 Wow! What a time and world we live in! It really matters to get a grip on ourselves, our attention, our intention and the direction we flow our focus. Speed of information everywhere and in some cases good, others overload. I wanted to offer my experience of 62 years in the non-toxic, holistic, green sustainability lifestyle. We need to put wellness forefront especially now and in all my years of all the education, teaching, coaching, writing etc.. , what I think today is the biggest wellness upgrade in 2026 is Quality Water!
No doubt I am in the wellness industry a long time so I have recommended many things. But today, here in this age and time, I come back to simply quality water. Not all this or that, which they all add in, but if there was a wellness upgrade that most are not even aware of yet, it is quality water! That is why I am in this industry for I believe we are unaware of the amount it effects our body, lives and health. Especially with all the data centers coming in. Using our water and no doubt adding more issues to filter. It has gotten out of hand what is in our water. Two great resources to educate you! Check your zipcode at www.ewg.org/tapwater to see what is in your municipal water. Even if you are on a well, if there are pfas or forever chemicals in that water, they are in your well. That is why they are called forever chemicals for they keep circulating. If there are heavy metals or other non chlorine compounds, they probably are in your well. The best way to test a well is to got to www.tapscore.com and get the $200 Essential Well Test. A third party gives you the truth not a company that only sells certain systems. You can send it to me, or take it to another to see truly whats in your water and what will work. Many companies sell a catch all systems and they are not as effective. Wells vary from home to home and depend on new constructions, rainwater, other environmental factors. These are ways you can learn about your water so a good, solid real solution can be found. I also am so enthused to announce that I now will be able to offer the best in water tech for all different levels, ie..... under the counter, shower head units, saltless scale units on top of our whole home Avanti system. For every problem PureHome365, has developed solutions. So if in an apartment or RV, a one faucet solution or all taps with clean water, we got you. Even R/0 for those so sold on that. I don't ever recommend from a health point of view for long term but many believe in it so we have a quality tankless one too. So I am truly a resource on all levels. I can't tell you have good I feel about this. I have always been a helper, educator, one who wanted us all to love ourselves more and take care of ourselves better. My life has been that mission for me and my family so I have shared it. I really offer all solutions that I feel good about. There are water units everywhere and more will come for it is a health upgrade and business sees it. The EPA doing less for safety and the data centers requiring more water. Crazy world. My heart song is to impact people in beauty and health whether outside or inside themselves. It has been my passion and now it expresses through water education and solutions. As you wonder how to upgrade wellness without much effort, from the foundation and the path of least resistance, (my favorite) upgrade your water in one new way. Just step up what you are doing, working your way to whole home filtration as the destination. You will thank my for it as well as feel it. As things jack up and more water contamination info comes out, you know your are covered with the better solutions. I only want the best for health and that is what I know. So reach out for support or use the above resources to educate yourself. As always, I am here to help!
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 Stillness is doing. What an oxymoron. to the mind. We have heard this and yet we really don't know what it means. However, I am learning the power of not doing, of being, of stillness. It has taken much to innerstand and embody this. I moved a year ago now, just packed up and left Colorado to find a new home in Carolina closer to family. When I left, I had no idea where I would land or when. I just went for it and trusted it would unfold. A bold move and I actually had no idea what it all meant or would entail. It has been probably the biggest learning and trust I ever did.
A year later and I am nestled in a cottage on a mountain. It just landed into my life in a serendipitous way. I am with a new company, in a place I never thought I would be and surrounded by beauty and an interesting place to investigate. I didn't think it into existence, it kind of happening by following my gut. By trusting I would know when I would and all would work out. It has and a new life has unfolded. It has taken stillness, listening, discomfort at times and allowing to make it all be. I was more mind centered and doing centered before this. I needed to know. On this journey, I couldn't know. I had to quiet my mind many times or just live through it's relentless wanting to know. Making up stories, future broadcasting, creating fear where there was none and determining things before they were things to determine. I have learned a lot about this mercury-like mind. Now, I embody deeper that stillness is doing. From science, it is like sleeping is doing. Our world is very cyclical and we try to fit it into linear ways. We have lots of time to rest at night. It is a stillness of self that allows us to have an awake self. Put toward the rest and stillness during awake hours was not ok with my mind. We have to move, have direction, have production, being was doing or I am not living. Yet, looking out the window is doing. Resting in the beauty with my cup of coffee is doing. Taking a nap is doing. Allowing all the things I did in the morning to integrate is doing. Giving myself time to digest my food is doing. All these slower states are doing. I was taught that if it didn't make you money or expand yourself in the world, it was not productive. I have lived this life of overdoing and it exhausted me. Mis-measuring things as value that were not always valuable to me. Now in the lil cottage in the mountains I allow far more stillness than ever. For in that stillness I really know myself and what I want to be doing. When I do do, it is inspired action and actually moves on its own without conjuring energy or pushing through. It is like a real song comes forward and action that I didn't try to make happen comes forward. All from allowing stillness. My doing is richer, more easy and graceful, more settled. The mind in survival or panic or you are behind creates a frantic doing that never ends. I can't stop or I will fall behind or miss something or not make it. This is the training of the mind that causes so much suffering and strife. Worry too and future broadcasting of what will happen if I don't do now. None of it real either most of the time! Funny for as I allow more rest and stillness in a day, more gets done in pleasure. It is much quieter and easy but the mind can't seem to get that. When I stop letting its stories run everything and tap into my body and listen there, I find state change quicker. Movement comes in easier. Action is of its own energy and life has a greater flow. We all have read about this and desire this being that creates a happy doing state. We just don't know how to get to it for we use the mind that doesn't want to operate this way. It is a piece of us not us and it is not to be in full control. When we come from the total part of ourselves and let the mind quiet or go into the background, letting our body energy, our emotions and our spirit be part, the doing is more flowing and peaceful. I find this through allowing the stillness. Letting the mind chatter all its stuff and not listen to it. Emotions cleared, old patterns drop, real aliveness comes in. It is not frantic I must do aliveness. It is a peaceful beauty aliveness that gets to settle in moments of not doing. Just being. Just watching, Just tasting or just listening. Being still. It is profound a learning that is unraveling. I do believe we are in a massive transformation as humanity and so much of it is in being our awareness. Being our conscious self, not our mind self. I tell my endless story mind to be quiet often and now it doesn't chatter so loud all the time. Endless stories and labels about what is happening is exhausting. Now it is more of a friend and quiet. I can say I hear you but we are quieting for a moment. Once it loses its grip on full story mode all the time, it starts to appreciate all of life. Our spirit, our emotions, our vision, our taste, our present awareness. So much of it is nervous system running on proving and pushing. Once you settle that and it is a journey, it becomes calmer and a more peaceful state of being and doing. I am not sure I can even use words to describe it accurately as it is a state. So often the invisible things like state, words can't describe. They are labels like calm, peaceful, flowing and until you feel it, it is just another story of "oh I must be calm. I must flow, I must fix this or that." What if you don't have to do anything? What if you let it all settle? Today I awoke kind of flat feeling. I didn't want to do anything and didn't know what to do, The mind took this into "Is this all life is? Why am I not motivated? Why am I not happy and brimming with joy? What is wrong with me?" blah blah, I am sure you have had this before. Instead of letting the mind create something out of it, I just made my coffee, looked out the window and let the flat, boring feeling be. It is gloomy out and some of those days, motivation is not always there. I felt like the cloudy sky and just allowed it as I sipped coffee. I kept telling my mind to be quiet as I felt this flat feeling. Soon I smelled the roses and peonies on my counter scenting the room, I smiled. I watched the birds flying around in the yard, feeding themselves worms, fighting and singing. I just let this flat being exist. After not long it was gone. I suddenly was washing my bed sheets, running the dishwasher and straightening up. I began feeling really peaceful and enjoying the slow. No, I didn't start working for it was not aligned yet. Normally I would hear get to your emails and business. Who are you meeting today and how can you expand into more sales? I did none of it. I let my flatness turn into something else and it did. I have had a quiet observation morning and it feels very good. Not flat or not doing at all as it first was labeled. I call it integrating. Just letting what is be until action comes and it takes no mind. Suddenly I am writing emails and texting things. I am now writing the experience. All of this aligned doing rather than mental doing or shoulds or forced action. I hope I explained this new disposition that it has taken a year to really accept. I have no certainty really ever. I know the way will arrive and I can inhabit however I want. From there I don't know what work will need to be done, what emotions I will feel or how I will move through the day creating life. Sometimes life is just sitting and allowing pleasure to arise of its own. Other days it is hiking or engaging with others at an event or a lunch. I do know that my mind running endlessly is exhausting and a state we are switching out of. It is not a good life. It is a rambling life and I am done with it. I want each day to be an experience of life that I can be in. Experience not thinking or judging or berating or opinionating! A life were I hear, I listen, I see, I watch life meet me and bring me things too. It is not all about me and my making things happen. I participate and then things occur from that. I am part of a living field. I am not in charge of it all and is quite peaceful and freeing. It is now 11 and I am still in jams and sipping coffee. I have done a little real work to create sales but I am living, inhabiting a wonderful Monday. I have things getting done that are life things like laundry and dishes. I am out of the flat feeling to the yummy feeling of what is next. Will I work on things or will I move my body? What will inspire me next and how will I move into that fully and undivided? Being fully engaged. Not thinking this feeling tired and flat and doing because I should. That is where allowing just alittle bit of stillness in between things can change everything! From a frustrated cloudy day into a full day of engagement that I wanted to do and it produces far more of everything that I enjoy than if I just made myself work and do what I am supposed too, (according to my mind). A very different state of being and doing. This is what we are moving into. An aligned doing. A life where even the flat feeling becomes something to experience and move through. It is not linear here. It is cyclical and dimensional and alive like a garden. Your are in an experience of so many levels and the mind doesn't run it all in the best way. Taking the rest to align your feelings, body, quiet mind and letting the spirit move you is much more fun and graceful. May you to be learning and moving through this. In the end, it will make our new world become. Not all about work. Not all about doing. Not all about our beliefs and training we have, but more about ourselves and how we add and fit into this experience. We are cut off being by thinking in our minds ONLY while the rest of us is trying to catch up and align We are many levels and parts and as you allow space, these parts start to play in unison. It is not something you force or create, it is something you allow. You accept where your are, sit with it for a minute, let the body alchemize or harmonize and then you are doing with life force that already exists and moves you. Much more grace and ease! |
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