Chocolate

Dark chocolate that is! Dark chocolate has a high level of catechins.

Chocolate contains the antioxidants called catechins and flavonoids. Phenol is a flavonoid.

Researchers have found dark chocolate has 53.5mg catechins per 100gm, milk chocolate has 15.9mg catechins per 100gm and black tea has 13.9mg catechins per 100ml.

Phenols help protect against heart disease by reducing the presence of free radicals that damage cells and DNA. Phenols prevent fat-like substances in the blood stream from oxidizing and clogging arteries. Hence phenols help prevent clogging of arteries, hence help prevent heart attacks.

Ahhh, that is no excuse to eat a whole block of dark chocolate in one sitting!

Chocolate is high in calories and eating too much can cause weight gain and actually increase your risk of heart disease.

In fact a new study published in Journal of Proteome Research indicates that “eating about 4o grams of dark chocolate a day for 2 weeks reduced levels of stress hormones in the bodies of people highly stressed.”

Also, dark chocolate is known to stimulate the release of natural anti-depressant (serotonin) and hormone of happiness (endorphin).

So, whenever you are feeling blue or stressed, reach out for a few pieces of dark chocolate. Dark chocolate is considered dark when it has 65% or more of cocoa content.

Hot chocolate or hot cocoa has an even higher level of antioxidants, as it is the cocoa that is rich in catechins and flavenoids.

Here is a Dark Chocolate Cream Truffle Recipe – for a Special Treat! Enjoy!

TIP 1

1. Take a deep breath and as your breath out, relax…drop the shoulders, clear the mind
2. Again, take another deep breath and as you breath out, relax even further, let go of the day, clear the mind
3. And again, take another deep breath and as you breath out, relax, relax, relax, let go, still the mind
4. A clear, still mind is open to receive new ideas and inspiration
5. Allow the silence in your mind
6. Simply focus on your breath and allow the silence in your mind
7. NOW, Ask “What can I do now? OR What can I do next? OR What’s my next step? OR Who do I need to speak to?

THEN LISTEN. Stay still and calm for a moment.

“Silence is Golden”

Clear the Mind of worry, concern, what if’s.

Clear the Mind to allow new ideas and inspiration.

TIP 2

Sow the seeds at night as you go to bed.

“The Miracle Question”

Imagine that when you go to bed and while you are asleep a miracle happens. The effect of this miracle is that the problems that brought you here are resolved, and you don’t know this as you are still asleep.

When you wake up tomorrow morning, what will be the first thing you notice that will tell you that this problem is resolved?

This technique helps you to begin thinking differently about life and begin to imagine what your world could be like!

Start thinking and acting as though things have changed today!
(Taken from page 120, Millionaire MindSet – Pat Mesiti in my book How To Overcome Stress Naturally)

TIP 3

Ask What & How Questions
1. How can I change my behaviour so I fly with the Eagles?
2. What gift do I have? Everyone is good at something. What are you great at doing?
3. What are you passionate about? Your Passion is your Purpose! What moves you? What inspires you?

For a Massive Shift in your Mindset…

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Gold Coast: 4th & 5th September

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I welcome you with all my heart and soul!

Trace

Author – How To Overcome Stress Naturally

Event Organiser – Massive Mind Over Money Event 2010

What will tomorrow bring?

• Sudden change
• New Opportunities
• Be open to new ideas

Current structures are breaking down. Current structures need to break down.

According to Edgar Cayce Prophecies of 2012, it is up to us to determine our future.

It is up to the vision and minds of all human beings.

We are responsible.

So why not think and dream the very best!

Perhaps the current disasters and destruction are a message to help us all remember what truly is important.

• To reconnect with our values
• To realise we are all connected
• To help each other now and not wait for a crisis!

I am passionate about helping people so I have organised an event for massive change.

It’s called the Massive Mind Over Money Event 2010 and will be held at 2 venues:

Gold Coast: 4^th & 5^th September Gold Coast Convention & Entertainment Centre, Broadbeach

Melbourne: 30^th & 31^st October Sebel Albert Park, Albert Park

2 Days of Massive Transformation

Wealth Creation & Abundance

Learn from leading authors and millionaires:

Pat Mesiti will show you How to Have a Millionaire Mindset. He will captivate you and move you to tears and laughter.

Warren Henningsen will share his awesome life stories that demonstrate “If I Can You Can” – Insights from an average man, a best-selling book. Warren Will Rock Your World!

Rhondalynn Korolak will whip your business into shape with Financial Foreplay – her latest book. And Borders Bookstore No. 4 best seller.

Susan Dean will show you how million dollar relationships can be learnt even when Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus!

Tracey Stranger shares her journey of becoming a massive money magnet and how you too can attract money into your life, now.

Plus much, much more…

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The Team at IGA Hocking with Manager Vicki Waters were a great support.

Overcoming Stress was of great interest to the IGA customers with many books sold that IGA Hocking has stocked in the store.

When first recurperating from severe stress and health problems, it is important to be kind and gentle to yourself. The most important thing I say is to remember to breath deeply every breath you take.

It is free to Breathe and it is truly a gift we all have. A full deep belly breath allows vital oxygen to get to the base of our lungs and be distributed throughout our entire body.

The next most simple step to overcome stress naturally is to have a good night’s sleep.

As Shanti Gowan, President of Australasian Ayurvedic Practitioners Association says in Chapter 3:  “Sleep like most healthy and beautiful things on this earth, is free. The only thing we need to do is fix an appointment with our bed and keep it every day.”

His Holiness The Dalai Lama says:

“Sleep is the best Meditation”

SIMPLE DAILY CONTEMPLATION / MEDITATION At the START of your day AND at the END of your day… take a few quite minutes for YOU. BE KIND TO YOURSELF. Sit comfortably, spine straight, feet and legs uncrossed. Close your eyes, take a DEEP BREATH IN As you exhale LET GO of the day, LET GO of all thoughts, LET GO of all emotions. Take another DEEP BREATH IN, focus only on your breathing. As you exhale LET GO even further, LET GO and RELAX, LET GO of everything. Take another DEEP BREATH IN, focus only on the breath. Exhale, focus only on the breath. Open your eyes. THAT IS 3 DEEP BREATHS that takes only a minute EVERY DAY. Notice how you feel. As I travel around Australia speaking to groups, associations, rotary groups, I eagerly share the health benefits of eating local season foods, supporting local growers, remember to breathe deeply and sleep soundly! Thank you to Staff at IGA Hocking, WA Without Inner Peace, How can we make real Peace? Dalai Lama Buy How To Overcome Stress Naturally by Tracey Stranger

This Saturday 29th May 2010,

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Momentum is rapidly growing where more and more people are aware that our thoughts create our reality.

There are many quotes throughout history that lead the way:

Whether you think you can or think you can’t – you are right. ~Henry Ford

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. ~Edmund Hillary

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do…. Build, therefore, your own world. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature

Your problem is you’re… too busy holding onto your unworthiness. ~Ram Dass

Remember thoughts are things, and as their currents run, they can become crimes or miracles. Edgar Cayce

Our lives are not ruled by our genes but by our cell membranes — which respond to our thoughts. Bruce Lipton (Cell Biologist)

In current times of change, is it not of vital importance we truly choose our thoughts wisely?

Every cell in our body responds to the thoughts we think.

What do you think?
What self talk do you have? Do you listen to your own self talk?

Take 5 minutes out of your day to just sit and listen to the conversation you are having in your head.

Write down that conversation going on in your head.

Be the Observer of the conversation going on in your head.

This is what we call Mindfulness.

Excerpt from an Interview with Bruce Lipton by Jill Neimark

Bruce Lipton says: Genes, proteins, and hormones all are players at the gates of the cell’s membrane, where consciousness and matter interact. In fact, by changing our subconscious programming we can influence membrane function, and therefore, “We are not victims of our genes, but masters of our fate.”

The cell membrane functions as the active intelligence of the cell. At any given time, every cell membrane contains hundreds of thousands of switches, and the behavior of a cell can only be understood by considering the activities of all the switches.

So I asked myself, Where does the cascade of activity for a cell start? And it starts at the membrane. In contrast, genes are remarkable molecules, but they are only blueprints that are activated by signals from the cell membrane. Genes are not our fate.

The take-home message from The Biology of Belief book is that we’re not, as individuals or societies, the pawns of our genes, or stuck in a vicious cycle of violence and competition.

You can reinvent your life.

The global community can reinvent itself, too.

A study last year by two biologists, Robert M. Sapolsky and Lisa J. Share, showed this in a troop of baboons. The aggressive males happened to die out from foraging contaminated meat from a garbage pit. In the wake of their deaths, the females in the troop helped steer the remaining, less aggressive males into a more peaceful, cooperative community.

We are all spiritual beings who need love as much as we need food.

We can use the intelligence of our own cells to change our lives.”

To hear more of Bruce Lipton follow these links:

Healing with the Masters interviews Bruce Lipton

USA Times: Thurs May 20  4:00 PM California, Pacific Time

Australia: Friday 21^st May 9am

Time Zone Converter http://budurl.com/TimeZone

Webcast http://www.healingwiththemasters.com/webcast.htm

BBS RADIO  MYSTIC – Fireside Chat with Bruce Lipton

Australia: Sunday 23^rd May 12 noon

Rest of the World: Time Zone Converter http://budurl.com/TimeZone

http://www.bbsradio.com/bbs_talk_radio_station1.php

To learn meditation step by step, visit www.HowToOvercomStressNaturally.com

You can buy my book or sign up for Daily Mindfulness activities.

Buy Beginner Meditation CD’s at www.essentialhealth.com.au

Without Inner Peace, How can we make real Peace?

The Dalai Lama

Mayan prophecies

Prophecy is so imbedded in Mayan culture and way of life, that it can be thought of as their spiritual DNA.

Prophecies of Edgar Cayce (1877-1945) – in self induced trance include:

Raising of Atlantis

Destruction of California

Earth changes

Pole shifts

Second Coming of Christ

Prophecy is not prediction. Prophecy is a thread in the total fabric of meaning, in the total world-view. In this way it can be seen as a way of life and of being. Armin Geertz

In Old Testament, the prophet was “called out” by God, to deliver a specific message at a special time to a particular people”

We know that Edgar Cayce correctly predicted

• The stock market crash

• Great Depression of 1929

• Beginning of World War II

• The shifting of the Earth’s magnetic poles (which scientists confirmed the beginnings of on a 2004 NOVA TV show titled, “Magnetic Storm”),

• The coming of El Nino and La Nina, stating that changing temperatures of the deep currents in the Pacific Ocean would affect weather patterns.

Now many people are closely watching the volcanoes Vesuvius and Pelee because of Cayce’s warning about their unseen connection with the fault lines along the southern coast of California.

Cayce sees these Earth changes are the “birth pains” to a coming new era when the Earth will enter a long

period of higher consciousness and soul growth, in which brotherly and sisterly care for all people will prevail.

Following the changes, which he sees as cleansings, he sees a golden age for the inhabitants of our blue and white planet.

When asked what the New Age means to humanity, Edgar Cayce replied:

“the full consciousness of the ability to communicate with the Creative Forces and be aware of the relationships to the Creative Forces and the uses of same in material environs.

This awareness during the era or age in the Age of Atlantis and Lemuria or Mu brought what? Destruction to man, and his beginning of the needs of the journey up through that of selfishness.” (1602-3)

Previously, we misused this consciousness and the power that came with the close relationship to the Forces.

This misuse brought on the destruction of our great cultures and a long, karmic soul journey through the pain and confusion that resulted from our selfishness and self-centered focus on our will without regard for the will of the Creator and others.

Now, as the cycles come around again, we are nearing a time when the level of consciousness and relationship with the Creative Forces will allow us once again to regain these powers.

http://www.edgarcayce.org/2012.asp

Mayan Cusp of Great Cycle

We are living today in the cusp of the Mayan end times, the end of a galactic day or time period spanning thousands of years.  One galactic day of 25,625 years is divided into 5 cycles of 5,125 years.

Following Mayan concepts of cyclic time and World Age transitions, this is

• as much about beginnings as endings

• signify the creation of a new World Age

• We are almost at the end of the fifth and final 5,125 year cycle!

• The Solstice on December 21, 2012 ~ precisely at 11:11 AM Universal Time ~ marks the completion of the 5,125 year Great Cycle of the Ancient Maya Long Count Calendar.

Rather than being a linear end-point, this cycle that is closing is naturally followed by the start of a new cycle.

What this new cycle has in store for humanity is a mystery that has yet to unfold…

Exciting times. Trust your Intuition. Breathe Deeply Daily!

No Need to be Stressed about 2012. Simpy Be Prepared.

This book has simple meditation and mindfulness exercises at the end of each chapter. Simple & Practical Easy to read.

How To Overcome Stress Naturally by Tracey Stranger, Foreword by HH The Dalai Lama

“Without Inner Peace, How Can We Make Real Peace?” HH The Dalai Lama

Earth Day is a day designed to inspire awareness and appreciation for the Earth’s environment. It was founded by U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson as an environmental teach-in held on April 22, 1970.

In reality….Every Day is Earth Day! And Everyday Counts!

Working together as a global community to build a sustainable future for all those who choose to live, respect and celebrate on this beautiful planet Earth is paramount everyday. Tracey Stranger

History of the Equinox Earth Day

The equinoctial Earth Day is celebrated on the March equinox (around March 20) to mark the precise moment of astronomical mid-spring in the Northern Hemisphere, and of astronomical mid-autumn in the Southern Hemisphere. An equinox in astronomy is that moment in time (not a whole day) when the centre of the Sun can be observed to be directly “above” the Earth’s equator, occurring around March 20 and September 23 each year. In most cultures, the equinoxes and solstices are considered to start or separate the seasons.

The idea of a global holiday called “Earth Day” was birthed at the 1969 UNESCO Conference on the Environment. UN Secretary-General U Thant supported this global initiative and signed a proclamation to that effect, saying:

May there be only peaceful and cheerful Earth Days to come for our beautiful Spaceship Earth as it continues to spin and circle in frigid space with its warm and fragile cargo of animate life.^[39]

Avatar and Earth Day

“I’m not coming out of the closet as an environmentalist,” Cameron recently said about Avatar and the Earth Day 2010 release. “I think I was pretty up front about it. I think the themes of the film have been pretty overt.”

Avatar has caused some to call April 22, 2010, ‘Home Tree’ Earth Day and it inspired a worldwide tree-planting campaign, involving a million trees in 15 countries.

James Cameron and actress Sigourney Weaver have also just returned from a trip to the Amazon rainforests and have been talking about the importance of preserving the environment.

Look To The Stars reports that a special screening of Avatar will take place in Los Angeles, coinciding with a Home Tree Earth Day event that Cameron will participate in.

Earth Day Network

Forty years after the first Earth Day, the world is in greater peril than ever. While climate change is the greatest challenge of our time, it also presents the greatest opportunity – an unprecedented opportunity to build a healthy, prosperous, clean energy economy now and for the future.

Earth Day 2010 can be a turning point to advance climate policy, energy efficiency, renewable energy and green jobs. Earth Day Network is galvanizing millions who make personal commitments to sustainability.

Earth Day 2010 is a pivotal opportunity for individuals, corporations and governments to join together and create a global green economy. Join the more than one billion people in 190 countries that are taking action for Earth Day.

Click here http://www.earthday.org/earthday2010

Earth Day in Australia

Green Cross Australia is an environment group for the 21st century focusing on the human dimension of environmental challenges by preparing communities for rising sea levels and increasing extreme weather.

We inspire people to get active, to put the future of our environment and our community back in our hands. Our mission is to foster a global values shift towards a peaceful, sustainable and secure future.

Everyday actions can and do impact on the Earth’s wellbeing.

The Green Lane Diary is a curriculum linked education program designed by environmental educators to help children become aware of the stresses our planet confronts and how sustainable living can make a difference.

This project was launched by Green Cross Japan 11 years ago. Over 600,000 Japanese students have participated since 1999 and we are proud to introduce the Green Lane Diary in Queensland in 2010, and across Australia in future years.

More info Visit       http://www.greencrossaustralia.org

Next week…

NASA’s recently launched Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, is returning early images that confirm an unprecedented new capability for scientists to better understand our sun’s dynamic processes. These solar activities affect everything on Earth.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sdo/news/first-light.html

If you want to fly with the Eagles, don’t hang out with the Turkeys!

I interviewed Pat Mesiti…Chapter 8 in my newly released book How To Overcome Stress Naturally with foreword by His Holiness The Dalai Lama

Pat Mesiti is an exceptional motivational speaker & best selling author of 2 Books:

The $1 Million Reason to Change Your Mind & How to Have a Millionaire Mindset & passionately an income accelerator coach.

Let me share with you some of the many gems Pat shared with me that I know can turn your life around for you and all those around you…

Pat Mesiti says…

My passion is to help people get what they want out of life. For this to happen, you first have to decide what you actually want. To get the most out of life we have to take charge. I now spend my life helping people of all ages and professions make changes to their own lives. As a motivational speaker I inspire business groups and successful leaders with my incredible life story and positive attitude to live a life of greatness!

…My belief is that every one of us is meant to enjoy a prosperous life. We were never meant only to exist—we are born to live! Our lives are meant to advance.

…How many times in your life have you dreamed about what it would be like to be wealthy? Many people spend their whole lives wishing they had more money but never doing anything about it (buying a weekly Lotto ticket doesn’t count!). The truth is you can live a more prosperous life if you are prepared to make some changes in your life.

…If you want to prosper, then there’s only one person that matters—you!

You have to decide that you are going to be a wealthy person. Once you’ve decided to be a prosperous person and committed yourself to prosperity, you need to learn to focus on that goal, to give attention to the pursuit of prosperity. Your life will follow the direction of your focus.

Whatever you focus on is what will manifest in your life. It’s not enough simply to desire to be prosperous. Many people desire things—to be happy, to have a great marriage, to make money—but most stop at desire. Unfortunately, desire alone doesn’t get results.

First, you have to think differently about yourself. You need to start seeing yourself as a person who can prosper. You may need to change some ingrained thinking patterns, or perhaps you’ll need to overcome negative mindsets that have developed as a result of things that have happened to you in the past.

Sterling W. Still said “Wealth is not only what you have but it is also what you are”.

You will naturally gravitate towards the dominant image of yourself in your mind.

Ask yourself these questions:

”Do I really value myself?”

“What value do you place on your mind and your knowledge?”

“Do you baulk at the cost of attending a seminar that might help you improve your mind?”

If you truly value yourself, you won’t think twice about spending money on self-improvement because your mindset will be not “that’s a luxury I can’t justify”, but rather, “I am worth it!”

“But”, I hear you ask, “Isn’t it really more important to value other people? Shouldn’t my motivation to be wealthy be so that I can help others?” My answer is “yes”, but it is not possible to value other people any more than you value yourself.

Start by asking yourself:

What’s in your heart? What’s your dream? What’s your passion?

Now ask yourself this:

“What do I have in my hand today that I can utilise to start moving in the direction of what’s in my heart?”

Final words

Welcome to the human race! Everybody has baggage. Everyone has made mistakes. Everyone has been hurt or treated badly at one time or another. If you’ve messed up or been messed up at any time in your life then you are the perfect candidate for success. You’ve got to get over your past.