Take a look at this graphic from heartmath.com and see how stress can affect your mental, physical and emotional health. Some of these points are staggering, what we allow into our lives without even knowing it. For those who have continually dealt with stress in their lives, we can become numb to stress that causes us mental, emotional, and ultimately physical harm to our lives. It’s time to notice the frustration and the triggers in our lives that harm us and our children and remove them.

If you are under stress …

If you are looking for a large home with a lot of space to grow and live in, set in a quiet rural area, centered in the middle of Alabama, you may have found your home. If you are interested in organic gardening, fruit trees in a beautiful setting, we need to talk to you!

flo·ra/ˈflôrə/
Noun:
1. The plants of a particular region, habitat, or geological period: “the desert flora give way to oak woodlands”.
2. the bacteria and fungi, both normally occurring and pathological, found in or on an organ.
**intestinal flora: the bacteria normally within the lumen of the intestine.
I love gardening. and here is another reason to love it: Digging in the dirt may be good for your health. I first heard about this when I read Jordan Rubin’s book, The Maker’s Diet. He was, at one point during his bout with the deadly illness, …

Since Rachel posted this, our lovely rooster, Sol, has disappeared. We were sorry to lose him. We have no idea where he disappeared to and can only guess he met his fate. He was a beautiful guy, and we actually miss him. So do the hens, though the gallo blanco from the neighbour’s flock doesn’t seem to mind.
originally posted at A City on A Hill
September 16, 2011
Conocer Sol, Da Gallo

Hiya, everybody. I’m Sol, da gallo of the flock. [Gallo means rooster in Spanish, in case you didn’t know that already. …

We want to share with you a company that we are very excited to share with you about: NaturaLLinens. They opened their store in the fall of last year. They carry many eco friendly practical items:

Napkins and Towels
Pillow Covers 18 X 18
Pillow Covers 16 X 16
Handkerchiefs
Burlap Table Runners
Coffee Filters/Tea Bags

They have recently introduced items made with organic cotton from a fair trade source. If you don’t see what you are looking for, please email  at naturallinens.tx.rr.com. They do offer custom orders.
If you would like to …

Jess, of Titus Keepers Natural living supplies for heart and home, has graciously put up a fund raiser on her site to help the families on Gleaning the Harvest. She is giving 100% of profits from all sales from October 15, 2011 through November 20, 2011 to Gleaning the Harvest families.
We are fast-approaching that Nov. 20th date!! Time is running out! Be sure to take a look at her Personal Care and her Natural Cleaning supplies and see what you might be interested in for your own home or for …

Please take time to familiarize yourself with the information in this video. If you already are familiar with it, please pass it on to your friends. The fact that so many adverse reactions go unreported to make it appear that vaccines do little harm and are not responsible for severe injury and death means that not enough people understand the things this video explains. and we need to understand it at least enough to get people to report it when they have adverse reactions in themselves or their children.

There is …

You will have to decide if you are shipping anything down to Costa Rica or if if you will pay to take it with you on the airplane, or if you will forgo bringing much of anything with you at all. If you decide to ship items, you will want to get a jump on contacting the shipper and finding out details you will need for him and from him. It is very good to write down questions for your shipper as you think of them and be sure to …

It is not imperative but it is important to know the Costa Rican currency and how to calculate it in your head (or at least on paper) to US Dollars before you get here. Because the current exchange rate is about 500colones to an American Dollar, it is pretty easy to do, even to teach your school-age children.
The CR currency is a colon(co-LONE). The exchange rate between the American Dollar and the colon fluxuates, though, for the past several months, it has stayed just under 500c/$1.00. As of 4-1-11, the …

You have to have a valid return plane ticket and can only stay for 3 months at a time, how do you handle that? Do you just keep renewing your plane tickets?
The law in Costa Rica is to leave the country to get a new visa stamp every 90 days. Note that that is not 3 months. We were not returning to the United States, so we let our first plane tickets go, because we are not returning to the States. Since then, every 90 days, we go to …

Of course, everyone will have their own opinions of what is good or not to bring to Costa Rica, and these are from our own experiences and those of our friends.
Finally, we are going to talk about what to bring, what not to bring, what you might as well buy here, and what to forget about. Keep in mind that we do not have a vehicle, and we do a lot of walking and taking the buses here.
What to bring is one of the hardest things to decide, but one …

I will have to admit that the way we chose to come to Costa Rica wasn’t because we did a lot of research of all the world’s foreign countries or because we particularly loved the country. We had done enough research of the country (via this great site: http://therealcostarica.com), and had looked a t a few other ones. We looked into going to Israel, called the Embassy, and though we believe one day we will be going there, now is not that time.
Costa Rica has a lot of good qualities …

One thing you should always check out before visiting or moving to a foreign country is the food they eat and have available. If you are going on vacation, you are likely to find an American restaurant in this day and age in almost every country there is, but if you are moving there, you will need to know just what will be available to you. Moving to a foreign country is such a drastic change that making sure of the one comfort of home, food, is pretty important.
When we …

[I am getting a lot more questions now about moving to CR, so I hope you will bear with me as I post more often than I usually do. Of course, by reading some of it, you will get an idea of some of how we live here too. Thanks!]
You will find all posts related to Moving to Costa Rica HERE.
There are certain things you will need to do first when you are preparing to move. Here are a few of them.
Passports, ID: One of them is that if you …

I was sent a link to some very important information today, and I want to pass it on to you, as well as with some recipes and links to help you with fighting the Heavy Metal poisoning that the article speaks about that is now present in our atmosphere and causes all sorts of diseases and brain function issues.
Here is the link to the document: http://www.laydownlife.net/yedidah/word/HAARP%20Atmospheric%20Plasma%20Weapon.doc
“Atmospheric Plasma Weapon: The Air You Breathe Is Being Used To Take Over Your Mind And Body: I’ve been noticing, and …

Deuteronomy 11 tells us that,
“For if you will take care to obey all these instruction/commandments {mitzvot} I am giving you, to do them, to love YHVH your God, to follow all his ways and to cling to him, then YHVH will…“
If you will…. then YHVH will….
If not, then….
26 “See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse – 27 the blessing, if you listen to the instructions/commandments of YHVH your God that I am giving you today; 28 and the curse, if you don’t listen to the …

We get a lot of questions about moving here to Costa Rica from the States.  While there is an excellent website that we used and still refer to, we want to address questions here also.
First things first:
If you are planning to come here, get a job, and live out the rest of your life in Paradise, you have a few things coming. The first thing is that you are not allowed to work here unless you have a Work Visa. And even that is …

Disclaimer: We are not doctors. We do not have degrees, and we do not claim to know the cures to disease, nor do we claim that the following info will either keep you from disease or cure you. Please try these things for yourself. If they work, let us know, but please do not claim that we claim to have cures. These are our opinions.
It has been just 8 days since the horrendous earthquake in Japan and the meltdown of 3 nuclear reactors. Though authorities say there is nothing to …

Hi Mrs. Dixon,
Wondering if you could help me out. How can I treat an ear infection in an 8 month old baby without antibiotics? I’ve read about tea tree oil drops, but would like some advice from someone who know more about natural healing than I.
Hi there. Of course, these are just my experiences, and I have learned to not make the claim that I am qualified to treat or cure… etc. etc…
That said, I would treat it with GOOT. Garlic and Coconut Oil are antibiotic. Coconut oil also has …

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