Ketchup choices

A few days ago, I noticed that the color and texture of commercial catsup has changed. It no longer clings to the sides of the bottle as it empties and where there is bit of a smear, it is translucent. If some of the sauce winds up outside the bottle after a picnic, it no longer turns an unsightly dark brown color. My curiosity has been so stirred up, that I squeezed ketchup onto a white plate to see how long it would take to turn brown. It is day 4 and is still bright red. Hmmm. Can this be good?
Energize! has certainly been working for me in the last few months (with all of the other repatterning sessions!) as new reading material crosses my desk, changing my views on food.

Increasingly the type and quality of food we eat is recognized as important to our overall health, well being and energy level. Now health and science writer Sondra Kornblatt, in her book “A Better Brain At Any Age -the Holistic Way to Improve Your Memory, Reduce Stress, and Sharpen Your Wits” includes a whole chapter on the effect of food on your brain and has suggestions on what to eat to improve your brain. Her book is a handy one to have if you have ever experienced a day of ‘brain fog’ as she has any number of things to try to improve brain functions. A change in food choices for example, can make all the difference. Here is a sampling of brain healthy food choice suggestions from Kornblatts book:

VEGETABLES:
- Avocados
- Greens, such as spinach, kale, or collards,
- sweet potatoes
- broccoli, or cabbage,

FRUITS:
-Blueberries
-Strawberries
-Berries of any kind for their anti-oxidant properties
- pomegranate juice

SPICES: – turmeric, a whiff of cinnamon, saffron and sage

Now add this list to your new awareness, that real food (not processed, not food smashed down and re-programmed with vitamins added etc.) is much better for you than processed food. Processed food has a molecular structure that our bodies were never meant to handle – at least not over a life time. Over a life time, processed food is being implicated in heart disease, type II diabetes, and other diseases.

Back to my catsup experiment – with a little online research, I found out that it is now made with liquid sugar which means in part it has corn syrup in it or fructose so that it can stay longer on a grocery shelf. This is the stuff that dissolves instantly in the blood stream and goes directly to the brain with the message “we are still hungry”. It only takes a tablespoon to trigger that message in the brain and does so within seconds.

In the old days, catsup was made with tomatoes and sugar. Evidence of it’s real food nature, is that It clung to the sides of the jar in clumps of red. It turned brown with oxidization if not used quickly enough or left on the outside of the bottle. It did not have a long term shelf life. It was as far as condiment can be considered- a real food.

A healthy food choice for catsup could be to try making your own (check out www.Gourmet.com ‘ s recipe search), or look for an organic catsup with no corn syrup or liquid sugar. It won’t have a long shelf life but will be a healthier food choice.

Post Script – Check out a recent article on the subject of ketchup at Gourment.com
http://www.gourmet.com/food/2009/05/ketchup-recipes-chefs

Exercise and Your Brain

 Energize Focus for the Week:  “I exercise 15 minutes.”

There is fresh new research engaged in the benefits of exercise this time in relation to how it can improve your brain. Author John J. Ratey, M.D. in his new book SPARK (on my bookshelf ) discusses how the benefits of exercising are no longer associated only with improved lung capacity, better heart condition and building muscles.  New research is examining how the brain can also benefit with improvement to it’s capacity to learn, avoid dementia and reduce or eliminate anxiety, stress and depression.  Diseases may also experience healing from a brain nourished with daily exercise.  Exercise is being directly linked to our ability to learn and take in new things.  According to Ratey, just getting your sneakers on and going for a daily 1 hour walk, will begin to show results within 24 hours.  You literally begin to think better.     Many would argue that they don’t have 1 hour a day for a walk, however, after reading much of Ratey’s book, I am convinced that 5 minute bursts of any kind of movement will make a difference to your brain and consequently, to your outlook and energy level.

So how far can you walk in 15 minutes?  This week, do your daily best to walk 7.5 minutes out the front door and then turn around and walk 7.5 minutes back.  Schedule your walk as a transition exercise between finishing one task and starting another. Notice any improvement to your mood, your energy level, and ability to think,  Remember you are in a hologram of support making your intentions easier to manifest than you think as you have been repatterned with the daily mini repatterning called Energize!

The Impact of Resonating with Employment

How does my resonance with career or a career situation make a difference for world peace?  It seems on first blush a selfish thing to want for myself what much of the panet is in turmoil over – paying work.  How does resonating with having work for me help the planet?

In my mind’s eye it works like this.  There is a  lot of unemployment at the moment and we hear about it everyday on the news.  If I am unemployed and allow my energy to become that frequency in other words, if I resonate with unemployment, I will stay in that state and attract more of it.  Similarily, if I am employed – YIKES! My resonance and entrainment with being unemployed may shift my own experience and I may unnecessarily loose my paying work.  It is a risk!

What ever my vibration for employment, that is the energy I pump out into the world.   Others pick up that energy consciously or unconsciously like a TV news report and their field of energy is now expanded with that vibration. As we entrain for the topic of employment either in our companies, our families or our communities wer are supporting each other constructively or destructively with our resonances. Our most humanitarian frequency is then to resonate with the positive – full employement.  

You are like thinking – one persons thoughts can’t possibly make a difference in the world.  But please consider this happy coincidence.  Maybe it is just my wildly creative imagination, but a few week ago I was a guest on a local radio show “Being There” on CIUT-FM and in the 1 hour show we explored the topic of repatterning and demonstrated the process on air by repatterning the now sagging Ontario economy.   The listening audience was invited to set their issues and  intentions for career or work while I used the econonmy as a proxy for everyone listening.  The  car industry was used as examples in the session.   Delightful session, great interview, but who knows if it made a difference. You don’t get much mail from a local radio show.

Two days later, my sister called to say that my brother-in-law, who was laid off indefinitely at the Oshawa GM Parts plant last December, was called back to work! We don’t know for how long, but today – he is back at work.

Could it be that one little repatterning changed my world so much?  It tempts me to want to focus my work on repatterning the car industry inside out.

I invite you to try this out for yourself. My talented and experienced repatterning colleauges as well as founder of Resonance Repatterning (R) Chloe Wordsworth,  will be doing a session each this month focusing on career.  If you have time, join in the teleconference call. Let’s see if we can create a tangible visible change to the state of employment at least in our communities.  Here are the days and times:

April 14  2009 Teleconference 11:00AM    Central Time – Bobbie   Martin .  For questions email Bobbie at bmartin6803@everestkc.net
April 22  2009 Teleconference  7:00PM   Eastern – Kathie Joblin  kathiejoblin@rogers.com
4  29  2009 Teleconference 3 PM   Eastern – Chloe F. Wordsworth For questions email info@resonancerepatterning.net  

Here are the quick links page to participate and get on the call: http://worldpeacehologram.org/Program/quicklinks.asp

Be an active participant and sign up for an account.  http://worldpeacehologram.org/SignUp.htm  …  You will be able to access way more – submit issues and intentions for 12 monthly topics and 48 sessions, record results in an online peace journal and read the detailed session notes (FASCINATING!!!) as well as a recommended positive action – something you can do to unlock the energy of your intentions.

Best of all – feel the peace in your heart radiating out to the planet.  Perhaps the ‘why’ of it all is still beyond imagination, but you will feel a sense of inner peace and know as I have experienced… you have contributed to a hologram of world peace!

With love and light

Carolyn WInter

Salty Habits

Salt is an acquired taste, a choice that turns into a habit over a lifetime and sometimes is inherited as a food choice preference over many generations. Salt may also be a cultural preference, again, inherited from a time when it was the only way to preserve food over a long time – such as dried fish. My own parents, one from Italy and the other born in Canada constantly argued about what was the right amount of salt in prepared meals. These social and cultural factors form unconscious opinions of what is healthy and may govern the daily choices we make for adding salt to our food. They may even be hard wired into our mind to equal survival…. when in the present this is far from the case.
 
 Examine your own food choices for excessive salt and fat as well, and consciously create new family patterns for healthy food choices. To strengthen your resolve, read literature from the American or Canadian Heart & Stroke Foundations on the effects of salt. The whole family will benefit for generations to come. 
 
 How have you changed your habit for salt?  Share your tips, tricks and tribulations here.

Intention for the Month of September… “My plans and goals yield…”

 

Focus for the Week (and our Fall Equinox Repatterning)  – “My plans and goals yield delightful and unexpected sources of abundance.  I reap the harvest of my experiences.”- 

For the first 2 weeks or so of this month we are officially in the in between spaces of the Energy wheel, called the Earth element.  It occurs in between the seasons and governs our ability to make transitions while remaining secure, grounded, feeling nurtured and taken care of.    The next few weeks is energetically an ideal time to do some things for yourself.

This week and this month we are also going to focus on the resonance of having our outcomes.  Sometimes we are so caught up in having goals and intentions, and working towards them that we overlook the manifestation that has occurred.  We are often more abundant than we realize.  Support yourself with this focus by reviewing the goals you set for yourself earlier this year. (Perhaps you submitted them for the Spring Equinox repatterning if so check your online Energize Journal pages for Spring  http://www.lighttravels.org/Energize/springjournal.asp )

Write out all the things that have kicked in for you regarding these goals and spend a few minutes appreciating what you have accomplished no matter how small. To really make this exercise concrete record your observations in your online Energize Journal at: http://www.lighttravels.org/Energize/MyJournal.asp

It is way easier to focus on your goals and what you have accomplished than you think, as you have been repatterned with the daily MINI repatterning called Energize! 

For CIUT Listerners August 16th

Hi All – if you happened to catch the radio show on August 16th BEING THERE with Jesse Mendes and Headly Bent you know that i was on hand to “decode” resonance repatterning, and demo’d 3 mini sessions.

As promised, I will record the patterns that were shifted on the show in the 3 mini sessions.  Hopefully, i will have the audio recording uploaded next week in case you missed the show.

Here are the statements:

With Caller Dave:

The Issue: “I am broke and I have a hard time budgeting.” / Final resonance is OFF

The Intention: “I am financially comfortable and able to meet my basic needs.”/ Final Resonance is ON

The related pattern: “I face my problems with a positive attitude.”  (a personal strength he is out of phase with initially/ Final Resonance is ON

Mini Session with Helen

Issue: “I feel stuck regarding money.” / Final Resonance is OFF

Intention: “I have a great relationship with financial support.”/ Final Resonance is ON

Related pattern: “I am positively asssertive.” / Final Resonance is ON

Mini Mini Session with Mary

Intention:  “Things fall into place easily in my business and personal life.” / Final Resonance is ON

If you were listening to the show and including yourself in these sessions (mystical but possible) and want something to clear your energy in relation to the topics we covered, here is the POSITIVE ACTION you can take to support yourself:  Avoid or reduce your fat intake for 2 consecutive days.  Reflect on the positive intenion you set for youself through out the 2 days.

Your comments on the show are welcomed!   Also, astrologer,  Julie Simmons and I return to the show on September 20th to talk about Aligning for Mercury Retrograde.

Thanks for listening to the show!

Carolyn

PS – if you are new to my unique online resonance repatterning programs you may want to visit http://www.LightTravels.org and join my FREE ENERGIZE program.  Daily mini sessions and a quarterly seasonal repatterning are included!  The next session is on the Fall Equinox.

3 Good Things That Happened for Me Today

 Focus for the Week – “I appreciate 3 good things that happened for me today.”

There is a lot written about the benefits of having an attitude of gratitude, but perhaps one of the most amazing facts is how it can be used to tame the tiger within called anxiety or fear. When we spend as little as 3 minutes appreciating ourselves, our loved ones, the people we work with, the day, the weather, our neighbor, a home cooked meal or a restaurant treat, our vehicle, mother nature and anything else you can think of …. amazing things start happening in our brain.  A chemical is released which anchors and expands our feelings of gratitude and squeezes out or cancels fear and anxiety. 

 

 

 The more we practice verbalizing and thinking about how grateful we are, we become more calm and relaxed,  handling challenges with ease.  If life challenges seem really overwhelming and that there is little to be grateful for, start with the smallest thing – the weather, your home, your pet etc.In the beginning, our fear and anxiety button may feel more real and easier to engage than being grateful.  Saying gratitude statements may feel less than genuine.

 

However, I encourage you to hang in and keep flinging gratitude statements whenever you can.  Soon your outward experience will come zooming home with positive results. For example, I noticed that when driving, if I forgive those road ragers or overly aggressive drivers and focus on the great roads, the clear map directions, the gift of Map Quest, how wonderful the city is for maintaining the roads etc. my actual driving experience returns some delightful surprises – very convenient parking spaces, the traffic cop waving me through a construction area unexpectedly, drivers being courteous and traffic flowing better than usual. 

 

Keep your attitude of gratitude sharp. Quick name 3 good things that have happened for you today:

1.
2.
3.

You may find this easier to do than you think as you have been repatterned with the mini repatterning called ENERGIZE!

What 3 good things have happened for you today?  Let’s build a hologram for appreciation by starting a list and sharing our good things in a reply to this post..  We’ll give each other encouragement and ideas along the way.

 

Here are my 3 Good Things

 

- I re-installed SKPE after not having it for nearly 2 years and SKPYE actually saved all of my old settings, and addresses so that I did not need to start from scratch

 

- It is the wettest summer on record in Toronto, and a little on the cool side.  I so appreciate cooler sunny summer weather! and am really enjoying the summer.  I appreciate how there have been fewer smog alert days, and how green the trees are this year and that they are staying greener – longer.

 

I appreciate the woman in the quilt store – who helped me find the perfect colors for the quilted table runner project I am tackling.  Her practiced eye for colors and depth, knew to choose something I had not considered and will now make a wonderful contract picking up some of the more subtle colors. 

 

How about you?  What 3 good things that have happened for you today?

 

Repatterning for Health and Fitness July 24th Session

What difference does a repatterning make?  Let me share my story. 

Many of you know that last year I had bi-lateral hip replacement surgery.  The results continue to amaze me as new levels of mobility return to my system.  But one level that did not return so fast -whether mentally or physically, was to get on the shiny red mountain bike that friends had bought for me post surgery.   The bike served me well during the initial recovery period when you are not suppose to lift your leg past 90 degrees.  I would look at it and visualize myself biking out of the apartment, down the street and onto the bike trails of High Park in the west end of Toronto.

The actual prospect of getting on the bike seemed way more daunting.  Now, I realize that it has been 25 years or more since I was last on a bicycle, but surely one never forgets!  Unfortunately, it seemed that my body did, at least temporarily.I decided to include this issue in the last 2 or 3 sessions of Repatterning for Health and Fitness.  Here is what happened for me, I believe as a result of these sessions and shifting our vision of health and fitness – together:     

- the realization that I do need to make this a priority and persevere after all, it would be a lot of fun and good exercise

- accepting the support of a dear friend to try getting on the bike

- actually getting on the bike with props, and someone holding the bike

- the deeper realization (one I frequently have when encountering technology problems) -  “IT’S NOT ME!”  The bike is the problem.  And yes it is the problem.  Even with the seat lowered as far as it could go… it is still too high to get on and maintain my balance.  I need another bike but persevere with this one just the same.

- another realization… I can’t go somewhere on a bike and expect that there will be a friend to hold me up!  Unlike motorboats, there is no such thing as a docking station for bicycles!  This leads to the next realization… I need another kind of bike.

- I persevere, I think about it and when my bike coach friend finally gives in and says…. “I think you need a tricycle”  without flinching I respond with a resounding “YES!!!!”  I can just feel the wind on my face from riding a bike just thinking about getting something I might actually be able to manage!

 

But image and problems aside… I have a bike I can ride and with the willing assistance of my sister to just maneuver it out of the apartment, have now been on the thing and on my first ride all the way into High Park and back again!   Laughing heartily out loud… My license plate will be “LightTravels.com”

With ascending levels of coherence there are new challenges to embrace around the topic of accepting support, such as getting the co-operation of building management to provide an accessible storage place, – nothing a little repatterning can’t handle!

What tangible results do you have to share from your participation in the July 24th Repatterning for Health and Fitness? Comments and stories welcomed.

Carolyn

CIUT Listerners- How did money shift for you?

If you tuned into the show, here is a recap of the repatternings…

To participate in the on-air repattering (in retro-time!)….

1. Write out one money issue you are experiencing. Remember shorter is better.
2. Write out one intention for money you would like instead of this issue. Be sure to write this in the present tense. Shorter is still better.
3. Review the patterns that were shifted on the show, reflect on how this helped you and then do the positive action listed below. Your are Repatterned!

Here are the patterns that were shifted on-air for all listeners….

For a Fear of Wasps:
I have a terror of wasps/ final resonance OFF
I am appropriately free of the fear of wasps. Final resonance ON
I am powerless. Final Resonance OFF

For Money Issues (thanks to Hope and Carol for calling in)
I am always on the short end of the stick of things especially with money./ Final Resonance OFF
I have a large debt and I can never get out of it. /Final Resonance OFF

Money Intentions:
Life is very fair for me especially with money. /Final resonance ON
I pay off debt and I am financially comfortable. / Final resonance ON

Related Underlying Patterns we need to resonate with:
I live from my true nature./ Final resonance ON
I live with integrity. / Final resonance ON
How does the money pattern discussed on the show, relate to your situation? What new insights do you have?

POSITIVE ACTION…..Something you can do to shift your frequency for money.
We are going to work with color modalities – in this case we need to absorb the frequency of violet.

- Find a piece of clothing, or towel or large piece of wrapping paper with a predominant of violet color.

- Spend 7 minutes staring at the color violet; do this action 1 day/ for 3 days; you may find reading your money intenion afterwards to also be helpful.

- The color violet is associated with transformation, change, inspiration and expands our creative thinking and intuition. – a perfect frequency for the problems we discussed and cleared today

How did this session work for you? Please respond with your comments. – Carolyn

Carolyn Winter’s Super Simple Chocolate Banana Cake Recipe

This recipe is actually adapted from one that I found 2 decades ago in a Robin Hood Flour recipe leaflet.  The sugar quantities have been greatly reduced and other modifications made for added flavor and nutrition.  This is a great recipe to have on hand when bananas reach that stage of over-ripeness - too sweet and mushy to enjoy.  The whole thing is quick to make.  If  you have over ripe bananas on hand all too often, you can pre-measure the dry ingredients into some jars or containers, labelled with the remaining wet ingredients remaining to be added.  Then you kinda have your own ‘cake mix’.  

Sift together

1 1/2 cup all purpose flour  (or 1 cup whole wheat flour and 1 /2 cup all purpose flour)

1/ 2 cup sugar

1/3 cup Cocoa powder

1 tsp. baking soda

1/2 tsp. salt

1 tsp. cinnamon

 

Mix together:

3/4 cup milk

3 medium  very ripe bananas mashed (if you use larger bananas the cake will be moister)

1/3 cup vegetable oil

1tbsp lemon juice

2 tsp. vanilla

 

 

Make a well in the dry ingredients and stir in the wet ingredients.  Pour into a greased 8″ square pan and bake in oven at 350 degrees for approximately 35 minutes.  A knife poked in the middle will come out clean.  I suspect the time depends on how many bananas are used and altitude. 

 

Frost with something nice or eat plain

 

ENJOY

Cooks Note – I usually use unbleached or ‘bread’ flour
- you can add 1level tablespoon of ground flax seeds OR wheat germ

Not a great cook? Join the Energize program and enter your issues / intentions for repatterning in my next online long distance healing session.  Visit http://www.LightTravels.org