Rick's Rambling's . . .
Almond Street Natural Foods
Your Healthy Resource Center
Health Foods Multivitamins Herbal Formulas Vitamins and Nutritional Supplements

                             What We Choose

The last discussion:  "Unresolved Issues", remained posted for
a long time. (Some argue  that I have difficulties in resolving
issues and moving on).  In reflecting on this it became clear that
there is an easy way to recognize the  presence of this unhealthy  
phenomenon  in ones life so long as one is not in a state of
denial.  

When someone is troubled or feels an uneasiness about some
relationship for an extended period of time, they need to start
asking themselves if they are seeing things for what they really
are.    The anxiety may stem from a variety of reason.  Some one
may be experiencing abandonment issues, or maybe they just
want to hang onto something in the past that is no longer present
in the future, and then again someone may be struggling with a
decision that bounces between the attachment of an emotional
bond and the logic of physical separation.  In any case,  you have
to come to terms and choose what is best for you and for those
that depend on your good judgement and your good health.

This can be a critical state for the mind will often defer making a
decision based on reality in the hopes that fate will play a fair
hand with them and give them what they think they want. This
manner of not resolving issues and not making a decision is in
effect making a decision. . . The wrong one.  When  we fail to
make the appropriate decisions that can free us from the pain
and the stress of re-agonizing the same issues, the same
details over and over, it consequently  wreaks devastating havoc
to the immune system.    Thus, not making appropriate, logical  
decisions in personal issues and instead allowing  fate to
decide for us is being irresponsible and as we have all heard:
"We all pay for our own decisions".  

Some of us are better fit to make these kinds of decisions and to
move on.  The reasons some are better at doing this can stem
from a variety of individual reason including the  influences of our
upbringing, our beliefs, our habits, our experiences and the
ability to move outside of our familiarity and comfort zones.

Friends can play an important role in helping or discouraging us
in making necessary decisions.  A true friend always tells the
truth.  Even if it hurts, for the pain of the truth subsides much
faster than the pain of continued illusion.   If your friends don't
support you with  positive encouragement then perhaps its time
to make even more life changing decisions.  

Just as it is important to surround ourselves with positive
influences including friends, so too is it important to be positive
in our outlook and in our thoughts.   

The power of the body to communicate from one cell to the other,
from the mind to the other parts, is coming under closer scrutiny
and gaining more acceptability.  There are those that believe that
an intricate communication system exists within the body and
that each cell contains its own knowledge and responds to
information supplied by thoughts.  This is astounding.  The
question of weather you believe in creation and a creator or in
nature as our creator is mute when one recognizes and begins
to understand the inherent ability of the body to heal itself under
proper positive conditions.  

To achieve this simplified condition we need a balanced diet of
essential nutrients in proper moderation and
positive,encouraging thoughts from the mind to the body.  I'm
sure we've all heard of a whole genera of sayings that go
something along the line of:  "Think something bad will happen
and it usually does".

I am a firm believer in the concept that the mind-body relationship
is more powerful than we are able to conceptualize.
I know of cancer survivors who have survived when others would
have died because of the shear determination to live.   We've all
heard of someone say: "Well, he just gave up.  He didn't want to
live anymore."  Or of:  "She's just to stubborn to die".

Think positive.  Choose small attainable goals and reward
yourself with positive affirmative compliments when you reach
them.  Do not belittle your own accomplishments.  Never
compare your accomplishments to those of another.   Health,
wellness and happiness are all individualized.  We all walk in
different shoes.  And remember, we are all worthy of love.  We
are all worth being loved as well as to love others.  We all have
our special needs.  Others need us. . . let's take care of
ourselves for them as well as for ourselves.
. . . beyond the obscurity, the clouds,
and uncertainty lies the silver lining . . .
oh  to see . . . to understand it all . . .
                     Mount Masaya, Nicaragua
. . . friends that compliment and
support each other become
inseparable in all things . . .
                 a special lake in Nicaragua
Love comes in different shapes sizes
and colors . . .  love is fragile, love is
hard.  Love is simple joy and hard work
The seemingly impossible is never
a consideration when joy and love is
the force from whence comes power
                       La Mirador, Catarina Rim  
. . . when you look close at the shoes
someone else walks in, you recognize
the difference between the marks of
stumbling blocks and steeping
stones. . .
                         Granada.     Nicaragua
Links to Past Ramblings
We are all incredibly beautiful and
capabable . . . or we are all incredibly
forgettable  and incidental . . .  We have
a choice in what we believe .
                            Granada, Nicaragua  
The angel of my heart.  Mi novia para
siempre. . . is there any better reason
for a man to want to live?
                              Puerto Dias,  Nicaragua
. . .  of all the beautiful pictures of you I
chose this one.  There's nothing so
serious, nor anyone above human.  So
laugh, make a funny face and we all
will too.
Into the sunset, into the color, into the
glory we go . . . it is all beautiful and
clear sailing ahead . . .
                    Mombacho from Lake Nicaragua
And who is so perfect to judge the
ways of others when we don't even
understand ourselves?