 In Iridology too, we see the gut represented in the centre of the iris, just around the pupil, with the rest of the body represented in the areas that radiate out from it. If the gut isn't strong, its function is impaired and this impairs the functioning of the rest of the body. In Ayurveda, it's believed that your digestive fire, called 'agni', is central to assimilating emotions and experiences as well as food. If your agni is weak, you won't be able to fully 'digest' life's experiences and emotions. Just as an undigested meal leaves discomfort, so too can an undigested experience or emotion. This belief also carries through to the style of naturopathic herbal medicine I've trained in and practise.
How do cooked foods nourish your digestive fire?
Essentially, part of the work is already done so that the cooking pot in your body doesn't have to work as hard. You see, the food is already heated, many of the starches/proteins/other molecules have already begun to be broken down, the food is softer, and if you're having something like soup then much of it is also partly 'chewed' or mushed!
What exactly do I mean when I say 'cooked food'?
I'm not suggesting we all go out and buy hot chips and sausage rolls because they're 'cooked', rather than a salad or a piece of fruit. That'd just be silly! What I am referring to are gentle, nourishing and warming ways of cooking. For example, cooking methods that are 'low and slow' (low temperatures and slow cooking times) - soups, stews, steaming, roasting etc - as opposed to 'high and quick' methods like deep frying. You might also enjoy cooking with ingredients that are thought of as warming, like pepper, ginger and cayenne. As I always say, eat food as close to its natural form as possible - fill your meals with vegetables, fruits, wholegrains, legumes, nuts, seeds, etc.
As always, listen to your body and see what works for you. We're all different, that's what makes life so marvellous, and that means we'll all respond differently to different ways of eating. Cooked, gentle, nourishing foods, especially during the cooler months, are what I personally find to be most beneficial. Life is also all about balance, so I'm not suggesting we all eat cooked food all the time. But I do love how gentle it is on the digestive system, how it helps ground you if feeling a little overwhelmed or on edge, and how it warms you from the inside out.
If you're looking for some warm meal inspiration, try this golden chicken vegetable soup or this super hot chocolate by Nina Kingsford-Smith at healthy happenings.This was a bit of a different gig to the normal challenging events, events! It was a conference-style in one of the Ageas Bowl rooms. We were asked to provide sound re-enforcement and video clips of the 6 different talks throughout the day.
With Audio, I put in 2x EV ZLX 12P’s with poles on some ZXA1 Subwoofers to have a clean look at the front with some EV SX80 as delays since it was quite a long room! Mixing all of this I took a Behringer X32 rack and a Behringer X touch with an SD8 for all the inputs and outputs at the front that worked well. And inputs wise I had 3x Sennheiser G3’s I mainly had it set up to have 2 Lav Mics and 1 Handheld, but I had it set up so I could easily just switch off the 2nd Lav mic and have another handheld so it was flexible throughout the day. I also had a spare wired mic at the front just in case.
Recording wise I had 2 cameras, one at the back and one at the front just to the side. I had these cameras feeding into my ATEM mini that was then going into a MacBook so I could record the output in OBS, I was also recording directly onto the SD cards of the cameras just as a backup. The reason for putting the ATEM in was that I could get out the videos within a few minutes of the sessions finishing, this meant that there was hardly any editing required if any the only thing I ended up doing was adding an intro slide at the beginning using some of the photos from the event. With audio for this, I took a feed out of the sound console into OBS and had it all synced up and also took a feed directly from the consoles in-built USB recorder as another backup. This all worked really well.
Part memoir, part history, and part travelogue, Migratory Birds explores the vicissitudes of language.
Mariana Oliver touches down in various times and places, showing how people described their difficulties there and then, and revealing what changes in language arose from these events. From Normandy to Neverland, the through line of this excellent collection is movement, and the essays meander around history in an appealing way.
The book starts with a short biography of inventor Bill Lishman; most subsequent essays focus on Germany after World War II. Two of the essays focus more on Oliver’s life and travels, with insights into why she focuses on travel and language elsewhere. Her work about Germany rebuilding after the war, and dealing with the Cold War, emphasizes the fringe effects of global conflicts, especially in how people talk to each other every day.
The most moving essays in this book deal with the aftermath of crises and the task of using words to describe, with accuracy, the tragic events taking place. In a piece about Cuba’s Operation Peter Pan, Oliver follows the lost children of Cuba and addresses them as namesakes of the Lost Boys. Without insisting on the parallels, the text acknowledges that the best way to connect with the children is through common stories. Alternatively, the essay “Trümmerfrauen” focuses on the microchanges that occurred in the German language after the war, and how the German people rebuilt cities, brick by brick.
Evincing reverence for language, the essays of Migratory Birds take a fascinating tour around the world, showing how historical events affect the way we learn words.
Historically, the stock market has always reached new all-time highs.
If you sell stocks for a loss, then those losses become a reality. As long as you’re holding onto a stock in the red, you don’t actually lose money until you sell.
The stock market goes through periodic cycles of downward shifts, which the experts call Bear Markets. It’s just a part of the realities of investing in stocks.
Stocks tend to trend downward at the beginning of the year, rise back up until around May, but it could become choppy through the Summer. Thus the old adage, “Sell in May, then go away”, which referred to big time investors going on Summer vacations or to the Hamptons, or whatever.
It’s tough, we all know that, and one is faced with deciding whether to sell a stock for a loss, or ride it out until it becomes profitable again. At this point, one has to research the company further, study the quarterly and annual reports, and read as much as possible on what’s happening with the company.
Unfortunately, there are a lot of articles and information out there that could be manipulative and misleading to investors. One has to be careful with the propaganda that could be false or inaccurate. One has to use the best of one’s critical thinking in order to make sound decisions.
But, the best thing to do is diversify the portfolio the best you can.
Also, avoid over-investing in one company, or one sector. If you like tech stocks, make yourself research other sectors like cannabis stocks, infrastructure stocks or defense stocks.
Even though the big blue chip stocks are down, there are smaller companies and other sectors that might be surging right now, so it’s important to look at all the possible investments in stocks, ETFs and REITs.
As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, we are currently being affected by inflation, the ongoing developments in the global pandemic, supply-chain bottlenecks, and geo-political problems like the Russia-Ukraine dilemma.
In addition to all this, the Federal Reserve is slowly trying to raise rates again, after the previous administration kept insisting on lowering them further, thus applying pressure on the Federal Reserve to make this changes to lower rates close to zero.
But, we got through a rough time during the March 2020 market crash, caused by the global pandemic and initial lockdowns, and the effects they had on the economy and the workforce. That was far worse than what’s going on right now.
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