Hydrotheraphy

Hydrotherapy, formerly called hydropathy involves the use of water for soothing pains and treating diseases. Hydrotherapy, in general, dates back to ancient cultures from China, Japan (onsen), Egypt, Greek and most recently, Roman civilizations.

Egyptian royalty bathed with essential oils and flowers, while Romans had communal public baths for their citizens. It is used to treat musculoskeletal disorders such as arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, or spinal cord injuries and in patients suffering burns, spasticity, stroke or paralysis.

It is also used to treat orthopedic and neurological conditions in horses and dogs and also to improve fitness, but mainly, I feel, it can be used to treat disorders of the heart.

A treatment for mending sorrows threw the sweet dispersion of heat as the water dissolves it's warmth into your body and slowly creates a sacred ritual of pure sensuality. Escape.

Glass House

" I shall continue living in my glass house where you can always see who comes to call; where everything hanging from the ceiling and on the walls stays where it is as if by magic, where I sleep nights in a glass bed, under glass sheets, where who I am will sooner or later appear etched by a diamond." -André Breton

Gifts in Disguise

Life is so strange; how vast the amount of up's and down's, dreams and realities, places and people. The endless amount of information, back and forth and all around us. The abundant unanswered questions crossing threw mind like a cross-stitching spider.

The intense amount of love and pain we feel and give. The way we respire or expire at the corner of our lovers' lips. That selfless, burning desire, connected towards irrevocable love. Sweet like a butterfly in marmalade.

What’s done is done. What goes on, goes on. The days turn into nights and consecutively, nights to day, and threw this process I feel the heaviness of how much has changed and how much remains.
How there are some things in life you simply can not run from.
Things we are forced to look at with 'opened' eyes: exceptionally vulnerable and receptive eyes.
I am nor a fatalist or a great realist at all, even if I say I do know where this journey leads, but indeed, I have breathed a heavy dose of an unadulterated truth.

Through trials and tribulations, remember, know, what is genuine and true. Learn, look, and see what is before you. Feel what's really there, and has never left.
Be true with yourself, to open your eyes wider, to desire more; dream more, plant your feet firmer, and/or love more selflessly. We all must start somewhere down this mysterious road, journey, or destination. The inevitable endless possibility of the new moon is awaiting us outside.

Family

This year, I found myself pleasantly surprised to see the unity my family still possesses on Thanksgiving Day. I'm grateful to be a part of a family that still remembers and laughs with one another! I'd forgotten I had this family as we all remained busy in our own lives; drowned in a sea of schedules, responsibilities, and worry. So in the spirit of Thanksgiving and in the name of family, I bring you some really awesome family portraits my friend Bexsue found on a photo blog named, We Heart It. I fell in love and inspired by them!! Photographer: Akihiro Furuta.

Urine Therapy

Urine Therapy by Silvia
How far would you go for a youthful and glowing complexion? How about drinking some of your own tinkle? Or exchanging your normal facial cleanser for a little of your own home-brew? Actually references to the use of urine for medicinal purposes can be traced to ancient Egyptian, Chinese, Aztec, and Hindu histories. Proponents also point to Proverbs 5:15 in the Old Testament of the Bible: “Drink water from thy own cistern, and the streams of thy own well.”

Well, have times really changed? Can you imagine any right-minded, modern day sophisticate engaging in a wee spot of micturition? Well, yes! Though, most people do it on the sly, of course. If one feels a vicious cold coming on why not simply drink your urine? For a brilliantly youthful complexion how about a little yellow rinse?!

Honestly, I can’t quite bring myself to do either. I really do love my Kheils but what if this is the secret? Do we hold the fountain of youth in our bladder? I mean, if tiger urine is in my perfume, why not indulge myself in my own private golden shower? In this recession, could urine therapy be 2009’s Creme de la Mer?

Thanksgiving

A day to give thanks, as well as ask for forgiveness.. Killing, enslavement, and land theft… Over 100 million Indigenous Americans were killed as a direct result of US actions. Christopher Columbus personally murdered half a million Natives. Two studies have been conducted that attempt to number the natives killed by the United
States. The first of these was sponsored by the United States government. Though, officials do not stand up to scrutiny, this therefore leads to such information
being then discounted (generally); this estimate shows between 1 million to 4 million killed. The second study was not sponsored by the US Government but was done
from independent researchers. This study estimated population reductions using later census data. Two figures are given, both low and high, at: between 10 million and 114 million Indians as a direct result of US actions. Note that Nazi Holocaust estimates are between 6 and 11 million; thereby making the Nazi Holocaust the 2nd largest mass murder of a class of people in history.