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Tools For Conscious Awareness
Newsletter For
A Next Step...Light Center for Transformation and Healing
Vol. 105 -Addendum- June, 2009
In Truth, Simplicity, Love and Service
June 19th - 21st, 2009 - The Historic Summer Solstice Celebration . .
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LIVE H2O: Concert For The Living Water!
Why we are asking LIVE H2O musicians to retune to 528Hz frequency.
Everything has a vibration, and 528 is a simple number that is central
to the "musical mathematical matrix of creation." More than any sound
previously discovered, this "LOVE frequency" resonates harmonically in
your heart inaudibly connecting your spiritual essence to the spiraling
reality of heaven and earth.
Even the parallel universes connect to the center of your heart by this
"LOVE channel" broadcasting matter and energy according to the laws of
physics. In fact, 528 is fundamental to these laws. This frequency, more
than any other, epitomizes the unified field of musical metaphysics in
the matrix of the spiraling fractal universe.
This is why we lovingly request recording artists engaging LIVE H2O to
gain the "power of 528 to set everything straight."
Besides understanding more about 528 than ever before, modern standard
tuning based on "A=440Hz" has come under scientific scrutiny. This politically
imposed tuning is energetically degrading to the human spirit according
to recent discoveries in sound science and natural healing. Tuning instruments
to A=440 frequency stimulates the head, the intellect, but blocks the
heart and intuition. A=440Hz generally produces increased anxiety in performers
and listeners, while 528Hz tuning produces greater relaxation and creative
self expression.
Science has now proven that even parallel universes connect to the center
of your heart using this LOVE frequency. In fact, 528Hz is fundamental
to broadcasting matter and energy according to the laws of physics. This
frequency, more than any other, epitomizes the unified field of musical
metaphysics in the matrix of the spiraling fractal universe.
So if your heart longs for "the world to sing in perfect harmony," engage
LIVE H2O, and by participating, gain the "power of 528 to set everything
straight."
528Hz is at the heart of everything. It is the difference between making
love not war. It is the energy driving universal prosperity; the bioenergy
of health and longevity. It is the harmonic vibration of self-esteem or
self-love that lifts your heart and Divine voice in harmony with heaven.
There is nothing missing or broken in this frequency of divinity. It is
the essence of loving perfection. When you are in it, you are in tune
with your creative spirit, and everything just flows in perfect rhythm
and rhyme.
528 cycles-per-second, math science now proves, is central to the "musical
mathematical matrix of creation." This "LOVE frequency" harmonically resonates
in your heart connecting your essence to heaven and earth. This frequency,
more than any other, epitomizes the unified field of musical metaphysics
in the matrix of the spiraling fractal universe.
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For a delightful look at what some people have done globally in their
quest for a better and more peaceful world.
http://www.playingforchange.com/
“Playing for Change is a multimedia movement created to inspire, connect,
and bring peace to the world through music. The idea for this project
arose from a common belief that music has the power to break down boundaries
and overcome distances between people. No matter whether people come from
different geographic, political, economic, spiritual or ideological backgrounds,
music has the universal power to transcend and unite us as one human race.
And with this truth firmly fixed in our minds, we set out to share it
with the world.”
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“You must all advance by taking good care of your health. The fact is,
only by taking good care of your health can you gain success. The fact
is, if your health is not good, how can you do your service? Taking care
of your health is as important as any of the other duties of your life.
It is your duty toward your body. If your body does not work how will
you function and advance?”
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"We made this statement: “You are god and you have a responsibility to
create. The second point to re-member is that you are not the only god.”
Getting along with the other gods becomes one of the most important pieces
of moving into the new planet Earth. It is critical to learn how to harmoniously
live with empowered humans around you, in your energy field and as part
of your daily life. This involves more than becoming empowered yourself,
or simply taking responsibility for your own happiness and your own reality.
That is only the beginning. Making space around you for your children
and your parents, as well as for all those you see on a daily basis to
become empowered, will be critical in your move to the higher vibrations
of the new planet Earth. That is what we wish to address today: the new
energy of the empowered human."
See entire April 2009 article at:
http://lightworker.com/beacons/
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"I am under a lot of pressure to not diagnose PTSD"
A secret recording reveals the Army may be pushing its medical staff not
to diagnose post-traumatic stress disorder. The Army and Senate have ignored
the implications.
By Michael de Yoanna and Mark Benjamin
"Salon Newsletter"
April 8, 2009 | FORT CARSON, Colo. -- "Sgt. X" is built like the Bradley
Fighting Vehicle he rode in while in Iraq. He's as bulky, brawny and seemingly
impervious as a tank.
In an interview in the high-rise offices of his Denver attorneys, however,
symptoms of the damaged brain inside that tough exterior begin to appear.
Sgt. X's eyes go suddenly blank, shifting to refocus oddly on a wall.
He pauses mid-sentence, struggling for simple words. His hands occasionally
tremble and spasm.
For more than a year he's been seeking treatment at Fort Carson for a
brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder, the signature injuries
of the Iraq war. Sgt. X is also suffering through the Army's confusing
disability payment system, handled by something called a medical evaluation
board. The process of negotiating the system has been made harder by his
war-damaged memory. Sgt. X's wife has to go with him to doctor's appointments
so he'll remember what the doctor tells him.
But what Sgt. X wants to tell a reporter about is one doctor's appointment
at Fort Carson that his wife did not witness. When she couldn't accompany
him to an appointment with psychologist Douglas McNinch last June, Sgt.
X tucked a recording device into his pocket and set it on voice-activation
so it would capture what the doctor said. Sgt. X had no idea that the
little machine in his pocket was about to capture recorded evidence of
something wounded soldiers and their advocates have long suspected --
that the military does not want Iraq veterans to be diagnosed with PTSD,
a condition that obligates the military to provide expensive, intensive
long-term care, including the possibility of lifetime disability payments.
And, as Salon will explore in a second article Thursday, after the Army
became aware of the tape, the Senate Armed Services Committee declined
to investigate its implications, despite prodding from a senator who is
not on the committee. The Army then conducted its own internal investigation
-- and cleared itself of any wrongdoing.
When Sgt. X went to see McNinch with a tape recorder, he was concerned
that something was amiss with his diagnosis. He wanted to find out why
the psychologist had told the medical evaluation board that handles disability
payments that Sgt. X did not, in fact, have PTSD, but instead an "anxiety
disorder," which could substantially lower the amount of benefits he would
receive if the Army discharged him for a disability. The recorder in Sgt.
X's pocket captured McNinch in a moment of candor. (Listen to a segment
of the recording here.)
"OK," McNinch told Sgt. X. "I will tell you something confidentially that
I would have to deny if it were ever public. Not only myself, but all
the clinicians up here are being pressured to not diagnose PTSD and diagnose
anxiety disorder NOS [instead]." McNinch told him that Army medical boards
were "kick[ing] back" his diagnoses of PTSD, saying soldiers had not seen
enough trauma to have "serious PTSD issues."
"Unfortunately," McNinch told Sgt. X, "yours has not been the only case
... I and other [doctors] are under a lot of pressure to not diagnose
PTSD. It's not fair. I think it's a horrible way to treat soldiers, but
unfortunately, you know, now the V.A. is jumping on board, saying, 'Well,
these people don't have PTSD,' and stuff like that."
Contacted recently by Salon, McNinch seemed surprised that reporters had
obtained the tape, but answered questions about the statements captured
by the recording. McNinch told Salon that the pressure to misdiagnose
came from the former head of Fort Carson's Department of Behavioral Health.
That colonel, an Army psychiatrist, is now at Fort Lewis in Washington
state. "This was pressure that the commander of my Department of Behavioral
Health put on me at that time," he said. Since McNinch is a civilian employed
by the Army, the colonel could not order him to give a specific, lesser
diagnosis to soldiers. Instead, McNinch said, the colonel would "refuse
to concur with me, or argue with me, or berate me" when McNinch diagnosed
soldiers with PTSD. "It is just very difficult being a civilian in a military
setting."
McNinch added that he also received pressure not to properly diagnose
traumatic brain injury, Sgt. X's other medical problem. "When I got there
I was told I was overdiagnosing brain injuries and now everybody is finding
out that, yes, there are brain injuries," he recalled. McNinch said he
argued, "'What are we going to do about treatment?' And they said, 'Oh,
we are just counting people. We don't plan on treating them.'" McNinch
replied, "'You are bringing a generation of brain-damaged individuals
back here. You have got to get a game plan together for this public health
crisis.'"
When McNinch learned he would be quoted in a Salon article, he cut off
further questions. He also said he would deny the interview took place.
Salon, however, had recorded the conversation.
On the tape and in his interview with Salon, McNinch seemed to admit what
countless soldiers not just at Fort Carson but across the Army have long
suspected: At least in some cases, the Army tries to avoid diagnoses of
PTSD. But McNinch did not directly address why the Army discourages these
diagnoses, in either the interview with Salon or the tape-recorded encounter
with Sgt. X.
The answer probably has to do with money. David Rudd, the chairman of
Texas Tech's department of psychology and a former Army psychologist,
explained that every dollar the Army spends on a soldier's benefits is
a dollar lost for bullets, bombs or the soldier's incoming replacement.
"Each diagnosis is an acknowledgment that psychiatric casualties are a
huge price tag of this war," said Rudd. "It is easiest to dismiss these
casualties because you can't see the wounds. If they change the diagnosis
they can dismiss you at a substantially decreased rate."
A recently retired Army psychiatrist who still works for the government,
speaking on the condition of anonymity for fear of retribution, said commanders
at another Army hospital instructed him to misdiagnose soldiers suffering
from war-related PTSD, recommending instead that he diagnose them with
other disorders that would reduce their benefits. The psychiatrist said
he would be willing to say more publicly about the cases and provide specific
names, but only if President Obama would protect him from retaliation.
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Namaste, everyone!
This information comes from Dr. Jim Maxey, DDS. He lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma,
and is the leader in a successful dental practice. Jim is what I would
call "an enlightened dentist." He exposes the truth about brushing your
teeth, flouride fraud, and mercury deception. The information is shared
free of charge here:
http://www.dentalco nfessions. com
Jim has written books on these subjects and then decided he wanted the
information available to all, more than he wanted to print and sell books.
There is much to be learned from what he shares.
Om Namah Shivaya
All the best,
Marge
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A widespread and silent killer that’s worse for your health than alcohol,
nicotine and many drugs is likely lurking in your kitchen cabinets right
now. [1] “It” is monosodium glutamate (MSG), a flavor enhancer that’s
known widely as an addition to Chinese food, but that’s actually added
to thousands of the foods you and your family regularly eat, especially
if you are like most Americans and eat the majority of your food as processed
foods or in restaurants.
MSG is one of the worst food additives on the market and is used in canned
soups, crackers, meats, salad dressings, frozen dinners and much more.
It’s found in your local supermarket and restaurants, in your child’s
school cafeteria and, amazingly, even in baby food and infant formula.
MSG is more than just a seasoning like salt and pepper, it actually enhances
the flavor of foods, making processed meats and frozen dinners taste fresher
and smell better, salad dressings more tasty, and canned foods less tinny.
While MSG’s benefits to the food industry are quite clear, this food additive
could be slowly and silently doing major damage to your health.
What Exactly is MSG?
You may remember when the MSG powder called “Accent” first hit the U.S.
market. Well, it was many decades prior to this, in 1908, that monosodium
glutamate was invented. The inventor was Kikunae Ikeda, a Japanese man
who identified the natural flavor enhancing substance of seaweed.
Taking a hint from this substance, they were able to create the man-made
additive MSG, and he and a partner went on to form Ajinomoto, which is
now the world’s largest producer of MSG (and interestingly also a drug
manufacturer). [2]
Chemically speaking, MSG is approximately 78 percent free glutamic acid,
21 percent sodium, and up to 1 percent contaminants.[3]
It’s a misconception that MSG is a flavor or “meat tenderizer.” In reality,
MSG has very little taste at all, yet when you eat MSG, you think the
food you’re eating has more protein and tastes better. It does this by
tricking your tongue, using a little-known fifth basic taste: umami.
Umami is the taste of glutamate, which is a savory flavor found in many
Japanese foods, bacon and also in the toxic food additive MSG. It is because
of umami that foods with MSG taste heartier, more robust and generally
better to a lot of people than foods without it.
The ingredient didn’t become widespread in the United States until after
World War II, when the U.S. military realized Japanese rations were much
tastier than the U.S. versions because of MSG.
In 1959, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration labeled MSG as “Generally
Recognized as Safe” (GRAS), and it has remained that way ever since. Yet,
it was a telling sign when just 10 years later a condition known as “Chinese
Restaurant Syndrome” entered the medical literature, describing the numerous
side effects, from numbness to heart palpitations, that people experienced
after eating MSG. Today that syndrome is more appropriately called “MSG
Symptom Complex,” which the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) identifies
as "short-term reactions" to MSG. More on those “reactions” to come.
Why MSG is so Dangerous
One of the best overviews of the very real dangers of MSG comes from Dr.
Russell Blaylock, a board-certified neurosurgeon and author of “Excitotoxins:
The Taste that Kills.” In it he explains that MSG is an excitotoxin, which
means it overexcites your cells to the point of damage or death, causing
brain damage to varying degrees -- and potentially even triggering or
worsening learning disabilities, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease,
Lou Gehrig’s disease and more.
Part of the problem also is that free glutamic acid is the same neurotransmitter
that your brain, nervous system, eyes, pancreas and other organs use to
initiate certain processes in your body.[4] Even the FDA states: “Studies
have shown that the body uses glutamate, an amino acid, as a nerve impulse
transmitter in the brain and that there are glutamate-responsive tissues
in other parts of the body, as well.
Abnormal function of glutamate receptors has been linked with certain
neurological diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease and Huntington's chorea.
Injections of glutamate in laboratory animals have resulted in damage
to nerve cells in the brain.”[5]
Although the FDA continues to claim that consuming MSG in food does not
cause these ill effects, many other experts say otherwise.
According to Dr. Blaylock, numerous glutamate receptors have been found
both within your heart's electrical conduction system and the heart muscle
itself. This can be damaging to your heart, and may even explain the sudden
deaths sometimes seen among young athletes.
He says:
“When an excess of food-borne excitotoxins, such as MSG, hydrolyzed protein
soy protein isolate and concentrate, natural flavoring, sodium caseinate
and aspartate from aspartame, are consumed, these glutamate receptors
are over- stimulated, producing cardiac arrhythmias.
When magnesium stores are low, as we see in athletes, the glutamate receptors
are so sensitive that even low levels of these excitotoxins can result
in cardiac arrhythmias and death.”[6]
Many other adverse effects have also been linked to regular consumption
of MSG, including:
- Obesity
- Eye damage
- Headaches
- Fatigue and disorientation
- Depression
Further, even the FDA admits that “short-term reactions” known as MSG
Symptom Complex can occur in certain groups of people, namely those who
have eaten “large doses” of MSG or those who have asthma.[7]
According to the FDA, MSG Symptom Complex can involve symptoms such as:
- Numbness
- Burning sensation
- Tingling
- Facial pressure or tightness
- Chest pain or difficulty breathing
- Headache
- Nausea
- Rapid heartbeat
- Drowsiness
- Weakness
No one knows for sure just how many people may be “sensitive” to MSG,
but studies from the 1970s suggested that 25 percent to 30 percent of
the U.S. population was intolerant of MSG -- at levels then found in food.
Since the use of MSG has expanded dramatically since that time, it’s been
estimated that up to 40 percent of the population may be impacted.[8]
How to Determine if MSG is in Your Food
Food manufacturers are not stupid, and they’ve caught on to the fact that
people like you want to avoid eating this nasty food additive. As a result,
do you think they responded by removing MSG from their products? Well,
a few may have, but most of them just tried to “clean” their labels. In
other words, they tried to hide the fact that MSG is an ingredient.
How do they do this? By using names that you would never associate with
MSG. You see, it’s required by the FDA that food manufacturers list the
ingredient “monosodium glutamate” on food labels, but they do not have
to label ingredients that contain free glutamic acid, even though it’s
the main component of MSG.
There are over 40 labeled ingredients that contain glutamic acid,[9] but
you’d never know it just from their names alone. Further, in some foods
glutamic acid is formed during processing and, again, food labels give
you no way of knowing for sure.
Tips for Keeping MSG Out of Your Diet
In general, if a food is processed you can assume it contains MSG (or
one of its pseudo-ingredients). So if you stick to a whole, fresh foods
diet, you can pretty much guarantee that you’ll avoid this toxin.
The other place where you’ll need to watch out for MSG is in restaurants.
You can ask your server which menu items are MSG-free, and request that
no MSG be added to your meal, but of course the only place where you can
be entirely sure of what’s added to your food is in your own kitchen.
To be on the safe side, you should also know what ingredients to watch
out for on packaged foods. Here is a list of ingredients that ALWAYS contain
MSG:
| Autolyzed Yeast |
Monopotassium Glutamate |
| Calcium Caseinate |
Monosodium Glutamate |
| Gelatin |
Sodium Caseinate |
| Glutamate |
Textured Protein |
| Glutamic Acid |
Yeast Extract |
| Hydrolyzed Protein |
Yeast Food |
| Yeast Nutrient |
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These ingredients OFTEN contain MSG or create MSG during processing:[10]
| Flavors and Flavorings |
Stock |
| Natural Flavors and Flavorings |
Broth |
| Natural Pork Flavoring |
Malt Extract |
| Natural Beef Flavoring |
Malt Flavoring |
| Natural Chicken Flavoring |
Barley Malt |
| Soy Protein Isolate |
Carrageenan |
| Soy Protein |
Maltodextrin |
| Seasonings |
Corn Starch |
| Soy Sauce |
Citric Acid |
| Bouillon |
Powdered Milk |
| Pectin |
Anything Enzyme Modified |
| Enzymes |
Anything Protein Fortified |
| Protease |
Anything Ultra-Pasteurized |
So if you do eat processed foods, please remember to be on the lookout
for these many hidden names for MSG.
Choosing to be MSG-Free
Making a decision to avoid MSG in your diet as much as possible is a wise
choice for nearly everyone. Admittedly, it does take a bit more planning
and time in the kitchen to prepare food at home, using fresh, locally
grown ingredients. But knowing that your food is pure and free of toxic
additives like MSG will make it well worth it.
Plus, choosing whole foods will ultimately give you better flavor and
more health value than any MSG-laden processed food you could buy at your
supermarket.
[1] Mercola.com “The Shocking Dangers of MSG You Don’t Know,” video Part
1
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2007/08/28/dangers-of-msg.aspx?aid=CD12
[2] Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation, Samuels, Jack “MSG Dangers and
Deceptions”
http://www.ppnf.org/catalog/ppnf/Articles/MSG.htm
[3] Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation, Samuels, Jack “MSG Dangers and
Deceptions”
http://www.ppnf.org/catalog/ppnf/Articles/MSG.htm
[4] MSGTruth.org “What Exactly is MSG?”
http://www.msgtruth.org/whatisit.htm
[5] U.S. Food and Drug Administration “FDA and Monosodium Glutamate (MSG)”
August 31, 1995
http://www.foodsafety.gov/~lrd/msg.html
[6] eMediaWire “Athlete Alert: Renowned Neurosurgeon Identifies Aspartame
& MSG in Sudden Cardiac Death” April 15, 2005
http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2005/4/emw225071.htm
7] FDA Consumer Magazine “MSG: A Common Flavor Enhancer” January-February
2003
http://www.fda.gov/fdac/features/2003/103_msg.html
[8] TruthinLabeling.org “This is What the Data Say About Monosodium Glutamate
Toxicity and Human Adverse Reactions”
http://www.truthinlabeling.org/Proof_AdverseReactions_AR.html
[9] Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation, Samuels, Jack “MSG Dangers and
Deceptions”
http://www.ppnf.org/catalog/ppnf/Articles/MSG.htm
[10] Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation, Samuels, Jack “MSG Dangers
and Deceptions”
http://www.ppnf.org/catalog/ppnf/Articles/MSG.htm
Related Links:
How to Find Hidden MSG on Food Labels
The Shocking Dangers of MSG You Don’t Know
MSG is Why You Want to Avoid McDonald's Like the Plague
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In Truth, Simplicity, Love and Service,
Om Shanti, Shanti, Shanti, Om Peace.
Young Toni Delgado and Young Kelley Elkins
A NEXT STEP...Light Center for Transformation and Healing
P.O.Box 429
Dona Ana, New Mexico 88032
toni@anextstep.org
www.anextstep.org
575-382-8771
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