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The Practice of the Wild | Artwork by Tiffen Python

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"An ethical life is one that is mindful, mannerly, and has style. Of all moral failings and flaws of character, the worst is stinginess of thought, which includes meanness in all its forms. Rudeness in thought or deed toward others, toward nature, reduces the chances of conviviality and interspecies communication, which are essential to our physical and spiritual survival." by Gary Snyder

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“According to Eastern medicine be it Indian, Chinese, Tibetan or Thai, the left side of the body is totally different from the right side. Even some Buddhist monastic traditions include within their precepts for monks to sleep on their left side. Although it sounds weird resting and sleeping on the left side has many health benefits.

The lymph drains to the left.

The left side of the body is the dominant side of the lymphatic system. Most of the lymph drains down to the thoracic duct which is located on the left side. In its path the lymph transports proteins, glucose metabolites and waste products that are purified by the lymph nodes to be drained to the left side.

Derived from the above it is common to deduct in Eastern medicine that the diseases of the left side of the body may be due to chronic congestion of the lymphatic system.

The priorities of the body.

According to ayurveda congestion occurs in the body following certain priorities. If the lymphatic system is digested, the liver and blood are subsequently saturated with toxic substances. Primary symptoms of congestion present on the left side of the body before moving to the right side where they make their later appearance.

Feeling bored after a meal?

The Indian suggestion is that if you take a break after eating, do it lying on your left side. The rest should not exceed 10 minutes and is different from the evening nap which is usually 20 minutes or more.

Stomach and pancreas hanging to the left side. When you lie on your left side both naturally hang allowing for optimal and efficient digestion. Food is driven to move naturally through the stomach and pancreatic enzymes are secreted in a paulatin way and not in a single stroke, which happens if you lie down on the right side.

Laying on your left side your liver and gallbladder hang from your right side. Resting on the left side allows them to hang and secret their precious enzymes into the digestive tract, emulsifying fats and neutralizing stomach acids.

When the digestive system is stimulated this way your digestive cycle is shorter and doesn't leave you stranded for the rest of the afternoon. Try resting 10 minutes on your left side after eating.

Feel energized and not tired after eating.

Try to eat in a relaxed way mid-day and don't forget to rest on your left side and check that you will feel more energized and with better digestion.

Sleeping magic from the left side.

Best elimination.

The small intestine flushes toxins through the ileocecal valve (VIC) on the right side of the body at the start of the large intestine. The large intestine travels down the right side of your body, crosses your stomach and descends down the left side.

Through the VIC, sleeping on the left side allows gravity to stimulate bodily waste into the large intestine from the small intestine more easily.

As the night passes and continue sleeping on your left side the debris moves more easily toward the downward column and morning removal will be easier.

Best cardiac function.

More than 80% of the heart is located on the left side of the body. If you sleep on the left side the lymph drained to the heart will be driven by gravity taking work out of your heart while you sleep.

The aorta, which is the largest artery in the body, comes out from the upper part of the heart and is arched left before going down to the abdomen. By sleeping on the left side, the heart pumps blood more easily into the downing aorta.

Sleeping on the left side allows the intestines to move away from the cava vein that brings blood back to the heart. Noticeably the cava vein rests on the right side of the thorn, so when you lie down on the left side the viscera move away from the cava veina. Again gravity makes the heart job easier.

The sparrow is on the left side.

The spleen is part of the lymphatic system and is also on the left side of the body. Its function is that of a large lymph node which filters the lymph and additionally filters the blood. When you lie on the left side the fluids return to the basin is easier and is more easily produced by gravity.

The lymphatic system drains all cells in the body through contractions and muscle movement and not by heart pumping. Helping the lymph drain into the pelvis and heart with gravity is a simple way to purify your body.

And while there are no scientific protocols on it, sleeping on the left side does make sense. Understanding ancestral wisdom based on knowledge of modern anatomy clears up many doubts about the reasons that exist in the east to sleep a certain way.”

Original article written by Dr. John Doull

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#sleep #Physiology #left side #Leila L'Abate #Dr. John Doull #quotes #articles #lymphatic system #Body Alive

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artist ~Elena Ray

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“I was the pond lily, my root delicate as an artery, my face like a star…”

Mary Oliver

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#Elena Ray #flowers #Mary Oliver #Leila L'abate

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“I love this. Because it's a Truth: you can be utterly ordinary and unnoticeable by our cultural standards -- AND be teeming with Magic. It's one of the tricks of the Divine.

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"I want to sleep for a while, a moment, a minute, a century; but let everyone know that I am not dead."

- Federico Garcia Lorca

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“My soul, where are you?” Can you hear me? I talk to you, I call you, are you there? I'm back, I'm here again,..... One thing, however, you need to know: one thing I've learned, and that's to live this life. This life is the path, the long searched path to the unreachable, that we call divine. [33] There's no other way. All other paths are lost paths. I found the right path, it led me to you, to my soul.

Carl Gustav Jung, Red Book

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#C.G.Jung #The Red Book #Leila L'Abate #soul #the divine

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| Artwork by Arnaldo Mirasol]

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"Paradoxically, the moment of utter defeat can be the traditional turning point in the journey. It is the moment when all conscious strategems have failed, the ego abdicates, and deeper forces of life may make their appearance."

Marc Ian Barasch

According to J.G. Bennett, The Sufi "Masters of Wisdom" used humiliation as a way of turning the ego and its defensive walls and identities to rubble, the way that what is happening in Gaza can annihilate, and turn to rubble, the edges of our heart, until there are no edges left.

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#healing #Leila L'Abate #Marc Ian Barasch #Arnaldo Mirasol #journey #J.G.Bennett #sufi

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“The Bohemian garden, is free motion machine embroidered using layers of hand dyed silk. :: Michelle Mischkulnig textile artist”

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"Zen is very simple. Dishwashing time, just wash dishes; sitting time, just sit; driving time, just drive; talking time, just talk. That's all. Not special. But that is very difficult. That is absolutes thinking. When you're doing something, just do it. No opposites. It's easy to talk about "When you're doing something, just do it," but action is very difficult. But don't hold. Thinking is OK. Checking is OK. Only holding is a problem. Don't hold. Feeling coming, going, OK. Don't hold. If your mind is not holding anything, it is clear like space. Clear like space means that sometimes clouds come, sometimes rain or lightning or airplane comes ... but the air is never broken. This space is never broken."

~ Zen Master Seung Sahn

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"This is the hardest time to live, but it is also the greatest honor to be alive now, and to be allowed to see this time. There is no other time like now. We should be thankful, for creation did not make weak spirits to live during this time. The old ones say 'this is the time when the strongest spirits will live through and those who are empty shells, those who have lost the connection will not survive.' We have become masters of survival -we will survive- it is our prophecy to do so."

"Humanity must shift from living "on" the earth, to living with her."

- Tiokasin Ghosthorse

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#Leila L'Abate #Tiokasin Ghosthorse #humanity #quotes

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"Harold and Maude (1971). Hated by pretty much everyone when first released, this hilariously odd and bittersweet gem eventually achieved cult status. Featuring an excellent Cat Stevens soundtrack and a pair of beautifully heartfelt lead performances, this is one of my all time favorite films. “You see, Harold, I feel that much of the world’s sorrow come from people who are THIS yet allow themselves to be treated as THAT.”"

Great opening scene! Ruth Gordon never got her driver's license, so every scene that shows her driving, she is actually being towed. I saw Harold described as "Neurospicy" which I love much more than "on the spectrum." or "neurodiverse"

Folks loved her in the movie "Where's Poppa?"

She was a famous resident of Martha's Vinyard, and was Blacklisted as part of the Broadcast 41 as both a writer and actress.

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#movies #cinema #Ruth Gordon #Leila L'Abate #Cat Stevens

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artist ~Jethro Buck Painter

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‘Be still, my heart, these great trees are prayers.’ ~Rabindranath Tagore

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#Rabindranath Tagore #Leila L'Abate #trees #quotes #Jethro Buck Painter

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#Leila L'Abate #humor #cartoons

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The gift of his fairy tales is wisdom and appreciation and heartfulness is always embedded in them, unlike many ordinary fairy tales, at least the ones passed on, and the way they were passed on…

“Hans Christian Andersen was born April 2, 1805 in Odense, Denmark. His parents were poor, but his father, a cobbler, read to him from The Arabian Nights and took him to see plays. He died when Hans was 11, and the boy was sent to a school for poor children where he worked for his board, first as an apprentice to a weaver and later to a tailor. Only in his late teens was he able to attend grammar school. A shy young man, he felt like an outsider who didn't fit in with his younger classmates, and he began to write as a means of escaping his situation. After he published a story, he gained several benefactors (including the king) who paid for his meager education; in 1833, he received a small travel grant from the king, and he set out for Italy and elsewhere in Europe. By 1835 he was writing fairy tales for children, and by 1837, many of his best-known tales had been written, including The Little Mermaid, the Emperor's New Clothes, Thumbelina, and The Princess and the Pea. By the early 1840s his reputation was well established. The Danish government eventually paid him an annual stipend as a 'national treasure', and he continued to write and publish plays, novels, poems, a book of travel sketches, and more fairy tales until his death at age 70 in 1875.

In all, Andersen wrote 156 stories, most of which were based on his own ideas rather than existing folk tales. His writing style was simple and direct, so the stories could be read aloud. Many of his stories reflected conditions of his early life. A common thread was the outsider who wants to be understood and accepted for himself as he is. Many of his characters were very poor, and they had to try to overcome great odds. A famous Andersen story that combines those two threads is The Ugly Duckling. The last sentence of that story is: 'Then he rustled his feathers, curved his slender neck, and cried joyfully, from the depths of his heart, "I never dreamed of such happiness as this while I was the despised ugly duckling!"'

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#stories #reading and writing #Leila L'Abate #Hans Christian Anderson

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“Detail of the Lion Armour of French king Henry II, 500 years old.”

French kings were considered to be God’s representative, and to have healing powers.

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Literature was born not the day when a boy crying wolf, wolf came running out of the Neanderthal valley with a big gray wolf at his heels: literature was born on the day when a boy came crying wolf, wolf and there was no wolf behind him. That the poor little fellow because he lied too often was finally eaten up by a real beast is quite incidental. But here is what is important. Between the wolf in the tall grass and the wolf in the tall story there is a shimmering go-between. That go-between, that prism, is the art of literature. -Vladimir Nabokov :: [Life is Poetry]

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[Art: Ruth Evans Art]

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You must go in quest of yourself, and you will find yourself again only in the simple and forgotten things. Why not go into the forest for a time, literally? Sometimes a tree tells you more than can be read in books.

~ C. G. Jung

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#Ruth Evans Art #C.G. Jung #quotes #Leila L'Abate #forest

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"Country singer Dolly Parton wrote the songs "I Will Always Love You" and "Jolene" on the same night. When the first song was at the top of the charts in 1974, Elvis wanted to record his own version of the song. Dolly was interested until Colonel Tom Parker, Elvis' manager, said that it was standard procedure that when the king of rock and roll covered a song - half of the rights to that song would go to him in the future. She refused it. "I said, 'I'm really, really sorry' and cried all night. It was terrible for me, on the one hand, it's Elvis. People told me: "You are crazy." It's Elvis Presley...' but I just couldn't do it. Something told me in my heart not to do it and I didn't. I know he would rock with that song. But I couldn't. And then Whitney Houston came along with her version and I made enough money from the rights to buy Dollywood." She grew up in severe poverty and no one famous has done more for the education of the poor than her. In 1990, the percentage of students who did not graduate from high school in her hometown was over 30%. She introduced the "Buddy Program", where all high school graduates received a nice sum when they graduated. It wasn't just a waste of money, she personally came and explained the concept to them - everyone should find a buddy, and whoever doesn't succeed she will find one for them. Everyone had to sign that they will graduate and do everything in their power to ensure that their buddy also graduates. She taught young people about friendship and helping. The number of school dropouts dropped to below 6% and has remained so until today. When 900 families lost their homes in the 2016 fires, she paid each family $1,000 for the next five months. When she came to the bank to finish the paperwork, she gave each family another $5,000 to find a new home. A total of nine million dollars. Also, her work - Imagination Library from 1995, was inspired by her realization that young people in rural areas and poor families already fall behind when they start school and that this prevents them from pursuing higher education. The goal of her program was for every child in her district to receive one book, once a month, from birth to school, completely free of charge, without any conditions. It started as an initiative in her hometown and has spread to a huge number of countries around the world. By 2018, over 100 million books were distributed in this way. She is also known for her witty statements, at the beginning of her career she said-"I'm not offended by jokes about stupid blondes because I know I'm not stupid... and I'm not really blonde either.""

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#Dolly Parton #Leila L'Abate #songwriters #songs #music #portraits #education

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All life is one, and everything that lives is Holy. Plants, animals, and man. All must eat to live and nourish one another. We bless the lives that have died to give us food. let us eat consciously, resolving by our work (spiritual. conscious work) to pay the debt of our existence.

JG Bennett

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#Leila L'Abate #J.G.Bennett #quotes #interconnectedness.