Stairway to health

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I was waiting for the elevator on the 19th floor waiting for the doors to open so I can can be comfortably and quickly whisked to the ground floor so I can go out, get a bit of fresh air, and grab a coffee. I didn’t have to think about anything related to the mechanics/logistics of getting me to my destination. I was operating on auto-pilot. And like most moments when we are on autopilot the benefits are a lot less than to when we live in the now.

There is actually a laminate sign on the elevator doors on each floor posted by the building management company. The sign suggests that people take the stairs, if they are able, as it can be beneficial to their health.

The next morning I have my chiropractor appointment before I go to work. Her practice is on the second floor. I enter the door of the office building lobby after a woman who pushes the button to take the elevator up. There are only two floors in the whole building so I can assume she is going to the same floor and possibly the same location at is 7:30 am. I pass behind the waiting woman and proceed to take the stairs. As the chiropractor office door closes behind me I hear the elevator doors open. A moment later the same waiting woman enters the office.

Check out this article to confirm what you already know: https://www.fitandwell.com/news/why-you-should-always-take-the-stairs-instead-of-using-the-elevator

After my chiropractic adjustment I take the stairs. No waiting. No need for electricity that may or may not have been generated by fossil fuels or using up carbon credits. Stairs are for the legs are like sunshine is for the mood – good stuff.

Whether referring to our personal/corporeal energy or that we take from the planet, it is great to see the innovations making our life more energy efficient. The modern world will have cities, elevators, planes and cars for the foreseeable future so we need to integrate efficiencies where we can. A very good business initiative is using super capacitors to store up energy, instead of needing more, by taking advantage of normal daily use. Just take a look here: https://www.skeletontech.com/elevatorkers

When possible, whether you are going skyward or are earth bound, try taking the stairs.

BAMBOO SPOTLIGHT! Pseudosasa Japonica

by Rica | Jan 14, 2021 | Bamboo Propagation, Blog, Philippine Bamboo

Bamboo Spotlight : Pseudosasa Japonica

Pseudosasa Japonica

Pseudosasa Japonica

It’s a bamboo that is easy to grow and popular for using as hedging or screening.

The straight woody culms make good garden canes for using to support other plants and vegetables, and can be harvested for crafts projects.

Pseudosasa Japonica

Japonica / Arrow Bamboo providing protection in the winter and shade in the summer.

Pseudosasa Japonica Spread and Growing Habits

Japonica is a hardy spreading bamboo that is quick to establish itself. It can grow in a clump, or under certain conditions may be prone to spreading over a number of years.

Spreading will be more likely if the plant needs to go looking for water. For example, I have a specimen plant growing along a bank as a windbreak/hedge and it spreads further along the bank each year, most likely on the search for water and nutrients.

The opposite is true of a division of the exact same plant that is located within a woodland setting and which has remained in a tight clump with no evidence of spreading whatsoever. My mum also has three clumps of Pseudosasa japonica var. pleioblastoides that have been in place for many years and have shown no signs of running at all.

Height

Maximum height: 5 metres (16.5 ft.) but 4 metres (13 ft.) is the average.

Culm Width

Maximum diameter: 2 cm (0.8 inches).

Sheath

The pale sheaths on the lower part of mature culms are not shed unless a branch emerges and even then, the branch sheaths often do not shed.

Culms

Dark green tall and straight, the culms are useful to harvest for garden canes and crafts.

Branches

Branches emerge as single branches, often more towards the top of the culm.

Leaves

These long drooping leaves rustle in the wind and provide good cover for privacy or shelter from winter weather as a windbreak, or to provide dappled shade from the summer sun.

Leaf size can be up to a useful 30 cm by 4 cm (12 by 1 ½ inches)

Hardiness

Hardy to min. -23°C (-10°F), zone 5 to 6

This species is tolerant of semi shade or full sun.

Uses of Arrow Bamboo

This is definitely an architectural bamboo that can be shown off as a specimen plant or used for privacy hedge and windbreaks in landscaping. Pruning to a node will produce two culms growing out from one and create a dense evergreen hedge to the height you want.

As already mentioned, this commonly known as Arrow Bamboo can be used in a variety of craft projects… where do you think it got its common name 🙂

Variety

Pseudosasa japonica var. japonica

Pseudosasa japonica Tsutsumiana

Pseudosasa japonica var. pleioblastoides – a darker green variety.

PseudosasaGenus description and list of species.

Origins

Japonica is a native species originating from Japan.

ABOUT THE BAMBOO BOOTCAMP

** The Bamboo Bootcamp is a Bamboo workshop for anybody with the LOVE and Interest in Bamboo and on a mission for a sustainable ecosystem. Farmers that want to propagate, professionals who want to see its properties as a strong building material, Craftsmen who want to learn how to work with it, Enthusiasts who want to learn of its many uses, Arts & Crafts Lovers who want to learn how to use Bamboo as a medium and Entrepreneurs, LGUs and Business People who can see the opportunity for livelihood. The Bamboo Industry fulfils the 17 Sustainable Goals set forth by the UN, thus allowing participants to indulge in building a better world through Bamboo.

To know more about endemic Philippine Bamboo Varieties check out this link : Bamboo research in the Philippines – Cristina A. Roxas

A book review of Leading by Nature, by David Lorimer

Good books are still being written. This is one of them.

The Nature of Business

This book review first appeared in The Journey of The Scientific & Medical Network, and was written by the Director of the Scientific & Medical Network, David Lorimer.

‘The is a brilliant, timely and paradigm-shifting book — required reading for all business leaders!’

Leading by Nature – Wordzworth 2022, 227 pp., £23.99, p/b – ISBN 978-1-78324-242-9

Following up on his & Laura’s 2019 book on regenerative leadership, Leading by Nature is Giles’s most accessible and highly acclaimed book, which is not only required reading for business leaders, but also for those who would like to understand in more detail the transition from the old industrial age of top-down organisation-as-machine metaphor to the new organisation-as living-systems metaphor based on systemic quantum complexity.

The three parts of Leading by Nature address opening into the shift of world view, embodying the shift, and manifesting the shift. Both the crisis of meaning and the…

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Journeying into Ourselves – the Power of Nature Immersions, by Christine Nicholson

Nature is reliable and wise. Thanks for your years of work Giles.

The Nature of Business

Often people ask me about what I do and the way I do it; perhaps hoping I can send them a one-pager fact-sheet that succinctly summaries with the comfort of bullet-points. In reality, what I do is difficult to boil-down into bullets, and so it’s a real gift to have one of my clients, award-winning business mentor Christine Nicholson, share in her own words her first-hand experience of journeying with me, Giles Hutchins, amid the ancient forest of Springwood Farm.

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When babies are first born it is recognised that to really thrive they are placed on the skin of their mothers as soon as possible. The feeling of their breathing and direct contact with the skin has some quality that really makes a difference. As adults we can easily get disconnected from this connection with a life force that’s outside ourselves that is found in nature…

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This Giant ‘Water Battery’ Under the Swiss Alps Could Be a Game-Changer for Renewable Energy in Europe — Ready Nutrition Official Website For Natural Living, Sustainable Lifestyle Tips, Health Food Recipes, Family Preparedness and More

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Growth SIStem

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As your body generates new cells …

code the new issue of cells with what you want to be your beliefs. 

Code the cells with your life purpose. 

Code them with your Growth SIStem of: Persist, Resist and Insist. 

Growth SISTEM:

Persist in growing by being curious and humble

Resist the low levels of energy that use pettiness and apathy by being firm in what you believe and flexible in how you achieve it. 

Insist in dignity and authenticity. 

Integrate your beliefs into daily life:

Using short prayers composed of a few words to align your intentions; or

Long prayers of putting those intentions into action. 

New cells are like a newborn baby – fresh from the source – innocent and clean passing from the marrow through your bones Into your bloodstream. There is a heritage of knowledge passed on from ‘old’ cells to the fresh ones. The brand newest of cells are reasserting your well being and ready to receive the human ancestral wisdom. They have a purpose. They have an intelligence. They have a mechanical infrastructure. They have their engraving agility (as opposed to emotional agility). This is an agility to transcribe and translate the DNA via RNA into actionable instructions. This is cellular level synthesis of energy into magnetic information that can be repeated.  The residue of this cellular synthesis is hosted by the blood. 

What do you want to host in your blood as your cellular orientation.  Can they grasp what you want now, as an adult? Or is your childhood programming stronger than what you want? 

To the Power

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To The Power of …

As in mathematics.

As in exponential.

As in the power that is incumbent in the design of all things.  In the case of humans, power refers to the powers to resist, insist and resist.  Resist the lower levels of energy in pursuit of meaning.  Insist on being responsible for your thoughts and actions that support the community.  Persist in elevating to higher realms that love to be in service to perceptions about growth.

However we are self-inflicted with auto-GMO.  The design has been messed with.  In the physical, psychological, emotional and spiritual domains.  

It’s been a fierce few thousand years of downward pointing modification that we have not been able to resist.  Modification of men and of women.  Of education.  Of religion.  Modification away from the natural design towards the power of profit.  Profit has perverted the power away from purpose.

Maybe the market momentum for electrical vehicles these days is unconsciously mirroring a need for realignment towards something less abrasive to the surroundings; be those people or the planet.

Consider the formula:

Man to the power of two = Man squared.  If you think about it, that means man to the power of himself.  Whatever he considers himself to be is what will give him power.  If he has confidence in himself, in his skills and qualities, they are empowered by his degree of confidence in his ability to get stuff done.  Whether that stuff supports mutual growth or the attainment of power. 

More man power formulas:

Man to the power of self ignorance; man to the power of the life stage he is passing through; man to the power of soul trajectory.  All of these energies a man can process in a span of a few seconds – boom boom boom.   Which can cause him to not know what he wants because there are conflicting energies petitioning his awareness.  And those around him can think he is lost or doesn’t have ambition.

Man to the power of …  anything – implies there is a great versatility in the design of a man to be amplified.  And that is what every teenage boy is waiting for.  Anything that leads him to build his identity.  A teenage identity can be the foundation which leads to meaning for a man as he passes from adult into elder.

A man needs clarity to choose his own alignment?  Clarity can take time: perhaps in a conversation, through years of therapy or on one’s deathbed. 

What are your alignment options?  Align yourself to success, to a sense of community, to your inherited religion – or possibly a mix of all of the above. 

What is required to make your alignment relevant and (yet) religious?  Actually making it relevant points to a religious life;  making it religious makes it relevant – to what is above and below – past and future.

We all use the same tool to measure love. The instinct is like the heart of the soul – pumping the marrow of the moment into your capacities.  The instinct assumes that you want to be in the best possible health so your faculties will be in service to your soul trajectory.  Confluence of corporeal and soul health is exactly what the planet looks for in a human.  

The challenge is when we are lost – meaning not in touch with our instinct – not in communication with the human instinct.  When someone is lost, it can be difficult to find the ramp to exit from the highway to nowhere.  

Like GPS on your phone is for you to get to the farm outside the city where they have those really expensive u-cut your own Christmas tree, the instinct is the GPS of the soul.

Your instinct resonates with the truth of you in the moment.  

The greater we can, on a daily basis, jump out of the claws of being lost and into the embrace of love and its corollaries of awareness, sharing, service, understanding and agility, the more we can experience being responsible for our daily relevance and religious alignment.  Thus in the equation/formula of man to the power of  ___________ we can insert the alignment we want for us based on our generation of personal beliefs (big and small). 

Turn Your Genes Inside Out

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New cells are like a newborn baby – fresh from the source; innocent and clean. They have a purpose. (Since most days of our life there are new cells generating this offers a thread we can follow to connect us to our purpose.)

These cells have an intelligence with which they are eager to permeate our being.  Issuing from within your marrow your cells have a mechanical infrastructure to get the job done with grace.  Grace is a trinity of strength, beauty and meaning.  Cells appear inside you that foster your awareness of meaning. Your meaning seems to us to be written in hieroglyphics because it is written into our DNA.  These unique string stories refer to your universal nature that you reveal in your fealty to your instinct in daily life. 

Adjacent to your emotional agility is your cells engraving agility.  This is an agility to transcribe and translate the DNA via RNA into actionable instructions. This is cellular level synthesis of electrical energy into magnetic information.  The residue of this cellular synthesis is hosted by the blood. 

What do you want to host in your blood as your cellular orientation?

You are the conscious leader of unconscious cellular syntheses, which can function as your troops. Are you on the same page? Can they grasp what you want now, as an adult? Or is your childhood programming stronger than what you want? 

These are micro dynamics that are true to their function and produce accurate results at the level of Elevated energy.  The macro dynamic is everyday life.  You are the macro manager of the purpose of your cellular micro life.

Our job is to find a way elevated information can be integrated into daily life. 

It’s easy when it flows and it is difficult when our intentions are out of sync with our cells’ purpose.

How to Create Your Personal Runes


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The following is a good place to start when thinking about runes:

As well as being a literal alphabet used during the Viking ages, runes were (and still are by some) believed to hold power, symbolise inherent qualities and values and be associated with magic, as well as having meanings in more modern divination and oracle reading practices too. https://happypiranha.com

How to create runes to insert in your life for the purpose of conducting your energy through your strengths.

Decide on one of the areas in your life that you will focus on. For example: professional, marriage, personal religion. 

State what you want for that aspect in your life. 

“I want …… in my ……..”

“I want mutual support in my marriage.” 

Work it into a declaration sentence. 

“In order to instil mutual support in my marriage I will seek the good in my wife and offer honest expressions of my goodness.” 

What symbol can you create that holds the essences of your sentence?  It is your declaration sentence for what you want so you choose what works for you.

In that sentence is a power word(s) you will select. This power word has leverage to get you from the level of daily energy to elevated energy.  The power word is what accesses your Emotional Agility in the moment. Your Emotional Agility is what allows the flow of life energy to be expressed in the daily and elevated aspects of your life.  

This can work well with meditation to further engrave the reality of becoming what you want by activating your strengths.

The Rune Meditation:

Pair the word and the symbol: draw the symbol and below it write the power word. 

Close your eyes and picture that symbol – say the power word out loud. 

As you breathe in, imagine your breath being permeated with the power word. 

Have it print on your blood for the minute that it takes to circulate through your body culminating with an exhale. 

Open your eyes: you radiate your power word.  

As you grow forward draw your symbol and say your power word out loud as you wish.