However, sometimes you have to buy regular so you may have to choose only certain foods.  The www.thedailygreen.com suggests not buying 12 foods unless they are organic because of the amount of chemicals in them:  Celery, Peaches, Strawberries, Apples, Blueberries, Nectarines, Kale, Cherries, Bell Peppers, Spinach, Potatoes, Grapes.  They have soft coverings or are heavily sprayed.  If you have to buy regular, substitute with kiwi, raspberries, watermelon, tangerines, oranges, and grapefruit, bananas, and cranberries, mangoes.   Other “safer” vegetables are broccoli, radishes, onions, cabbage, Asparagus, eggplant, “earthy” mushrooms, sweet corn, and peas.

If you have children or drink milk, I like the Organic Valley milk because they claim the cows have pasture. Coffee is best organic because it is grown in exotic, unregulated areas and destroys the rain forests.  Organic chickens melt in your mouth and worth a drive to buy several and freeze or order on the internet.  Organic beef is better for you but may not be as tender or “fatty” as they aren’t given hormones, so buy it if you can find it.  I hope you have luck finding your organic food.

Two:  Unlike Europe and even China–the United States has no provision to keep bio-genetically altered foods from importing into the U.S.  Any country can send food over here that they want.

Three:  There are no labels on U.S. foods that tell you whether or not they have been genetically altered.

Four:  Organic foods, while less toxic, may also be genetically altered.

Five: Organic foods, now more common, may not be anymore expensive than the sprayed versions.

Six:  There are not laws that keep genes from animals being mixed with food genes in the United States.

Seven:  On the dangerously toxic fish list is Grouper, Orange Roughy, Swordfish, canned Albacore tuna (not plain tuna) and Maine lobster–according to the latest from the Sierra Club.

Eight:  Cod, flounder, scallops, shrimp, perch, sole,catfish, clams, sardines, freshwater trout, haddock, King Crab and tilapia are supposed to be OK to eat–according to the Sierra Club.

Nine:  Genetically altered salmon excaped during a storm in the Atlantic and since they are much stronger, may be eliminating salmon from around the world.

Ten:  Farmed fish do not have the minerals and are higher in contaminants than seafood from the sea.

Signs and synchronicity as indicators of needed life changes.

Actually take a day and write down what you eat and when you eat it.  Look over the menu and decide what to do to improve.  Unfortunately some people don’t know what foods have protein, and higher order carbohydrates, and high mineral content. If you are one of those, visit the bookstore for the little books that list these for different foods.  Or visit a naturopathic doctor or professional.

Set your alarm to figure out what you thinking during a 12 hour period when you aren’t at the office.  Set it for one hour and when it goes off, write down what you were thinking and then set it for the next hour.  The unconscious is tricky so if you find yourself going blank right before the alarm goes off, move the alarm to a time without looking.  Dwelling on something that could go wrong in the future?  Remembering that 90% of what we worry about never happens–nevertheless stop and write down your back-up action plan in case your worse fears come true.  If you are worried about a loved one’s health and you have done all you can, concentrate of blocking out the fear when it comes into consciousness.  Plan to do something else constructive when it happens like take the dog for a walk.

Take one week and write what exercise you did.  If you are chasing small children you don’t need to work out at the gym everyday which would just deplete your energy more.  If you need stress reduction exercises, like stretching, figure how these type activities could fit in with your children.   Lay down on the floor and let small children lay on your back.  Older children might ride bicycles with you around the block.  If you live alone, write in your exercise plan for next week and try to follow it.

Explanation for the Events that Happen are Often Connected to our Soul Growth Plan.

One instant stress remover is YOUR SMILE. Try an experiment. Think of a stress you are dealing with. Hold that in your mind dwelling on the severity of the problem. Now smile–you biggest and best smile and while you are smiling try to worry about the stressful problem. It is almost impossible because your brain can only focus on one situation at a time. Your “glad/happy” cellular muscular structure, is remembering how much fun it can have. An attempt to change that with worry, so that stress hormones, damaging your brain and heart pour forth, is difficult. It is only when you become tired of holding your big grin that the evasive worry complex begin to impede. However, you can go back to the fun feeling by smiling with your mouth closed. As long as the corners of your mouth are up, the worry is gone.

One of the frightening things about allowing worry to take over is that it becomes embedded in our cellular/emotional structure. One of the things I have noticed as a movie buff, is that often strong, sinister character roles, or death scenes appear to be more likely to develop in real life after certain acting roles. An actor winning last years academy award as a grim Joker, didn’t live long enough to collect his award. Betty Davis and Joan Crawford’s horror films seemed to have an effect on their lives ending in less than happy endings. Try thinking of some examples you have noticed with friends or actors.

If you knew how damaging stress is on your body you would do everything you could to stop worrying. Besides the smiling, try watching funny movies, taking your dog for a walk, or reading spiritual literature when you are worried instead of watching the nightly news.

If you truly have a serious problem, instead of worrying, write down what you can do to get rid of it. If you are losing your house in foreclosure, do everything you can to make a deal with whoever will talk to you to do something about it. Don’t give up until you see it would be better to let it go and start over. Maybe you would be better off in your new rental place where you have fewer responsibilities. Here is an important to be happy with what you have instead of what you want—another stress remover.

If you get tired of smiling, go to the next step: prayer or meditation.

Dr. Mary Atwood discusses the Importance of 2012 as the end of of a cycle and the beginning of a new one.

In essence, we are surrounded by an unseen world of divine helpers. Earth bounds (people who have died but for different reasons have failed to leave the earth plane) are also around us and can cause havoc if they have bad vibrations. As I have talked about before, our loved ones stay around us until their angels escort them to different planes, usually after the funeral. Other than these spirit forms, there is a plethora of spirit guides and helpers and angelic beings that are “assigned” to us to help keep us out of trouble.

Years ago, I went through a phase where I could see auras and I noted that there seemed to be movement in the air to the right side of my body.I finally decided it must be my Guardian Angel. There were a number of incidents in my life where a “feeling” or “voice” told me to act quickly and in doing so saved my life. The most dramatic event occurred when I told my daughter, who was driving to immediately switch lanes and several seconds later a flat bed truck who had been in front of us lost the whole load of lumber off the bed–sliding out onto the highway. We would have been killed instantly, perhaps beheaded.

More recently, I have tried to have more contact with my divine helpers and have asked for help on a number of seemingly impossible situations with success. You have to be willing to do what you are “told” even if you would rather do something else. It takes practice to stay in touch with the DIVINE but you can do it. Being still, concentrating, praying, meditating, devoting time to “feeling a rapture or connection” is sometimes difficult but will award you some “grace”. The hardest thing is to feel that JOY in the midst of a crisis but if you try, you’ll be rewarded.