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FILM REVIEW

You Can Heal Your Life, The Movie, by Louise Hay

By Ann Bathgate

If you have heard about positive thinking but don’t understand the process, this is the film for you. If you are already a fan of Louise Hay, you are going to ADORE this film. I am so excited to see it finally released!

Louise Hay is a best selling author, known for her book, “You Can Heal Your Life”. In the book, she describes what ’cause’ is often behind our diseases and illnesses. She developed this list working with clients in her church and consciously noting how they ‘talked’ when they spoke about their cancer, carpal tunnel syndrome, migraines or whatever other ailment was bothering them. I refer to this list regularly in my Angel Readings and Reflexology sessions; clients are always shocked at how accurate Louise’s findings are.

The movie is incredibly done. Every person watching it will relate to our main character, who struggles with thinking negative thoughts.

Throughout the film, the viewer is introduced to the power of our thoughts, and the process of why what we say and think has such an effect on our daily lives. Included in the film (and especially in the extended release) are interviews of well known metaphysical speakers and authors such as Esther and Jerry Hicks, Doreen Virtue and Wayne Dyer.

Through the movie, you are taught how the process WORKS and how you can change YOUR life for the better! It isn’t just about mumbling affirmations and expecting your new car delivered to your front door by the delivery truck. This is a process, step by step, to connect you with what you truly, consciously, want to create in your life.

A wonderful addition to this movie is an option of “Affirmations”. With beautiful music and breathtaking scenes, you are able to affirm with Louise new thoughts about your health, prosperity and relationships. It’s a wonderful DVD to have on as you are milling about your day, cleaning or cookie, affirming all the way to have good enter your life.

In the extended version, there are detailed interviews with those wonderful teachers. It’s definitely a keeper and worth embracing their individual stories.  Enjoy!!! You deserve a wonderful life!

For more information:  www.youcanhealyourlifemovie.com

Visit Ann Bathgate:  www.returntoharmony.com

© 2007 Annie Bathgate.  All Rights Reserved.

HEALTHCARE MATTERS 

Payer Web site goes Spanish

Source:  Healthcare IT News editors, January 2007

Thousand Oaks, CA

Blue Cross of California has launched a Web site called NuestroBien (Our Well Being) to help promote health and wellness in the state’s Latino community. Located at www.nuestrobien.com, the site is designed to provide educational content for the Latino community and focuses on prevention, nutrition and early detection of health issues.

Nuestrobien.com contains facts about the leading healthcare problems for Latinos, tips on improving health, and links to the Blue Cross of California Web site. More than 600 health related articles for parents, teens and kids are available in both languages.

“NuestroBien is an important outreach by our organization to the Latino community, which has been historically underserved,” said Charlene Maher, vice president and general manager, individual services. Latinos comprise more than half of the 6.3 million Californians who lack health insurance, even though they constitute only 31 percent of the state’s population. They are three times more likely to lack health insurance than other Californians.

“Our goal is to offer consumers new online tools that make it easy, convenient and familiar for them to get the information they need to make the best choices possible about their health and health care options,” said Mary Scanlon, senior vice president of eBusiness consumer technology for WellPoint, Inc., BCC’s parent company.

WellPoint, Inc.  http://www.wellpoint.com

© 2007 MedTech Publishing Company

COOKBOOK REVIEWS

Vegetable Harvest by Patricia Wells, Vegetables at the Center of the Plate

By Mark Isaac Thyss, Garden of Healing®

William Morrow Cookbooks-Harper Collins (2007)
352 pages | Hardcover | Color Photographs | $43.95

ISBN-10: 0060752440
ISBN-13: 9780060752446

Abandon the old boil-and-saute routine and find out what a master of vegetables can teach you in her new book, “Vegetable Harvest” by Patricia Wells.

Wells, the author of several cookbooks including “The Provence Cookbook”, puts vegetables center stage in this appetizing and innovative collection.

From arugula to zucchini, Patricia offers up a wealth of dishes that incorporate vegetables, herbs, nuts, legumes, and fruits fresh from the garden. And her recipes aren’t limited to summer’s bounty—there are plenty for fall squash and winter potatoes, too.

Patricia Wells lives in Provence and she has written a cookbook based on the produce of her garden. This book is not vegetarian, but the focus is entirely on vegetables.

Well known in food circles, Wells is the restaurant critic for the French weekly, L’Express, and is the food critic for The International Herald Tribune, a post she’s held for more than 25 years. Vegetable Harvest is her tenth book and follows her passion for French cooking. She lives in Paris and runs a cooking school from her hilltop farmhouse in Provence.

One of the many things you will love about her cookbook is that it covers more than luscious summer vegetables. She also has included many recipes for the less flashy winter vegetables such as beets, Brussels sprouts and cabbage.

Written in a straightforward manner, the recipes are without a lot of fussy preparations and using easy-to-find ingredients.  Reading through the recipes you can see that they are manageable even for the novice cook.  Wells divides Vegetable Harvest into 12 sections, covering everything from starters to desserts and the pantry.

After surveying the bounty of her backyard garden, Wells became inspired to build meals around vegetables rather than starting with meat, fish or poultry. She tripled the number she served at each meal and tried different cooking methods, looking for the best-tasting, most wholesome ways of cooking each type. She includes nutritional information and an equipment list for each recipe too.

Also included are occasional wine suggestions, menu plans, French sayings involving food, and little bits of history about vegetables.

The potager, or French vegetable garden, represents the very best of French cuisine: fresh, flavorful, and easily accessible for home cooks everywhere. In Vegetable Harvest, Patricia Wells presents this latest collection of recipes inspired by the very garden she tends.  Open to any page and find something well worth trying out.

© 2007 Mark Isaac Thyss/Garden of Healing®.  All rights reserved.

HUMOR

Did you hear the one about the Burger?

By J. M. Buxton, Humorist

A hamburger walked into a bar…

and the bartender said, “We don’t serve food here.”

© 2007 Garden of Healing®.  All rights reserved.

FOOD AND BEVERAGE

HFC Takes Another Hit
San Francisco mayor wants to tax stores that sell sodas

San Francisco

Mayor Gavin Newsom wants large grocery stores to help fight obesity by paying fees on sodas and other beverages they sell in San Francisco.

Newsom has asked his staff to prepare a law that would charge retail chains for stocking Coke, Pepsi and other drinks sweetened with high fructose corn syrup.

Mayoral spokesman Nathan Ballard says the size of the fee and how it would be assessed still have to be worked out.

He says there’s a direct link between sweet beverages and obesity, which puts added pressure on San Francisco’s health care system.

If the bill is approved by the Board of Supervisors, money generated from the fee would go toward a city program that emphasizes exercise, diet and other preventative health measures.

Copyright 2007 San Jose Mercury News.  All Rights Reserved.

CAROLYN HAX

Cute and Precocious can’t cut it

By Carolyn Hax

Source: The Washington Post
Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Adapted from a recent Carolyn Hax online discussion:

Carolyn:

What do you do with a 7-year-old who thinks he knows everything, can do everything without practicing, and while an incredibly fabulous kid, risks really being insufferable as he grows older? At some point, he won’t be cute and precocious. How do I get him to try things and stick with them?

Maryland

The most important thing you can do is make sure there is little to no reward for him in being cute and precocious. You don’t want his emotional digestive system to get used to a steady diet of that kind of praise and attention — which is akin to refined sugar: quick fuel, no substance — because he’ll go seeking it well into adulthood.

What you want is for his diet to be heavy in a sense of accomplishment, which is the product of hard work, prolonged attention and effort, obstacles faced and surmounted — i.e., complex carbs and protein — so he can develop a habit of sustaining himself emotionally.

How tortured is my analogy? Let me count the ways . . .

Practically, this means steering him to, encouraging, praising and modeling focus and hard work. It’s “I love that you stuck with it” when he works to get something right, vs. “You’re so smart!” when he pulls off a parlor trick.

If you’re having trouble thinking of or incorporating specifics, it would be worth a conversation with his teachers, other parents you trust, a child-development specialist, or even gifted people who might be able to identify with your son.

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