For all you glorious Goddesses out there, I’d like to offer a “Focus of the Day”. If my focus feels right, swim in it. If not, create your own. Even if you decide not to fast with me, how about committing to a SUPER healthy day? Note: This is a comfort free zone so be willing to push beyond your voices.

Today’s focus is DOUBT.

Truth be told, I was hoping a really soaring word would come to mind, something that invoked fire and inspiration. Doubt? Yucky. It’s so yucky that it’s right on target. I don’t know about you, but I need to peel doubt down to it’s teary onion core. Under my doubt lives fear, in my fear lives low self-esteem. “I doubt this or that will happen because I’m not good enough”. Do you ever say those awful words to yourself? I know I do. Doubt is the veil that blurries my vision and blocks me from my dreams. Tragic.

So if I release my doubts what will happen?

1. I’ll make it through the entire fast without cheating!
2. I’ll get as much if not more work done because my mind will be sharper.
3. I’ll honor and respect my body, remind myself that anything possible.
4. My manifestations will sprout and the job I’m waiting for will come effortlessly.
5. Joy will bubble to my surface like a fine champagne and I will drink it down.

What are YOUR doubts and what will happen if YOU release them?

So now that we have a focus, let’s fast! Remember to set a schedule for yourself. 9 am, 11am, 1 pm, 4 pm and 6 pm work well for me. I drink about 16 oz of fresh, organic green juice at each sitting and then end the fast with some blended soup (all raw).

My soup is really simple: blend an avocado, cuke, greens, red pepper, cilantro – add braggs, 1 clove of garlic, a pinch of dulse and a pinch of cayenne. YUM!

Here’s a great trick my husband created this week. JUICE PACKETS! Buy enough for the week, wash, and then separate each days portion into plastic bags. This way you’re ready to go first thing in the AM. Takes a little effort but wow is it worth it!

Todays juice recipe: Dandelion, Parsley, Ginger, Cuke, Broccoli Stem, Lemon

You can make smoothies if juicing isn’t an option – just keep em green!

I also drink lots of alkalized water with lemon, cell food (oxygen) and aloe to soothe my intestines. Natural Calm is a great product to help keep the pooper moving and grooving.

Now that Edward (my elliptical) is in my life, exercise is a daily affair. OH YES! YES! YES! Though our love is still so new, so fragile, our sessions are getting harder and deeper and more lusciously satisfying. For the past 3 days Oprah kept us going. Yes, we had a three some with Oprah! Well, not exactly. Today it’s Louise Hay’s movie, “You Can Heal Your Life”. FAB! Lola enjoyed it too.

It takes self-discipline to sit through Sunday school or services at a temple or mosque, so people who start out with low self-control are presumably less likely to keep attending. But even after taking that self-selection bias into account, Dr.McCullough said there is still reason to believe that religion has a strong influence. Dr. McCullough. “For a long time it wasn’t cool for social scientists to study religion, but some researchers were quietly chugging along for decades. When you add it all up, it turns out there are remarkably consistent findings that religiosity correlates with higher self-control.”

As early as the 1920s, researchers found that students who spent more time in Sunday school did better at laboratory tests measuring their self-discipline. Subsequent studies showed that religiously devout children were rated relatively low in impulsiveness by both parents and teachers, and that religiosity repeatedly correlated with higher self-control among adults. Devout people were found to be more likely than others to wear seat belts, go to the dentist and take vitamins.

He said. “The rituals that religions have been encouraging for thousands of years seem to be a kind of anaerobic workout for self-control.

Brain-scan studies have shown that when people pray or meditate, there’s a lot of activity in two parts of brain that are important for self-regulation and control of attention and emotion

In early rainy morning
When the bird started singing
He woke into a vision crying
in an early rainy morning

stepping down the hill slowly
pondering over his troubles calmly
he was seeking for a canopy
Stepping down the hill slowly

As the uncertain and nears
Rocks, trees, leaves, rivers
none but one hears his fears
As the uncertain and nears

In need a fundamental change
Past life and fears scream with rage
Ivory tower is no different than a cage
In need of fundamental change

Not knowing the final destination
In the turbulent life-story ocean
Re-discovering a one-to-one relation
Descent ivory tower becomes ascension

Though trunyan people didn’t burry and burn the dead body, they just only put it under tree. But the body wasn’t making putrid odor around it. The Trunyan people believed that the putrid odor of the body was sucking up by Taru Menyan trees. Purportedly, taru menyan trees exuded a fragrant odor.
According to the folktale, the trunyan people believed that a fragrant odor which comes from taru menyan trees had ever been smelled by Danu Goodness who was staying in the heaven. Then, she got down on earth to try lokking for that odor sources where came from. After she got it then the people called it as trunyan.
The trunyan people had three kinds of “sema”(cemetery). Sema wayah (common cemetery) is a funeral only for people who died in properly. Sema muda (young cemetery) is a funeral for babies, children, and adults who had not ever been married. Anyway…sema bratas is a funeral for people who died in an accident or commit suicide.

Sema wayah become the object of interest to tourists. There are many foreign tourists who visiting there. To reach there the tourists must be road a boat to cross by way of the edge of abang hill in the side of Batur Lake. They would see beautiful scenery during along boat ridding to reach there.

We can see beautiful scenery of the hills from north around the Batur Lake and we can also see the altar which built from stones from east. From there we usually see a mount of skulls and bones a rounding the altar that rowed under taru menyan tree. So, that’s all will be made a mysterious senses.

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Singapore was first mentioned in 1365 in the Javanese ‘Nagarakretagama’ as ‘Temasek’ or Sea Town. A third-century Chinese account described Singapore as “Pu-luo-chung’ or island at the tip of a peninsula. But, it was from the 14th century, following a Sumatran prince mistaking a tiger for a lion, that the Sankrit term ‘Singapura’ or Lion city gained currency. It was Sir Stamford Raffles, a 19th century British civil servant, who founded Singapore in 1819. An official of the East India Company; Raffles combed the Straits of Malacca for a small trading station to counter the Dutch influence in the area. The tiny fishing village of Singapore was perfect because it was at the crossroads of the East and West.

Raffles did not just discover Singapore. He literally laid the city’s foundations. After establishing a trading post, he planned to build a business quarter on one side of the Singapore River. But, because it was low-lying, he ordered a small hill to be excavated to fill up the area. Today, that land is the core of the city and the heart of Shenton Way, Singapore’s answer to Wall Street.

Can a melting pot have its own distinct flavor?
Singapore retains its special multiracial quality acquired from its early days when Arabs Chinese, Europeans, Indians, and Straits-born Chinese (or Peranakan) came to live side by side with the indigenous Malays. Today, the population approaching the four million mark has forged a single national identity, so much so that you are likely to hear someone regard himself as a Singaporean first before Chinese, Malay, Indian, and Eurasian. The testimony to this is the island itself where the layers of the three main races complement and supplement each other. From enclaves such as Chinatown, Geylang Serai, and Little India to the Asian Civilizations Museum to any public hawker centre where one can find any of the culinary delights of the respective races, the mood is warm, friendly and harmonious.

Tolerance
The opposite of prejudice and discrimination is tolerance. These people know that other social groups are different, but they appreciate the differences in beliefs, opinions, behavior, etc.
Culture Shock
When people for one reason or another travel abroad, they are not prepared for the differences in the new culture. They don’t like the food, they can’t stand the cold or rain, they don’t understand they way the other culture behaves, socializes what they believe, etc. so, they become tense because everything is unfamiliar.

Among the Javanese people, funerals involve several activities called “selamatan”. The first selamatan is held on the day a member of a family dies, which is called “geblag”. The next selamatan is held on the third day, called nelung dina, on the seventh day, called mithung dina, on the fortieth day called matang puluh dina, on the hundreth day called nyatus, and on the thousandth day, called nyewu, which is the greatest of all the selamatan ceremonies. The Javanese believe that after the thousandth day, the spirit of the dead person is already in peace in the other world.
The Torajan people of South Sulawesi have an unique way of burying the dead. They believe that if somebody dies, they enter “puya”, a place for the dead. They also believe that how dead people go to puya must show his or her social status when he or she was alive. That’s why, the funeral ceremony for a person having a high position in the community may look like a big party or even a carnival to outsiders. in Tanah Toraja, a dead person is accepted as really dead only when a complete funeral has been held for him. Before that, the dead is considered to be a sick body and is kept in the chain of traditional houses called Tongkonan. This sick body is dressed and offered foods.
The Balinese of Trunyan have still a different funeral. After a mourning ceremony, the dead body is put under a tree. It is not buried or burned. It is not even covered with clothes or leaves. It is amazing that the body. Although it does rot, does not smell. The place where the dead is put is near a village not far from Batur Lake in Kintamani.
The Manggarai people of Flores believe that the spirit of the dead called “poti”, stay at the place where they used to stay when they were alive, especially near the bed. After some times, the poti live in wells, big trees, or crossroads near the house. These spirits don’t bother living people, but they are believed to be watching their grandchildren. When these children are in danger, the poti are there to help them. However, this is believed to last only five days, for the poti will leave for Mori Karaeng, a place for the dead.
The Manggarai people believe that everything in Mori Karaeng is the opposite of that in the world of living. So, people break dishes and glasses on the day of the dead are supposed to leave for Mori Karaeng, so that there they have the things in good condition.

o key, every country have something different and it make think be unique and interesting.

Plant, Mountain and all of your creation inspire me very much… it entertaint me when I sad, When I going down..  know that all of this are the shape of your kindness… ooh One more thanks my God… today in this woman diary I just want to thanks to My God….

I like fish because they are beautiful and of course delicious haha… but I will not eat beautiful fish like this picture, because I love them very much.

this green fish look so exciting, its name is parrot fish but you can call it big green or elizabet, you can image how beautiful if this fish decorate your home. You can see it every day, you can see it actifity and what this fish do to spend it time… In polynesia this fish just eaten by the king, but in Us this fish is eaten by every one. It has 80 species, in size from 1 to 4 feet (30 to 120 centimeters).

How about this blue one, it is blue fish.. this fish so cute and sexy like Paris Hilton hahaha… you know my favorite model is her.

oh my god, this fish has strong character, it has perfect combination between blue and yellow also one pattern in it head, so beautiful. I hope I have this one…

The fish above is pure and free from sin different with human. They keep their beautiful every day for human. I love them very much…..