I'm Way Behind In School

My school term is divided into 16 week sessions. you can take from 1-4 classes during 1 session. Last session (my first in this new format), I took two classes. It was very easy. I just did each class on an 8 week schedule. One class at a time. This session, I did the same thing. Two classes: 1)Elements of Traditional Naturopathy and 2) Iridology. It is the beginning of the 9th week and I'm only halfway through with my Naturopathy class. Stress! I'm kicking myself right about now. I have 7 weeks to do a class and a half. What I didn't realize was that this class has 5 books to it. Granted, most of them are small. But the first, the one on sleep, was 400 pages long. It was a wonderfully written book, and I highly recommend it; it's just that I kept trying to read it right before bed, and fell asleep almost every time. Night time is the best time for me to study, since I have the kids to myself until Mikey gets home from work. When he gets home, though, I want to relax a bit. Not only that, but I have to get dinner on the table. After dinner, I have to get the kids ready for bed, and then by the time everything is peaceful, it's at LEAST 8:30, usually 9. By then I'm exhausted. I need to change it somehow, but I'm just not sure how. I guess I need to talk with Mikey and see what he can help me come up with. Starting studying at 9:00 just isn't working for me.

Our Food, Our Health

"When the remedy aisles (in a grocery store) take up more space than the truly edible food section, there's something amiss."  This is a quote from my textbook "Unwinding the Belly".  The author is talking about the fact that when she goes into a mainstream grocery store, she becomes very sad.  The point here is that we have become so out of touch with our bodies, we don't know how to eat anymore.  The more food on the shelves that is processed, cooked, refined, etc, the more pills seem to fill the shelves.  I have never quite looked at it from this point of view before, although I've always known that we depend too much on medicine to fix our symptoms, rather than fixing the actual problem.  Those symptoms are there for a reason!  They're telling you that you are doing something wrong to your body.

Emotional Unblocking

Yes, I'm picking this blog back up.  I have been blogging for a few weeks now about getting my life back in order, and it seems to me that the blog itself has helped me keep focused on doing so.  So now I need to pick up the pace in school.  I hope that this blog will help me do that. 

I'm in a class that is now focusing on "unwinding the belly".  The idea is that the belly is the intuitive center in our bodies.  With specific breathing practices and certain abdominal massage techniques to help relax you, the soul will be better off for it.  It's quite fascinating, actually.