My name is the Undefeated Life.   I’m a single parent of a disabled child, my son Raymond is Autistic.  Raymond also has seizure disorder, scoliosis, and Hydro-cephaly. 

Raymond is 21 years old now.  The one thing that I’ve always wanted to give my son was life.   When he was born, I had to ask myself, what brought this about?  Today I received an email, and after reading it, I had to cry….tears of understanding. And because this email is so deep I decided I’ll read it to you.  It’s entitled, ‘Two Choices’…  It is a True Story. 

At a fundraising dinner for a school that serves children with learning disabilities, the father of one of the students delivered a speech that would never be forgotten by all who attended. After extolling the school and its dedicated staff, he offered a question:

‘When not interfered with by outside influences, everything nature does, is done with perfection.

Yet my son, Shay, cannot learn things as other children do. He cannot understand things as other children do.  Where is the natural order of things in my sFrun-tong” alt=”" width=”260″ height=”238″ />Hi Everybody, 

My name is the Undefeated Life.   I’m a single parent of a disabled child, my son Raymond is Autistic.  Raymond also has seizure disorder, scoliosis, and Hydro-cephaly. 

Raymond is 21 years old now.  The one thing that I’ve always wanted to give my son was life.   When he was born, I had to ask myself, what brought this about?  Today I received an email, and after reading it, I had to cry….tears of understanding. And because this email is so deep I decided I’ll read it to you.  It’s entitled, ‘Two Choices’…  It is a True Story. 

At a fundraising dinner for a school that serves children with learning disabilities, the father of one of the students delivered a speech that would never be forgotten by all who attended. After extolling the school and its dedicated staff, he offered a question:

‘When not interfered with by outside influences, everything nature does, is done with perfection.

Yet my son, Shay, cannot learn things as other children do. He cannot understand things as other children do.  Where is the natural order of things in my sFrun-to-the-ng” alt=”" width=”260″ height=”238″ />Hi Everybody, 

My name is the Undefeated Life.   I’m a single parent of a disabled child, my son Raymond is Autistic.  Raymond also has seizure disorder, scoliosis, and Hydro-cephaly. 

Raymond is 21 years old now.  The one thing that I’ve always wanted to give my son was life.   When he was born, I had to ask myself, what brought this about?  Today I received an email, and after reading it, I had to cry….tears of understanding. And because this email is so deep I decided I’ll read it to you.  It’s entitled, ‘Two Choices’…  It is a True Story. 

At a fundraising dinner for a school that serves children with learning disabilities, the father of one of the students delivered a speech that would never be forgotten by all who attended. After extolling the school and its dedicated staff, he offered a question:

‘When not interfered with by outside influences, everything nature does, is done with perfection.

Yet my son, Shay, cannot learn things as other children do. He cannot understand things as other children do.  Where is the natural order of things in my sFrun-to-the-sun.png” alt=”" width=”260″ height=”238″ />Hi Everybody, 

My name is the Undefeated Life.   I’m a single parent of a disabled child, my son Raymond is Autistic.  Raymond also has seizure disorder, scoliosis, and Hydro-cephaly. 

Raymond is 21 years old now.  The one thing that I’ve always wanted to give my son was life.   When he was born, I had to ask myself, what brought this about?  Today I received an email, and after reading it, I had to cry….tears of understanding. And because this email is so deep I decided I’ll read it to you.  It’s entitled, ‘Two Choices’…  It is a True Story. 

At a fundraising dinner for a school that serves children with learning disabilities, the father of one of the students delivered a speech that would never be forgotten by all who attended. After extolling the school and its dedicated staff, he offered a question:

‘When not interfered with by outside influences, everything nature does, is done with perfection.

Yet my son, Shay, cannot learn things as other children do. He cannot understand things as other children do.  Where is the natural order of things in my sFrun-to-the-sun.png” alt=”" width=”260″ height=”238″ />Hi Everybody, 

My name is the Undefeated Life.   I’m a single parent of a disabled child, my son Raymond is Autistic.  Raymond also has seizure disorder, scoliosis, and Hydro-cephaly. 

Raymond is 21 years old now.  The one thing that I’ve always wanted to give my son was life.   When he was born, I had to ask myself, what brought this about?  Today I received an email, and after reading it, I had to cry….tears of understanding. And because this email is so deep I decided I’ll read it to you.  It’s entitled, ‘Two Choices’…  It is a True Story. 

At a fundraising dinner for a school that serves children with learning disabilities, the father of one of the students delivered a speech that would never be forgotten by all who attended. After extolling the school and its dedicated staff, he offered a question:

‘When not interfered with by outside influences, everything nature does, is done with perfection.

Yet my son, Shay, cannot learn things as other children do. He cannot understand things as other children do.  Where is the natural order of things in my son?’

The audience was stilled by the query.
The father continued. ‘I believe that when a child like Shay, who was mentally and physically disabled comes into the world, an opportunity to realize true human nature presents itself, and it comes in the way other people treat that child.’

Then he told the following story:

Shay and I had walked past a park where some boys Shay knew were playing baseball. Shay asked, ‘Do you think they’ll let me play?’ I knew that most of the boys would not want someone like Shay on their team, but as a father I also understood that if my son were allowed to play, it would give him a much-needed sense of belonging and some confidence to be accepted by others in spite of his handicaps.

I approached one of the boys on the field and asked (not expecting much) if Shay could play. The boy looked around for guidance and said, ‘We’re losing by six runs and the game is in the eighth inning. I guess he can be on our team and we’ll try to put him in to bat in the ninth inning….’

Shay struggled over to the team’s bench and, with a broad smile, put on a team shirt… I watched with a small tear in my eye and warmth in my heart. The boys saw my joy at my son being accepted.

In the bottom of the eighth inning, Shay’s team scored a few runs but was still behind by three.
In the top of the ninth inning, Shay put on a glove and played in the right field. Even though no hits came his way,omes in the way other people treat that child.’

Then he told the following story:

Shay and I had walked past a park where some boys Shay knew were playing baseball. Shay asked, ‘Do you think they’ll let me play?’ I knew that most of the boys would not want someone like Shay on their team, but as a father I also understood that if my son were allowed to play, it would give him a much-needed sense of belonging and some confidence to be accepted by others in spite of his handicaps.

I approached one of the boys on the field and asked (not expecting much) if Shay could play. The boy looked around for guidance and said, ‘We’re losing by six runs and the game is in the eighth inning. I guess he can be on our team and we’ll try to put him in to bat in the ninth inning….’

Shay struggled over to the team’s bench and, with a broad smile, put on a team shirt… I watched with a small tear in my eye and warmth in my heart. The boys saw my joy at my son being accepted.

In the bottom of the eighth inning, Shay’s team scored a few runs but was still behind by three.
In the top of the ninth inning, Shay put on a glove and played in the right field. Even though no hits came his way, he was obviously ecstatic just to be in the game and on the field, grinning from ear to ear as I waved to him from the stands.

In the bottom of the ninth inning, Shay’s team scored again.  Now, with two outs and the bases loaded, the potential winning run was on base and Shay was scheduled to be next at bat.
At this juncture, do they let Shay bat and give away their chance to win the game?

Surprisingly, Shay was given the bat. Everyone knew that a hit was all but impossible because Shay didn’t even know how to hold the bat properly, much less connect with the ball.

However, as Shay stepped up to the plate, the pitcher, recognizing that the other team was putting winning aside for this moment in Shay’s life, moved in a few steps to lob the ball in softly so Shay could at least make contact.

The first pitch came and Shay swung clumsily and missed.
The pitcher again took a few steps forward to toss the ball softly towards Shay.

As the pitch came in, Shay swung at the ball and hit a slow ground ball right back to the pitcher.

The game would now be over.

The pitcher picked up the soft grounder and could have easily thrown the ball to the first baseman.

Shay would have been out and that would have been the end of the game.

Instead, the pitcher threw the ball right over the first baseman’s head, out of reach of all team mates.

Everyone from the stands and both teams started yelling, ‘Shay, run to first!

Run to first!’

Never in his life had Shay ever run that far, but he made it to first base.

He scampered down the baseline, wide-eyed and startled.

Everyone yelled, ‘Run to second, run to second!’

Catching his breath, Shay awkwardly ran towards second, gleaming and struggling to make it to the base.

By the time Shay rounded towards second base, the right fielder had the ball. The smallest guy on their team now had his first chance to be the hero for his team.  He could have thrown the ball to the second-baseman for the tag, but he understood the pitcher’s intentions so he, too, intentionally threw the ball high and far over the third-baseman’s head.

Shay ran toward third base deliriously as the runners ahead of him circled the bases toward home.   All were screaming, ‘Shay, Shay, Shay, all the Way Shay’

Shay reached third base because the opposing shortstop ran to help him by turning him in the direction of third base, and shouted, ‘Run to third!

‘Shay, Run to third!’

As Shay rounded third, the boys from both teams, and the spectators, were on their feet screaming, ‘Shay, run home! Run home!’

Shay ran to home, stepped on the plate, and was cheered as the hero who hit the grand slam and won the game for his team.  ‘That day’, said the father softly with tears now rolling down his face, ‘the boys from both teams helped bring a piece of true love and humanity into this world’.

Shay didn’t make it to another summer. He died that winter, having never forgotten being the hero and making me so happy, and on that day coming home to mom, seeing her tearfully embrace her little hero of the day!

AND NOW A LITTLE FOOT NOTE TO THIS STORY:

We all send thousands of jokes through the e-mail without a second thought, but when it comes to sending messages about the life choices and love, people hesitate.  The crude, vulgar, and often obscene pass freely through cyberspace; but public discussion about decency is too often suppressed in our schools and workplaces.

As I read this email and even now, I find it hard to hold the tears because I’ve seen my son struggle in the same way.  It is time for people… to understand the joy of giving love for the sake of self esteem.  After all those that we give love to may also be struggling with self esteem and exceptance, as was Shay.

 When we put aside our petty conceptualizations and passive vulgarity, and give ourselves the opportunity to lift someone else up in love we only help ourselves and the world around us.

We all have thousands of opportunities every single day to help realize the natural order of things.  So many seemingly trivial interactions between two people present us with a choice:

Do we pass along a little spark of love and humanity, or do we pass up those opportunities and leave the world a little bit colder in the process?

A wise man once said every society is judged by how it treats it’s least fortunate amongst them.

 You can view the Video on this story by clicking on the picture at the top of the page.  You can learn more about Autism and my son, Ray on his website: www.raysautismpage.webs.com

 Thank you,

TheUndefeatedLife

There were three things that I incorporated into my life style and I started them at slightly different times so I don’t know if any one was the real cause in drop or if the synergy from all three was the trick. None of these are earth shattering or difficult. Actually the changes were so easy that I didn’t realize I was even loosing weight.

Change 1. I switched from eating homemade sandwiches to organic soup. I got this tip from the Hugh Downs Medical Breakthrough book I bought when it first came out. I did switch to organic soup a few months ago because the regular soups didn’t sit well in my stomach. I had been taking soups a couple of days a week before. The last month it was just more convenient to take the soup everyday. NOTE I do take a half hour walk on my lunch hour before eating but I have done that for 5 years now. Also I rarely drink soda, instead I make a sweet tea with fruit juices instead of sugar.

Change 2. I added a teaspoon of psyllium seeds to my morning glass of orange juice. I knew I wasn’t getting enough fiber and high fiber bread was a little rough. I knew about this stuff and my wife had  actually taken  this in pill form for a while. I found that it was cheaper in bulk form at my local health food store. NOTE if you take this in its seed form by mixing with a drink make it a cold drink and drink it right away. I put it in a big jug of water thinking I could sip it for a while and it turned into jello! A quick stir broke them apart but that first sip after it had been sitting half an hour was a bit of a surprise.

Change 3. I switched from Black Tea to Ginseng Tea. I was listening to an audio recording on the Global Information Network website by Mr Peter Ragnar. He has spent his life studying martial arts and herbal cures. His number one herbal recommendation for longevity is Ginseng Tea and several other herbs but Ginseng was the most important. So as I was walking through my health food store I found some Ginseng Tea by Yogi. Several other ingredients were also recommended by Mr. Ragnar that were included in the ingredients. So I drink two cups of this tea a day.

That’s it! I switched two things I was already doing sandwich to soup, and regular tea to ginseng tea. Then I added a teaspoon of fiber to my morning juice with a little stir and off I go for the day! As I do the Special K pinch (I know I am showing my age) I can tell that I am still loosing fat so I expect to see another drop in weight next month and since this is so easy I believe anyone can benefit!

Making Life Wonderful Again… [Part 2] 

Your Mind’s Picture of Your Body, the Puzzle Piece to Movement…. 

We know that to visualize things with our minds causes us to formulate pictures, puzzle pieces we call them, of a much bigger completed outcome within the thought processes.   I found it interesting to read the following from this article describing how scientists were able to transfer the brain’s thoughts; something which is un-seen and un-tangible at the physical level, into something tangible at the physical level… 

Scientist explained that below the level of the amputee’s consciousness, lived an intact complete image of that arm, this sub-conscious image is called a phantom.  When the patient thinks about flexing the elbow, the phantom image moves its elbow.  With that mind picture occurring within the thought of movement, impulses begin racing down from the patient’s brain and are picked up by the electrode sensors of the prosthetic which then convert into signals that turn motors causing the artificial elbow to bend. 

Other areas of bionic advancements include Cochlear implants.  These implants stimulate nerves inside the inner ear, allowing people with severe to profound deafness to hear…   American Sign Language (A.S.L.) is the third most used language in the entire world!   Just think now the huge Deaf population has a choice of hearing offered to them with this new technology!

Bone Integration…In 2006, I received a crushed foot injury with torn ligaments to the ankle.  At one point I thought I was going to loose my foot.   However I felt that I had hope; and because I desired to stop the constant pain of my injury; I wanted a prosthetic limb, what is called a “Sparky.”   This current prosthetic’s name is short for “Spring Ankle with Regenerative Kinetics.”  It uses a motor and spring to assist ambulation with a powered push off in gait.   Newer studies on this device are considering attaching prosthesis to residual bone to give the needed support for ambulation; then artificial skin could be used to cover the area to prevent infection caused by prosthetic wear contact (a common occurrence in the usage of prosthetics). 

The Gift of Sight…

This is truly amazing, modern technology in the field of orbital bionics has begun the development of an integrated video camera, transmitter, and receiver vision integration which consists of a belt worn video computer which converts video to a simplified signal.  This signal is then sent to a transmitter which sends the signal wirelessly to an implant in the eye.    Then, this implant (the receiver) sends the signal to the optic nerve’s electrode array which stimulates the retina of the eye.    Having received this stimulation, the optic nerve carries the signal from the retina to the brain, which perceives the visual patterns corresponding to the electrodes that are being stimulated. 

These developments could easily have come right out of the pages of Mark Hamilton’s writings in his Miss. Annabelle story.    This is truly amazing to me in that, even though we know our Neothink® world is yet to develop fully; today higher consciousness types of technological advancements, and thoughts of innovative creations as described in the Miss Annabelle story are taking place in our time! 

This really excites me…

With the advancements in Bionic Limb Replacement, the medical profession can now utilize these advancements to enhance the lives of many amputees that perhaps at some point had lost hope of ever living a normal life.   We know that the purpose of human life is to prosper and live happily.   These advancements make that possible for many today. 

Mark Hamilton writes on the topic of Universal Health, “The new technologies, racing ahead in all industries, will especially race ahead in the medical industry without the destructive cost-prohibitive FDA regulations holding the geniuses back.   The geniuses will eradicate disease after disease, and their soaring new technologies will drive down medical costs.  People will live with increasingly better healthy for increasingly longer lives.   Today, the Future is Here! 

Thank you,

Bionic Arm from the January 2010 Edition of National Geographic

As a subscribed member to Mark Hamilton’s Neothink® Society, I have in my home library one of the most wonderful books I have ever read.  I love to read books; one year I set out to read 500 books and I did just that.   Most of those books were Science Fiction because I am intrigued with the sciences. 

There is a book authored by Mark Hamilton titled, Miss Annabelle’s Secrets.  This book is one of the most beautiful writings I have ever read; it provides a vision that is all encompassing in favor of the persistence of life and the future of mankind.  To set the stage for this fascinating topic of, “Science Technology in the Field of Medicine, Making Life Wonderful Again,” I want you to read this very brief excerpt from Miss Annabelle’s Secrets. 

Excerpt from page 703, large Heirloom, paragraph 3:

“The medical industry is now the phenomenon the computer industry once was.  In fact, I feel certain that the medical ‘garage’ entrepreneurs and their many approaches’ in bio-engineering, genetics, and nanotechnology will obsolete the need for…” and You will have to get the book, Miss Annabelle’s Secrets to learn the next word in that exciting paragraph! 

As I read a recent article from National Geographic pertaining to technological advances in the medical industry in the areas of Bionics, I came to a sometimes elusive realization that today we are seeing the advances in the fields of medicine that were written about by Mark Hamilton a decade ago.   And the Annabelle story referenced the possibility of future advancements to the medical industry once the changes in government regulations took place as a result of the Prime Law Amendment.   I have now come to a new realization due to a recent article I read in National Geographic Sciences… 

“The Future Is Here!” It comes to the medical sciences industry today in the form of Bionics… 

 The Etymology or breakdown in the word origin of bionics comes from, bi (as in “life”) + onics (as in electronics”); therefore bionics is the study of mechanical systems that function like living organisms or parts of living organisms. 

I came upon this article about a woman who has been able to live a quality life due to the scientific advancements of bionics to the field of medicine.   The arm displayed here is actually connected through electrodes to the patient’s neuron-nerve function network allowing the bionic arm to move in much the same way as any normal arm would, with brain wave messaging movement to various limbs through the Neuro-Network. 

From the shoulders to the tips of the fingers, the human arm has 22 points of motion.  Nerves within the brain carry out these movement instructions from bursts of brainwave synapses energy charges sent from first, the brain, then to the spinal cord, and finally to the muscles within the arm.  

How it Works… 

The current and readily available prosthesis, “The Pincer-Hand Prosthesis” provides the ability for three arm movements.  These movements occur when the patient moves levers on a chest worn harness.  These levers are connected to cables which in-turn moves specific parts of this type of prosthesis.  

This provides an amputee with some functionality, however the new, “Modular Prosthetic Limb,” provides up to 22 movements of the arm. These advancements in the bionics field of medicine allow this model to connect directly to the patients nerves, and then send the brains commands to the electrode arrays which are implanted in the residual nerves of the patient. 

There is a computer chip on each of these arrays which sends data wirelessly to a receiver on the skin.  This receiver is connected by wires to another chip that decodes the command and wires it to the limb controller in the palm of the prosthetic; this sets the mobility motors within the prosthetic into motion causing the limb to move. 

Thank you for visiting Neothink® Essence today.  Be sure to come back and read part two if you don’t have time right now… 

Thank you, 

The Undefeated Life

Bionic Arm from the January 2010 Edition of National Geographic

Helpful herbs and vegetables to combat Diabetes… 

Note: many of these herbals can be found in your local health foods store; and you can also find a variety of these at your local GNC stores, (General Nutrition Center).    

1. Bitter Gourd (Karela): Bitter gourd Momordica-charantia or bitter melon juice is found to be very effective for diabetes.  It contains plant insulin and should be taken 2 ounce 2 times daily on an empty stomach. It can be cooked as any vegetable and eaten. Or the bitter melon powder can be made by drying. Take bitter gourd powder I teaspoon daily in empty stomach.
2.  Taking half a teaspoon of cinnamon a day may help prevent the onset of diabetes. Even soaking a cinnamon sticks in your tea, could also benefit non-diabetics who have blood sugar problem but are unaware of it.
3. 3. 30 gram fenugreek seeds can be soaked in a glass of water at night and after 12 hours take it and grind it into a paste with the soaked water and drink it on a empty stomach. Or 2 teaspoon if powdered seeds can be taken with water or milk. Or you can add fenugreek into anything you cook.
4. Eating upto 3 grapefruits a day has also been helpful.
5. 1 tablespoon of amla (Emblica officinalis) after removing the seeds extract the juice and mix with a cup of bitter gourd juice and take daily for 2 months in a empty stomach.
6. Gymnema Sylvestre a traditional ayurvedic herb the leaf of which is to be taken up to 4 grams per day.
7. Indian blackberry seeds or Jamun seed powder (scientific name of Jamun is Eugenia jambolana or Syzygium cumini L and) is very good for diabetes. Take 1/4th teaspoon with 1 teasoon honey for 50 days.
8. Eating freshly crushed raw garlic 3-4 grams a day lowers blood sugar. You can wash it down with a glass of water.

9.   Neem seeds daily 2 times a pinch. Taking a gram of neem leaf daily helps in diabetes.

10.  Bael (Aegle marmelos): The leave of the bael tree when chewed are very useful in      diabetes. Pulp of this fruit could be dried and taken in doses of 5 to 10 gms a day.

11.  A pinch of pure turmeric powders mixed in amla juice (Indian goose berry) daily on an empty stomach.

12.  Use of turmeric and gooseberry in equal quantities in power form taken with warm water is very useful.  These activate the pancreatic cells to help produce more insulin.

13. Wild jeerakam cumin seeds black colored 60 gm in 1 liter of water and boil to reduce it to 1/4^th liter and take half by dividing it into two equal parts and drink one part in the morning and one in the evening.

14. Grind (Bacopa Monnier Bhrahmi) and add a teaspoon of ti to milk and drink.

Ten Foods and Herbs That Will Help You Beat Diabetes

(This is what I did to remove Raymond’s Diagnosis of Diabetes)

Pumpkin Soup, Ital Stew, and Oats Porridge with Cinnamon all have the properties that can help to control and even beat the epidemic of Diabetes according many natural cures specialists. But before you begin to excite your taste buds with these foods, it would be wise to first get rid of the foods that contribute to diabetes. This may be hard for you, but you’ve got to immediately clear your pantry and refrigerator of sodas, high fructose juices and snacks, sugar, white rice, white flour, white bread and pasta etc.

The foods mentioned flood your blood stream with an unprecedented amount of sugar.  This rapid flood of sugar puts a lot of strain on your pancreas – the maker of insulin that removes sugar from the blood stream. If you do not control this flood of sugar via your diet, the pancreas will eventually short circuit and produce less or even stop secreting insulin.  The Western Diet is one that is heavily saturated with sugars, bleached flours, and carbohydrates; no wonder the pancreas get confused and thinks it needs to stop producing insulin. 

Once you have cleared your pantry of those life threatening foods; start to incorporate a regular exercise routine.  Exercising, coupled with a low sugar, low carbohydrate diet will help you to lose the extra weight which helps the body to regulate insulin needs.  Also, by eating the foods listed below you can actually help prevent, control, or even beat diabetes the natural way:

Pumpkin
Research conducted on pumpkin shows that it contains compounds that help to prevent the destruction of and regeneration of damaged pancreatic cells. As a result, pumpkin also helps to increase insulin levels in the blood. The protective effect of pumpkin is thought to be due to both antioxidants and molecules that mediate insulin activity.
Ital Stew
An ital stew made with peas, okra, pumpkin, carrots, cho cho and stewed down with coconut milk and served with brown rice provides fiber, mucilage and a wide variety of nutrients that will slow sugar absorption into the blood stream and regulate insulin response.

Cherries, Cinnamon and Buckwheat
Researches have identified antioxidants, beneficial compounds and fiber cherries, cinnamons and buckwheat respectively that can help to lower blood sugar levels. Cherries contain a group of antioxidants that help increase insulin production, and up to half a teaspoon of cinnamon powder on food for forty day show blood sugar lowering capabilities.

Tea
Five cups of black or green tea per day research says could significantly reduce cataract formation. Black, green and oolong teas could also increase insulin activity. Add lemon and please, no sugar!

Coconut oil
It is believed that coconut oil puts less of a demand on the enzyme production of the pancreas. This lessens the stress on the pancreas during mealtime when insulin is produced most heavily, thus allowing the organ to function more efficiently. According to the Journal of the Indian Medical Association, coconut oil in the diet enhances insulin action and improves binding affinity compared to other oils.

American Ginseng
Researchers at St. Michael’s Hospital and the University of Toronto have found that taking American ginseng before a meal reduces blood sugar in people both with and without diabetes

Logwood Bark
This is a long time tradition remedy for diabetes. Boil 1 ounce logwood chips in a pint of distilled water for 10 minutes. Add 2 teaspoon near end. Drink 1-2 ounces daily. 

So there is your list of natural remedies which you can utilize to overcome your diabetic condition. 

Diet is an important factor for maintaining a healthy body…So follow your doctor’s diet instructions as well.   I eliminated fast foods, sugars, bleached flours, and significantly reduced the amount of carbohydrates that my son consumed.   Just doing that caused him to loose 12 lbs of stored fat from his body and helped to balance out his insulin levels so that after implementing the diet and adding some of the holistic remedies listed above; after two months of following a diet and supplement intervention plan, my son’s next blood work-up came back with normal insulin levels. 

That is when life gets exhilarating….when you are no longer helpless, but you become an over-comer of seemingly hopeless health issues.   

Thank you,   TheUndefeatedLife

When I was thirty-two years old I experienced a paralysis on the left side of my body. Little did I know how positively that my physical challenge would affect my journey. As you can imagine I was bombarded by negative opinions regarding my situation including the diagnosis from medical physicians that I had Multiple Sclerosis. Thank goodness that I had a background of years of positive mental conditioning and used my disciplined mind to focus on seeing myself living the life that I wanted to live and not on what I did not want.

I chose the alternative route to healing and voila. Through the mentorship of natural physicians I began consuming natural supplements and attending natural health seminars annually instead of pursuing the traditional western orthodox medicine route. I was exposed to products and information that took me to the next level. I learned about a wealth of information that was kept “secret” from the masses i.e. the origin of the AIDS virus, the devaluation of the dollar. This was over sixteen years ago. Talking about a “rabbit hole”.

My alternative health journey has enriched my life of every level. I have met many like-minded individuals nationally and globally that have shared valuable information with me. Today one of my favorite venues is Whole Foods in Chicago’s Lincoln Park area because there I can socialize with friends while we choose delicious food for our individual palates. Feeling good

I am not a physician.  I am a parent that has had to research alternative therapies for the treatment of my son’s, one time Diabetes diagnosis.  It is in that way I offer this information to you.  I become very sad when I realize that so many people feel helpless to overcome an unfortunate health diagnoses.  I am here to say, “There is hope, and it within in your hands and your abilities to create a new hope for a healthy lifestyle as you empower yourself through your own education and implementation of alternate and natural cures into your current diabetic care regimen.   You can help yourself and begin to take back the healthy lifestyle that you have always wanted and had opportunity to enjoy in your life.  This is your empowerment to overcome and live the best possible life you can have despite your diabetic diagnosis.” 

As you begin to take control of your life through research and self-education, you will be extremely encouraged with your own ability to heal yourself.   And you know I have found that when we take assertive action to overcome our disabilities; we also heal our wounded emotional base which brings to us a greater appreciation for life itself.   Then this new and regained inner emotional healing adds healthy years to your life as many studies today have clearly indicated that people that can be happy to the core of there emotional being actually live longer, and maintain better health.  Then your new healthy quality of life itself brings to you a new level of joy and exhilaration for life because you are taking control of your health outcome.  You are self-empowering your future.  There is tremendous power in this. 

That being said, I wanted to share with you one of the most important health orientated self education websites you can utilize to enhance your ability to attain a better quality of life no matter what your diagnosis may be. This website is: Natural Cures | About NaturalCures.com.

Quote taken from, Find A Natural Cure | NaturalCures.com:  The Effects of Diabetes…

“Because the effects of diabetes can be so severe, good diabetes care is crucial. Diabetes treatments offered by the medical profession range from tablets which stimulate the production of insulin to others that reduce insulin resistance. Other diabetes treatments require the injection of insulin to replace the body’s deficiency.

However, some diabetes treatments can be boosted by natural diabetes cures. There are natural cures for diabetes that do not involve the use of pharmaceutical drugs, and these involve restoring the biochemical balance of the body, and making dietary and lifestyle changes designed to improve your general health.”

O.K. Now,  Read on to [Part 3] of Understanding Diabetes and What You Can Do About It to receive a valuable  list of useful herbs and foods that can help you in your battle to overcome the diagnosis of diabetes.    Thank you, TheUndefeatedLife

I remember when I first received the news that my son was diagnosed with Autism; I could do no more than simply sit and think, and think about what that meant, and how that dramatically changed the course of both my life and my hopes for the life of my son. I felt so helpless, as if there were nothing I could do to change the outcome of his life. We naturally feel helpless initially when we receive quote, “bad news” about our health. However, I know knowledge is power and I want to share some information with you about how you can beat your diagnosis of Diabetes. My son was also diagnosed with this condition; and I am happy to say that he no longer has this diagnosis.

There is a way to get over the un-needed devastation that the diagnosis of Diabetes can bring. So let’s define Diabetes, and then we will move on to what you can do to eliminate the effects of this condition from your life.

Diabetes (diabetes mellitus) is a chronic (meaning active and on-going), degenerative disease caused by insulin deficiencies due to the body being incapable of producing normal insulin levels. Diabetes also occurs when there is a predisposition to insulin resistance. Insulin is a hormone produced by the pancreas to metabolize glucose, a form of sugar that is one of the primary sources of your cells` energy supply. Whether diabetes is caused by insulin resistance or a lack of insulin, the end result in the same: the body is unable to transport enough glucose from the bloodstream into the cells of the body.

Estimations with regard to those affected with this condition, state that one third of all people who have diabetes are unaware of their condition, just as I was about my son’s diabetic condition. Diabetes accounts for nearly ten percent of all U.S. deaths for people 25 and older. It is also the main cause of new cases of blindness among adults 20 to 74 years old, and it is the leading cause of end-stage renal (kidney) disease. In addition, diabetes is the primary reason for amputations of the limb, and is a leading cause of heart disease. There are natural cures for Diabetes that do not involve the use of pharmaceutical drugs. They involve restoring the biochemical balance of the body, and making dietary and lifestyle changes which are designed to improve your over-all general health. We don’t always have to turn to drugs and surgery to cure our health problems. Many people would prefer to try natural cures that have been tried and tested over time and which can apply as a complement to many other forms of treatment.

That is the information I want to share with you in [Part 2] of, Understanding Diabetes, and What You Can Do About it. It is truly amazing! Many of the things I will share with you are the interventions that I used to remove the diagnosis of Diabetes from my son’s life. So be sure to read the following blogs on this subject.
Thank you, The Undefeated Life
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I believe that the family unit is one of the most important influences that we have in life.   Today we need to feel that we have the support of a solid unit such as our families so that we can draw strength from that union of support and encouragement.   For this reason and many more, we do need to maintain our health so that we can continue to live as a family and enjoy each other’s growth throughout time.  Our families give us so many things in life that we need in order to survive.  We receive love and guidance that can be trusted from a family member because we know that their desires for us are sincere and pure.  Our family members really want the best for us.

 To me, a beautiful family unit is one that constitutes the bringing forward of all those things in life that support the life of the family unit itself, as well as the emotional wellbeing of each individual…  Things like prosperity in the form of a warm and loving place to live, the health gained from good life habits that promote living as long as possible, and with the fullest potential; and finally, a family organization brings us peace and comfort, our emotional strength..  We love those warm and wonderful feelings of comfort and acceptance that we get from our family unit. They lift us up and make us feel important to each other and the world around us.

 I wanted to share with you an article I read in Health Magazine, it is an article provided by Doctor Oz and written on the topic of quote, “My Top 10 Anti-Aging Secrets.”   I really like to watch Doctor Oz, as he provides such great life giving information and in such an enthusiastic manner, you just cannot help but want to emulate his thoughts on a healthy lifestyle.    Interesting to me was the fact that this article focused on 10 Anti-Aging Secrets; but the family component was outlined as tools for the accomplishment of Doctor Oz’s Top 10 Life-Giving, Anti-Aging Tips. Here they are:

 1) Don’t Go Hungry.  When most people want to stay at a healthy weight, they starve themselves. Doctor Oz says, “Don’t starve your self.  If you don’t fuel up regularly, you’ll become insatiably hungry, causing the hunger hormone, ghrelin, to spike.”   The problem is that it takes a half-hour for that hormone to return to normal once you start to eat, but in that 30 minutes you’ll likely chow through many more calories than that (if you hadn’t eaten on an empty stomach).   If you want to avoid excessive hunger, eat small and convenient snacks that provide bulk and are high in protein.  I was glad to know that I have been following this kind of idea for quite some time now personally.  I eat almonds and nuts for protein and bulk as the protein helps nourish the body and abates hunger.  Carry an apple in your car; keep one in your desk, or in your briefcase.  Fruits provide bulk, making you feel full; but they also provide natural sugars that can give you energy.  When people feel tired they begin to think of food for comfort and energy…I say get ahead of the game and plan your snack schedule to abate hunger cravings.

 2) Automate Breakfast and Lunch. How do you automate these meals?  You need a healthy “Go To Option” when it is time to enjoy these meals.  Without a healthy go-to option for each of these meals, you’re far more likely to make bad spur-of-the-moment grabs which usually are high in carbs and sugars; these make you have craving for more of the same types of foods.   Organize these meals through healthy meal planning is what Doctor Oz is recommending. “Having a staple of one or two healthy food choices that are usuals on the shopping list make grocery shopping easier, as you don’t want to reinvent the wheel every day.”  So, have one or two healthy choices of foods in your pantry to select from so that you can create a streamlined pattern of eating healthy and adding convenience to your eating structure; this will alleviate stress in your life related to meal purchase and planning as well as freeing up your time during these meals.”  Kind of sounds like a Neothink®   dieting practice doesn’t it?

 3) Exercise 20 Minutes A Day “AT HOME.”  Why stay at home? Most people don’t feel they have the time to exercise each day for twenty minutes.  Doctor Oz says, “If you have to go somewhere to exercise, you’re automatically going to need more that 20 minutes, and it violates the flow of your day”; (what we call the mini-day schedule).  “This makes it less likely that you will receive your needed daily exercise.”    An hour is a long time whereas 20 minutes is nothing.  Keeping your daily workout goal short and convenient works because none of us want to admit that our lives are so disorganized that we can’t carve out 20 quick minutes of exercise in our day.”

 I go to the gym three times a week.   I run a mile or two, and spend an hour lifting weights and doing resistance training.  On the off days I walk my dog (a large German Sheppard who keeps a fast pace and pulls me along).  Our walks are 15 minutes and we usually take two walks a day.   Doctor Oz says a good example of a twenty minute exercise routine at home is: Skip rope in your driveway, and alternate with crunches and push-ups; do twenty minutes of a workout video, or walk in your neighborhood.  Here is Doctor Oz’s daily→ Quickie Workout

 4) Be the Food Decider in Your House.  This can be difficult when shopping at the grocery store with the kids; but the big decisions about what to eat must be made you at the supermarket.  This is how Doctor Oz explains it.   “If you bring chips and cookies home, your kids (and you) will naturally want to eat them.  And if you try to restrict them, you’ll actually cause your child to crave them more.  But, if you don’t buy sweets to begin with, kids won’t even miss them.”   I personally have stopped buying sweets and cookies when shopping with my son at the grocery store.  Instead I buy fruit and nut trail mixes, pretzels, and gelatin fruit snacks.  I have also introduced my son to things like slightly cooked broccoli with ranch dressing, celery with peanut butter, and fresh sliced carrots with ranch dressing.  In the cereal aisle we buy raisin bran and honey nut cheerios.  Now my son actually tells me what fresh veggie snack foods he prefers to eat.  Doctor Oz closes his ideas on this with, “Parents, don’t be concerned if your children don’t want healthy snacks, they will eat them when they get hungry enough.”  

 5) Eat Dinner Together Every Night. How does this help us?   Today, so many of us are just so busy we don’t even stop to enjoy the family gathered around dinner table for a warm and welcoming meal together.   Here is what Doctor Oz says on this, “I can talk about the importance of nutrients for good health all day.  But studies show that if you want your kids to have an appreciation of how precious their bodies are, you can’t beat just sitting down together.  Studies show this simple ritual improves not just kid’s eating habits but their grades and willingness to open up to you too.”  When families come together to eat, they create an emotional harmony that continues to contribute greatly to the overall health and wellbeing of the family unit as a whole.   This is a long term outcome.

6) Play Together Every Day.  Doctor Oz says, “In our house, we put on 50 Cent and the kids bop around.  It’s our very own dance party.  Just like with exercising at home for 20 minutes, the key is to carve out a reliable pocket of time when you can actually get active as a family.  Working up a sweat together is an anti-aging move too.  Using your mind to activate your muscles, either to dance or catch a ball, is one of the best ways to keep yourself young.”   I could not agree more; my son and I spend every other night together playing games. He is physically limited so we don’t get to be too physical.  Also, I ride bikes and scooter’s with him at least once or twice a week.  What I love about this time with him is that we really connect in play with a joyful innocence that can only be achieved through un-inhibited playing together – just for fun.   So, make some time to go out and play with your kids.

 7) Let Your Children Police You.  You can empower your kids, which helps to build their independence through self esteem by talking to them about smart-eating goals.  Doctor Oz says, “When you talk to your kids about good eating habits, you should also encourage them to call you out if they see you grabbing junk food.  It makes them feel like part of the solution to over all health within the family unit, instead of feeling singled out as the only ones who have to follow healthy-eating rules.”

  Tell Little Ones a Bedtime Story.  Bedtime is the one time in the day that kids let their guard down –when their tired and about to go under, according to Doctor Oz.  This is a prime time for you to hear what’s really on their minds, it’s a good time for you to listen and respond and impart some knowledge that pertains to their circumstance.  If you have older children, just before bed is a great time to talk with them about their day.  If you create a pattern of doing this just before bed with your older children they will begin to anticipate your talks and will think in advance of what they want to talk with you about.  This contemplative type of discussion is one that provides the greatest amount of truth and sincerity.  My son is 19 and to get him to talk with me I ask him about how his day program went for him that day; and I always ask if he is still happy to be there.  It is important for your children, younger or older, and even anyone you care about to know that you want them to be happy in all of their life circumstances.

 9) Make Sure You have A Bedtime Routine.   A good night’s sleep keeps you young.  You need to get at least 7 hours of sleep each night.  Doctor Oz says, “Half of American adults have lost the ability to sleep, and not getting about 7 hours of sleep each night can be a contributing factor to heart attacks and strokes.”   You should keep your bedroom cool and dark. Turn off the TV, radio, or any technology that can interfere with your relaxation in preparation for sleep.   Don’t beat yourself up if you can’t fall asleep after 15 minutes, try reading a book that you keep handy beside your bed so that you can read to relax; or Doctor Oz says you can also meditate if you are unable to sleep.   Try to give your self a mental self affirmation of the beauty in your life.   I personally do a mind-body routine where I alternate moving my ankle of the left foot to bring my toes up, and then when I do the same to the right ankle and foot, I simultaneously bring down the left again.  I have found that this type of mental activity done in repetition causes me to fall asleep – synchronized mental exercises cause the mind to go into a transient state as the thoughts are occurring apart from emotions.  It works for me!

 10) For those of you in a relationship, you are sure to like this: Doctor Oz says, “Bond in Bed.” Having regular sex can add an extra three years to your life expectancy.  Doctor Oz suggests that you should aim for twice a week, “The love that stems from that blissful moment of being in each other’s arms is crucial for strengthening your relationship – and your health.   So for all of you that are lucky enough to have someone to hold in your arms, when you do, make it the most sharing and sensitive, loving moment you possibly can. Sex between lovers is truly beautiful thing

 Best Regards to you all, The Undefeated Life

You know there is a distinct difference between us human beings and the animal kingdom.   When animals are hurt they succumb to their suffering, enduring it until they achieve either a recovery or death.   People on the other hand attempt to communicate their suffering to others.  Many people, like animals simply succumb to their pain in silence attempting to hope for relief through their pain; however it seems to me that many more find themselves feeling so helpless in their suffering that they lash out at others as they express the helplessness of their suffering.

Hurting people that hurt others are really crying out for attention to their pain.  Hurting people feel that there can be no relief for their pain, with this belief they perceive themselves as helpless, vulnerable, and lash out in their pain to those around them.  We are emotional beings first; then perhaps, and hopefully in time, we begin to see the bigger picture of our lives.   

Some say you bring it on yourself.  A statement like that is also a statement that causes hurt and pain.  We all know that there are many types of pain.  When hurting people hurt others they are expressing a very particular type of pain….that pain is the pain of the heart.    This is the most destructive pain there is.  This is emotional pain – it is the unseen within which is hurting us.  This emotional pain causes hurt to the very core of our being, developing into a deep rooted pain within our souls. 

Deep rooted pains coming from the heart are those pains which have found no resolution, no relief.  It has been said that the unseen is that which most affects us, whereas the seen is the lesser of two evils because we can form an understanding of the WHY in an instance where we can see the cause of the pain.   That mental recognition at the very least gives us a way to work through the properties of the things that hurt us because we can identify with it; this is how the animal experiences and deals with pain. 

However, those unseen pains of the heart come from the realm of the unseen.   As we struggle to understand how these unseen feelings can cause us such deep rooted pain, it is because we cannot, at whatever level of higher consciousness we have achieved in life begin to understand the root of the unseen pains of the heart.  Pains of the heart require the contemplation of higher consciousness to mediate our reasoning and eventually understanding of why we hurt.  As we struggle to rationalize this pain we can say there are causes such as, “I have lost the love of my life”, or, “I have lost my ability to financially meet my responsibilities – I feel like such a failure,” or, “I can’t understand why people don’t love and accept me.”   We struggle with these seen causes because they, like the pain of the heart we feel, are tangible; and yet it is the unseen outcome of these tangible things that is our pain – the unseen hurt within our hearts.   

The unseen truly has the potential to do the most harm to our lives and to those around us…..This is why it is so important to learn to work through the pains of the heart at a conscious level.    

When the pains of the heart penetrate our thoughts they become the tools of destruction within us bringing bitterness into our souls essence and, it is at this point that we, through the bitterness that ensues, find ourselves saying things, or doing things that hurt others.   Compounding the problem is the mind set of the world we live in. 

I believe that today our civilization has forgotten to focus on what love is and what love does.  We have exchanged the concept of true inner love, “that which is unseen” with the manifestations of love on a physical “that which we see level.”   How big is your wedding ring?  How much did you spend on planning and inviting your friends to that special occasion or wedding event?   Those things are beautiful manifestations of love, don’t get me wrong – don’t judge me; but, how many of us feel that as time has progressed through our relationships those relationships have stopped fulfilling us as they once had even though we had previously gotten such joy in the physical manifestation of our love?   If love is not the physical manifestation then what is it? 

 Love is the power of life within you.   Love gives you compassion and with that compassion a desire to share love with others.   What love does is give us the ability to use compassion at a mental level to self express our emotions, once the emotional base is established into a form of higher consciousness, so that we can forgive and love others even when they hurt us. This ability lifts them up and through the lifting up of your love and forgiveness towards them – they can find healing from the pains of the heart in time.   Most importantly to the regeneration of the internal you is the fact that when you reach this level of consciousness where love heals at the core, you yourself receive a greater portion of self love within placing you in harmonic unison with the greatest unseen power of all – Love Itself.   Love becomes your great healer.   And when shared, and more importantly received by those you direct your love to, will also lift them up to the higher plains of consciousness where love dwells eventually creating conscious love within them. 

So, why is it so hard to overcome internal pains of the heart? It seems today in modern civilization, we base our value system on those things which are seen.  Because the core of our value structure is based on material matter, that which is seen; the types of satisfaction we derive from those things is less potent as all matter eventually will break down and dissipate; whereas the powerful emotion of love is the essence and power of life regeneration which is replicated within a society through the compassionate giving of ourselves in love to those around us. Without the higher consciousness of this concept at our core being, we simply go on hurting and attempting to mask our hurt through temporal expressions or through the emotional outbursts of pain explosions.   The emotional big bang if you will. 

Love (the unseen) provides the greatest seen of all (life).   Life is both seen and unseen.  Life is the one thing that eternally replicates itself.   If we are healing loving souls of love and compassion we re-create that within those around us both on the physical and emotional levels.  Through this, we continually are self lifting our consciousness to higher and higher plains of life within.  As we develop this state of love its power will send regeneration and healing to those we are compassionate with.   So the question remaining will be, do I want to allow myself to accept that unseen quality of life that lifts me up as the power to heal me within; or, will I continue to find solace in my pain and bitterness? 

I recently shared an experience with my neighbors that brought me to tears – It was because they gave me an expression of love this Thanksgiving by providing me with a full Thanksgiving meal, enough for two days including dessert.    Why was this so touching to me?  It was because prior to this I had the difficult decision to make which required me to report illegal occurrences perpetuated by their teenaged children.    Parents don’t want to hear there may be a problem of that nature pertaining to their children; nevertheless, I knew if I said nothing their children could endanger themselves and perhaps their family.   We worked through this and the child in particular became aware of the direction they were taking and turned from the path.   At one point the Father asked me to call the police on his own child – which I did.   Prior to this our families had shared gift giving throughout the years on all special occasions.    However after this event our love was wounded if you will. 

We dealt with these matters emotionally working through the hardships – sometimes resenting each other – and yet feeling hurt due to the dissolution of our previous relationship.  I am grateful to say that I our love quality stood the test of time and I now know our love was true because now that the worst is behind us, this love that we shared between us brought about forgiveness, leading to compassion, and once again the ability to love each other again.   We once again feel completeness (healing within) as we continue to express the higher conscious levels of shared love through forgiveness.

I hope that this story will help you, and in some way may lift you as I share it in love with you.