Miracle Cure

A  L  O  H  A !

" Flowers... 

are a proud assertion 

that a ray of beauty 

out-values 

all the utilities 

of the world. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 "People need friends, 

like one hand 

needs another to clap."

James Coan

 University of Virginia

" In the cherry blossom's shade

There's no such thing

As a stranger. "

 Kobayashi Issa

Hope you are well today!

I just made a discovery

that works

almost too well

to be true.

But it is:

ARNICA Gel

(or cream)

significantly reduces

bruising

and muscle pain.

I haven't had any bruises,

recently

but almost

immediately

after applying Arnica

to sore muscles

my pain is GONE!

Arnica is a homeopathic

all star

made from a flower.

Plastic surgeons

recommend it,

as do trainers

on professional sports 

teams.

This stuff is Amazing!

Here's to a 

pain-free day-

                                    Warmly, cloudia

Integrity

A  L  O  H  A !

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 “ A man must dream

 a long time
 in order to act 

with grandeur;

 And dreaming
is nursed in 

darkness.”

 Jean Genet

 “ Everything around us

 is made up of energy. 

To attract positive things

 in your life, 

start by giving off
 positive energy. ” 

Celestine Chua

 " Follow 

your inner moonlight; 

don't hide

 the madness.” 

 Allen Ginsberg

" All I've done 

all my life 

is disobey. ” 

Edith Piaf

" A garden must

 combine the poetic 

and the mysterious 

with a feeling of serenity 

and joy.  "

Luis Barragan

" Understanding

 is a two-way street. "

Eleanor Roosevelt

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If You don't believe

that integrity exists

you will be proved

right.

If You live integrity,

you will meet it

everywhere,

knowing immediately

when it is

absent.

Thank YOU !

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Warmly, cloudia

Gazed!

Aloha!

please remember to click on the photos :)

"Don't wait;

the time will never be 'just right.'

Start where you stand,

and work with whatever tools

you may have at your command,

and better tools will be found

as you go along."

George Herbert

"A wise woman

puts a grain of sugar

into everything she says to a man,

and takes a grain of salt

with everything he says to her."

Helen Rowland

Leaf litter? Leaf GLITTER!

"The soul that can speak through the eyes, can also kiss through the gaze." Gustav Adolfo Becquer

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I got GAZED!

Braco (pronounced Brah-tzo)

came to Hawaii this week.

"Who is Braco," I wondered,

when I saw the story about him on KITV.

(video below)

As a REIKI practitioner,

my mind has already been opened to the

seemingly incredible idea that

pure, loving, healing energy

can be felt, and can reliably be

(for lack of a better word)

channeled.

I started out as a very logical,

grounded, materialist thinker.

Accepting unprovable things as true

always struck me as as an intellectual

and moral

sell-out.

Dangerous.

But slowly,

year by year,

I have learned that there is much in this world

that is yet undreamed of in our conceptions.

And in my lifetime

I have seen those conceptions grow in scope.

When I was a kid, acupuncture was mocked,

and lot's of physicians were smokers.

What we "Know"

changes every day.

REIKI is illogical,

but it is undeniable to me now.

I don't understand HOW it works,

just that it DOES.

(Like my car, and the internet)

I have worked with Dr. Hong,

a physician and Qi Gong master

who is attached to the University of Hawaii

John A. Burns School of Medicine;

My results are undeniable,

and launched a whole new phase of life

for me.

I have attended Soul Singing sessions

with Dr. Sha

whose books are New York Times best sellers.

The energy there was familiar too.

It has been hard intellectual work,

and prayer,

and life experience,

that has brought me to the point

of utilizing these things.

So how was it at yesterday's gazing session?

The first thing I noticed was a real

glow

around the people running the event.

I've learned to recognize a certain

beauty

as the result of being well atuned

to the loving, healing, forces of the universe,

and these people had it.

Not fake smiles,

just a discernible, genuine, and attractive

"glow"

like I have observed growing in myself.

I recognized the feeling

when Braco came out.

Yes, he just stands there,

gazing.

Not making eye contact,

not sweeping the room,

just standing and gazing.

It felt good.

I was especially relaxed the rest of the day,

slept even better than usual,

and my sore shoulder is almost

completely without twinge.

Worrying about the why's

and hows

of life,

sometimes prevents us from

simply experiencing it.

REIKI taught me how very much I lived from the neck up,

I have discovered my body

and am much more comfortable in my skin,

and in life,

than I have ever been.

I keep learning, and growing,

understanding just comes easily

now.

All of this is coming to the world's surface-thinking lately.

Trust your instincts to warn you

of charlatans.

Beware of sales routines.

But thousands of people in Europe

have gone numerous times

to be gazed at by Braco,

Many around the world

have sung with Dr. Sha.

Something is afoot

and I'm very happy to be dancing along.

Free your mind;

and the rest will follow.

Warm Aloha, cloudia

Don't Convince

Aloha!


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"If you think you can,
or think you can't,
you're right!"

Henry Ford

"I reckon a man is about has happy
as he makes up his mind to be."

Abraham Lincoln

"We invariably spend more time
living with the consequences of our decisions
than we do in making them."

Larry Price


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Aayla fell off the ladder.
She let out an expletive,
then she wiggled her toes.
At least her fool neck wasn't broken,
she reflected, as she cursed her bad luck.
"I know that I'll be bruised up tomorrow!"
And she was right.
"Why does everything happen to
M E ?!
She felt shaky the rest of the day
and had no interest or energy
for all the stupid things she had to accomplish.
"Shit!"


Zoey fell off of a ladder.
She felt deep gratitude when she realized that nothing was broken.
"Thank You!" welled up in her heart spontaneously.
It was not superstition,
or paying back a jealous God for a favor;
she just felt a profound joy in dodging a bullet:
"I could be hurt, paralyzed - or even DEAD!" she reflected.
The rest of the day was sweet.
She noticed the quality of Springtime light, and all the
fresh growing green.
She appreciated anew her wonderful legs, joints, and feet that carried her
through the town that she loved,
and her faithful lungs imbibed the scented air,
pumping sweet oxygen to her heart.

There is a growing international consensus among experts,
reported in a review of research in a recent issue of Lancet,
that placebos (so called "fake" treatments)
have actual biological effects on the body.

It is common to hear the term "bodymind" these days,
for we now understand that "body" & "mind" are false distinctions
when talking about human beings. They are inextricably married.
What affects one, affects them both.
Though it seems that the mind, including our views and choices,
is in the driver's seat.
What we believe truly IS for us,
our bodies, and subconscious,
true.

"When you think you are going to get a drug that helps,
your brain reacts as if it is getting relief." said Walter Brown of Tufts.

The Lancet article cited studies in which the brains of Parkinson's patients
responded to placebo medications by releasing feel-good dopamine
that led to other changes in brain activity.

But what does this have to do with Aayla and Zoey?


I have come to understand, that we inhabit the world
that we believe in.

Aayla might say that it was "all in Zoey's mind."
Zoey might say the same of her; and both would be right.

Our individual freedom of will
is a cornerstone of our faiths
and of our politics.

From the Bible, to the "Pursuit of Happiness" in the US constitution
we acknowledge that, despite differences in circumstances,
we somehow control how we feel about it all.

So how do we travel from a negative mind set
to a more pleasant one?

Clearly, deluding one's self is only a temporary and shoddy solution.
Sure, we must often "fake it till we make it"
but if we get too far ahead of our gut beliefs
the experiment will only prove those gut beliefs
correct.

So what to do?

I have discovered that often we try to convince ourselves (and others)
of what we'd LIKE to believe.
But it's not about convincing.

You must discover the truth underlying a positive mind-set.
It cannot be imposed any more than
one suit of clothes can practically be worn atop another set
of street clothes.
Oh, you can do it, but you will walk funny;
And you are still wearing the original
outfit. The suit on top is just a veneer, a disguise.

You are a depressive in a happy suit - but
you remain a depressive nonetheless.

All of this is very important to me
as I grew up in a very uncomfortable, depressing outfit,
and have studied these things hungrily for many years.

Teens I used to work with
would often say:
"That's just the way I am."
when I tried to get them to examine their knee-jerk behavior.
And surely we do have something of a temperamental set-point.
But if I can move out of Hell's suburbs,
I know that anyone can do it.

Not by convincing yourself
of something you'd LIKE to be true,
but through fearless exploration of the reality
beyond unexamined assumptions.

Don't convince - Discover!

Taste and see.
Reality is sweet,
I promise you.

And you are my friend. . .
a very sweet flavor
in my
Life.

Thank YOU! cloudia

Run This Town

ALOHA
Friend
Saturday
has come to
W A I K I K I

Today's song is upbeat! I find it very compelling:

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"Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries."
James Michener

Trees look ghostly and mysterious at night.
I like the rainbow effect in this shot.

"Beautiful young people are accidents of nature,
but beautiful old people are works of art."
Eleanor Roosevelt

This small dog can drink us all under the table!


"The only end of writing
is to enable the readers better to enjoy life,
or better to endure it."
Samuel Johnson

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Walking along the beach yesterday,
I was thinking that it often takes "common sense"
a while to catch up to the facts.




Some old folks were afraid to have electricity,
or telephones, in their homes.
Common sense once proclaimed:
"Man was not meant to fly"
But we know that men
and women
DO fly every day,
though many of us still feel that primal fear
of losing the ground beneath our feet.




Mystics have long taught us
that our thoughts have power,
effecting ourselves, others,
and our circumstances
small and large.




Common sense rebels at this,
but yesterday I saw a report on the news
in which the reporter was driving a small car
with only her thoughts!




Brain waves can be measured.
When an angry or agitated person enters the room
we feel it - whatever our logic dictates.




I like to think that there is a benevolent effect
from the love I feel for those who walk beside me.




Today I found the passage below in a book.
Coincidence?




"In many ways
the spiritual challenge of 'waiting'
and becoming a different quality of person
makes more of a contribution to this world
than financing a new hospital. . .
We are unaccustomed to giving value to what we
cannot see,
and we cannot see the power emitted
from a healthy psyche."
Caroline Myss
"Anatomy of the Spirit"




What do YOU think?
Can you feel it?






ALOHA, cloudia

ALOHA
Welcome to Friday
in
Waikiki

click on the foliage to release the good luck

These are Friday fronds!

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"All of us should strive for a newer and better self-
take our lives to the next level."
LL Cool J

Sea turtles like to hide on the bottom among the treasures of the deep.


"Why do we love the sea?
It is because it has some potent power
to make us think things we like to think."
Robert Henri

Chinatown Florist Cat



“There are two means of refuge
from the miseries of life:
music and cats."

Albert Schweitzer


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They say that when you find what you were born to do
you will know it.

After many years of soul searching,
wandering,
aspiring, succeeding, failing,
I think I now see my destiny clearly:


A recent study in Pediatric Anesthesia
reported that Medical Clowns
"significantly alleviate pre-operative anxiety
in children better than, or at least equal to,
pharmaceutical medication."

Medical Clowns?!

Sometimes called:
Clown Doctors
these professionals work in nations
around the world.

The Big Apple Circus, alone,
has participated in the training
and placement
of these funny healers
in more than 18 facilities
throughout the US.

There is something about
warmth,
and the puncturing of pretense,
that touches the human heart
in any situation.

Let us take ourselves
less seriously,
shall we?

Let us bring lightness
wherever we go today.

Now let's all get into the tiny car together-


ALOHA, cloudia