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Chronic Pain Relief

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Good evening.  Are you suffering with chronic pain?  Does your back, hips, thighs, shoulders, arms or other areas of your body constantly hurt?  It's possible that there can be relief for these debilitating long term pains.  

I've posted before that pain is in reality our friend.  It may be a friend that we don't welcome, but never the less it's still our friend.  Why?

Pain tells us that we have a problem.  The sooner we address the problem the sooner we can get our friend to leave.  The problem arises when we don't take the appropriate actions and our friend decides to take up permanent residence, then our friend becomes our enemy.  

Loss of sleep and rest can make it difficult for our body to recuperate from whatever has caused our friend to visit in the first place.  I don't know of many people who can get a good nights rest when their friend is being so noisy.  It may be possible to turn things around if we can get our friend to at least shut up for while so we can get some peaceful rest.

Well, there is a way to achieve this relief.  Someone showed me that there is something out there that was developed by a doctor and that the FDA has put it's stamp of approval on.  It's a patch that contains natural ingredients like ginseng and other natural ingredients that relieve pain and promotes healthy blood flow.  It's a simple remedy because all that person needs to do is apply the patch over the affected area and shortly relief follows.  This makes it possible for a more natural restful sleep cycle to be maintained.  Many people experience relief that allows them to sleep peacefully through the night without their noisy friend.  

I'm not a doctor and a doctor's advice should always be sought.  But, having said that; these patches can be obtained without a prescription.  Where does a person find these wonderful patches?  You can find them here:  Fast Effective Pain Relief 

There is one other fantastic aspect to these patches: they can be sold anywhere around the world by anyone willing to take the initiative. 

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Rest well and prosper
Katrael

Relieve Chronic Pain

A couple of years ago I started a blog named Living Healthy the Ganaiden Way. The idea behind this blog was to bring to people some of the knowledge that I had obtained over the years that changed my life from bearable to wonderful. The blog would feature ideas that encompassed both health and wealth.


Well, I've had my setbacks along the way because some of the ideas I had were just plain false. I'll write about some of those things later. For now I want to write about something that greatly excites me; something that deals with both health and wealth at the same time. Can this really be possible?


I've had the privilege over the years of meeting several very wealth people some whose wealth ranged in the multiple billions. Some were born into and were already familiar with the principles behind obtaining and managing wealth and some started out in poverty and learned the principles of obtaining and managing wealth from other wealthy people. What I offer now isn't of my own invention, but instead comes from these people I know and many I'll never meet.


I won't spend a lot of time here going over all of the principles behind obtaining wealth except that I will focus on three of the major principles.  These are things that I've learned in the School of Hard Knocks.    


This is going to be very short: If you want wealth you have to have a Burning Desire coupled with a Definite Purpose and a Dogged Determination to Never Quit. Success is an idea and not a condition. Napoleon Hill said it best: we have to THINK and GROW RICH. I highly recommend reading his book. You can find it online as a free download Here: Think and Grow Rich . However, this is only part of what excites me. 


I was looking for and found by chance, or not, a business that would successfully combine both health and wealth and I found it. There are many out there who suffer daily in the grips of chronic pain. Well, there can be relief for Chronic Pain and it doesn't have to be expensive either. The good news is that you can take the relief you receive through this idea and turn that relief into a great income opportunity. So, the good news is: if you're willing to spend some of your valuable time you can discover this opportunity for yourself. You'll find it here:  Relieve Your Chronic Pain
Live well and Prosper
Katrael

Water

Now that I've bored people with my spiel about how important water is to the body, I want to talk about where we might get that water from.  It's all a matter of personal preferences but it should be as pure as possible no matter where we get it from.
I checked into getting a machine that filters, oxygenates and alkalizes the water but my main objection to those are the cost of the machine and the expense of replacing the filters or the electrical grids that can erode away if the machine isn't built correctly; and some of these machines have chemicals you have to add to them.  And a real concern to me is whether the filter is really doing what I need it to do and if it is how long will it do it for?
As for me I like distilled water.  Why?  Because it's as clean as nature knows how to make it.  There won't be any harmful pathogens, no toxic metals and chemicals or toxic organic compounds; just plain water.  There aren't any expensive filters to replace or costly electrical components to burn out or leach away into the water you will be drinking  I don't have to worry about plastics leaching into my distilled water because I store it glass containers.  And if I drink it fresh from the distiller then it will often have a kind of "sweet" quality to it.
There are critics who speak out against the possible side effects of drinking distilled water all of the time and their major complaint seems to center around the idea that distilled water can leach the minerals out of your body..  I suppose that this issue may have some validity  to it but, the answer seems simple: add some sea salt to the water before you drink it.  Real sea salt has a mineral content almost in the same proportions as the mineral content of our blood.  How much sea salt?  From what I gather you won't need to add more that a quarter teaspoon full to every gallon of water.  This sea salt also has one other benefit: it tends to neutralize the slightly acidic quality of distilled water.
Sea salt:  No discussion of water could possibly be complete without a discussion of salt.  I've done some checking on the subject of the health benefits of sea salt and what I found mostly debunks my theories on it.  Basically my theory is that sea salt is healthier for you.  The Mayo Clinic says there's very little difference between table salt and sea salt other than the slight elemental differences; sea salt contains them and table salt doesn't..  Many other sites on the internet say the same thing.  But is this really the truth?
Table salt is basically sea salt with the minerals removed and that has been dried out using high heat and then has had anti-caking agents(aluminum compounds) added along with a chemical form of iodine added for the thyroid gland.  The problem with table salt is just that: it's stripped down chemically altered, due to heat, sea salt that the body may not be able to properly process without the other elements that are found in sea salt.
Sea salt is evaporated salt water that still contains the minerals found there and usually, but not always, lacks iodine.   There are many forms of sea salt and they have a wide variety of crystalline structures and often various mineral combinations that make them differ slightly from one another.  These differences come from the differences found in the various places where they are harvested from.  We need to choose a brand that we know has been harvested from unpolluted sources.  Celtic Sea Salt is supposed to be one such brand.  But, why is salt so vital to our body?
This is a quote from Wikipedia:

Normal saline (NS) is the commonly-used phrase for a solution of 0.90% w/v of NaCl, about 300 mOsm/L or 9.0 g per liter.^a Less commonly, this solution is referred to as physiological saline or isotonic saline, neither of which is technically accurate. NS is used frequently in intravenous drips (IVs) for patients who cannot take fluids orally and have developed or are in danger of developing dehydration or hypovolemia. NS is typically the first fluid used when hypovolemia is severe enough to threaten the adequacy of blood circulation, and has long been believed to be the safest fluid to give quickly in large volumes. However, it is now known that rapid infusion of NS can cause metabolic acidosis.^{[1]
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Basically, salt regulates the water content of the cells, from the cells in the blood to the cells in our skeleton.  Higher than normal levels of salt in the blood will "dry up" the red blood cells which if severe enough will interfere in their ability to transport nutrients to the cells in the form of oxygen.  Too little salt in the blood will cause the red blood cells to absorb water which under extreme conditions can lead to them bursting which could pose a life threatening situation.  I've actually seen, under a microscope,  what both extremes of salinity has on the blood when I was in college.  The red blood cells looked smooth and kind of kidney shaped in normal saline conditions, the red blood cells resembled spiked balls under high saline conditions and the red blood cell burst when plain water was introduced to them.  
So the body works to maintain the proper salinity of the cells.  But, minor temporary changes in salinity of the blood could be beneficial to the cells as this change may help transport nutrients and wastes into and out of the cells through the movement of water in and out of the cells.  I would speculate that we wouldn't have to worry about any problems either way as long as we're getting enough  of both clean water and good salt.  The body will tell us as long as we learn to listen to it.
Here's a quote from www.health-benefit-of-water.com/}


 Sea Salt and high blood pressure

• Salt is not bad for you. It does not raise the blood pressure
  - It is the insufficiency of other minerals that normally hold on to and keep water inside the cells that causes a rise in blood pressure.
  - Contrary to the misconception that it causes high blood pressure (in conjunction with water and the other essential minerals).

  - One or two glasses of water with a little salt will quickly and efficiently quiet the racing and "thumping" heart and, in the long run, will reduce the blood pressure.

Read more: http://www.health-benefit-of-water.com/sea-salt.html#ixzz1pgILoxft

So we need to learn how to listen to our body and it will tell us.  Does this remedy from above really work?  Well, I don't often suffer in this way, in fact it's something that's rare but, on occasion, I've been roused from my sleep by this uneasy tossing and turning and found that all I needed was a drink of water and this was just my body's way of saying so. 

Trying to find a source for what you need can be a challenge but, here's a good place to find almost anything you want:  Grandpa's Mart

Here's to your health

 

Way of Kings

Ultimate Health

I can't treat, diagnose or cure any disease except my own.  There, got that out of the way.
I've been actively working on several physical limitations of mine for the last several years.  The progress has been gradual but steady and recently that gradual progression increased it's pace.  It's these changes that have prompted some of my posts and that includes this one.
I was going to include everything in one post but, I have a tendency to go on way too long so I'm breaking it up into pieces and I'll devote a little more energy into each piece.
Our bodies are made to be in motion.  This gift of motion can only be fully realized through one thing only and that is through health.  In fact our health and our ability to move are intricately linked and you can't have real health without the ability to move under your own power.
I'm going to include a list of things that I believe that we must do to achieve and maintain our health and our ability to move:

• Drink lots of good clean water.
• Eat the right kind of foods
• Breath properly
• Quality Rest
• Plenty of movement
• Stretching
• Messaging
• Blinking

I've listed things in a rough order but, all of them are important.  I covered Water before in one of my previous posts but, this item is too important not to make further comment.
Water is essential to our life.  We start out to be about 98% water at conception, 90% at birth, 75% at middle age and if we live long enough we'll be about 50% at death.  Is there a link between dehydration, aging and degenerative disease?  I think so.  If we shortchange any part of the body of the water it needs to function we shortchange the whole body.  I don't believe that there is any metabolic process in the body that doesn't somehow rely on water.
Many of us don't even like to drink water, instead we prefer flavored beverages, many of which are really harmful for us if we are dehydrated because those beverages have a diuretic action on the body and this only serves to exacerbate the existing dehydration.
Our ability to move as anything but a newborn infant is directly linked to our level of hydration.  Newborns can't walk as their musculoskeletal systems are too fluid and water doesn't walk it flows.  Our ability to move under our own power comes as the muscles and bones begin to solidify.  Then after about the age of twenty five we begin the battle in earnest to keep ourselves properly hydrated.
Have you ever noticed how old people move about, that is those who are still ambulatory and not just getting around in their power chairs?  Their stride is short and halting, most often being nothing more than a short shuffle.  Their ability to balance is compromised by muscles that are no longer able to function properly.  Why?
It's my firm conviction that they are suffering from a lifetime of dehydration.  The bones are dry, the joints have dried up and rubbed away through friction, the muscles, ligaments and tendons have shortened and become inflexible just like leather that has dried out in the sun and every other vital system has been compromised due to this dehydration along with those mentioned above.
Can kidney stones form when there is an adequate amount of fluid to keep the kidneys properly flushed out?  Will the skin dry up and become leathery if it is properly moisturized?  Will the eyes continue to be "bright" if there is enough moisture to produce tears?  Will toxins be able to build up in and under the skin if the circulatory system is able to carry them away?  Will the sinuses and lungs be able to keep themselves clear and functioning properly if there is an adequate amount of water in the body?  This is only a partial list of things that come to mind concerning water and the body.
There are several rules of thumb as to how much water to drink.  Some say: eight glasses of water a day and others say one half ounce of water for every pound of body weight and there are even some who claim that we shouldn't have to drink any water at all as we should be able to get what we need from the food we eat.  Which one is right?
In my opinion none of those are right.  The closest one would be the one that says we need one half ounce of water per pound of body weight but this is only a guideline as the body will tell us the real amount we need.  Our level of activity could increase the amount we need above what the guideline says.  We have to learn to listen to what the body is telling us.
Our bodies don't have any way of talking to us except through comfort and pain.  We are comfortable, that is without disease, when we are doing what the body asks and we experience pain, that is we have disease, when we fail to attended to the bodies needs.  A dry mouth is not just a cry but a scream from our body to give it water.  Stiff aching joints or the presence of kidney stones may be the body's anguished cries for water.  Heat exhaustion and heat stroke are the body's last gasps for water.  In fact it's astounding as how many ways the body has of asking us to drink water all of which would be unnecessary if we only drank what the body requires.   Can the body cure all diseases by just providing it with enough water?
No it can't and that's why I created the list of things I believe to be necessary for real health but to a large degree I consider water to be one of the most neglected nutrients in our diet.
A better guideline for drinking water:  We need to drink water when we first wake up even before we get out of bed.  How much water?  Until the mouth feels fully hydrated which can take a while to determine.  We don't want to drown ourselves with water by drinking a half gallon at a time but drinking a quart or more over fifteen or twenty minutes won't hurt. Then we need to respond by drinking water every time we begin to feel like the mouth is drying out. Warning: the mouth should never be dry to the point where you can't make spit.  There are times that we shouldn't drink water: we shouldn't drink any water one half hour before we eat, not while we're eating and nothing during the two hour period after we eat. It'll take time to learn to recognize our bodies requests for water.
Drinking water when we first wake up helps to create adequate amounts of fluids to help flush out the kidneys that have been holding urine all night and will help to give the lungs and sinuses the extra moisture they need to clear themselves and will also give the bowels an adequate amount so it can clear itself.  We've been breathing all night long and the lungs, sinuses and kidneys are the major users of water during this time.  The air we breath has to be moisturized with every breath we take and that moisture is lost to the atmosphere as we exhale.  The point is that we lose so much water as we sleep that we need to break the water fast with enough water to put things back on track which includes giving the body enough water to make enough saliva to mix with the food and enough water so that the stomach will have enough digestive juices when the food gets there.

This should be a good enough place to stop with this subject of water; enough to get you started on the right track.  There are is a good book on this subject written by Fereydoon Batmanghelidj entitled "Your Body's Many Cries for Water"

If we learn to listen to the body it'll respond and say thank you by being comfortable. More with the next post.
Katrael.

Well, it looks as if I got more than my hand slapped and that's like it should be.  What am I talking about?  I have another blog at Wordpress.com.  I tried, for the second time, to include an affiliate link.  I wouldn't have done it if I knew they would shut my blog down.  Oh well, if they don't reactivate it then I'll put all of my efforts into this blog.  I had the Wordpress blog first and that's why I put so much energy there.  I'm going to check this blog platform out to see if I can include affiliate links in it.  There is more than one way to skin a cat.

Living in the Police State

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I just read an article by The Healthy Home Economist.  Here's the post: The Police State run Schools
Not only are we increasingly being subjected to the unwanted intrusion of the government into our lives but, they are forcing our children to eat poison.  I don't feel that you could consider what they serve in public school cafeterias  to be anythinhg but poison.

Want to Make Money From Home?

The internet has made more millionaires worldwide than any other medium ever.  But, it's not a friendly place for newcomers.  There are many things that you will need to know in order to find your way into the hearts and pocket books of  internet users.  It helps to have as much help as possible and there really are no cheap shortcuts to doing it. 

I've responded to dozens of "get rich fast" internet marketing programs and they all promise massive results and you start out paying $49 to get started but, then you find out you can't do much with the forty nine dollar deal and that there is a better package that costs more.  It's the standard bait and switch con game.

Well, there are ways to do it cheaply but, they aren't fast.  You've got to have something that people are looking for and you've got to find a way to get that idea before the people or you won't go anywhere.  There are solutions and one of the best is to get help from people who know what they are doing.  That is seldom very cheap.  But, if you are serious about any business you'll be willing to invest in it.

Here's a good place to go to find out how to make money from home on the internet:  The Source For Income  Check this site out.  It offers many things. 
Katrael

Concerned about weight loss?

If you're concerned about weight loss then maybe your metabolism is too slow.  Here's some good information about your metabolism:

Measuring Our Metabolism


Advertising has been strong when it comes to losing weight products and services. Through this medium, people are becoming more interested and captivated with the promises and the assurances these ads hold. In this modern world, everything that meets the eye is marketable- sad to say.

We need not carried away with these commercials. Increasing your metabolism is the best means of doing so. You just need your self, and a little help from outside factors. The first step is to measure your metabolism.

How do we measure metabolism?
A metabolic test comes in two ways. The first method is direct calorimetry. This method measures the energy expended in the form of heat. The other one is indirect calorimetry, it measures the amount of oxygen consumed over a period of time. Traditionally used in hospital and research facilities due to the cost of the machine and the need for trained technicians.
What are the needed preparations for the test?
The aim of the test is to gauge the RMR or the Resting Metabolic Rate of an individual. Therefore, he or she needs to avoid eating a meal 1 and a half hours before the test, avoid exercising on the day of your test and avoid the use of stimulants such as caffeine on the day of the test.
What happens in the testing bed?
You will relax in a seated position; the doctor will ask you to do this. A mask or mouthpiece would be used and you have to breathe in there for ten to fifteen minutes. A report after the test would be printed out by the machine. The most important part is that you discuss the results with the doctor in order to come up with the next steps for your diet plans.
Would the test results be useful for good?
No. You have to retest after some time. Your RMR and your total metabolism changes through time. Change in any element of your lifestyle would directly affect the result. For you to keep a track of your metabolic rate, seek help from a doctor.
There is a need for one person to give value to his metabolism because it will not just decide your size but it will have an impact on your lifestyle and on your entire life.

Hello, I'm Johnny Cash

Surprising Lessons For Work At Home Moms.

No I'm not really Johnny Cash but, this writer has pulled some great lessons for moms who want to work from home from some of Johnny Cash's songs. Here's the article.
Katrael

I've unearthed some surprising bits of wisdom for new wahms by listening to Johnny Cash lately. I thought I would share some of these tidbits from the Rockabilly legend.



1) Understand Your Man ...er, target market!
That's right. Do you understand your target market? Are you aware of her needs, desires and driving ambitions? Does your website speak to your target audience? If not, perhaps you should make some changes or your website visitor or customer will be "as gone as a wild goose in winter" too!

2) A Boy Named Sue
Life ain't easy for a boy named Sue...and life ain't easy for a wahm either. In your business you will have those confidence killers, dream stealers, fun suckers...whatever you want to call them. You will have people who try to tell you that you can't achieve your goals, that what you try won't work. Don't let them get you down! Sue's father told him, "This world is rough, and if you're gonna make it, you've gotta be tough." How can you get tough in your business?

3) Man In Black- or Branding 101
J.R. Cash didn't don the all black suit because he didn't have anything else to wear. It was his trademark. He wore all black for a reason. What about you? Are you working on your brand? In a world full of Elvis Presleys and Jerry Lee Lewises, how will you stand apart? And remember, your target market doesn't have to be just like you- Johnny Cash wrote Folsom Prison Blues and connected with inmates when he had never yet step foot in jail!

4) The Legend of John Henry's Hammer
This song has two bits of wisdom:

a) Learn your business and you will succeed John Henry's Daddy told him to: "Learn to a turn a jack, learn to lay a track, learn to pick and shovel too." Are you learning all you can about Internet Marketing so that you can succeed in your business? Do you reinvest in ebooks, coaching and mentoring, and software like John Henry's hammer?

b) Technology has its place but it can't take the place of humans. When the steam engine threatened to take the place of men, Johnny proved that in the end, humans are more valuable. Learn to use technology (like autoresponders) but remember that your website visitor is a human and inject some of yourself into your marketing efforts.

5) One Piece at a Time
This ballad is about a man who decides to build a Cadillac. He steals one piece at a time from the assembly line "and it didn't cost him a dime". But in the end, it didn't work out exactly like he planned! Does your website look like a pieced together jalopy? Are you unwilling to spend any money on your own domain and hosting, content with a free site cluttered up with ads?

6) In The Jailhouse
Now Please don't throw away your hard work by doing one of the following things: Spamming
Copying other people's articles or content
Stealing graphics
Clicking on your Adsense ads
Not keeping records and neglecting to pay taxes It just isn't worth it, and you may find yourself in the jailhouse. Much better to Walk the Line so you can sleep at night.

7) Ring of Fire
Maybe you've made a bad choice... entered into a shotgun romance with a business that's not right for you. Don't be afraid to realize this, chuck everything and start over! Don't beat your head against the wall if, after working hard on a project, you decide it's just not profitable. Better to find your match and pour your energies into that. In this song, June Carter Cash chronicles her growing attraction to John. Though they were both involved with other people, they were obviously soul mates and ended up making music and growing old together for the next 40 years. May you make beautiful music with your business!

I hope you find this article as refreshing as I did.

Warning, It's the End Of The World

I'm not a financial genius, a prophet or anything like that, I'm just a person, average or not, who thinks he can see the writing on the wall.   What's the writing say?

There is going to be some very tough times ahead.   What kind of tough times?  Things are going to get tougher economically.  The world is going to wake up to the  fact that the dollars we spend with it are only worthless pieces of paper or just worthless digits in digital system and it'll be to bad for us when they refuse to accept them as payment for the myriad of things we need from them.  Every dollar that the Fed prints dilutes the value of the dollars that are already out there.  The longer someone holds onto that piece of paper means that those dollars they hold are  losing value.  All of those trillions of dollars in stimulus money(currency) have no value because there isn't anything real behind it.  That stimulus money has only diluted the value of the currency you earn by about fifty percent and the problem is the rest of the world hasn't caught onto that fact yet but, be prepared for it when it does. The work to produce something those dollars hasn't even been done yet and the Federal Reserve system is busy cranking out more worthless currency.  You know this already don't you?   Is it really the end of the world?  No, just the end of another age and the beginning of a new one.  What does all of this mean?

It means that when the rest of the world won't accept our dollars for the things they export to us, like food and clothing, we'll have to find a way to produce it ourselves or go naked and hungry.  The land will always be there so at least you'll have a place to stand on or lay down on while you're dying naked and hungry waiting for the government to solve the problems.  Can that really happen here?  Yes it can because it's happened before and in many other places. 

Will the new age be any better than the previous one?  That depends on the people who survive to the new one.  People have to become better educated in all manners of things from: business and economics, nutrition and health, spiritual matters, the right ways to behave toward each other and so on.   It's probably the, "right way to behave toward each other" issue that is the most important. 

Gandhi said something to the effect that if it comes down to an eye for an eye that the world will go blind.  The real point is that we need to learn to treat each other better.  We can have a difference of opinion as long as it doesn't deteriorate into violence because then it's a matter of who's the strongest or trickiest.  I once knew a real tiny guy by the name of Louie who believed in equalizing a situation: he'd hit you over the head with a tire iron, or just shoot you if you turned your back on him.  A gun or a tire iron; which ever was the handiest.  So, there are plenty of Louie's out there and you'd better be prepared for them because they'll take everything you have away from you when it gets tough out there.

How can the next age become better than this one?   Learn that a business has to make more money than it spends in order to stay in business and that this principal holds true for families and governments.  That you can't just print more money when you think you need it.  That, generally, it takes more than one person to provide for your future if you can't provide for your own.   You can't just eat anything you want to and remain healthy.  That the food in your stomach comes from the earth and not a factory.    That you have to take an active part in teaching good behavior practices onto your children and that you can't leave that kind of thing up to a school or a church.  That as long as long as you're not sure about somebody that you can't trust them especially if they've demonstrated improper behavior in the past.  There is so much to know and you can't trust anybody else to know it for you; you'll be sorry if you do because few people are that trustworthy.  

Our problems stem from our ignorance so it's time to become educated about every aspect of life if your going to make the next age a better one than this one.  The sad fact of the matter is that we're rather lazy in some departments.  We're too busy to spend time teaching morals to our children so it's easier to let them learn them on their own or to let a school or church teach them.  But, it's also hard for us to know whether something is really true or not especially when we'll reserve our opinion until we've had a chance to hear it from some person we perceive as an authority figure to tell us what opinion to have.  People have become so indoctrinated by those authority figures until they can't see the truth when it's stares them in the face.  People will even claim that something is true because they've been told it's true even when they read something else because they'll read it like it's been told to them and not like it was written.  So what's this got to do with the end of the world?

Well, the world's not going to end but, like I said before: a new age is upon us.  We'll have to work to make it a better age if we want it to be better.  For now we have to function in the present age but, you'd better begin to get ready for the transition because it's very difficult to give birth, so I've been told, and the new age is awaiting it's birth.

Contest

My dad started another business and it's with a product called Mileage Maxx.  The product does many things: reduces emissions, increases fuel economy, reduces maintenance, eliminates sludge from diesel storage tanks and is a few stabilizer among even more things.  This product has been on the market for some time now and it's been approved by the EPA. 

It only makes sense, in this day and age of rising costs, to find ways of reducing the costs of everyday living.  This product can help.  One bottle, which is one quart, will treat one hundred sixty gallons of either gasoline or diesel fuel.  The average savings per one hundred sixty gallons of fuel runs between $50 to $100 at the price of $3 per gallon for fuel.  The higher the fuel costs the more savings that will be realized.  So, you owe it to yourself to try some. Here's a link  Mileage Maxx 

Now about the contest:  We will be running a contest that will award free bottles of Mileage Maxx to those lucky winners who leave the best comment about this site Mileage Maxx.  More details on this contest later.  Leave a comment if you're interest in this contest.
Katrael

To Believe, a beutiful song

I know that this site was meant to be about health and wealth and it still is.  This post is about what makes us feel good; like beautiful songs.  Here's a song sung by a beautiful young lady who's voice doesn't seem to match her age.  I think this is fantastic stuff.  A beautiful song that with one or two word changes would be even better.  Anyway, listen to this song and enjoy.
 http://videos2view.net/2believe-JE.htm
Katrael

Work At Home and Make Money

National Homeworkers Association
Want to find a way to make $300 per week from the comfort of your own home.  Work the hours and days you choose.  There are dozens of companies looking for you to help them ease their labor costs and they can do this by putting you to work in your own home and paying you to make or assemble their products.  It's profitable for them and for those who choose this as a way of making an income. Want more information?  Send me an e-mail at www.ganaideninvestments@gmail.com for a free report or go to the link above and order your work at home package.  The cost is $26.00 for the work at home package and $7.00 for shipping and handling for a total of $33.00 (did I do the math right?).   
It's been a while since I last posted to this blog but, something has come up that has compelled me to write again: Debt.  I recently received a letter from a debt collection agency.   Has anyone out there ever been  in the position to receive one?  They are anything but funny but, they are quite sad.  They offer you a settlement that for many of us today can't even be considered.  With little or no income and a mountain of debt to boot the average person can become despondent.  How do you pay for something when you don't even have a way to take care of yourself?  If you're like me, nobody forced you to go into debt.  And if you're like me you always believed that you'd be able to pay it back.  But like the wise old sage once said "S..t in one hand and wish in the other and see which one fills up first."  Well it looks as if I've S..t in my hand, hat and everywhere else.
There's no way out of this mess but to pay it or die trying because our government has been bought out by the same people that made it too easy for idiots like myself to get into trouble.  We used to have laws that allowed individuals a new start, sometimes more than one new start.  But, these same companies, the credit card ones and the banks to boot, bought out congress and the president and now there are no new starts.   That is unless somebody knows something I don't.
Here's a short list of things we can't get rid of anymore:
Student loans
IRS debts
Credit card bills
There's probably more debts we can't dispose of than are listed here and for sure there will be more to come in the future as more and more people are forced into seeking help that they won't be able to get. 
The government was the first to protect itself from a person filing bankruptcy against their tax debt and then they went and did the same with student loans.  I understand that 50% of all student loans are currently in default.  Our government insured that this would happen.  They say, probably rightfully, that a college graduate makes far more money that the non college graduate does.  It's this statement and the the mistaken belief that a college education will be the magical answer to all of our problems that compels many to seek a college education, even when they don't know what they want to do with their life.  And while it may be true that  college grads earn more what they don't tell you is that the odds of your graduating from college once you start are small and that a large percentage of those that do graduate don't ever work in their course of study.  I know several people who this happened to.  And what they don't tell you is that you'll be paying those student loans for a long time.  I have a niece who is going to school to be a vet.  The cost will be in excess of $60,000 and her expected gross income will be $40,000 per year.  I think the cost of college stated here is low but, that's what my brother tells us it will cost him to put her through school.  Now, my niece has nothing to worry about if my brother is able and willing to foot the bill, but many children don't have parents who can do that and they go into debt themselves to go through the smoke screen that is college.  I do admit that college worked well for my brother.  
Do I sound like a malcontent?  Maybe I am.  The reason: I'm facing that uphill struggle of taking care of three of those three items I listed above.  Who do I really have to blame?  Me.   I was out of debt at one time and that's where I had promised myself I would stay; out of debt.  Actually I made that promise to my creator and I did the exact opposite.  So now I'm facing a situation that defies an easy fix short of dying.  I knew that debt was the vampire of economic health.  Debt will be the end of a stable family and country.
Our country is now the worlds largest debtor and it has refused to recognize that it is reaping what it sowed in its own people.  We are debt junkies.
I once had a conversation with a banker(for real).  I was telling him how terrible it was to be in debt that was difficult to pay and how crushed it made me feel.  He said this "you're looking at it the wrong way, your debt is a sign of what you're worth."  Well, this may be true to the ones you owe money to but, it's a lie because paying interest only sucks the life out of you.  Think of how much more you could do with the interest on a home that was more than twice what you paid for home to begin with.  You might not have the home but, you'd have the money to spend on other things.  Sure, what I'm talking about isn't the American way but it is the right way.  Don't go into debt.  Take the word of someone who is struggling under his own personal debt burden. 
What do I want?  Forgiveness of my debt on the condition that no one will ever be able to loan me another red cent lest I become stupid again and try to go back into debt.   After all, the banks got bailed out after they made bad decisions, why can't we individuals.  There are ways to fix this in this computer age.  it's a simple matter of passing a law and putting the mark on your files that says that nobody can loan you money. 
I believe there should be a national movement to forgive every ones debts and call it even and let us start over.  Those who have good credit can keep it and continue to borrow as in the past.  Those of us who have shown themselves to be repeat offenders should be barred from borrowing money. 
So, how do I plan to pay my debt?  It looks as if I'll have resort to the good old fashioned way of working since it doesn't look as if I'll be able to get forgiveness.  I'll make my pitch now.
This is for those who would like to earn money and stay home to do it.  There are dozens of companies who are looking for talented and willing people to ease their the cost of their labor burdens and put the skills those people already have to work.  there are companies that will pay a person to properly assemble their merchandise or to even build it from scratch and pay money for what is properly completed.  Now, I'm not trying to put up a smoke screen here myself and tell you that all will be a bed of roses but, for many it can be a way to put that extra on the table or against their bills.  It's possible to earn $300 and more a week doing what you already know how to do and do it at your own pace.  You can even work for more than one company at a time.  Does it cost to locate these companies?  Not if you are willing to do your own research.  This might just take more time than the nominal fee you'll pay to find out who these companies are through me.  I paid for the list because it saved me time.  The list you'll send for won't come directly from me but from a company that's been providing this list for over twenty years.  What will happen is that I'll get credit for bringing them people to buy the list and I'll receive a percentage of the fee charged.  I make money, the company makes money and you get to find a way to make money from home.  Everyone is a winner.  Here's the link:
National Homeworkers Association
Now help yourself
Katrael

The Most Valuable Asset in the World

The Most Valuable Asset In The World

There really is only one thing that is the greatest asset in the world during a time of crisis and that is יהוה. He made it all and allows us to use what he’s given us. Of course the greatest asset he blessed us with is our brains. We can do wonderful things when our minds are properly trained. However, the greatest physical asset that he gave us is something that maybe only one percent of the population owns. If you guessed that land was that asset you’d be close. It’s something far more valuable. It’s farmland.

According to the S&P 500 Index gold increased in value from the early seventies until now by about 3000%, that’s three thousand percent. No other commodity has come close and overall not even the stock market came close. Over the same period of time the value of farmland has increased by close to 13,000%, that’s thirteen thousand percent. Face it, the old saying is true, they’re not making any more of it.

You say you don’t own any farmland. Again, you’re not alone. You could invest in farmland that sells stock. There are farms around the world that do this. Some of them return a very handsome profit. Here again, if the currency system fails, your stock could be nearly worthless and if you don’t live near any of these farms they won’t do you much good when there isn’t any food to eat. Is the currency system going to fail and are there going to be shortages of food? Ummmmm....yes. The great question is: when is this crash going to happen? I’m not a prophet but, I’ll guess it’s going to be in the next half dozen years. This gives you time to plan; this gives you time to use your most valuable asset you were given: your mind.

I wouldn’t get comfortable yet though. The slide to the bottom has already begun and you’ll find yourself trapped if you don’t pray and plan carefully. If you’re caught lying down when the crash gets enough momentum you won’t be able to get up because of the G-forces.

What makes farms so valuable? Simple. You can feed yourself and loved ones from it if it’s self sufficient. It doesn’t have to be a large farm. In fact there are ways to take as little as an acre or even less land and make it produce most of what you need. It may take two years to get the ground to produce this kind of bounty so if you start now you can be set even if there is no crash. For sure our dollar shrinks every year by a compounded method. See my piece on “Currency or Money”.

For sure you need to plan to keep what you don’t really own. The king owns all of the land and he’ll be happy to let you stay and farm it if you can continue to pay the rent(property tax). If you plan carefully you’ll have a way. Remember: the king only takes coins of the realm, so to speak. He probably won’t take you’re tomatoes or chickens in payment however, someone might trade you coins of the realm for them.

This is a dismal thought: there won’t be anything you can do if an army marches through your farm and forces you off the kings land. It might not matter if your rent is paid or not. What happens if the king makes it where you can’t get coins of the realm? What happens if your only viable identification is some kind of a mark on your body placed there by the kings men? What if the coin of the realm is an electronic currency? Without identification you won’t be able to use your electronic currency. If you are a Christian or a believer who won’t take such a mark you’ll be unable to pay the kings rent. Can this happen? Oh yeah, it can happen and already does for other reasons. We don’t have any protection under the law now, if you don’t pay you have to go. Let’s just hope there is a place of refuge to go to or that you can survive in the wilds off of what יהוה provides there.

But, maybe this isn’t the time for that yet, maybe it’s just another horrible crash and it won’t turn into what’s prophesied in Revelations? If this is the case then get your little piece of land and get started now. You can always sell it later if and when things get better.

Here’s the thing: most of us don’t know how to make a little bit of ground produce a lot of food. That work has been done and it’s a matter of getting simple to use information. This blog doesn’t want me to sell things on it and I have to admit that I like to earn coins of the realm. So I can’t include any links here because they feel that affiliate programs are...well...somehow not kosher. There are thousands of legitimate affiliate programs and even Wal-Mart has them. So, if you’re interested I can help provide you with this information. I’m using a system that doesn’t require a constant year after year back breaking amount of labor. Get the system set up, which is the hardest part, and enjoy the benefits year after year. There is yearly maintenance but, you’d be surprised with how little. There are actually two systems: a way to grow veggies and a way to grow chickens. Chickens don’t require a lot of space, aren’t difficult to feed and take care of and provide a lot of protein in return. You just have to know how to do it.

Leave me a comment with a way to get the links to you, like an email address and I promise that once I’ve sent you the links I won’t hound you and I definitely won’t sell or share your email address with anyone. I’ll make it so that no ones comments are visible so that nobody can get your email address. In fact I’ll do one better, I’ll delete your comment after I’ve sent you the links so that not even I will know how to get in touch with you. Fair enough?
Katraelhttp://www.katrael.wordpress.com/

taxes

Taxes

Let me start out from the beginning and say that I’m not against paying taxes.  Paying taxes is one of the means that the citizens can come together to provide things that we need such as: roads, armies, water treatment and distribution systems, schools and a host of other benefits that we take for granted.  It’s the job of the government to collect and distribute the proceeds appropriately.  One of the problems comes with using the word appropriately because what’s appropriate to one may not be appropriate to another.  Other problems exist because of the means of collection.

I can remember my first paycheck.  It was to be a pitiful thing even for it’s time.  I had to work nearly two weeks before I could collect it and I was looking forward to the seventy odd dollars that I had coming.  I only earned a dollar and five cents an hour.  I was floored, flabbergasted when I got it and it was missing a considerable chunk of my hard earned money.  There were all kinds of deductions: federal income tax, state income tax and city income tax.  That’s right even the city got into the picture.  I was incensed; they hadn’t even asked my permission.  Up until then I had been quite a businessman baby sitting, cutting grass and shoveling snow in the winter.  I had a small list of customers who liked my work and my rates.  The problem was that I was spoiled because I didn’t have to share these hard earned dollars with anybody so it was disheartening when I saw how much these crooks took without my permission.  But, true to human nature when there is nothing that can be done about the situation I soon settled into a uneasy coexistence with the government crooks and the yearly cycle of settling accounts with them.

Now that the income tax season is over it’s time to breath a sigh of relief.  Or is it?  In reality there is no relief from taxes.  There are income taxes, property taxes, excise taxes, sales taxes, corporate taxes, ad valorem taxes, capital gains taxes, import and export duties, gas taxes, cigarette taxes, 911 taxes, social security taxes, medicaid taxes, death taxes, inheritance taxes, liquor taxes and a host of fees that we pay so we cam  use our own common  property.   I don’t have a problem with many of these taxes because there are righteous ways for me to avoid having to pay them if I need to.  But, there are some that are grievous and immoral and somehow we free Americans got conned into accepting them. 

To me an appropriate tax is one that doesn’t specifically name me as a tax payer although there is one notable exception to this and I’ll talk about that later.  These are taxes collected at the time of sale.  I can avoid these by simply not buying anything if I can’t afford the tax.  Most of us can afford to pay these taxes because we do it every time we go to the checkout.   I don’t even have a problem with most of the fees that we have to pay to use our own common properties like the state parks and highways that we pay to use through drivers licence fees and other similar taxes.  But, I do have a problem with taxes that specifically name me as a payer like income taxes and property taxes.  They have my name on them and if I don’t or can’t pay them I may stand to lose my property or freedom. 

Let me start with what I consider to be the most immoral and evil tax ever foisted onto the tax paying public: Property taxes that are specifically levied against real estate.  These property taxes are levied to supply revenue for schools.    What’s wrong with it?  Fail to pay it and you’ll find out.  You’ll find yourself without a home or a place to stay whether it’s in a house, grass hut or a tent.  This grievous thing, getting kicked off of your land because you failed to pay a tax, is criminal and evil.  How can we possibly consider this to be a truly free country when we don’t have a right to live on the land we bought until the day we die regardless of our ability to pay a tax?   In truth we no longer own the land, the government does and it merely rents it to us year by year.   If we don’t pay these taxes the government confiscates the land and sells(rents) it at auction on the court house steps to the highest bidder which is usually way below the real value of the land.  I realize that we can’t take the land with us when we die but, that’s not the issue: it’s the right to live on our land until we die that is the issue.  There might not be so many homeless people if not for this grievous tax.  And, of all the taxes, it’s this one that keeps us dependent on the system; it keeps us working and I’ll go over this later.

It’s these types of taxes that hurt the poorest of us the most.  All taxes are a burden to the poor but, a tax that can be used to take away your home or land is the worst.  Everybody has to pay taxes, even the poor.

The next evil tax is an income tax.  On the surface this type of tax may seem fair because it’s graduated according to income.  Here again, this tax is evil for the reason that a name is associated with it.  There are all kind of things that happen when you’re unable to pay your full share: levies, fines, interest, garnishments and possibly imprisonment.  You could possibly avoid paying these taxes if you don’t have an income but, the system is rigged so that you have to have an income.   But, many look at it this way: you earned the money so you have to be disciplined to pay the tax.  This is certainly true but, is it right?  Income taxes don’t take into account the cost due to inflation or hardship.  Take higher gas prices for instance.  Many people haven’t gotten raises in several years because the economy is in trouble and businesses are hard put to stay in business just maintaining what they already pay.  So, when the gas prices go up there is no corresponding reduction in the amount of tax a person has to pay from their remaining wage.  Most poor people who pay income tax do so on their gross income and not an after expense income.  What happens if the roof goes bad on your rented house (remember we all pay rent to the king) and you need to fix it with high priced inflated shingles?  Is there a change in the tax rate to help?  No, that’s your problem.  But, what if you get a windfall in income and you find yourself still in the same position: the money is needed for some good reason like to feed, house and clothe your family.  You may find yourself in trouble because now you have to pay income tax on money that didn’t have withholding taxes taken out of.  Why, you may even find yourself in a higher tax bracket which could create an even greater hardship.  

Capital gains taxes.  What happens if you work hard and improve the value of your property or your property merely looks as if it’s more valuable due to inflation?  Nothing as far as the capital gains tax is concerned; not until you decide to sell it for any reason.  The politicians love to play with this tax.  The rates constantly change from one administration to the next.  Sometimes the tax rate is reduced substantially but, it never does go away.  If you liquidate your property you have one year to reinvest it into real estate or you have to pay the tax on the increase in inflated value.  But, what if you have to pay a debt and can’t reinvest and you find yourself without enough money to pay the tax?  What happens then?  I don’t know but, I’m sure it’s not pleasant.  Here again this is a tax associated with your name because you own the real estate( but not really, you’re only a renter).

I could go on and write about other personal taxes but, I think you get the picture about them but, there is one other grievous evil tax I want to write about: corporate taxes. 

Why are these evil?  Simply because corporations don’t pay them.  Why not?  A little bit of education in business is needed here.   This is very simple and I believe that you will understand this.  In some respects a business is no different than a common person.  The common person cannot spend more money than they have for very long or they will go bankrupt and corporations are no different in that respect.  Here’s where the difference between individuals and corporations are concerned: when a corporation is charged a tax they have to pass that cost onto the consumer by building that cost into the price of their goods or services and it’s the consumer who pays for those goods and services and as the end consumer I have nowhere to pass the cost of my taxes on to.  The bad thing about this is that there is no way to know how much of the cost of providing those goods and services are actually corporate taxes.  And by the way, the matching social security tax that corporations pass onto the consumer is about six point three percent of their employees gross wages and that has to be passed on or the corporation will eventually become bankrupt and go out of business.  But, here’s where the politicians get the last laugh: not only do we pay sales tax on those goods and services but we also pay sales tax on the built in corporate taxes.  Isn’t this a hoot: a tax on a tax?  The higher the corporate tax the higher the sales tax.  It’s for the reason that we don’t know how much we’re being indirectly taxed that makes it evil.  We can cry for higher corporate taxes but, in the end we’re just crying for ourselves to be taxed more and I know that all of us want to give more of our hard earned money to the politicians so that they can vote themselves a wage increase whenever they feel like it.  

Now I want to return to the subject of property taxes.   Someone once told me that certain taxes were created not for government revenue specifically but, to keep the people working.  In my opinion it is this tax that could accomplish this the best.  Everybody that lives pays this tax even those who are considered renters because they rent from a private landlord.  The private landlord is in business and has to pass those property taxes on to the renter in the form of rent or they stand to lose their property if they can’t pay them.  Those taxes cannot be directly paid by giving the tax collector free rent, a chicken, a tree or a tomato so those things have to be turned into currency so that it can be given to the tax collector.  The thing is that once you do that you now have an income that you have to pay even more taxes on.   You cannot routinely sell things unless you go into business and ninety five percent of us won’t go into business for ourselves.  The cost of doing business is staggering.  Businesses have to have employees even if you’re the only employee.  You need a place to do business from and usually some kind of equipment to buy and maintain.  Then there’s all of that bureaucratic red tape that takes one business day out of five to keep which includes paying all of those taxes for the consumers.  It’s hard enough to take care of your personal problems without adding business problems to the list so most of us opt to remain employees who are really the bulk of the people who buy goods and services in which all of these hidden taxes are built into.  In my opinion there is a fear that if this one tax, the property tax, was done away with that our bustling economy would revert to subsistence farming.   Without property taxes the burden of keeping the people working would fall to the income tax next.  The problem would be in defining what an income is.  Is the food you grow and eat actually income?  It would have to become that so that they could force you to pay your taxes in tomatoes or convert it to currency so that you could pay your taxes.   So, we are all inextricably linked into the system thanks to the property tax.  There is no way to get out of paying this tax and no way to exist outside of the system.  

What’s the solution?  There may not be one short of revolution.   And most people are two ignorant about these things to even care.  Their focus is on surviving in the system as it is and they don’t have time to look for or the education to know that there might be a better way.  So most people probably wouldn’t support a political revolution let alone a military revolution and I don’t advocate a violent revolution. 

Our political system can easily support a request for a change if enough of us got up and spoke out against these evils.  All we have to do is vote those out who won’t change and keep voting people in until we do get the change we need.  But, what about this need to keep people working?  I’m sure that there would be a certain number of people who would find a life of subsistence farming preferable to being in the system but, most of us like our modern conveniences and wouldn’t trade that for anything in the world so we’ll stay in the system even if the taxes were collected by other more equitable means such as sales taxes.  

The reason that nothing will change short of a revolution is that there is a vested interest in keeping things the way they are.  Probably, most people don’t have a problem with the system and our politicians know how to navigate the system to their advantage the way it is.   Our politicians are afraid to discontinue all of these separate and somewhat hidden taxes because it would force them to be honest about what rate they tax us at.  We are one of the highest taxed people on the planet.  I have heard that some estimates say that as much as sixty percent of our income is taken in taxes.  That’s ok if we can survive off of the remaining forty percent but, at our politicians should at least be honest about it.  What would happen if you went to the checkout and had to pay a sixty percent sales tax?  Would the system collapse as people quit buying things or would the people demand a real accounting from their politicians?  

Sale tax revenues fluctuate to much with the economy and I think that is the reason politicians don’t find sales taxes as desirable as other taxes.  When’s the last time the government came to you and gave you a break on your property tax when you lost your job or had to take a pay cut?  It’s fixed by the value of your land and not to temporary dips in the economy; even if that economic dip lasts for ten years.  You certainly couldn’t expect those poor underpaid politicians and government employees, which includes teachers,  to take a pay cut could you?   After all, cycles of boom and bust seem to be a part of nature so why shouldn’t the wages of our politicians cycle with the cycle.  Give them a tiny fraction of a percent based on how well the economy functions as a base for their wage.  What kind of solutions or nightmares would our politicians create if their income kept pace with tax revenues?  Heavens forbid that they might actually come up with a real fix to these unacceptable taxes and then actually fix the economy the right way.  

But, actually, our politicians shouldn’t have a hand in controlling a free economy anyway.  Yes, worker safety should always be important and probably has to be watched over by our laws but, things like wage and price guarantees have no place in a free economy.   Wages and work conditions are as good or bad as the workers allow them to be.  Nobody can force a free man to work for a subsistence wage.  There are plenty of stories where workers banded together before there were labor unions to strike for better wages and working conditions and got what they wanted.  How does this tie in with taxes?  It doesn’t directly but, it has a bearing on tax revenues when politicians try to manipulate a free economy and fail because they don’t understand human nature or business.  Life wants to thrive and expand and will do so if left alone. 

Yes, things can get out of hand and usually do but stifling business only curtails innovation which leads to stagnation and death.  Our business are a witness to this and we the people see it.  Our businesses are fleeing to places that don’t have these artificial restraints.  Remember 9/11?  Remember all of the patriotism and the little American flags people flew?  How many of those flags were made in the good ole USA?  I couldn’t find any.  When’s the last time you looked at the label of the product you bought to see where it was made?  It’s getting harder to find products made in the USA by real US manufacturers.  People can’t afford real US products that are completely made in the US so they settle for things made in China even things grown in China.  

Those businesses that are forced, yes forced, out of the country give other countries an edge over us.  Our economic wealth, vitality and innovation is bleeding away with every company that relocates from our shores.  Our factories close down permanently and workers are forced to find scarce jobs.  KIA, a Korean auto maker, opened a plant in Georgia and there were forty or fifty thousand job applicants for less than a thousand positions.   Foreign corporations that invest here help but they aren’t the main driving force in our economy.  All of this trouble is a consequence of government medaling where they shouldn’t.  Our politicians think that the American taxpayer is a bottomless well and they’ve found countless ingenious ways of getting into our pockets. 

Here’s another side effect of heavy taxation: lowered birth rates.   How?   People can’t afford large families which leads them to abortion in the form of IUD’s, birth control pills and surgical and chemical abortions.  Then there is the lowered birth rate due to voluntary sterilization.  What a gun couldn’t do to curb population growth heavy taxation accomplished.  The birth rates of many Westernized countries have dropped below the level needed to maintain their populations and countries like Germany and France are facing a crisis because of it.  Even the United States is on the brink of negative native population growth.  The population gap is being filled by immigrants who are changing the ethnic make up of these nations.  Christian countries are becoming Islamic countries and the Muslims aren’t even having to fire any shots to bring this about.   As the native population grows old and fades away the people realize that they need new people to pay the taxes to keep their governments paying them to sit around and do nothing. 

More on this latter.

Katrael