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Nedda

There are 2 natural dental products I’ve been using with my cats, Violet (Siamese) and Sakkara (DSH) for the last year or so, and the results are phenomenal.  One is Leba III and the other is PetzLife Oral Care.

Leba III from http://www.lebalab.com/ is the more expensive product, available in a 1 oz size with sprayer and costing from $44.00 a bottle and upwards.  Various sites online carry it with varying prices.  I originally paid $50 for the first bottle I bought.

Please remember that you will be saving a fortune in dental surgery and your cats and dogs will be much happier and healthier for it.

PetzLife Oral Care from http://www.petzlife.com/ was recommended by my veterinarian.  This is also a natural formula and comes in a 2.2 oz spray bottle or in a gel for pets who won’t tolerate a spray.  This product is also completely natural.  It does have a stronger, more mediciny taste than Leba III.  It is also less expensive, costing about $25 for a bottle.

We tried the PetzLife gel, but it didn’t get rave reviews.  Violet, in particular, didn’t like it, even with the so-called Salmon flavoring.  Also, because VIolet is a fastidious groomer, I did not like the idea of sending her into a grooming frenzy by giving her the gel.  Although I knew it might be more difficult to get her to accept being sprayed into her mouth, I felt this was a better choice for her.

Here’s some feedback from the felines about these products.

Violet’s Input

Nedda:  Violet, how do you like the spray stuff I use to keep your teeth and gums clean?

Violet:  Yuck!  (pause) Which one do you mean?

Nedda:  Please comment on both of them?

Violet:  One tastes tolerable, once I got used to you spraying into my mouth.  I still don’t really like you spraying, but I realize now that it won’t kill me.  Thank you for not doing this every day.  The other one is much yuckier and I wish you wouldn’t use it.

Nedda:  What about the gel?  Would you prefer that?

Violet:  Not really.  It was messy and got all over me and then I had to groom it and the taste lasted a long time.  The spray is quick and then the taste goes away faster.  Even tho’ I don’t really like it when you spray it, at least the flavor doesn’t hang around.

Sakkara’s Input

Nedda:  Sakkara, how do you like the spray stuff I use to keep your teeth and gums clean?

Sakkara:  It’s fine.  I’ve tasted better things - like catnip - or tuna - or nearly anything.  But I will say that my mouth feels so much better and I really don’t want to have any more dental surgery.  I don’t mind you spraying it, either.

Sakkhara had had 3 hours of dental surgery two years ago to remove infected teeth and tarter, and then took antibiotics for 2 weeks.  (The surgery took a long time because her teeth were very brittle and kept breaking as they tried to pull them out.)  It was very tough on her all the way around.  Since using these products, her gums look amazing.

One additional note.  The veterminarian I use has the most amazing way of handling cats and dogs.  He is able to remove tarter from their teeth (not going under the gums) just by holding them gentle and scraping it off with an appropriate tool.  To reduce the likelihood of tarter buildup, I decided that 12 months between vet visits to clean off the surface tarter was too long.  My cats see the vet every 6-8 months or so for this reason.  It’s worth every penny.

As animals get older, it is more and more dangerous to do surgeries.  And for reasons I don’t understand, the health of teeth and gums seems to be directly tied into the health of the heart.  So since an ounce of prevention really is worth a pound of cure, I am happy to have found these two products for my cats.

Nedda

In Through the Looking-Glass, Lewis Carroll wrote about Alice’s adventures in a world that was topsy-turvy.  Our world feels a bit like that these days, don’t you think?  At one point in the story, Alice is talking to a chess piece called The White Queen:

Alice:  “One can’t believe impossible things.”

Queen:  “I daresay you haven’t had much practice. 
When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour
a day.  Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as
six impossible things before breakfast.”

While this may sound a bit like nonsense, consider that our world today is changing so fast that we are constantly asked to believe things that just a short time ago were impossible.  Most of the time, we accept innovations from the area of technology because we have a belief that humans can create new technologies. 

But what about some other ideas that are not based on science?  How readily do we bring ourselves to believe in them?

For example, we’ve been told that human nature is selfish and self-serving and, thus, sinful.  Do you believe that?  Can you imagine a world in which all humans are kind, considerate, loving, generous, non-judgmental, and compassionate? 

I can already hear you thinking, “this is impossible.” 

Why is it impossible?  Why can’t humanity move away from selfishness to generosity?

There is a wonderful story about a man who dies and is about to be taken to Heaven.  The mans asks the angel who has come as his guide to help him understand the difference between Heaven and Hell.  The angel says, “I will show you.”

Immediately, the angel and the man see men and women of all ages, races, and religions standing around huge vats of delicious, aromatic stew.  Each person is holding a spoon with a very long handle.  Each person can easily reach into the vat to fill the spoon, but the handle is so long that the person cannot get the food to her own mouth.  So no one is eating and everyone is emaciated.  Each person is grumbling to himself about how hungry s/he is, but no one is able to eat.

After observing this for a short time, the Angel says to the man, “It’s time to go visit Heaven,” and they leave this very sad scene.

Soon the man and the angel reach Heaven, but the man is confused at first because he again sees people standing around huge vats of the same stew.  Each person is still holding the very same enormous spoon.  Soon the man realizes what is different.  These people look nourished and healthy.  They are smiling and happy.  Why?  Because instead of each person trying to feed himself, each person is feeding someone else.  Everyone is eating.  Everyone is sharing the meal and all are nourished.

Now - can you imagine a world like this?  Can you see a world in which everyone helps everyone else every day so that all are fed, clothed, and sheltered, and so that each person is able to share his/her special gifts with others?

How many “impossible” things are you willing to believe in today? 

When you can imagine a world based on Love instead of Fear and those images energy and focus, you will create them.  You will instill these “impossible” ideas into Human Consciousness and they will spread to all  of humanity.

Nedda

What if our entire world, our minds and bodies, and the very universe itself are all holographic projections?  This is the idea explored in this remarkable book by Michael Talbot. 

A hologram is created when a beam of light passes through a template to create a 3-dimensional image.  Every part of a holographic image contains all the other parts.  Once you understand the concepts and research that supports this view of the universe, Mr. Talbot takes you on an adventure, showing how phenomenon that remain unexplained by other scientific theories make perfect sense when the holographic concept is applied. 

Like the holodeck on Star Trek, the Next Generation, a hologram looks and feels “real.”  Especially so, since Mr. Talbot explains that our brains are also holographic.  The idea that our bodies are holograms makes great sense when you know that energy healers are aware of an energy template that exists in our auric field.  When Spiritual Light shines through the template, our physical body “appears” to exist. 

People who were aware of the human aura used to think that the aura emanated from the physical body.  Today, that understanding has completely reversed itself.  The physical body is now understood to be an energy body as well, sitting within the auric field.  My own experiences as a healer support this.  When I facilitate healing for people or animals, the healing guides often work on repairing the body’s template which can be damaged by injury, surgery, or even illness at the physical level.  Full healing seems to require that the template be returned to it’s pristine state.

The Holographic Universe is easy to read and understand, even when the concepts seem more on the complex side.  Each chapter has many sections, so the book lends itself to short reading sessions as you have time.  I suggest you explore The Holographic Universe at your earliest opportunity.  My only regret is that the book was published in the 1991 and it took me so long to discover it.

When I was in college, one of my professors, Clinton Rossiter, told his students that the value of a good education was to develop a finely honed “cr_p” detector.  (No, not “crop” - he wasn’t interested in crop circles or farming.)  Basically, Mr. Rossiter was telling us that we need to be able to discern truth from partial truth and from fiction and lies.

Since then, and even before then, I struggled to rid myself of naivety.  I went to college as an over-protected kid from a rural area who was more comfortable with books than I was with other kids.  I was the youngest student in the freshman class and was completely credulous about most anything. 

Obviously, something has changed.  I’ve learned not to believe a single thing I see on television.  I mean NOTHING on TV is the truth, as far as I’m concerned.  Ads are designed to tell us we are incomplete and inadequate in some way so that the company paying for the ad can sell us something.  Programs neither educate nor uplift us.  They are designed to keep us stupid and ignorant at the least, and distracted from important things at the most.  The medium is the message - sit there and don’t think and just absorb what the characters/actors/so-called “news analysts/pundits” are saying.  (This is also true for most children’s shows, even the ones on public TV, which I watch sometimes because they are at least non-violent and sometimes humorous.  Besides, they let my inner kid have some fun.) 

When watching TV there is no opportunity to question or contemplate or consider.  We are meant to be just sponges, absorbing mindlessly.  Even the news programs are not really telling us the heart and soul of an event - just the bits that will titillate us in some way.  The process of choosing what events to report mostly focuses on the negative.  And heaven forbid that more than one side of an issue should be explored.  ”We’re out of time,” the comentator says.  Well, who is deciding how the time on a TV show will be spent?  Not the viewer.  TV is controlled by the people who own the corporations that own the stations and pay for the shows “they” want us to watch.  That’s the bottom line.

So how in the world are we supposed to develop our capacity to think, to question, to consider, to creatively decide for ourselves what is really going on, what really should be done to solve a problem?  How do we know which, if any, politican, is giving us some portion of truth, and whether any of them is telling us the whole story?

And by the way, don’t assume that “they” know better than you do because, frankly, I don’t think they do.  I think they are bumbling around or being lead by the nose by special interests or what they think will keep them in power.  But that’s another discussion.  Back to sorting out truth from fiction.

One of the really sad things is that our public schools no longer (if they ever did ??) train our children to think, either.  And with 30-50% of today’s children on officially prescribed medication designed to have them sit quietly, absorb like sponges, and do what they are told, there is little chance that they will develop questioning minds.  Obedience and passing the test by giving the proscribed answers are the gods that many educators and parents worship.  Frankly, I find this repulsive, dangerous, and tragic.  We are making our kids into puppets . . . preparing them to be automatons.  We are teaching them to give up their power, and that makes for poor citizenship in a democracy. 

But the chances are that you, the God Self reading this, are no longer of school age and are still faced with figuring out what and who is telling you the truth about anything.  So how do you go about doing this?

For some people, “seeing is believing,” but remember, what you “see” is actually determined by your brain, not by your eyes.  Light energy packets (photons) touch the cells of your eyes and are turned into electromagnetic impulses which are sent to your brain and then your brain interprets them based on what information it has accumulated during your lifetime.  As a result, what you think you are “seeing” may really be what you expect to see or what you have been programmed to see.  Hmmm.  Maybe we can’t always trust what we see?!

I’ve been watching the extended DVD’s of The Lord of the Rings trilogy recently, and when I saw the portions where they show how the movie was actually made, I realized that the final images we see in the film are created piece-meal and then put together and manipulated to make what appears to be a seamless set of images telling a story.  Wow!!  And this story evokes emotion and makes me feel like I am in Middle Earth when I watch it.  Boy, what a way to manipulate the audience.  Now this is fine, if everyone agrees what we are watching is fiction.  But what if the same techniques are being used to make us think that what we see on news programs is “real”?

OK.  So maybe we can’t trust what we see. 

Maybe you’re the kind of person whose truth testing system is auditory.  If you hear it, it must be true.  The power of “the Word” may be your way of determining truth. 

I submit that the spoken (and written) word is also to be questioned.  Of course, what we “hear” are actually sound waves that move the ear drum, creating electro-magnetic impulses that the brain then interprets.  We are back again to what we have been programmed or expect to hear.  And with words there are still other difficulties.

For example, the meaning of a word to one person may be something totally different to someone else.  “Pissed” in England means “drunk”; “pissed” in America means “angry”. 

Even when people agree on the meaning of a word, you can’t ways be sure what the person who is speaking is intending.  We often make all kinds of assumptions in interpreting what someone else means.  A politicians says, “I stand for Change” but fails to tell us what kind of change in any sort of detail and we fill in the blank with what we would like it to mean.  Or a friend says, “I’ll see you later” and when exactly is later?  Later today?  Later tomorrow?  Later sometime or other?

We provide our own context for words that others speak, assuming that we even hear the words correctly.  What about all the times we don’t hear the words the other person actually says?  For example, you’re making an appointment to see your doctor and the receptionist gives you a date and time and you write down a different date or time.  The person spoke one thing and you heard another. 

And how well do we actually listen to someone who is speaking?  Most of the time we are thinking about what our response to that person will be and we don’t really hear what is being said at all.

Even when you read, psychologists have demonstrated that most of us only read things that support our opinions and beliefs.  How often do you read something that creates dissonance, that make you uncomfortable because it doesn’t fit your belief systems.  If we only read things we agree with, how can we consider other possibilities and determine what is true?

There are so many ways that words can deceive us.  Maybe we need another way to test truth.

I propose that the best type of truth test is one based on your own discernment - your own intuition - your own inner “knowing” - your own “I AM Presence” communicating with you internally.  Since everything is energy, we can check out what someone is telling us by asking ourselves, “Does this resonate with me?”  “Does this vibrate in harmony with me?”  “Does this make me feel good about myself and the world, or is the speaker trying to make me afraid, trying to disempower me, or trying to manipulate me in some way?”

If you feel you can trust someone, ask yourself, “What about this person makes me feel I can trust him/her?  Is there any reason I should not trust this person?”

TRUSTING YOURSELF is a big part of this.  Let NO ONE, even me, tell you what is TRUE.  Only YOU can decide for yourself what is TRUE.  Stand up for yourself; take back your power of discernment; decide for yourself what to believe.  But to do this, you must QUESTION EVERYTHING you have taken for granted, one bit at a time.

The time to start is now, since “now” is all we have. 

Have fun doing this.  It will be an eye-opening experience.  It will be music to your ears.  It will give you new insights into your intuitive abilities.  It will be challenging, and exciting, too.

Nedda