Gemstone Meaning - Peridot

Peridots are gorgeous, pale green stones. I once bought an itty bitty, uncut stone for eight bucks at a rock store in PA.

These stones are used metaphysically for spiritual protection. If you wear one, rubbing it or holding the stone in your palms can calm you or keep you from people who want to use your empathy for their benefit. It's a highly psychic stone and good spirits are attracted to peridots.

A Way A Mantra Can Help You Lose Weight

 How can saying something in my head or singing a song to myself help me lose weight?

The brain loves associations. Do you like to place actors in movies you're watching with other roles they've played, not quite satisfied until you've made an association with them as people?

Same thing applies here. Each time you overeat and feel bad about doing it, instead of letting guilt crush you, get some silly 80s song in your head. Get it nice and stuck in there. Then forget about it.

Every time you eat too much and the guilt kicks in, make that one 80s song you never could get out of your head play in your mind until you can't take it anymore.

It could take a week, a month, a few months, but eventually, you can make yourself hear the 80s song before you eat, and you'll remember that bloated, icky feeling your body gets when you eat too much before you do it, then you won't even want to.

This works with any kind of imagery you can think of, such as words you repeat over and over; physical activities, from knitting only blue yarn to hopping on one foot for three minutes; or staring at a picture or artwork, or even imagining it in your head. 

Train your brain, don't let it tame your life with its demands for you to be what you want through criticism.

Happy New Year!

2012 seemed a year of big changes for me and everyone I know. Some good, some appearing not so good, but overall, after 366 days of our culture becoming more globally aware, relationships twisting and turning as people themselves adapt to this quickly-evolving world, and the explosion of ideas through artistic expression accessible with a few bucks a month, a computer or phone on a credit card, and nooks/crannies all over where we can find our niches, we survived!!!!

Now, take a lesson from this kitty. He knows. Now you do, too!

Best of all things to you in the new year, and I hope you have positive thoughts about where this "lucky" 13 will take us.