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I just spent a few hours with Franz Mohr. He tuned my 1929 Steinway piano. He told me that my piano is an exceptionally good Steinway, ( I have always felt that way about it)! Franz is the best Steinway master piano technician in the world. He was Vladamir Horowitz's personal piano tuner for all his concerts and recordings for 25 years. He began at Steinway by assisting William Hupfer, who was a master technician at Steinway and traveled with pianists as Rachmaninoff.  

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Hi All

I have been keeping a dream journal off and on. I don't write in it consistently.

Hey!
While most people have been able to read this blog, some people have not. I am not sure why. I wrote it on a word document page and then copied it into this page. Perhaps that has something to do with it, although it shouldn't!

There is a more complete version of this blog, which is a transcript of my new podcast on the subject. You can find it at:

http://www.Zentertainment.org/josblog.php

Or just go to www.Zentertainment.org and click on the blog page.

If you go to the HEAR THE SHOW page at http://www.Zentertainment.org you can actually hear the podcast. Thanks so much for your amazing notes and I just want to say that it is great to be in a group of people who get it.
x Jo

More on the Swine Flu

Eyery time I turn on the TV, all I am hearing about is this swine flu.
The Swine Flu Pandemic is- well not quite pandemic. Actually, not even close. 

I am not dismissing the tragedies in the cases resulting in death.

But why is the media focusing on this 24/7 around the clock?
It's news front and center, day and night.

What a circus!

There are SO many conditions that western medicine does not know how to treat. Is this news? Are we supposedly so shocked by this?

Are we suppose to think that this one virus makes us less safe just because our pharmaceutical companies have yet to come up with a vaccine for it?

And while we are talking about prescription drugs, are we suppose to believe that taking prescription drugs is the only way to create health and/or prevent disease? From 1998 to 2005 the FDA compiled reports that found that there were 90,000 incidents of dangerous side effects and deaths from prescription and over-the-counter medications.

So what is it about this swine flu that is making people so on edge? There are, to date, only 162 cases in the whole nation. 

We want security, or a sense of it even if that sense is only an illusion. We want to know we can be protected from every single thing and live forever and that we can live in a certain world. But life is not like this. I think the root of this swine flu anxiety is that we fear the unknown. 

What bothers me about this media coverage, is that we are hearing about this flu strain as if millions of people are dying at this moment. But to date, there have been only 162 cases in the entire United States.

We hear the fear, the anxiety, the panic in the news reportors' voices. the 24/7 coverage, it's one big drama. Now all we need is some eerie music to put under it all. Then we'd have the perfect news media created fear inducing package. 

Let's back up, take a deep breath, and put the "pandemic" into perspective. 

Cancer killed over 565,000 people in the US in 2008
Aids killed 12,543 people in the US in 2005
In the US there are more than 40,000 who die each year from car accidents.
In 2005 there were 16,888 alcohol related car accident fatalities.
Around 5.4 million deaths per year are caused by smoking.
About 30,000 people die per year from guns.
And don't even get me started on what lyme disease is doing and how treatment resistant it can be, or what auto immune conditions it is creating.

About 36,000 people die from flu related deaths each year. Those are the flu strains we know about. That is even with the flu vaccine. If the pharmaceutical companies can't do any better than this, why do we think they hold the answer to the swine flu?

The so called life saving flu shots that many people get, contain Ethylene Glycol- which is basically anti freeze, and Thimerosal- which is derived from mercury (which many experts think can induce auto immune conditions). Then there is the Phenol which is a carcinogenic agent, Aluminum, and Formaldehyde. Do I want these things in my body? I don't think so.

If we care about health as a country, let's get the chemicals out of our food, air and water. Let's quit feeding kids pounds of sugar and junk food. Let's stop buying meat from factory farms out there where animals who are sick and abused get slaughtered and their meat is sold. Let's get dangerous chemicals and endocrine disruptors out of cosmetics. Let's hear about these measures which could do far more to change the world then spending billions of dollars on pharmaceutical drugs which as it turns out, are showing up now in our water supply.

Let's investigate natural inexpensive products such as:
http://www.themiraclemineralsupplement.com/
and
https://www.nutramedix.com

We cannot control everything, but we can do our best to create healthy immune systems. By what we eat, breathe, think and believe, we can do our best to support our bodies. And when it's time to go, hopefully we will each go with grace. Easier said then done. Perhaps. But we just have to do the best with what we have, and live each day the best we can. 

There is one thing I do believe. The only ones to profit from this non stop coverage of the "swine flu pandemic" will be the pharmaceutical companies. They are the ones who have everything to gain. But I am not buying the fear. It costs too much.

peace,

jo davidson

www.zentertainment.org

"WHY questions are impossible to answer. You can't know everything that led you up to this moment. And even if you do come up with answers, they won't help you take care of this situation right now. The main thing is you're in pain. Let's take care of it. Let's see what we can let go of now so you can feel better." -Brooks Palmer **************************************************************** Hey to all my Friends- How are you doing this week? It feels like summer in the city. The parks have been packed with people. Yesterday I took a blanket out and sat on the grass overlooking the Statue of Liberty. There were girls in bikini's, shirtless weighlifters walking around, a few guys singing about Jesus, a crying baby, couples making out, and a few arguments on cell phones. That's life in New York! Today is also a warm day. The a/c is broken, so I have all the windows open. I just got back to the city earlier this week. I did a week of heavy detox treatments in Florida. Trying to cure lyme and mold related illnesses has been my greatest challenge. It is an ongoing journey. I also did several treatments to detox mercury. Wow. This is a lot to handle.  Through all the years that I have worked on healing, in my experience, detox is a messy process.  It's like when I was a kid, and I tried to clean my room. If I was trying to organize my closet, I would pull every item out. Then I would get overwhelmed and leave everything on my bed. It looked even worse for a while. When I finally get through the process, my closet looked great.  (Ok, then there were those other times when I got so frustrated, I would shove everything back in.) When you are cleaning, things really can look worse before they get better. Sometimes they can also get worse before they get even worse, but let's try and stay positive!  This leads me to this week's show..... Continuing on the theme of letting go, this week's episode is all about cleaning out internal and external clutter. I want to put out a challenge to you! I am going to get rid of 5 things this coming week that I no longer love, use or need. Would you like to take the clutter challenge? Email me at Jodavidson@mac.com  We will either: 1. Recycle 2. Give Away to a friend  3. Sell 4. Donate to an organization Just 5 things to start, and even more if you feel inspired. Let's do this! Peace, Jo jodavidson@mac.com http://www.Zentertainment.org Episode #53  In his eight years of Clutter Busting in Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York City, Brooks has learned first-hand about the intense emotional connection most people have with material possessions, and has consistently found that internal clutter must be addressed before external clutter can be discarded. Since 2000, Brooks has been helping people through this process.  http://www.clutterbusting.com For Clutter Busting Tips, go to: http://www.clutterbusting.com/Site/Clutter_Busting_Tips.html To Hear this great episode featuring Brooks Palmer, author of Clutter Busting, go to http://www.Zentertainment.org

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The Ripple Effect. How Better Sex Can Lead to a Better Life by Dr Gail Saltz

My personal blog at:

http://www.zentertainment.org/josblog.php

My radio podcast featuring Dr Gail Saltz:

http://www.zentertainment.org/podcasts.html

Happy Spring! This month's issue of The Oprah Magazine caught my attention. It features a whole section on mothers and daughters talking about sexuality. Did any of you see it?  If you would like some books for your kids on the topic of sexuality, check out two books from today's guest, Dr Gail Saltz. One is for children going through puberty, and another one is for young kids who wonder where babies come from.... http://www.drgailsaltz.com/books.html A few tidbits came across my desk this week. One was from someone who practices energy medicine. He helps people to understand and access their unconscious beliefs and rewrite the negative scripts into positive ones. We were talking about sexuality, and I asked him if he thought that all porn stars, strippers etc have underlying traumas driving their behavior. He said YES. He said the key is that when you muscle test them using the statement "When I am engaged in this profession, I respect myself," they go weak. The arm falls. They might think that what they are doing is embracing their sexuality, or that it is empowering, and yet what is truly beneath it is the opposite. This applies to other situations as well where people are making a choice that is not coming from honoring and loving themselves and others. It is an interesting experiment! I've learned that sometimes the things we think we believe are not what we actually believe in some part of ourselves. The other thing that was interesting this week, was when Dr. Gail Saltz and I talked about sexuality on the phone for this episode. She said that sexual confidence and promiscuity are not the same thing. We talked about the Samantha character from "Sex & The City" and also sports figure or celebrities who think that the more people they are with, the better they look. The outside message is I AM SOMEBODY. But underneath that, deep inside and maybe even unconsciously, there is the belief of I AM NOBODY. Sexuality is a huge topic, and if I devoted this whole show weekly to it, we would only scratch the surface. This week on Zentertainment Talk Radio, we are hanging out with Dr Gail Saltz. I recently saw her on THE TODAY SHOW and knew I wanted to share her new book with you. It's especially for women, and it's called "The Ripple Effect, How Better Sex Can lead to a Better Life"   Dr. Saltz explains how women can approach their sexuality from the inside out and create a ripple effect that will change how they think, feel, and behave in every aspect of life. She asks readers to reflect on their own feelings and beliefs and ultimately guides them toward understanding the power of their own sexuality. This book is a road map to understanding and improving how women feel about sex and most importantly, about themselves. Remember, since these shows are in podcast form, you can listen anytime of day or night from anywhere in the world. Just go to the show page at: http:// www.Zentertainment.org and click on PLAY beside the episode! Let me know what you think... Jodavidson@mac.com Peace,. Jo http://www.Zentertainment.org

Aleta St. James is a renowned healer praised by everyone from Candace Pert and Larry Dossey, to Wayne Dyer. She realized her own dream of having children when she gave birth to twins at the age of 57! She has quite a story to tell about that.