Day: November 14, 2018
Are Your Thoughts Your Own?
I have had several questions about our thoughts. If I say our brains are only receivers, where do are thoughts come from? We all have thoughts. Good thoughts and bad thoughts. For the majority of us, our thoughts are very negative, fearful and anxious. We all have thoughts that keep us from falling asleep or they wake us up in the middle of the night. We as a human race worry. Is this just part of being human? Thought is an energy. You are energy. When it comes to energy likes attract. Whatever your energy is, you will attract those thoughts. You can monitor this by realizing the thoughts you are having is showing the energy you have at that moment or period of time.
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Food as Medicine: Date (Phoenix dactylifera, Arecaceae)
The date palm (Phoenix dactylifera, Arecaceae) has been cultivated for more than 5,000 years.1 Because of this long history of use and cultivation, the exact origin of the date palm is difficult to pinpoint. Dates have been harvested for centuries in northern Africa and the Arabian Peninsula, and have played a large role in the economies of countries where the plant grows.1,2 The largest global producers of dates are Iraq, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Algeria, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Libya, Pakistan, Sudan, and the United States.3
The date palm is a large palm tree and grows about 49-82 feet tall.1 The palm leaves are 1.5 to 11.5 inches long.1 Around the trunk of the date tree, the palm branches grow in a spiral pattern and form a crown with hundreds of leaves that are gray in color.2,4 The leaves have a…
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Paths I Walk 