Scientific works in the theories of finances and credit, according to the specification of the research object, are characterized to be many-sided and many-leveled.

The definition of totality of the economical relations formed in the process of formation, distribution and usage of finances, as money sources is widely spread. For example, in "the general theory of finances" there are two definitions of finances:

1) "...Finances reflect economical relations, formation of the funds of money sources, in the process of distribution and redistribution of national receipts according to the distribution and usage". This definition is given relatively to the conditions of Capitalism, when cash-commodity relations gain universal character;

2) "Finances represent the formation of centralized ad decentralized money sources, economical relations relatively with the distribution and usage, which serve for fulfilment of the state functions and obligations and also provision of the conditions of the widened further production". This definition is brought without showing the environment of its action. We share partly such explanation of finances and think expedient to make some specification.

First, finances overcome the bounds of distribution and redistribution service of the national income, though it is a basic foundation of finances. Also, formation and usage of the depreciation fund which is the part of financial domain, belongs not to the distribution and redistribution of the national income (of newly formed value during a year), but to the distribution of already developed value.

This latest first appears to be a part of value of main industrial funds, later it is moved to the cost price of a ready product (that is to the value too) and after its realization, and it is set the depression fund. Its source is taken into account before hand as a depression kind in the consistence of the ready products cost price.

Second, main goal of finances is much wider then "fulfilment of the state functions and obligations and provision of conditions for the widened further production". Finances exist on the state level and also on the manufactures and branches' level too, and in such conditions, when the most part of the manufactures are not state.

V. M. Rodionova has a different position about this subject: "real formation of the financial resources begins on the stage of distribution, when the value is realized and concrete economical forms of the realized value are separated from the consistence of the profit". V. M. Rodionova makes an accent of finances, as distributing relations, when D. S. Moliakov underlines industrial foundation of finances. Though both of them give quite substantiate discussion of finances, as a system of formation, distribution and usage of the funds of money sources, that comes out of the following definition of the finances: "financial cash relations, which forms in the process of distribution and redistribution of the partial value of the national wealth and total social product, is related with the subjects of the economy and formation and usage of the state cash incomes and savings in the widened further production, in the material stimulation of the workers for satisfaction of the society social and other requests".

In the manuals of the political economy we meet with the following definitions of finances:

"Finances of the socialistic state represent economical (cash) relations, with the help of which, in the way of planned distribution of the incomes and savings the funds of money sources of the state and socialistic manufactures are formed for guaranteeing the growth of the production, rising the material and cultural level of the people and for satisfying other general society requests".

"The system of creation and usage of necessary funds of cash resources for guarantying socialistic widened further production represent exactly the finances of the socialistic society. And the totality of economical relations arisen between state, manufactures and organizations, branches, regions and separate citizen according to the movement of cash funds make financial relations".

As we've seen, definitions of finances made by financiers and political economists do not differ greatly.

In every discussed position there are:

1) expression of essence and phenomenon in the definition of finances

2) the definition of finances, as the system of the creation and usage of funds of cash sources on the level of phenomenon.

3) Distribution of finances as social product and the value of national income, definition of the distributions planned character, main goals of the economy and economical relations, for servicing of which it is used.

If refuse the preposition "socialistic" in the definition of finances, we may say, that it still keeps actuality. We meet with such traditional definitions of finances, without an adjective "socialistic", in the modern economical literature. We may give such an elucidation: "finances represent cash resources of production and usage, also cash relations appeared in the process of distributing values of formed economical product and national wealth for formation and further production of the cash incomes and savings of the economical subjects and state, rewarding of the workers and satisfaction of the social requests". in this elucidation of finances like D. S. Moliakov and V. M. Rodionov's definitions, following the traditional inheritance, we meet with the widening of the financial foundation. They concern "distribution and redistribution of the value of created economical product, also the partial distribution of the value of national wealth". This latest is very actual, relatively to the process of privatization and the transition to privacy and is periodically used in practice in different countries, for example, Great Britain and France.

"Finances - are cash sources, financial resources, their creation and movement, distribution and redistribution, usage, also economical relations, which are conditioned by intercalculations between the economical subjects, movement of cash sources, money circulation and usage".

"Finances are the system of economical relations, which are connected with firm creation, distribution and usage of financial resources".

We meet with absolutely innovational definitions of finances in Z. Body and R. Merton's basis manuals. "Finance - it is the science about how the people lead spending `the deficit cash resources and incomes in the definite period of time. The financial decisions are characterized by the expenses and incomes which are 1) separated in time, and 2) as a rule, it is impossible to take them into account beforehand neither by those who get decisions nor any other person" . "Financial theory consists of numbers of the conceptions... which learns systematically the subjects of distribution of the cash resources relatively to the time factor; it also considers quantitative models, with the help of which the estimation, putting into practice and realization of the alternative variants of every financial decisions take place" .

These basic conceptions and quantitative models are used at every level of getting financial decisions, but in the latest definition of finances, we meet with the following doctrine of the financial foundation: main function of the finances is in the satisfaction of the people's requests; the subjects of economical activities of any kind (firms, also state organs of every level) are directed towards fulfilling this basic function.

For the goals of our monograph, it is important to compare well-known definitions about finances, credit and investment, to decide how and how much it is possible to integrate the finances, investments and credit into the one total part.

Some researcher thing that credit is the consisting part of finances, if it is discussed from the position of essence and category. The other, more numerous group proves, that an economical category of credit exists parallel to the economical category of finances, by which it underlines impossibility of the credit's existence in the consistence of finances.

N. K. Kuchukova underlined the independence of the category of credit and notes that it is only its "characteristic feature the turned movement of the value, which is not related with transmission of the loan opportunities together with the owners' rights".

N. D. Barkovski replies that functioning of money created an economical basis for apportioning finances and credit as an independent category and gave rise to the credit and financial relations. He noticed the Gnoseological roots of science in money and credit, as the science about finances has business with the research of such economical relations, which lean upon cash flow and credit.

Let's discuss the most spread definitions of credit. in the modern publications credit appeared to be "luckier", then finances. For example, we meet with the following definition of credit in the finance-economical dictionary: "credit is the loan in the form of cash and commodity with the conditions of returning, usually, by paying percent. Credit represents a form of movement of the loan capital and expresses economical relations between the creditor and borrower".

This is the traditional definition of credit. In the earlier dictionary of the economy we read: "credit is the system of economical relations, which is formed while the transmission of cash and material means into the temporal usage, as a rule under the conditions of returning and paying percent".

In the manual of the political economy published under reduction of V. A. Medvedev the following definition is given: "credit, as an economical category, expresses the created relations between the society, labour collective and workers during formation and usage of the loan funds, under the terms of paying present and returning, during transmission of sources for the temporal usage and accumulation".

Credit is discussed in the following way in the earlier education-methodological manuals of political economy: "credit is the system of money relations, which is created in the process of using and mobilization of temporarily free cash means of the state budget, unions, manufactures, organizations and population. Credit has an objective character. It is used for providing widened further production of the state and other needs. Credit differs from finances by the returning character, while financing of manufactures and organizations by the state is fulfilled without this condition".

We meet with the following definition if "the course of economy": "credit is an economical category, which represents relations, while the separate industrial organizations or persons transmit money means to each-other for temporal usage under the conditions of returning. Creation of credit is conditioned by a historical process of fulfilling the economical and money relations, the form of which is the money relation".

Following scientists give slightly different definitions of credit:

"Credit - is a loan in the form of money or commodity, which is given to the borrower by a creditor under the conditions of returning and paying the percentage rate by the borrower".

Credit is giving the temporally free money sources or commodity as a debt for the defined terms by the price of fixed percentage. Thus, a credit is the loan in the form of money or commodity. In the process of this loan's movement, a definite relations are formed between a creditor (the loan is given by a juridical of physical person, who gives certain cash as a debt) and the debtor.

Combining every definition named above, we come to an idea, that credit is giving money capital of commodity as a debt, for certain terms and material provision under the price of firm percentage rate. It expresses definite economical relations between the participants of the process of capital formation. Necessity of the credit relations is conditioned, from one side, by gathering solid quantity of temporarily free money sources, and from the second side, existence of requests of them.

Though, at the same time we must distinguish two resembling concepts: loan and credit. Loan is characterized by:

o Here, the discussion may touch upon transmission of money and also things form one side (loaner) to another (borrower): a)under the owning of the borrower and, at the same time, b) under the conditions of returning same amount or same quantity and quality of the things;

o The loaning of money may bear no interest;

o Any person may take part in it.

With the difference with loan, credit, which is somehow a private occasion of the loan, represents:

o One side (loaner) gives to the second one (borrower) only money, and _ for temporal usage

o It may not bear no interest (if the assignment doesn't foresee something)

o In it creditor is not any person, but a credit organization (at the first place, banks).

So, a credit is the bank credit. To our mind, it is not correct to use "credit" and "loan" as the synonyms.

Banking crediting is the union of relations between bank (as a creditor) and its borrower. These relations touch upon:

a) Giving a certain amount of money to the borrower for definite purpose (though, we meet with the so-called free credits, aims and objects of crediting are not appointed in the assignment);

b) Its opportune returning;

c) Getting percentage rate from the borrower for using the sources under his/her disposal.

The essential foundation of the credit essence and its important element is existence of trust between the two sides (in Latin "credo", from which comes the word "credit", means "trust").

From the position of circulation of money forms (in the abstraction, historical process of formation economical relations and social budget and banking systems expressed by them) comparing different definitions of finances and credit, the paradox conclusion appears: credit is the private occasion of finances. And truly, from the position of movement of the money forms, finances represent the process of formation and usage of the funds of cash means. Very often such movements are fulfilled without returning, but sometimes, it is possible to give loans from the budget for the investment projects of other needs. Also, when a manufacture or corporations use their cash funds and we mean the finances of industrial subject, such usage may be realized as inside the manufacture or corporation (there is no subject about returning or not returning of the usage), so gratis under conditions of returning. This latest is called commercial form because of transmitting the sources to others, but even in this occasion, it is the element of financial system of the manufacture and corporation.

From the point of cash means movement, main character of credit is the process of formation and usage of the funds of cash means under the conditions of returning and, as a rule, taking the value-percentage. If gating the credit value doesn't take place (even in the exceptional occasions), according to the movement form, credit becomes a private occasion of finances, as from the net financial funds (consequently from the state budget) the loans which bear no interests may be used. If gating credit value takes place, by the appearance form, credit is discussed to be financial modification.

From the historical point of view, finances (especially in the sort of the state budget) and credit (beginning with usury, later commercial and banking) were developing differently for considering credit to be the part of finances. Though, from the genetic-historical point of view, previous loaners, before giving loan, needed gathering the permanent capital not returning, that is the net financial foundation. The banks analogously needed concentration of the important own capital for influxing the consumers' means and for getting higher percentage rate under the conditions of returning. Herewith, exactly on the financial basis, in the sort of financial fund (which later partially becomes loan fund) part of the bank capital appears to be the reservation (insurance) part of the fund, which by nature is financial and not loan. So notwithstanding the essential distinctions between finances and credit form the genetic-historical point of view, credit appears to be formed from finances and represent their modification.

From the essential position of expressing economical relations of finances and credit, we meet with cardinal distinctions between these two categories. Which mostly expressed by the distinction of the movement forms notwithstanding they are returnable or not. Finances express relations in the aspects of distribution and redistribution of social product and part of the national wealth. Credit expresses distribution of the appropriate value only in the section of percentage given for loan, while according to the loan itself, a only a temporal distribution of money sources takes place.

Herewith, there is a lot of common between the finances and credit as from the essential point of view, so according to the form of movement. At the same time, there is a significant distinction between finances and credit as in the essence, so in the form too. According to this, there must be a kind of generally economical category, which will consider finances and credit as a total unity, and in the bounds of this category itself, the separation of the specific essence of the finances and credit would take place.

Funding of the cash means is common to the researched economical categories. It takes place in any separate system of finances and credit, which have been touched upon during the analyses of defining finances and credit. Word combination "funding of the cash sources (fund formation)" reflects and defines exactly essence and form of economical category of more general character, those of finances and credit categories. Though in the in economical texts and practice, it is very uncomfortable to use a termini, which consists of three words. Also, "unloading" with an information hardens greatly its influxing into the circulation even in the conditions of its strict substantiation and thoroughness.

In the discussing context we consider:

1) wide and narrow understanding of economical category of the finances;

2) discussing finances in narrow understanding under general traditional meaning;

3) discussing finances, as funding of the cash means, in wide understanding, which concerns finances - in narrow meaning and credit - in complete meaning.

Termini "funding" and its equivalent "fund formation" are used by us as the purposeful structuring of cash means, which is based on two poles - accumulation of money sources (gathering) and its usage for definite purpose in the way of financing and crediting.

We have established a new termini - "finance-investment sphere" (FIS). Analyses about interrelation of finances and credit made by us give us an opportunity of proving, that in the given termini, the word "financial" is used with the meaning of funding cash sources, its purposeful structuring. In this process we consider at the same time financial, credit and investments' economical categories.

Let's sum up middle results of discussing new concept - "finance-investment sphere" and discuss its investment consisting parts.

The concept "investments" was brought into the native economical science from the West. In the Soviet economical science they for a long time used in the place "investments" the termini "capital placement", which expressed the usage of the industrial factors in the sphere of real industrial activities during realization of capital projects. From one glance, this termini in its concept is identical to the "investments", consequently it is possible to use them as synonyms. Though the termini "investments" and "investing" have the advantage towards the termini "capital placement" from linguistic and philological points of view, because they are expressed with one word. This is not only economical and comfortable in the process of working with the termini "investment" itself, but also it gives an opportunity of termini formation. More concretely: "investment process", "investment domain", "finance-investment sphere" - all these termini are much more acceptable.

Changing native economical termini with foreign ones is purposeful, if it really matters (by keeping parallel usage of the native termini for the inheritance). Though we must not change native economical termini into foreign ones all together, when by ordinal traditional language easy to explain private and narrow concrete processes and elements get their own termini. The "movement" of these termini is approved in the narrow professional bounds, but their "spitting out" into the economical science may turn economical language into the tangled slang.

Let's discuss termini - "investment" and "capital placement's" usage in the economical literature.

Investments are placement of funds into the main and circulation capital for the purpose of getting profit. "Investments in material assets - are the placements of funds into the mobile and real estate (land, buildings, furniture and so on). Investments in financial assets are the placements of funds into the securities bank accounts and other financial instruments".

We don't meet with the termini "investments" in the earlier economical dictionary, but we meet the combined termini "investment policy" - the union of the industrial decisions, which guarantee main directions of the capital investments, the activities of their concentration in the determinant suburbs, on which the reaching of planned rates of development of the society production is depended, balancing and effectiveness, getting more and more production and profit of the national income for every lost Ruble". For today, in the most actual definitions, the capital investments are bounded only by financial means, when not only financial, but also the investment of natural, material-technical and informational resources takes place. Labour resources take an actual place in the investment process. They themselves fulfill this or that investment process.

A positive side of the discussed definitions is that they connect investment policy and capital placements (investments):

- economical development according to the key directions to the concentration;

- providing high rates of economical growth;

- raising an economical effectiveness, which is expressed:

a) by growing the throw off of the production and national income for every lost Ruble;

b) by fulfilling the branch structure of the investments;

c) by improving their technological structure;

d) by optimization of their further production structure.

Compared with such definition of the investments (capital placement) the definition of investments in the dictionary attaching the "Economics" seems to be unimproved: "investments - the expenses of gathering production and industrial means and increasing material reserve". In this definition current expenses (production expenses) are mixed with the investment (capital) expense. Also, not the investment expenses but (though the investments are followed by the appropriate expenses) exactly advancing. It differs from the expenses by that the means (means) are put by returning the advanced values, also, under the conditions of growth, to which the concept-advanced capital is corresponding. the advancing may be realized in the money, natural-material and informational forms.

Except the termini "investments", there are two more termini related with the investment. They are shown below.

"Human capital investment" - any activity provided for rising the workers labour productivity (in the way of growing their qualification and developing their abilities); at the expenses of improving the workers' education, health and raising the mobility of the working forces". It is very useful to use the mentioned termini, though it needs one correction: the human capital investments do not concern only workers, but also the servants, representatives of every kind of labour.

"Investment commodity, capital goods - a capital."

In the official manuals of political economy of the reformation time the capital investments are discussed as "expenses for creating new main funds and widening, reconstruction and renewing the active ones". In this definition the investments (capital placements) during separation of the forms (types) of further production of the main funds are bounded only by main funds (without increases of the circulation funds and insurance reserves):

a) creating new ones;

b) widening;

c) reconstruction;

d) renewing.

Also, the concept of the industrial gathering appears, at the expenses of widening of basic, circulation funds and also insurance reserves takes place".

You'll meet below the definitions of investments from "the course of economy": the investments are called "placements of fund into the basic capital (basic means of production), reserves, also other economical objects and processes, which request long-termed influxing of material and cash means. "According to the division of capital into physical and money forms, the investments too must be divided into material and cash investments".

They apportion investment commodity, to which belong industrial and nonindustrial building objects, vehicles purposed for changing or widened technical park and the furniture, increasing reserves and others.

"They call the total investments of production an investment product, which is directed towards keeping and increasing the basic capital (basic means) and reserve. Total investments consist of two parts. One of them is called the depreciation; it represents important investment resources for compensation of renewal till the level of before industrial usage, wearing out and repairing of the basic means. Second consisting part of the total investments is represented by net investments - capital investments for the purpose of increasing basic means". Depreciation is not a compensation resource of wearing the basic funds out, but it is the purposeful financial source of such resources.

Human capital investment is "a specific kind of investments, mostly in education and health protection".

"Real investments are the investments in the economical branches and also, they are kinds of economical activities, which provide influxing the increases of real capital, that is increasing material values of the industrial means". We can agree with such definition with one specification that material and nonmaterial values too belong to the real capital (wealth), consequently science-researching experimental-construction results, various information, education of he workers and others. Such service as organization of the excitable games, also the service of redistribution social wealth from one private person to another (except charity).

"Financial investments represent placement of funds into the shares, obligations, promissory notes, other securities and instruments. Such investments, of course, do not give increases of the real material capital, but they help getting profit, consequently at the expenses of changing the course of the securities in the time of speculation, or distinguishing the course in different places of sell and purchasing". We share wholly such definition, hence it follows that financial investments (if it is not followed by real investments as a result) do not increase real material wealth and real nonmaterial wealth. According to this context, the expression below is very important: "we must distinguish financial investments, which represent placement of the funds in the ways of selling and purchasing the securities for the purpose of getting profit and financial investments, which become cash and real, moved to real physical capital."

In the "economical course" quoted before long and short-termed investments are separated. Recognizing the existence of the bounds between them, the authors ascribe short-termed investments to "one month or more" investments. If we get such conditioned criteria, that we can call the investments which overcome the terms of some months, long-termed ones, which is very doubtful and we don't agree with it. A long-termed character of the fund placement is a significant feature of the investments (short-term doesn't combine with the concept of investments). Principally, it would be better to point out quick compensative, middle termed compensative and long-termed compensative investments:

- less then 6 months - quick compensative;

- from 6 months up to the year and a half - middle termed compensative;

- more then the year and a half - long termed compensative.

We stopped at the definition of the investments in the capital work "economical course" for the special purpose, as, in it the author tried to discuss the concept of investments systemically and quite completely, herewith the book is published just now.

We'll return to the discussion the definition economical category of "investments" in different publications in the following chapter. The definitions given here are quite enough for having a notion of the level of lighting up the given category in the economical literature.

What conclusions may be made according the definition of the mentioned economical category in the published works, except the made notions and specifications?

There is quite deeply, concretely and thoroughly defined the concept of "investments", different definitions in the economical literature; but mostly in every works about the investments discussed by us until now, there is not opened the essence of investments as an economical category. In every monograph , even if it has a title investment, as an economical category , there is given only the definition, concept of investments. But, as the Academician Vasil Chantladze explains, "a concept is a discussion, which proves something about the distinguishing feature of the researched object. A concept out of much essential characteristic features represents only one, and essential in it is only - definition".

But the categories are much wider; it is "a key, the most fundamental concept of every science". Economical categories theoretically represent real, objectively existed productive relations. A category is the defining of occasions of existed characters, connections, relations of the objective world. Generally, any educational process is fulfilled by the categories, which give opportunities for dividing the processes and occasions semantically, for expressing the definitions of a subject and realize their specific peculiarities and economical relations of a material world.

Our goal is exactly to substantiate investments - as an economical category and also, as a financial category in the narrow understanding.

Here we apply for another manual thesis made by the academician Vasil Chantladze: "every financial relation is an economical one and every financial category is and economical one, but not every economical relation and economical category is financial relation and financial category".

In the process of defining the investments, it is important to take in mind the sides of resources, expenses and incomes, because investment, from one side, is the result of the manufacture's activity, and, from another one, - a part of income, which, in this case, is not used for usage.

Another occasion: it is advisable to discuss investments in two aspects: as a category of reserve and flow, which will reflect exactly the connection between "placement of funds" and "investments".

Which of us hasn't dreamed of finally finding and keeping our perfect relationship? What if we are in a partnership that is confusing and always changing? How do we cope with the loss and heartache relationships can sometimes bring? What if we don't seem to be attracting any kind of intimate interactions at all?

The working dynamics of good relationships are for many of us one of the greatest mysteries of life. It is a secret each of us seeks to unravel from the day we are aware there is more than one of us around. Why do interpersonal interactions -- something we are all engaged in every day, every minute, every second of our lives -- sometimes seem so challenging, complicated, confusing, difficult, and mysterious?

The quality of our partnerships with others actually reflects the quality of the relationships we have with ourselves. Do we know who we are, and do we like who that is? Do we believe we are worthy and deserve unconditional love? While we may know how we would like someone to love us, do we love ourselves that way already? Do we trust and accept all parts of ourselves? The bottom line for most all of us is we simply would like to be loved and accepted for who we are, for our real selves.

MALE AND FEMALE TEMPLATES

As we change our inner definition or template of our male and female selves to a place of balance and self-acceptance, we are able to attract someone who is more reflective of our true counterpart. Even if we are balanced with our inner masculine reflection, if we do not like our own femininity, we would be unable to create a truly balanced relationship for ourselves.

One aspect many people do not give much thought to is that we look to our partners to reflect aspects of ourselves back to us. For example, if we are a woman, our partner is holding a place for us so we can better understand the feminine part of ourselves. If we are a male, our partner is holding a place for us to understand the masculine part of ourselves. Although this may be the opposite way most people view their relationships, how, if we were a woman, would we be better able to understand what type of woman we were unless someone could reflect it back to us as we interact with them?

THE TASK OF ANY RELATIONSHIP

The task of any relationship is always to find ourselves, to understand ourselves, to be the complete and natural selves we already.

The only true relationship we ever really have is the one we have with ourselves. Everything else, every other interaction, whether we might realize it or not, is simply a reflection. As long as we resist being our natural, balanced selves, the real us, we continue to always attract relationships that will serve to remind us of what and who we are not. Resisting who we are will, therefore, usually attracts relationships that are unfulfilling, or ones where we have to work very hard. By being fully and completely who we are, we then attract relationships that reflect back to us the fullness of our creative being. It is the age old adage: What we put out is what we get back.

FUNCTIONING HALF COMPLETE

Many of us function as if we are only half complete. If we project the vibration of half of an individual, looking around for someone else to complete us, we attract an incomplete relationship.

The resulting interaction with anyone attracted in this manner will usually come up short of what we ideally desire. Entering into any interaction from the viewpoint we need the relationship to feel complete, results in the relationship continuing to reflect and remind us of our belief in our incompleteness. What we will have is a partnership made up of two half people, truly satisfying to neither person. When we know we are a relationship unto ourselves, complete and sufficient within ourselves, we set up a vibration that attracts someone with those same qualities and assurance. Too many times people make out long, wonderful lists of all the attributes they wish their perfect partner to have. The question to ask is, are we all those things? Do we have all those attributes? Unless we are able to reflect the type of vibrational being we choose to attract, how will we ever be seen and recognized by someone who does?

WHAT DO WE ATTRACT IN OUR RELATIONSHIPS?

We always attract our definition of what we think we are capable of attracting, no matter what may be on our wish list. The first question we should ask ourselves (the most basic question for any relationship) is:

What do we get out of it? What do we get out of having a relationship with so and so? Secondly, what did we learn about ourselves by being in that relationship? We primarily attract situations to ourselves that create interactions, allowing us to continue to accelerate, serve, and learn who we are. We can do this with ease, grace, love, and joy, or through the school of hard knocks. The choice is always ours.

RELATIONSHIPS ARE OPPORTUNITIES TO SHARE

The reason for relating to someone else is for the opportunity to share who we are. Approaching a relationship as an opportunity to share attracts individuals who reflect our belief in our own completeness. When our relationships are set up this way, we are able to interact with the other person as two complete individuals coming together to share experiences. We will both know and experience the idea of personal fulfillment.

THE RESULTS OF EXPECTATIONS AND JUDGMENTS

When we put expectations or value judgments on the outcome of our relationships, we never actually get to experience the real reason we created the particular interaction in the first place. For this reason, it is important to accept relationships for what they are. If we invalidate what we have drawn into our lives, we are really invalidating ourselves.

BALANCED RELATIONSHIPS

It is important to understand why we have drawn certain individuals into our lives. We usually have attracted others to allow ourselves the opportunity to grow and to give us more information about who we are. The idea is not to become like each other. The idea is to allow each individual to be the strongest, healthiest, most balanced individual they can possibly be. Sometimes we might forget this because we think unity is the product of conformity.

Unity is the product of granting and allowing equality to uniqueness and diversity. In a balanced relationship, we do not lose our individuality -- just the opposite occurs. We each become stronger reflections for each other of all that is possible for each of us. The purpose of any relationship is to allow us to be more of who we choose to be. It is like looking into a mirror and seeing another aspect of ourselves. This does not mean our relationships will be an exact 1-1 reflection of who we each are. Rather, our relationships become a reflection of what the two of us have agreed to learn and teach each other.

The best possible relationship is a balanced sharing, without dependency. Each party in a relationship has strong, natural attributes that can assist the other in their growth. If our support is aimed at creating a space for our partner or friend to grow in their own self-support, the relationship will be a happy and flourishing one. Think of it this way. Instead of constantly doling out small pieces of bread, wouldn't it be of true, lasting benefit to teach someone how to bake their own bread? If we are in a relationship where we are giving, giving, giving, it sends out the message to our partners that we do not believe they have the ability to match or mock up their own vibrations of completeness and sufficiency. Offer support to others as long as it does not represent the idea we are taking on responsibility for them. We cannot really be responsibility for other adults. Our attempts to do this usually leads us very quickly to examine our own issues about boundaries, because taking on another person's responsibilities brings us outside of where we prefer to be. The idea of responsibility is not to lay the blame on anyone, rather it allows us the freedom to choose what we prefer.

In a balanced relationship, each of us can still do what we prefer to do. We don't have to change our lives just because someone else disapproves. There is no reason to attempt to be anything that we are not. Doing that only brings us more of what we are not. We will only become more uncomfortable, unhappy, unhealthy, and unsuccessful, if we keep trying to be something we are not. It is vital to express who we are, be who we are, and say what we think. We should only change our lives because we choose to, and because we are becoming more completely the real us. If we know we are functioning in true personal integrity, even if others around us don't like it or want us to change, we continue to be who we are.

If we are doing what we enjoy and love in life, it very quickly provides us confirmation of who we really are. The idea is always to relax, have fun and be ourselves. Remember, anyone we attract into our lives by being ourselves belongs in our lives. Being of service to ourselves and others is only possible when we are complete within our own selves. If we are not fully ourselves, then the other person is not really in a relationship with the real us anyway!

"WRONG" RELATIONSHIPS

Why would any of us create a whole series of wrong relationships? The reason itself is basically very simple. Either we have forgotten who we are, or we are afraid to accept who we are. Who we are is actually our naturally centered selves in a state of balance and complete self-acceptance. As long as we resist being our natural, balanced selves, the real us, we will not attract harmonious, long lasting, or healthy relationships.

Once we become true to ourselves, we automatically attract the right person to ourselves, even as we move through changes. If someone decides to change or leave a relationship with us, realize their energy is no longer in harmony with ours. Therefore, by understanding this even if someone leaves us nothing will really be missing. We cannot miss anything from a vibration that we are not truly a part of.

HOW DO WE SHOW WE REALLY LOVE SOMEONE?

We can really show we love somebody by accepting them for who they are and by allowing them to be just where they already are. It is very important not to put any expectation on how it must be, or regret how it was or was not. When we live in the moment and trust ourselves enough to be in each and every moment, we always attract whomever is appropriate for ourselves. The best advice ever given for relationships is to trust, let go, and be ourselves. Trust is the glue for any relationship -- the trust we feel for ourselves, as well as the trust we have with others.

WHAT INGREDIENT WILL INSURE OUR RELATIONSHIPS ARE ENHANCING?

All relationships, when created through a sense of integrity, are fundamentally enhancing. Relationships are meant to expand and evolve. If our relationships restrict us and cause us to inhibit and repress our true selves, we need to ask ourselves very quickly what are we still doing in the those relationships? What lessons are we learning from staying in these situations? If relationships are created from a point of dishonesty -- and it could even be we are dishonest with ourselves, or with the other people about our truth -- then these types of relationships will act as exclusive, disharmonic interactions. If we are able to let go of fear in our relationships, we become compassionately supportive and allowing of the other person so they, in turn, can be true to themselves. It is up to us to set the example first. The negative side of support is manipulation and interdependency and this makes everyone feel icky.

Some of us may have a fear that being a strong individual will cause problems or separation and may eventually push us away from one another. However, this is not true in a healthy relationship. The point is not to lean on anyone, the idea is to support them. In supporting them, we become supported. More importantly, we all need to practice unconditional love, acceptance, and support for ourselves. This is what allows us to trust and know, no matter what changes are made. Know, by divine law, we are never cut off from anything that is truly intended for us.

CHANGE

When we come from a place of integrity and changes occur then the changes belong in our lives. Fear of change is usually the fear of losing something. If we understand everything is happening as it needs to, then we never need to fear losing anything. It is usually only the fear of the change that prevents us from changing along with our partners. By letting go of our fears, we will know that no matter how much we might change, we will attract whatever and whoever is representative, harmonious, and unified with our changes.

If we allow change into our lives as we naturally grow and evolve -- instead of resisting it or pretending it isn't happening -- the vast amounts of energy we used to put into resisting change become available for our own creative purposes. It has been said the only constant thing in this world is change. As we honor the changes that occur in our lives, we will find we no longer experience others who have made the choice to live and act differently. We will interact and co-create with those who exist on the same level as we do, with similar natures and vibrations. The best way to share our wisdom and ideas is to simply be an example ourselves.

"CHANGING" OUR PARTNERS

If we feel we have to mold, change, or manipulate our partners, the relationship bears examination. When we force someone to do something, it is a statement that we believe we will never really get what we are after, or that the person we are with will not be able to give it to us. When we force changes in our relationships, even if certain changes occur for awhile, our relationships are no longer in balance or integrity. Sooner or later the individuals who are being forced to go against their true selves will be forced to leave as the relationship is no longer a reflection of the real them.

Force is a non-integrated, distorted way of taking action. Remember, everyone naturally moves at the perfect rate and speed for themselves already. There is never any positive reason to accelerate someone (by force) to look and accept things they are not ready for. Even if they would be able to hear or see some part of the lesson we are attempting to force down their throats, until they are ready, in their own time and place, they will never grasp a true understanding of the lesson we are forcing them to learn. And because of our intervention, their original lesson became distorted and is much more difficult and confusing for them to learn. Usually, once interfered with, they will have to recreate their lesson all over again in an effort to counterbalance our interference.

Someone is ready to truly gain from our assistance and wisdom when they ask, of their own free will, for our guidance and insight. In such an instance, truth and wisdom is then shared, understood, and integrated in just the right way. The other person, by the fact of their asking, is in just the right place and state where they can truly hear, know and understand what we have to offer.

SAFETY

If we feel we need to keep ourselves safe or protect ourselves, we end up limiting the type of relationships we can create. We hear often from others that they are not currently in relationship because it does not feel safe. Two things might be the cause. If we feel we need safety, we may somehow feel we are in a relationship that will not allow us to be our real selves. On the other hand, if we are in a relationship that is not satisfying, but we stay in it because we feel safe, maybe we are not safe with the idea of taking full responsibility for who and what we are, and who and what we could be. As soon as we stop resisting our natural selves, our reality will automatically change to allow loving and supportive relationships to come into our lives.

In some cases, people feel they need safety to avoid being in a position where they could be abandoned or vulnerable. Some of us would rather be alone than express our true inner needs. If we are in a relationship where we do not feel safe or comfortable expressing our deepest inner needs, we are alone anyway. We are simply alone together.

COMPLETE TRUST

Trust really boils down to our own ability to trust ourselves. Complete trust occurs when we have an absolute knowingness we deserve to exist. Do we have to do something special in order to deserve to exist? No. We simply have to be. Creation has already decreed we deserve to exist. Can we give ourselves the same acknowledgment, respect, and love? We have a Divine right to exist in the manner we choose, simply because we prefer it! There is no other reason needed.

COMMUNICATION

Most of the problems that occur in relationships are caused by what is not being said, rather than what is said. Non communication, or withheld communication, is simply another way many of us hold back the real us from our partner. The problem with unspoken communication is more complex than might first be perceived. Saying "everything is all right," when we are thinking "drop dead," won't fool the other person for very long. Our real heart's truth and our honest feelings will always be psychically picked up by the other person on some level. Count on it! This is an ability we all have. It is the same sense that tells us when there has been a big fight or disagreement as we step into a strangely quiet and tense room. It is the same sense that we use psychically to energetically scan large groups of strangers at a party, as we decide who would be interesting to spend an evening getting to know.

Direct unspoken communication is often used by intent by a man we know, well versed in martial arts. He uses it to defeat very powerful and well known karate masters. Gifted in his own right, this particular gentleman is very aware of the power of unspoken communication and uses it to his advantage. As he takes his preliminary bows before his match begins, he smiles on the outside while mentally projecting extreme violence towards his opponent. His opponent energetically and mentally picks up these projected waves of discordant energy. These waves temporarily short out his opponents' power centers, making it almost impossible for them to defend themselves as the bout begins.

Every relationship, in order to grow and flourish, requires open and honest communication coming from a point of inner truth and balance. Honest communication enables the other person to truly relate and to have a relationship with who we actually are. Open, clear, conscious communication enables the other person to observe and act with trust, for they know where they stand. By being clear and direct, they won't be receiving one message from us verbally and another mismatched or opposing one psychically. It is time to share what is in our hearts with truth, trust, honest, and clarity.

SUMMARY

True creative relationships are expressed and experienced from a state of relaxed trust and creative joy. Relationships are simply learning how to play with each other, how to love and accept ourselves unconditionally, and how to trust who and what we are. When we share ourselves in a relationship, we will feel our own sense of completeness, and we will realize we are never alone. Allow yourselves to remember the world is magical, and allow that magic and enchantment back into your life. Be who you are, and do the things you love to do as often as you can! That is really the only way to really live our lives.

Someone asked me once on a television interview what my definition of true health was- my answer, albeit too simplified for the scientific scholar was, "The absence of disease on all levels - meaning physical, mental, emotional and even spiritual." I happen to believe that every person can improve their level of health by making better choices.

My number one rule to living a healthier life is to make a daily effort to choose a path toward wellness and away from disease. Choose a journey that brings joy. Be with people you adore, don't participate in conversations that bring others down, be honest, hold onto the highest of integrity. Share your gifts and talents. Participate in hobbies and activities that enrich your life and the lives of others whenever possible. Allow yourself to be truly loved and allow yourself to love someone completely. Love can be a grand healer.

Do things that feed your spirit...listen to someone who inspires you. Perhaps you might attend a concert, seminar, go dancing, take a tour, go for a bike ride, walk in the woods, travel, meditate, practice yoga...your choice. On top of these things start to learn what it is that really keeps your body in top condition. Once you understand how nature works you will not be ill as often. If you give your body what it needs to do its job, it generally will!

So let's talk about FOOD HEALING.

This may be surprising to you, but the human body is composed of about 15 main biochemical elements with added trace elements to small to mention.

Here is the breakdown:

• Oxygen-72%
• carbon13.5%
• Hydrogen-9.105
• Nitrogen -2.5%
• Calcium-1.3%
• Phosphorus- 1.5%
• Sulphur-.14%
• Sodium-.10%
• Chlorine-.085%
• Flourine-0.080%
• Potassium-0.026%
• Magnesium- 0.012%
• Iron- 0.010%
• Silicon- 0.00025
• Iodine, copper, lead, aluminum- trace amounts for a grand total of 100%

The human body is comprised of up to 70% water. Every three or four minutes with the aid of the beating heart, the body's blood goes through the lungs. The blood stream carries carbonic acid waste to the lungs to be oxidized by the oxygen and exhaled. Oxidation produces heat. By this fact it is possible to burn food in a laboratory to determine the amount of heat or calories it produces.

In chemistry we know that there is an atomic weight and innate wisdom principles within the body that send these chemical compounds to certain structures of our bodies.We have hard teeth, soft colon, tough tendons, malleable fingernails, a red heart, yellow bile, perhaps purple, blue, green in the eyes, blonde, red, or brown hair. Some people have glowing or sparkling eyes, others have eyes that are more dull. All elements have their specific scope of action and characteristics and so do we. We are all human but with unique biochemical makeups that give us variety or what I call "the spice of life!" Life, with all of its intracacies and nuances is surely miraculous.

Let us use Nature's remedies...our bodies are built from the elements of nature. Disease then most begins in the diet with poor choices, or inadequate food supplies, from there we must consider the mind and emotions of a person.. Sometimes we take too much of one element and it causes an imbalance and other times we take too little and imbalance occurs. This happens physically, mentally and emotionally as well. Too much of a good thing may detract from life.

For example, when we do not have enough organic sodium in the diet it leads to stomach trouble but too much sodium can lead to heart disease. A low iron diet leads to anemia and yet inorganic iron can produce constipation. The right amount of lovemaking can improve one's state of health but too much can make you go blind! NO NO NO - I'm just kidding, just wanting to keep you on your toes! But truly, using your mind in your daily occupation is important for continued mental acuity, but watching television all day may detract from your mental fortitude. Enough exercise will keep your body nimble and strong, overworking a muscle may cause injury. So you see we must choose balance.

I have found that there are seven bad habits one must break in order to be healthier: Eating too often, eating too much, talking about sickness, losses and diseases, eating fried foods, smoking, and worrying about what is yet to come. These things bring one into a very acid state of life where disease seems to breed.For me, prevention is the best answer, although I have found that many people must be one step short of dying to take their health seriously. Even if you are not in tip top shape you can improve in some way so that life is more enjoyable.

There are clues in nature and within our own bodies that can help guide us to better health. Just as we can watch the birds in nature make correct choices to sustain their little bodies in flight, we must look at the human frame to determine what is best for us. Our taste buds register four different sensations, sweet, salty, bitter and sour. The back of the tongue is more sensitive to bitter, the sides react more to sour and salty and the tip to sweet. That's another biological clue that we are to eat a variety of foods. Our teeth are also a clue; we have teeth that grind and teeth that rip and tear.

In food chemistry we know that we should apply the Acid/Alkaline food theory for perfect health. The dietary ratio should be 80 % akaline foods and 20% acid forming foods. Biochemistry divides foods into these two basic categories, and rest assured we need some of both for the spark of life to occur. One must "strike" the flint to make fire. Before any food is digested it takes the presence of ENZYMES. Enzymes are the body's catalysts that make biochemical processes possible. For instance the first enzyme is ptyalin found in the saliva. 

Ptyain converts starches into maltose for further digestion by the enzyme called amylase produced by the pancreas. This enzyme splits maltose into polysacharides or multiple sugars and still more intestinal enzymes change these to simple sugars which are absorbed through the walls of the small intestine The liver stores sugars for later use in the form of glycogen. Okay enough chemistry--let's get back to food. But one more thing, if you really have poor digestion try eating one type of food at a time...then your enzymatic activity won't get confused by the multiple food forms and complete digestion can occur. If not possible take the best enzyme formula on the market -I suggest AbsorbAid Platinum because it has been clinically tested and written about int he New England Journal of Medicine.

In general the acid/alkaline balance is not only reflected in the state of physical health one displays but in the mental and emotional states as well. When the sun is up we are causing acid building due to mental activities, but when the night is upon us it is the alkalizing moon that causes us to rest and establish balance. negative thoughts and attitudes such as fear, hate, gossip, unhappiness, anger, selfishness, jealousy, lack of love all build acids as does overwork and late hours and pollution. Rest, sleep, fresh air, sunshine, laughter, good companionship, love happiness, joy satisfaction and a positive philosophy encourages alkalinity. we have alkaline fruits and slightly acid fruits. We have alkaline vegetables and slightly acid vegetables. For example:

Highly Alkaline fruits include:

Apples, apricots, avocados, speckled bananas, all berries, cactus, cantaloupe, cherries, currants, dates, figs, grapes, grapefruit, guavas, kumquats, ripe lemons and limes, mangoes, all melons, nectarines, olives only sundried, oranges, papaya, pears, persimmons, plums, prunes, quince, raisins, tamarind, tangerines, tomatoes.

Slightly acid fruits include: all preserved fruits, sugared fruits or dried fruits, sulphured fruits, sugared fruits, pickled fruits and fruits that are not ripened yet--all "green" fruits.

Highly Alkaline vegetables include vine ripened:

Asparagus, bamboo shoots, beans, green, lima, string, sprouts, beets and tops, broccoli, cabbage, carrots, celery, cauliflower, chard, chayotes, chickory, chives, collards, cucumber, dandelion, dill, dulse, eggplant, endive, escarole, garlic, horseradish, jerusalem artichoke, kale, kohlrabi, leek, legumes, lettuces, mushrooms, okra, onions, parsley, parsnips, peppers, potatoes, pumpkin, radish, rutabaga, salsify, sauerkraut, sorrel, soybeans, spinach, squash, turnips, water chestnut,m watercress.

Slight acid vegetables include: artichokes, white asparagus tips, all dried beans, brussael sprouts, garbanzos, lentils and rhubarb.

There are some alkaline dairy products such as acidophilus cultured milks, buttermilk, whey, yogurt, clabbered milk and kefirs. And acid-forming dairy products such as butter, cheese, cottage cheese, cream, ice cream, sherbert, custards, all milk that is pasteurized, dried or canned.

Here is something interesting to remember...there are NO alkaline flesh foods! that means that beef, lamb, pork, chicken, goose, venison, fish, turkey, quail...are acid forming foods. The closest alkalizing element in the family of flesh foods is their bones and their blood! So, when you eat whole fish such as in sardines and chew those little bones it is a good balance as long as you soak the salt away first.

All alcoholic beverages are acid, and 99% of the grains are acid as well. On the chemical scale the most alkaline of the grains is buckwheat and the most alkaline nut is a raw almond..and I nearly forgot - coconut if it is fresh

The neutral foods on earth are:water, naturally occurring oils such as unrefined and cold pressed olive, corn, cotton, soy, sesame and other fats.

If we know how to use foods as medicine we can change the body chemistry and improve health tremendously. We are meant to enjoy good health not suffer in sickness and misery. I remember Dr. Garnett Cheney in San Francisco telling a story having treated 100 patients with the juice of raw cabbage which gave the fastest relief as cure for uncomplicated peptic ulcers. Symptoms disappeared in the first few days and he proved by x-ray exam that the ulcers themselves disappeared in as brief a time as a week. No medicine or other diet was employed. Now that is powerful food medicine.

As we move to the plant kingdom we find where most all medicines of the world are derived. Herbs such as ginseng as researched by the Russians, increases the body's resistance to disease and stress. Physical and mental efficiencies are increased, blood sugar is reduced in diabetes and blood pressure normalized. Panax Ginseng was the type used in the Russian study.

There are other forms that promote different responses, and it is not wise to take any herbal formula, by the way, without consulting your physician and or/pharmacist. French researchers showed thaht elderly persons troubled with memory lapses, slow thinking showed improvement after a week of taking ginseng and remarkable improvement after two months. However, add to this vitamin and minerals supplements were given.

Some of my favorite life-givers are the super greens of the world. Things such as chlorophyll, the pigment that makes plants green and allows them to synthesize food using the energy from the sunshine. This is a powerful cleanser for the body. All green leafy vegetables are a good source of chlorophyll. Interesting that it porphyrin molecule is almost identical to the hemoglobin molecule of the blood.

Two other super green foods are spirulina and chlorella, both green microalgaie available today from many health food stores in powder or capsules or tablets. It is rich in protein, chlorophyll, vitamins, minerals and biochemical elements. Spirulina gets its name from the spiral shape which shows up under the microscope. Chlorella is a single-celled microalgae round in shape.

Evening primrose is one of the most fascinating and useful of the herbal remedies. The whole plant is edible and oil taken from its seeds can be used for skin rashes and other skin problems. It is also highly useful in women's health. I won't go on about the thousands of herbal plants that feed us well...but I will mention one lastly here - and that is:

Milk Thistle is a brilliant plant that actually works on the liver to help support and rebuild it. It is one of the finest plants to help detoxify poisons especially from the liver. Go slowly with this one as it is powerful. there are many companies that sell Milk Thistle - also called sylimarin, so check with your health food store expert for the best one available today.

Today we have discovered that there are many plants which give support to hormonal production and sometimes these plants can act as well as prescriptive medications. I know that natural medicine provides for phyto estrogens and progersterones such as those derived from Black Cohosh, Wild Yam, Fennel, and Fennugreek. More are in research. 

We find that Velvet Deer Antlers (tissue before it becomes a horn or hardened) are helpful to the male and female because they are rich in every nutrient known to sustain life. Again when you look at the place on the deer's body - this is a "protruding" structure and one would imagine that likes curing likes - it would be beneficial to our "protruding" parts, male and female. Makes sense to me!

Here are some fun facts: People from various parts of the world enjoy strange foods: Vindaloo, is a Burmese savory dish of fish which has been buried in the earth for three weeks! Eskimos eat rotten fish and meat with no ill effect! Connoisseurs in Britain will not eat meat unless it has been "hung" for several days. 

Herman Almquist of the University of Cal years ago found that chick bleeding could be cured by using putrid fish meal which is high in vitamin K, the coagulative vitramin. And in European pharmacopeioas there is a prescription of an "elixir of long life," the formula being a compound of aloes and other purgatives.By the way if you are constipated Aloe Vera is a wonderful aid to irregularity. You can find 100% natural aloe suitable for ingestion in liquid or capsule form. A plant called Senna is also a very powerful bowel stimulant but should not be used regularly because one could get "hooked" on its incredible power.

And now just a bit of how certain foods can become your medicines:

Keep a jar of raw honey handy incase you cut yourself, or get a sore throat - raw honey contains natural antibiotic and antiseptic properties. But I will emphasize that the honey must be in a RAW state - the way it exists in nature and before some companies heat it. As chemists know, heating elements in nature or in the lab changes the chemical compound. Somtimes it is a benefit and other times not. Eating RAW honey is the superior way to go!

Beet tops are wonderful blood purifiers and putting these leaves in the bottom of a stainless steel pan prevents burning your food. In European countries celery was used to rejuvenate Olympic athletes with great results. It is the most cooling thing you can have in the body after arduous competitive games. If you want to stay cool in the summer mix celery and pineapple juices for it replaces the salts lost in perspiration on an extremely hot day. Cucumbers are also a cooling food because they are high in organic sodium just like celery...and will help you stay "cool as a cucumber."

Leeks are good because of their powerful effect in driving out various forms of germ life in the body, not dissimilar from garlic's ability to kill bugs. Onions are also great for ridding the body of catarrh. Onion packs have been used for centuries for chest conditions, just like hot mustard packs grew in popularity for their ability to heat the body.

Lemon Juice is nature's most powerful antiseptic use it internally and externally. you can apply it to corns, on your scalp, on sores, use it for an eyewash or gargle...People in various countries known these things because they are far from medical hospitals or doctors and must know the value of the plants to survive.

Lettuce - there is not much nourishment in head lettuce - but juicing it up will make you sleep soundly at night because it contains an opium-like by product that also slows digestion.

Mushrooms -such as Shitake, Maitake, and Reishi are used today in various formulas to prevent disease because they are rich in germanium which increases the amount of oxygen in each cell. Where there is an oxygen rich environment disease is scant.

Nuts- raw nuts are best - to work as nerve elements also high in manganese and zinc which feed glands such as the prostate. Walnuts when cracked open look like a brain - get a clue there.

Papaya is very good for stomach troubles and helps to digest food. It helps to breakdown toxic protein deposits all over the body. LIke pineapple, papaya contains protease, an enzymes that helps to metabolize proteins. Infact, leave some papaya tablets or slices of raw pineapple on meat overnight and in the morning you will find a mound of mush! I know this to be true I've ruined some holiday hams forgetting not to add fresh pineapple while crockpotting. I've suggested chewing papaya tablets for mouth troubles to many people over the years and the result is always positive.

Pumpkin seeds are terrific protein and help to eliminate certain critters in the body while supporting the prostate gland as well

Radishes are good for gallbladder or catarrhal conditions. Try some of the Korean radish dishes and you are sure to start sweating...horseradish is great on the tip of the tongue to clear a stuffy nose. Hold it for 30 seconds and you will start to clear your sinuses

Red foods are usually blood builders and glandular foods. All of the berries are powerful anti-oxidants and are deep red in color. Nature is kind to us by giving us so many clues. Simply foods that are shaped like glands support glandular health, foods that are green keep us clean internally (help to eliminate toxins), foods that are golden/orange take care of skin conditions, as well as, bowel conditions. If you slice a carrot you will see that it mimicks the human eye - you've heard how good carrots are for night blindness because they are rich in Vitmain A-in the form of Beta Carotene. When you have too much Beta Carotene in the blood your skin turns oranage!

A tomato has four chambers like the human heart (clue) and contains lycopene found to reduce the damage by LDL in two months.In fact the medication called Ateronon contains lycopene. In fact, a neurovascular surgeon by the name of Peter Kirkpatrick at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge researched lycopene and concluded that it protected the arteries, heart and the brain!

Cherries: are rich in iron and help prevent anemia

Squash is rich in betacarotene and good for the skin and eyes - a form of vitamin a

Taro Root is a good remedy in case of intestinal distress or colitis and is easily digested. native to the Hawaiin Islands they know how good it is.

Turnips are great for those who suffer with lung, bronchial, sinus troubles because they contain both sulphur (which drives blood upward) and Vitamin A which products the mucous membrane.

Black Cherry Juice Concentrate is FABULOUS remedy for GOUT! I've had so many people over the years thank me for just that little tip. It will also help to get rid of the crystals in your joints people - so gets some concentrated (unsweetened) cherry juice at your health food store and take a teaspoon in 8 oz of water between meals to help reduce the symptoms of gout from too many purines in the blood.

FlaxSeeds (a yellow food) terrific for constipation and to keep the bowel regular. Also contains high amounts of essential fatty acids Omegas 3,6,9

Apple juice, raw apple juice is a good drink for summer and filled with many of the electrolytes needed to rejuvenate the body during overheating.

Deep yellow foods help constipation--so apricots, figs, prunes (yellow meat inside), corn, etc are all good, rich in magnesium and vitamin a to sooth the lining of the colon.

Now you know some of the secrets that nature has provided for us and how to use them. Remember to eat organic foods whenever possible, or from your own garden because we want to stay away from poisonous herbicides and pesticides.

Be sure to eat the outer coverings of fruits and vegetables. Did you know that you can eat the entire Kiwi, orange skins, cucumbers (unless you are sensitive), apples of course, and even banana peels? There are so many foods that we can and should be eating whole but we have become a nation living life away from the land in most cases.

Please don't cook foods that you can eat raw whenever possible.Take enzymes if you have trouble eating certain foods. Try mashing foods like we do for babies so it begins the breakdown prior to ingestion if you have a sensitive stomach.

Overall, aim to eliminate as much of what man has done "to" food and your life will be healthier. Cut down on processed and preserved foods, fried foods, salted foods, candied foods and all lifeless food such as candy and soda.

And by the way, to stay really well eliminate those things (people, places, foods, habits, things, ideas, etc) that do not support your total wellness.

If something is detracting from your life it is killing you slowly - so re-evaluate your choices at least once per month on every level and you will be healthier. Take steps starting right now that will bring you to a healthier place and more enjoyable life - you owe it to yourself and you certainly deserve to be Totally Well.

Live well, live strong, live long and LOVE LIFE!