Kale

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Tuscon Kale (Dino Kale, Lacinato Kale) Phoenix, AZ May 2015

red-kale

Red Kale Phoenix, AZ May 2015

When I think of the ideal climate for kale I think of the Northern California coastal areas.  Kale is in the Brassica family of plants.  Brassicas include broccoli, cauliflower, brussel sprouts, and cabbage.  They are known to love cool weather and are typically grown as a winter crop in areas with mild winters.

Knowing this, I am surprised on how well kale grows here in Phoenix.  I still have producing plants from last year.  That means they survived the hot summer weather!

There is a tendency for all Brassicas to attract aphids when the weather gets warm, but that is an issue in all climates.  A few aphids do not bother me; I’m not vegan.  Besides, the aphids are an important food for finches.  Right now I have at least one finch family raising their young on my kale aphids.  They are a delight.

I have been enjoying the harvest and have discovered a good way to process kale so I can enjoy the leafy greens without the tough inner stems.  I simply slice out the inner stem of the leaf and ferment them separately.  The tender leaves then can be prepared as kale chips, steamed for salads, thrown into a stir-fry or stew, or frozen for smoothies.

Dino kale with mature leaves harvested for the kitchen

Dino kale with mature leaves harvested for the kitchen

Fresh dino kale from the garden

Fresh dino kale from the garden

Kale leaves with the inner stems removed.  Use to make kale chips, stir-fry, salads, or freeze for smoothies

Kale leaves with the inner stems removed. Use to make kale chips, stir-fry, salads, or freeze for smoothies

Inner stems of the kale leaves

Inner stems of the kale leaves

Kale stems ready to ferment and Kale leaves ready for the frezer

Kale stems ready to ferment and Kale leaves ready for the frezer

Kale Seedling

Freshly planted kale seedling. This is probably the dino kale plant you see full grown above

 

Event: Introduction to Access Consciousness BARS evening

Introduction to Access Consciousness Bars® Evening

Interested in finding our more about Access Consciousness? Ready to release limitations to abundance? Are you sick and tired of being sick and tired? Is it possible to easily let go of self-limiting habits, addictions, fears, and emotional turmoil?

Come to this FREE evening talk and find out what else is possible!

There are 32 points on your head dorena-bars1which, when gently touched, effortlessly and easily release anything that doesn’t allow you to receive. These points contain all the limiting thoughts, ideas, beliefs, emotions, and constructs that you have created or inherited. Running your Bars creates an opportunity for you to let go of everything you no longer need!

Access Bars® is an incredibly nurturing and relaxing process, undoing limitation in all aspects of your life that you are open to change.  It has assisted thousands of people to change many aspects of their body and their life including sleep, health, pain, weight, money, sex, relationships, anxiety, stress and so much more. At worst you will feel like you have just had a phenomenal massage. At best your whole life can be transformed into what you really want with total ease.

Dr. Dorena Rode will give a short talk (20 minutes) discussing the Bars method and its scientific validation.  She will also give a short demonstration of the Access Bars method followed by Q & A.

Mini Bars sample sessions (15-20 min) will be available for $15.

Location: The Enlightenment and Simple Living Institute
9434 N 9th Ave, Phoenix, Arizona, USA

Dr. Dorena Rode is offering a class on Access Bars on May 20th.  Attending the evening is a good way to decide if you like her teaching style and are interested in learning the method.  More information on the class and to register.

 

Relationships

I teach and use in my private practice a healing modality called ThetaHealing®.  Among the many techniques in ThetaHealing is a way to clear DNA knowledge (whatever that is) you have shared with others.  In addition, we can use the method to bring back soul fragments that might have been given to or exchanged with other people.  This is particularly useful to do when someone is ending a relationship.  I have found that sometimes, many years after a person has legally divorced their partner, they still are energetically “married” to them.

We are cautioned to not do this DNA knowledge clearing if still in a relationship.  The result of doing so?  Well, one will go home and find they “don’t know” their partner anymore.  Their partner will “feel” like a stranger.  They will need to start over to build their historical knowledge base.

Recently, I’ve been studying another way of clearing limitations called Access Consciousness®.  In contrast to ThetaHealing, it is suggested by Access Consciousness teachers that you actual destroy and uncreate your relationships everyday.  Since I had studied ThetaHealing first and accepted their “rule” of not swiping clean the historical knowledge of current relationships, I was surprised by Access Consciousness having a completely opposite tenet.

Who is right?

First, there is no right or wrong way.  Each of the methods is designed to give a particular result.  The one to use is the one that matches your personal aims.

ThetaHealing will help maintain your relationship as smooth and predictable.  In a society where “living happily every after” and relationship longevity are valued, the idea of retaining historical knowledge of one’s partner is important. We rely on DNA knowledge to keep our relationships on “auto-pilot”.

ThetaHealing is truly a healing modality.  No strings attached.  The founder teaches people how to see more and change things through connection to source.  What you do with the tools is up to you.  The warning about not clearing DNA knowledge of your partner is based on people being unhappy with the result when they did it.  Most people do not want to have to reinvest the energy they spent learning about their partner.

Access Consciousness, in contrast, actually has more of an agenda for us.  Their tools are “designed to facilitate more consciousness for everyone”.  While Access Consciousness fails to give a clear and complete definition of consciousness they do claim, “Consciousness is the ability to continually awaken to more possibility, more choice and more life”.  They also state, “Consciousness includes everything and judges nothing®”.1  From these statements we can get the gist of what they mean by consciousness.

Access Consciousness encourages choice and free thinking.  Even though “destroying and uncreating your relationships” is a recommendation, one is advised to run it through your filters and decide if it is right for you.  Their recommendation is in alignment with the aim of increasing “consciousness”.

Being totally present is the keystone to “consciousness”.  In order to be present one needs to be in the present and not dwelling in history.  Relationship longevity is not the goal.  Being totally present in one’s relationships is the goal.  Since the “past is dead”, clearing it out everyday provides an opportunity to be totally present.  Having a fixed picture of our partner, ourselves,  or our relationships doesn’t allow as much potential for change as letting go of that picture each day.

REFERENCES
1.   Gary M. Douglas, Access Bars Manual, January 2015,  Access Consciousness, LLC, Houston, Texas.

2.  ThetaHealing