The Emotional Reasons You're Physically Sick

Nothing gets our attention like an illness or being hurt. For many, when illness occurs we run straight to the doctor. Or Google. No one likes physical pain or discomfort, and depending on the severity of it, we'll move heaven and earth to make it go away. We look to medications, treatments, surgical procedures, any avenue to bring us back to "normal." There seems to be a pill to cure almost any ailment. A shot, a liquid, a powder. We seek out something tangible to make it all better. This is the age of medicinal quick fixes, and with that comes medicinal side effects.

What can end up happening is we take a medicine to deal with the side effects of the side effects of a medicine.

Who wants that?

Not even Chunk up there.

Fortunately, there's Holistic.

ho·lis·tic

hōˈlistik/

adjective

1. MEDICINE

characterized by the treatment of the whole person, taking into account mental and social factors, rather than just the physical symptoms of a disease.

So basically, Holistic treats the entire condition. The symptom and the cause. It covers all of the factors involved in why your health is not optimal. What your symptoms are, and the emotional/spiritual reasons you're having them.

Holistic cures don't offer the same harmful side effects as pharmaceutical medicines. They can be less expensive and offer spiritual benefits in addition to physical. Loads of "holistic" treatments allow us to create our own remedies, sometimes with ingredients already stocked at home. If not, a quick trip to the supermarket is all it takes.

No insurance forms to fill out there.

What we're not taught is,

Every.
Single.
Solitary.
Physical ailment, is the result of a spiritual or emotional imbalance. Every one of them. This statement is by no means an encouragement to forego the help of a professional health practitioner. This is merely a suggestion to look within yourself. FIRST. Examine the thoughts you're having about yourself or a situation, and see how it can be tied to your condition. Big pharma is never going to tell you that your condition can be cured by changing the way you feel and think about about your life (your mind-pattern) and yourself. There's simply too much money to be made by your being sick. There've been an influx of doctors being caught and tried for lying to patients about their diagnosis, especially with cancer. In addition to prescriptions, apparently giving chemo to people who don't need it is also very profitable. Fill your prescriptions as you please, but don't let Big Pharma or their pundits provide you with the only course of action on how you treat your ailment.

What's one of the easiest ways to find out what's going on with your body?

Ask it.

A simple question of "Hey *insert body part*? What do you need? Why have you called my attention? What should I do or provide you with?"

THEN LISTEN.

Any why is this so important?

Because despite what most of us have been taught to believe,

the body and mind are not separate.

Learning to listen and communicate with your body is a priceless too. It can save you money, time and possibly your life.

Big Pharma is a billion dollar business and let's face it: There's just no money in cures. The money lies in -not treating your conditions- but its SYMPTOMS.

And what are symptoms?

SIGNALS.

I once suffered from Silent Acid Reflux so bad, I could barely turn my head. The acid burned my throat and was beyond painful. One medication I took cost $300 a month. I had to take it for a full month so my doctor could determine if it worked.

It didn't. I took it for two months, and ended up in the emergency room on Thanksgiving night.

What "prescription" helped me more than anything?

$2 worth of ginger, a $5 gallon of aloe vera juice coupled with some very formidable affirmations on 'accepting the bitter aspects of life.'

All the time, money and pain I was in and a trip to Trader Joe's is what did the trick?

Listed are some of the underlying emotional/metaphysical reasons our bodies have physical issues, followed by their metaphysical counterparts. These are some of the most common illnesses women face. The affirmations (in addition to any other physical methods you opt for) can help change the mind-patterns that cause these ailments, and help re-direct yourself into health.

Some of the most common physical symptoms/dis-ease women face are:

Heart Disease (the number one killer of women)

Metaphysical causes: Longstanding emotional problems. Lack of joy. "Hardening" of the heart (bitterness). Belief in strain and stress.

Metaphysical cure statement: "I lovingly allow joy to flow through my mind and body and experience."

Heart Attack

Metaphysical causes: Squeezing all the joy out of the heart in favor of money or position.

Metaphysical cure statement: "I bring joy back to the center of my heart. I express love to all."

Stroke

Metaphysical causes: Giving up. Resistance. "Would rather die than change." Rejection of life.

Metaphysical cure statement: "Life is change, and I adapt easily to the new. I accept life, past present and future."

Diabetes

Metaphysical causes: Longing for what might have been. A great need to control. Deep sorrow. No sweetness left.

Metaphysical cure statement : "This moment is filled with joy. I now choose to experience the sweetness of today."

Breast Cancer

Metaphysical causes: A refusal to nourish self. Putting everyone else first. Overmothering. Overprotection. Overbearing attitudes.

Metaphysical cure statement: "I am important. I count. I now care for and nourish myself with love and with joy. I allow others the freedom to be who they are. We are all safe and free." 

Depression

Metaphysical causes: You do not feel you have a right to HAVE

Metaphysical cure statement: "I now go beyond other people's fear and limitations. I create my life."

Osteoporosis

Metaphysical causes: Feeling there is no support left in life

Metaphysical cure statement : "I stand up for myself, and life supports me in unexpected, loving ways."

Bulimia/Anorexia

Metaphysical causes: Hopeless terror. A frantic stuffing and purging of self-hatred. Denying the self life.

Metaphysical cure statement: "It is safe to be me. I am wonderful just as I am. I choose joy and self-acceptance. I choose to live. I am nourished and supported by life itself."

Obesity

Metaphysical causes: Fear, need for protection. Running away from feelings. Self-rejection.

Metaphysical cure statement: "I am at peace with my own feelings. I am safe where I am. I create my own security. I love and approve of myself."

Lupus

Metaphysical causes: A giving up. Better to die than stand up for one's self. Anger and punishment.

Metaphysical cure statement: "I speak up for myself freely and easily. I claim my own power. I love and approve of myself. I am free and safe."

Fibroids

Metaphysical causes: Denial of the self. Rejecting femininity. Rejection of the feminine principle. Holding in feelings.

Metaphysical cure statement : "I rejoice in my femaleness. I love being a woman. I love my body. I speak my truth freely."

Yeast Infections

Metaphysical causes: Denying your own needs. Not supporting yourself.

Metaphysical cure statement: "I now choose to support myself in loving joyous ways."

Overactive Thyroid

Metaphysical causes: Humiliation. "I never get to do what I want to do." "When is it going to be my turn?"

Metaphysical cure statement: "I move beyond old limitations and now allow myself to express freely and creatively."

Of course, this is a short list of common ailments that plague women. If you didn't see a condition you suffer from posted, here is a more in depth list. The universe like the human body, is comprised of many different layers. A myriad of variables and circumstances are involved in the functions and non-functions of our bodily form. A cigar is rarely just a cigar. It would be in our best interest to explore the infinite facets of the mind-body connection and how it works. Don't wait for sickness or for parts of your body to shut down before you investigate.

Of all the cures we could ever be prescribed,

Prevention is the best one.


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52, and Still Working the Streets

It's been said that "pimpin ain't easy."

Well, hoe'in is harder. 

Barbara Terry has been a prostitute for more than 30 years. One can only guess the mileage accrued on her vagillac-cadillac. Disease, shame, fear and just the overall element that would pick up a street hooker, one can only imagine why she chose to stay in that field for so long. No judgment, but with realistic occupational hazards that include dangerous men, rape, murder and jail, surely there must've been safer ways to pay the bills. The good news is that she survived. She was always her own boss, and even managed to buy a house and put two children through college.

Sounds like some damn good hoe'in. 

By COREY KILGANNON

LIKE many single mothers, Barbara Terry, 52, scrounged for baby sitters and leaned on her own mother while raising her four children and working the night shift.

But Ms. Terry is a prostitute who has worked nearly her entire adult life on the streets of Hunts Point, in the Bronx.

“When they were old enough to understand, I would tell them the truth,” said Ms. Terry, whose daughter and three sons are now grown. “I’d say, ‘This is how I’m supporting you.’ For me, it’s a business, a regular job.”

Yes, she said, she was arrested more than 100 times, sometimes landing at Rikers Island for several days or weeks — but that never deterred her from returning to this area of industrial warehouses and repair shops off the Bruckner Expressway.

By day, heavy industrial traffic fills the streets. By night, the traffic comes for other reasons. Years back, this prostitutes’ “track” bustled with working women, and Ms. Terry was front and center in garter belts and high heels and fur coats.

“It was beautiful out here then,” she said. “There was so much money out here, you wouldn’t believe it.”

The area is less active now than in the 1990s, when HBO made its “Hookers at the Point” documentaries, in which Ms. Terry appeared under a street name, Cleo, and flashed a youthful, toothy smile.

Those great teeth are gone, lost to diabetes, Ms. Terry said. She mostly works days now and dresses more conservatively. “Most women don’t make it to my age out here,” she said. “I call myself the last of the survivors.”

While it is impossible to corroborate all the details of an eventful life in a profession often synonymous with drug abuse, violence and tragic outcomes, the Correction Department confirmed that Ms. Terry had been jailed many times for prostitution over her career.

Today, Ms. Terry lives nearby in the Bronx, but she hopes to retire in a year or so to a house she bought upstate, she said on Tuesday at her usual spot on Whittier Street. She had a supply of condoms in her purse, a plastic cup of vodka and orange juice in her hand and a cellphone for steady customers.

Those customers, dates or tricks, can be lawyers, city workers, husbands, fathers or truckers heading in and out of the sprawling Hunts Point food markets.

Then there are the psychos. All the women out here have had friends attacked or cut or dumped dead somewhere. Last year, a man was arrested, and recently sentenced, for terrorizing prostitutes in the Bronx with a razor.

“I’ve survived because God was with me,” Ms. Terry said. “Every Sunday, my mother and grandmother prayed for me out here.”

She has shown younger workers the ropes: how to jump in a Dumpster to hide from the police, and how to stay alive. First, never enter a car with more than one person in it, and never let someone drive you out of the area. Get your money up front — Ms. Terry charges $50 or $100 — and try to work with a buddy.

“You look for weapons, you check the back seat, and you go by your vibes,” she said. “If they look strange, you stay away.”

There have been close calls, like the time a trucker locked her in and tried to rape her.

“I never did drugs and never worked for a pimp for protection,” she said. “What protection? If I’m in someone’s car, about to die, ain’t no pimp in there helping me.”

“I never carried a blade,” said Ms. Terry, who grew up in the Red Hook Houses in Brooklyn before her family moved to North Carolina for her teenage years. “My fists were my weapons. I learned to fight growing up with nine younger brothers.”

Ms. Terry said she completed two years of college, training to be a medical lab technician, but by the time she was 21, her husband had left her and she had two children to support. All she knew about prostitutes was what she saw on “Starsky & Hutch,” but she knew about the Hunts Point action and came out on her own. She admits she became addicted to the stimulation of the street life.

“I love the excitement of coming out here and seeing all these beautiful people I know,” she said. “Even my dates are a comfort. This place has made me strong. It keeps you young.”

But she has slowed down. A year ago, she was in a bad accident and was hospitalized with a broken jaw and neck injuries. Her children, two of whom she says she put through college, beg her to get off the street.

“I’m the mother, so they can’t say anything,” she said. “When I’m ready to get off, I’ll get off.”

Not a career I would advise, but some women work hard for the money. A little too hard. 

-WTS

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B*llshit Bondage Chair

I don't like this chair. I get that some bondage fanatics might find this cool or interesting, but uh..

I'm no bondage fanatic. 

Tie me up like some kind of rodeo hand and when I get loose, let's just hope you can run faster than me.

The thought of a woman being positioned like this so someone can have a seat?

Anyone who thinks this chair is appropriate doesn't need a seat. 

What they really need is..

Serious slappage.

G-String clad cowboy optional.

This "bondage chair" was created by Allen Jones ca. 1969. Apparently, there's a Black version of it as well.

The woman perched on the chair in this photo is Russian socialite Dasha Zhukova. The online magazine Buro published this, and due to the uproar it caused, has since been cropped.

It's still bullshit though. 

What say you? Would you feel comfortable sitting on this? What would you think if you saw this in someone's house? What would you think of the PERSON who would buy this?

I'd be like..

I guess that's just me though.

SMH.. what a world we live in, no?

-WTS. 

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How the Media Failed Women in 2013

I will admit, watching this clip was painful. As a proud woman, it can be difficult to witness how women are degraded, especially in the media. Why is it so hard for certain men (usually those in power) to accept that women are great PEOPLE? Not playthings but beings? Evidently for some men, a woman's power is simply frightening. Unbelievable. Some men find it unacceptable that a SHE could be magnificent without a HE.

The malicious and subconscious messages the media help spread about women being inferior penetrate ALL of us. Men, women, sons and daughters. We're all constantly and subliminally being programmed. Almost every medium we can think of is used to propagate the belief that women exist solely for a mens' [sexual] gratification. This is demonstrated in everything from prostitution rings to child brides. If there ever was a theory that was destroying the world, patriarchy is among the top.

Women are all powerful. We are goddesses, mothers, nurturers, supportive forces. We are needed by the elements of nature and her inhabitants. In every species it is the female who delivers the children. Women are the Givers of Life and perhaps men resent it. The 'powers that be' echelon of men have taken oaths and make it their life's mission to hide and distort the truth about women. To make us feel inferior and disposable. Womens' right to vote, right to marry whom they want, and even the right to drive show that men feel the need to control women's actions. Sexually explicit representations of women are found everywhere, from mainstream to underground. Women are globally taught that our worth is contingent upon what we can do for a man, and how attractive we are.

Patriarchy is ruining the world, and the media is a willing participant.

Happy New Year, with an emphasis on NEW.

NEW attitudes make for better tomorrows and better TODAYS.

Womankind.

Yes, we do exist.

An no one would exist, without US.

Now for the clip.

Join the campaign: http://bit.ly/ChangeMedia

Kim K.: Social Climber, not Stair Climber

Well well well. What did we expect from Lil Miss under-the-knife?

Kim K., on interviews-n-such, bragging about how exercise and diet is how she's been losing her baby weight, has apparently been lying through her plastic surgeried teeth. Allegedly she's been secretly using not a plastic surgeon, not treadmill.

*Yawn* Can't say that's a surprise. My question is, why lie though? LMAO.. look who I'm talking about. I cannot stand this woman..

Kim K. Slimmed Down with $80K Worth of Surgery

Weight-loss cheater! That’s what Kim Kardashian has been branded in the latest report to question how the E! reality star dropped as much as 70 lbs since giving birth to North West five months ago.

“The truth is, she took the easy way out,” declares Life & Style, claiming that Kardashian, 32, has been secretly visiting a Beverly Hills cosmetic plastic surgeon to get work done, including fillers, stretch-mark treatments and a fat-reducing ultrasound procedure on her stomach that costs up to $5,000 a session.

In all, the regiment has totaled $80,000, it’s alleged.

According to the magazine’s insider, the mother-of-one gets the Coolaser treatment, which chills the skin and then uses light pulses to vaporize skin cells — removing wrinkles, scars, saggy skin and stretch marks.

“Kim is desperate to be sexy again. She wants to go back to the way things were before North was born,” the source said.

“She loves her daughter, but she loves herself and her image a lot, too.”

While the reality star’s rep denied to the publication that she’s being treated by Dr. Ourian, insiders told the mag that she’s going to great lengths to keep her visits clandestine.

During one trip to a laser hair-removal clinic, she allegedly pretended to be visiting the Pilates studio next door!

“She even wore workout clothes to throw off the photographers and begged them to make it look like she was going inside to work out, not to get laser treatments,” a source claimed.

Another reason behind Kardashian’s extreme measures to slim down: her upcoming wedding to fiancé West.

Dished another source: “She wants to be the most beautiful bride, especially since all eyes will be on her. All she talks about is losing the baby weight and wanting to wear those skintight outfits again.”

Body Image Advertising: Men Don't Like It Either..

Womens' self-esteems are under attack daily. Magazines, music videos, celebrities and famous people alike, all conveying messages of "if you don't look perfect like me, something is wrong with you.."

This mentality is an advertisers DREAM, because too many people fall for said illusion and spend big money attempting to fit in and be perfect looking. Every once and a while however, some sheep do wake up. They do see the images of perfection as the unrealistic projections that they are, and are able to detach and just be ordinary.

Which unlike airbrushing, is normal. 

Women are often targeted because as we women know, our value is often judged by our looks. In this photo series, a group of MEN are showing everyone how unrealistic male underwear ads are, and how the "average guy" would look in the same scenarios.

It's no fun to be sublimally bullied because you don't fit the contrived image of what beauty is supposed to be. It's nice to know that men, ever the oglers themselves, don't like to be painted as asthetic underachievers either.

Just let us live. As we are. 

Photoshop was not created by Maybelline so um... #fuckoff

Funny Photo Series Shows How Ordinary Men Would Look In Underwear Ads

By Thia Shi Min, 01 Oct 2013

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There has been a lot of criticism directed at underwear ads as many of them feature women with perfect bodies. A lesser known problem is that men can feel just as insecure about their bodies.


To highlight this problem, Jenny Francis and The Sun have created underwear poster ads that show how ordinary men look like in them.

From Armani to H&M, these side-by-side comparisons reveal how the media has distorted our perception of how male bodies should be like.

View this thought-provoking series below.


H&M 


Armani 


Calvin Klein 



Way to go men. Be the regular, out of shape, non-tattooed, non-hunks that you are. 

Being comfortable in your skin is sexier than you may ever realize. Muah!

-WTS.

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When Ass Kissing Is OK..

It's acceptable to kiss ass if..





it's rainbow sprinkled.

I can't think of any other times..


Can you?

What a Girl's Makeup Means..

This. Is. Perfect. Love love love this chick.

Watching this vid requires 4 minutes of your life. 

You can totally spare it.

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Dustin Does Us Justice

True, this video has been circulating social media and we try to stay away from saturated posts, but THIS deserves to be seen by as many people in as many places possible.

For any men (or women) who only want to date "dimes" or "trophy" type women, you must absolutely watch this. Don't judge a book by it's cover, because you might miss out on some extraordinary reads.

Barbie as an Actual Women

What would Barbie look like if she were modeled after the average American woman?

Very different, it turns out.

Artist Nickolay Lamm of MyDeals.com used CDC measurements of an average 19-year-old woman to create a 3-D model, which he photographed next to a standard Barbie doll. 

Lamm then photoshopped the 3-D model to make it look like a Barbie doll.

"If we criticize skinny models, we should at least be open to the possibility that Barbie may negatively influence young girls as well," Lamm said in an email to the Huffington Post. "Furthermore, a realistically proportioned Barbie actually looks pretty good."

Considering how peculiar a Barbie body would look in real life, Lamm concluded: "If there's even a small chance of Barbie in its present form negatively influencing girls, and if Barbie looks good as an average-sized woman in America, what's stopping Mattel from making one?"

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Interesting. Since they're focusing on "American" women, it would be nice to see some Hispanic, Asian and black Barbie's as well.

America is afterall, one of the planet's largest 'salad bowls.' I suppose they have to start form somewhere.

Did you notice they even made her face rounder? "E" for effort, but do you think this is a good depiction of the "average" American woman's body size?

Nicolai Lamm is also responsible for "Barbie's with no Makeup"

Check him out. http://nickolaylamm.com/

And of course, there's the woman who thinks she's a REAL LIVING Barbie..

Valeria Lukyanova

WHATEVS..