Joy vs. Discouragement

+ my presentation at the Heartland Hypnosis Conference

Greetings to all,

I am back in Denver, after a couple of weeks spent in Missouri, first to attend a conference in St. Louis, then to visit my daughter in the southern part of Missouri.

I drove, thus stopped at gas stations quite often. I could not find any real food there. Everything was laced with some kind of chemicals: coloring, flavoring, preservatives… most of them linked to various dis-eases. That was quite discouraging.

My way of fighting this attack on our health is to vote with my dollars: I refuse to buy chemical food. As this was not my first trip across states, I was prepared and had brought home made food with me, enough to last through the conference.

This was good planning, as I found that health food stores were quite lacking in St. Louis. I was told that ALDI was the place to go for “fresh” food. However, I know ALDI offers food covered in Apeel as well as bioengineered food. Nope, not for me.

How are we going to change things if we don’t take a stand? If people stopped buying chemical food, companies would have to offer healthy ones in order to make a profit.

I just watched a Netflix movie, based on true events, and well worth seeing. It’s called Dark Waters. We may be little people facing huge corporations, yet if enough of us get together, we can move back to a healthier and happier planet.

“Dark Waters is a 2019 American legal thriller film directed by Todd Haynes and written by Mario Correa and Matthew Michael Carnahan. The story dramatizes Robert Bilott's case against the chemical manufacturing corporation DuPont after they contaminated a town with unregulated chemicals.”

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JOY

What motivates you? What gives a purpose to your life? Heading in the direction of your purpose brings joy to your life. When your life is “on purpose,” your body-mind produces happy hormones/neurotransmitters like dopamine, serotonin, and norepinephrine which further motivate you to keep on keeping on.

What do you enjoy doing? Reading? Traveling? Gardening? Dancing? Painting? What did you enjoy doing as a child? Think of 3 things that bring a smile to your face and a “yes” in your emotions.

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Dialogue with Inner Wisdom

That was the title of my presentation at the Heartland Hypnosis Conference. Here is a post conference recording I made of my talk.

Enjoy!