can you still be happy? Is there happiness?

The answer is in one of the questions. Can you BE happy? It’s not can you DO happiness or experience happiness? Happiness is in the being first. If you cannot BE happy then it does not matter what you do or is done to you. It is the being that is the key, which you permeate your actions with. That is who you are.

So once again the question arises: what does happiness depend on? It depends on you. Whether you can BE happy, and not expect happiness to come to you, or think it's out there for you to find it. It is up to you to realize that your happiness does not depend on anything you do, can manage, or figure out. In fact what happiness truly depends on is your ability NOT to manage and figure things out, to really surrender to the flow. Happiness is a state, NOT a destination or a thing - it's a state of being – a state of the universe.

Like the universe, happiness does not make sense to the individual, it resists our organization and interpretation. It is open, boundless and incomprehensible, in fact that is why happiness makes you happy. It reflects your true nature, the unending consistent expression of the universe.

Trying to understand happiness or give it reason makes it fleeting and transitory, like trying to grab water. You want your happiness limitless and without end? Take your confinement of what happiness should or should not be, where it comes from, or how it is reasonable or not, and let it go. Jump in the water instead of trying to grab it. Go with the flow instead of looking at it. Yes, it’s not about knowing it, it’s about living it!

BE UNREASONABLY HAPPY – THAT IS THE WAY





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The Island Secret for Weight loss and Flawless Skin - Coconut Fat!

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 Excerpted from Dr. Mercola's: "This is Cooking Oil a Powerful Virus-Destroyer and Antibiotic..."

The Truth about Coconut Oil

The truth about coconut oil is obvious to anyone who has studied the health of those who live in traditional tropical cultures, where coconut has been a nutritious diet staple for thousands of years.
Back in the 1930's, a dentist named Dr. Weston Price traveled throughout the South Pacific, examining traditional diets and their effect on dental and overall health. He found that those eating diets high in coconut products were healthy and trim, despite the high fat concentration in their diet, and that heart disease was virtually non-existent.
Similarly, in 1981, researchers studied populations of two Polynesian atolls. Coconut was the chief source of caloric energy in both groups. The results, published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition,[2] demonstrated that both populations exhibited positive vascular health.
In fact, no evidence exists that the naturally occurring high saturated fat intake had any kind of harmful effect in these populations!
That's not what you expected, is it? Based on 60 years of negative public policy towards naturally occurring saturated fats, you would expect these cultures to be rife with clogged arteries, obesity and heart disease.
It may be surprising for you to realize that the naturally occurring saturated fat in coconut oil actually has some amazing health benefits, such as:
  • Promoting your heart health[3]
  • Promoting weight loss, when needed[4]
  • Supporting your immune system health[5]
  • Supporting a healthy metabolism[6]
  • Providing you with an immediate energy source[7]
  • Keeping your skin healthy and youthful looking
  • Supporting the proper functioning of your thyroid gland[8]
But how is this possible?
Does coconut oil have some secret ingredients not found in other saturated fats?
The answer is a resounding "yes".

Coconut Oil's Secret Ingredient

50 percent of the fat content in coconut oil is a fat rarely found in nature called lauric acid. If you're a frequent reader of my newsletter you already know that I consider lauric acid a "miracle" ingredient because of its unique health promoting properties.
Your body converts lauric acid into monolaurin, which has anti-viral, anti-bacterial and anti-protozoa properties.[9]
Monolaurin is a monoglyceride which can actually destroy lipid coated viruses such as:
  • HIV, herpes
  • Measles
  • Influenza virus
  • Various pathogenic bacteria
  • Protozoa such as giardia lamblia.
Lauric acid is a powerful virus and gram-negative bacteria destroyer, and coconut oil contains the most lauric acid of any substance on earth!
Capric acid, another coconut fatty acid present in smaller amounts, has also been added to the list of coconut's antimicrobial components.
This is one of the key reasons you should consider consuming coconut oil, because there aren't many sources of monolaurin in our diet. But the health benefits of coconut oil don't stop there.

The Benefits of Medium-Chain Fatty Acids

Coconut oil is about 2/3 medium-chain fatty acids (MCFAs), also called medium-chain triglycerides or MCTs. These types of fatty acids produce a whole host of health benefits.
Coconut oil is nature's richest source of these healthy MCFAs.
By contrast, most common vegetable or seed oils are comprised of long chain fatty acids (LCFAs), also known as long-chain triglycerides or LCTs.
Let me tell you why these long-chain fatty acids are not as healthy for you as the MCFAs found in coconut oil[10] :
  • LCFAs are difficult for your body to break down -- they require special enzymes for digestion.
  • LCFAs put more strain on your pancreas, liver and your entire digestive system.
  • LCFAs are predominantly stored in your body as fat.
  • LCFAs can be deposited within your arteries in lipid forms such as cholesterol.
  • In contrast to LFCAs, the MCFAs found in coconut oil have many health benefits, including the following beneficial qualities:
  • MCFAs are smaller. They permeate cell membranes easily, and do not require special enzymes to be utilized effectively by your body.
  • MCFAs are easily digested, thus putting less strain on your digestive system.
  • MCFAs are sent directly to your liver, where they are immediately converted into energy rather than being stored as fat.
  • MCFAs actually help stimulate your body's metabolism, leading to weight loss.

Coconut Oil Helps Fight Diabetes

Your body sends medium-chain fatty acids directly to your liver to use as energy. This makes coconut oil a powerful source of instant energy to your body, a function usually served in the diet by simple carbohydrates.
But although coconut oil and simple carbohydrates share the ability to deliver quick energy to your body, they differ in one crucial respect.
Coconut oil does not produce an insulin spike in your bloodstream. You read that correctly, Coconut oil acts on your body like a carbohydrate, without any of the debilitating insulin-related effects associated with long-term high carbohydrate consumption!
Diabetics and those with pre-diabetes conditions (an exploding health epidemic in America), should immediately realize the benefit of a fast acting energy source that doesn't produce an insulin spike in your body. In fact, coconut oil added to the diets of diabetics and pre-diabetics has actually been shown to help stabilize weight gain, which can dramatically decrease your likelihood of getting adult onset type-2 Diabetes.[11]

Coconut Oil, the Friend to Athletes and Dieters

If you live in the United States, you have an almost 70 percent chance of being overweight.
And, by now, I'm sure you're well aware that obesity affects your quality of life and is linked to many health concerns.
One of the best benefits of coconut oil lies in its ability to help stimulate your metabolism.
Back in the 1940s, farmers found out about this effect by accident when they tried using inexpensive coconut oil to fatten their livestock.
It didn't work!
Instead, coconut oil made the animals lean, active and hungry.
However, many animal and human research studies have demonstrated that replacing LCFAs with MCFAs results in both decreased body weight and reduced fat deposition.
In fact, the ability of MCFAs to be easily digested, to help stimulate the metabolism and be turned into energy has entered the sports arena. Several studies have now shown that MCFAs can enhance physical or athletic performance.[12]
Additionally, research has demonstrated that, due to its metabolic effect, coconut oil increases the activity of the thyroid. And you've probably heard that a sluggish thyroid is one reason why some people are unable to lose weight, no matter what they do.
Besides weight loss, there are other advantages to boosting your metabolic rate. Your healing process accelerates. Cell regeneration increases to replace old cells, and your immune system functions better overall.

Coconut Oil on Your Skin

Besides the mounting medical and scientific evidence that coconut oil has powerful positive health benefits when eaten, it has also been used for decades by professional massage therapists to knead away tight stressed muscles.
However, you don't have to be a professional massage therapist to gain the skin and tissue support benefits of coconut oil. Just use coconut oil as you would any lotion.
Coconut oil is actually ideal for skin care. It helps protect your skin from the aging effects of free radicals, and can help improve the appearance of skin with its anti-aging benefits.
In fact, physiologist and biochemist Ray Peat, Ph.D. considers coconut oil an antioxidant[13] , due to its stability and resistance to oxidation and free radical formation. Plus, he believes it reduces our need for the antioxidant protection of vitamin E.
Like Dr. Peat, many experts believe coconut oil may help restore more youthful-looking skin. When coconut oil is absorbed into your skin and connective tissues, it helps to reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles by helping to keep your connective tissues strong and supple, and aids in exfoliating the outer layer of dead skin cells, making your skin smoother.

Coconut Oil and Your Heart

Heart disease is the number one cause of death in the U.S. And heart disease is often a silent killer. The first sign of cardiovascular disease is commonly a heart attack, and sadly, over one third of heart attacks are fatal.
And despite the propaganda, the truth is this: it is UNSATURATED fats that are primarily involved in heart disease, not the naturally occurring saturated fats, as you have been led to believe.[14]
Plus, the polyunsaturated fats in vegetable and seed oils encourage the formation of blood clots by increasing platelet stickiness. Coconut oil helps to promote normal platelet function.

Coconut Oil in Your Kitchen

I only use two oils in my food preparation.
The first, extra-virgin olive oil, is a better monounsaturated fat that works great as a salad dressing.
However, it should not be used for cooking. Due to its chemical structure, heat makes it susceptible to oxidative damage.
And polyunsaturated fats, which include common vegetable oils such as corn, soy, safflower, sunflower and canola, are absolutely the worst oils to use in cooking. These omega-6 oils are highly susceptible to heat damage because of their double bonds.
I strongly urge you to throw out those omega-6 vegetable oils in your cabinets.
Why?
Reason # 1: Most people believe that frying creates trans-fat. That is not the major problem, in my opinion. Although some are created, they are relatively minor. There are FAR more toxic chemicals produced by frying omega-6 oils than trans-fat.
Frying destroys the antioxidants in oil and as a result oxidizes the oil. This causes cross-linking, cyclization, double-bond shifts, fragmentation and polymerization of oils that cause far more damage than trans-fat.
Reason # 2: Most of the vegetable oils are GMO. This would include over 90 percent of the soy, corn and canola oils.
Reason # 3: Vegetable oils contribute to the overabundance of damaged omega-6 fats in your diet, which creates an imbalance in the ratio of omega-6 to omega-3. As you know from my extensive writing on this subject, I believe that excessive consumption of damaged omega-6 fats contributes to many health concerns.
They are all highly processed and consumed in amounts that are about 100 times more than our ancestors did a century ago. This causes them to distort the sensitive omega-6/omega-3 ratio which controls many delicate biochemical pathways which results in accelerating many chronic degenerative diseases.
There is only one oil that is stable enough to resist mild heat-induced damage, while it also helps you promote heart health and even supports weight loss and thyroid function -- coconut oil.
So, whenever you need an oil to cook with, use coconut oil instead of butter, olive oil, vegetable oil, margarine, or any other type of oil called for in recipes. Even though I don't fully recommend frying foods, if you must fry, by all means use coconut oil -- it's your smartest choice.

Coconut Oil Safety

The medium-chain fats in coconut oil are considered so nutritious that they are used in baby formulas, in hospitals to feed the critically ill, those on tube feeding, and those with digestive problems. Coconut oil has even been used successfully by doctors in treating aluminum poisoning.[15]
Coconut oil is exceptionally helpful for pregnant women, nursing moms, the elderly, those concerned about digestive health, athletes (even weekend warriors), and those of you who just want to enhance your overall health.
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    Colds & Flus Can Be A Thing of the Past - The Lovemore Preventative War-chest

    Colds & Flus
    Can Be A Thing of the Past
    The Lovemore Preventative
    War-chest


    One of the common requests I get is when people get sick they want to know if I have any magical mojo that can fix them overnight. You know, some sort of ancient eastern secret concoction that I found in some kind of dusty Himalayan text. But if I showed you that, well... there's a ceremony and you'd have to find a live goat... It's rather involved, so I'll just give you what I use when I get an inkling that I'm not feeling well.

    Since I've been using these protocols I haven't had as much as a sniffle.
    This is what I call, "my War-chest". The ingredients have helped me with everything from the common cold to a systemic bacterial blood infection to muscle cramps.
    Here it is:


    THIS IS JUST A LIST OF INGREDIENTS FOR THE CHEST
    DO NOT MIX ALL TOGETHER!

    • 5 Raw whole organic lemons
    • 5 Raw whole organic garlic bulbs
    • Organic cold pressed olive oil
    • Pure Baking soda (sodium bicarbonate)
    • 100% Pure oregano oil
    • MSM
    • Vitalzymes
    • Echinacea (if it doesn't make your tough tingle, it's poop!)
    • Raw apple cider vinegar
    • Food based Vitamin C powder
    • Cayenne Pepper (100,000 HU or above)
    • Raw unheated Honey
    • Raw Coconut oil
    • Peppermint oil
    • Colloidal Silver Generator
    • Epsom Salt
    • Hot and Cold compresses
    • Hydrogen peroxide
    • Paper tape
    • Valerian Root (For Tea)
    • Hawthorn berry (Dried or Fresh for Tea)
    • Ginger
    • Onion powder
    • Turmeric Powder
    There it is you all, now stop hounding me!
    I"ll let you know how to use them in up-and-coming posts, but most of my students already have an idea. If you can't wait, send me a question... I love questions.

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