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April2016

 

Apne Aap- Who’s Sari Now?

Self-empowerment is the raison d’etre of the women’s collective Apne Aap in India. They united to collectively create a better world for their daughters as an alternative to human trafficking. This is a story about the healing power of the arts that was birthed in the aftermath of a documentary by Rachira Gupta. It is about women helping women by helping themselves together. Recycled saris are given a second chance to create objects of beauty to sell. Bags, bandanas, earrings, necklaces and bracelets are marketed to provide a living wage and to fund school fees. Read more in a New York Times interview here:

http://nytlive.nytimes.com/womenintheworld/2015/07/14/whos-sari-now-taking-on-prostitution-and-sex-trafficking-in-an-enterprising-new-way/

or profiled by CNN here:

http://www.kvia.com/news/whos-sari-now-how-jewelry-is-saving-lives/38690832

or at the vendor website. http://www.rosenasammi.com/pages/do-good

Kumari Bangles at $55 USD pay for one week of school for a girl in India

 

http://www.rosenasammi.com/collections/sari

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Note:  vibrational healing therapies, including the use of crystals, are not intended as substitutions for proper medical treatment, but rather as complementary holistic supports for conscious living.

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March2016

Practice makes Progress

Do you remember your dreams?

1. The key is to catch them before you’re completely awake.
2. Set your intention before you sleep to have a dream that you will remember and expect to.
3. Review the day’s events briefly before you settle in for the night so that you don’t have to use up your creative dreamtime to process the mundane.
4. Write down what you do recall. You will start to see patterns.
5. Pay attention to the emotion the dream provokes more than trying to analyze it with logic.
6. Dream dictionaries can provide insights into archetypal symbols, but trust your gut first.

Did you know?

• Dreams occur mostly in the second part of the night during cycles of REM sleep.
• You cannot snore and dream at the same time. Snoring occurs during non-REM sleep.
• We move into REM sleep for a brief time after about an hour of non-REM and continue that cycle all night with increasingly longer REM sleep time.
• If we lose 1/2 hour of REM sleep one night, we rebound with added REM sleep on the next.
• During REM sleep the brain signals the body to relax and we experience a sense of paralysis called atonia. Atonia protects us from physically acting out during dreams. Sleepwalkers lack effective atonic function

• You have more nightmares in a cold house than in a warm one.
• The inventor of the sewing machine, Elias Howe, got the idea in a dream. So, did the creator of Google.
• Abraham Lincoln dreamt a premonition of his assassination.
• 90% of your dream is forgotten upon waking, although some can continue into waking state.
• Men tend to dream more of other men while women are equal opportunity dreamers.
• Scientists and spiritualists are beginning to agree that the dream state is the action of the emotional brain processing memories and making meaning out of the day’s events.

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Note:  vibrational healing therapies, including the use of crystals, are not intended as substitutions for proper medical treatment, but rather as complementary holistic supports for conscious living.