No matter who you are, eventually you get sick or injured. It may be just a cold, or something much more virulent. You may cut a finger, or break a leg. No matter whether large or small, it's important to heal, completely and quickly.

In this episode, I talk about some things that can have an impact on your healing--either positive or negative. If you'd like to know more about these factors and what you can do to help yourself to heal, take a listen. And as always, please feel free to leave a comment.

Season 3, Episode 8. In this episode, I am privileged to interview Robin Hancock, a trained and certified Forest Bathing nature guide who lives in the mountains of NW Georgia, USA. If you have listened to my podcast before, you may have heard me talk about the benefits of Shinrin Yoku (the Japanense phrase for Forest Bathing). Robin is much more knowledgeable about this topic than I, and in fact has a business where she organizes and leads Forest Bathing experiences.

You can find her on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/renewalbynatureguides, or at her own web page http://www.renewal-by-nature.com/

I am sure you will find much of interest in both this podcast and on her website.

Today's episode is about acupuncture, and I have a great guest, Deanna Stennett, a Georgia-licensed and Nationally Certified Acupuncturist. Because of various delays since this was recorded, Deanna's Ellijay, GA, location has very recently changed. Her Ellijay location is now at the Natural Wellness Center on Kiker Street in Ellijay.

Her website URL is www.acupunctureinnorthgeorgia.com , but it may not yet have the correct Ellijay, GA address!

Also, please be aware that the interview portion of this episode was recorded using different equipment and in different surroundings than usual (after service in our Unitarian Universalist Church), so you will notice a difference in audio quality and background noise. I have tried my best to minimize this, but I ask your forgiveness and hope you will find the information in this episode interesting anyway!

(My apologies... I labeled this as "CONFINED Animal..." and not "CONCENTRATED Animal...". I have actually heard them referred to with both terms, but Concentrated is the preferred term.)

Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations are proliferating across America, and have even begun to spread to the UK and other countries. No scientific body nor ecological body approves of their existence, because of the immense harm CAFOs cause to the environment, the health of the people who live around the CAFO, and even to the economy.

In addition to the information in this episode, I am including some links to places that will give you more detailed information about these things, and the horrific impact they have on the environment, public health, and the economy. Please take some time to check some of them.

I apologize for the quality of the recording, but I recorded it outside in our summer shelter gazebo, and there was some wind noise. Even with that, though, I hope you find this very informative and educational... and that it stirs you to do something positive about this rampant attack on your health, your family's health, and the health of the planet.

CAFOs pose a serious threat to human health

CAFOS use massive amounts of water

Rachel Carson Council statement on CAFOs

Poultry Pollution

Delmarva CAFOs sickening local residents

The hidden cost of cheap chicken

The brutal cost of cheap chicken

The Union of Concerned Scientists: The hidden cost of CAFOs

This is the actual guided meditation, introduced in the previous episode.

I hope you find it useful.

This guided meditation, with accompanying sounds of crystal singing bowl and 7-metal Tibetan singing bowl, was created to help you balance and energize your Base Chakra (also called the Root Chakra).

Because I don't want you to have to listen to my little intro of the meditation every time you may want to use the guided meditation, I will post the meditation as a separate episode after this one.

Also, in case you wish to download directly, here is a link to allow you to download the meditation from the cloud.

Download the meditation

The singing bowl are in frequencies designed to help strengthen, balance, and energize your Base Chakra, while you listen to the guided meditation. I am playing the bowls.

The image in the episode listing is by SonicDragon, and is found on Pixabay.

So often, people are afraid of the dark, or cannot see the positive side of darkness. In this episode, I want to talk about how darkness benefits us... and not just humans, but everything that is alive on Earth.

Many people have heard of generational curses, such as the sins or evil of the grandparents being held against the grandchild. But such generational curses can have what many would consider innocent physical causes, totally separate from any spiritual actions on the part of ancestors.