For Highly-Sensitive People: Grounding

Here are some ways to help highly-sensitive people from absorbing other people's "negative energy."

Get Grounded

You can do this first thing in the morning -- and it's a great start to your day. Highly-sensitive people often have trouble staying grounded because they feel everything so intensely and live in their heads. Grounding is a good first step to take so that we don’t carry around other people’s emotions and energy as if they were your own. You can practise the following:

Have a shower in the morning and imagine the water washing away all of your negative energy down the drain, and the water filing you with white light and love. Drinking at least one large glass of water upon waking up will help a lot, too. Water is naturally grounding.

Visualize roots growing out of the bottom of your feet. The roots reach deep into the ground. Picture this until your feet feel weighted down.

Spend five minutes each morning meditating, and focusing on your breath. Breathe in for seven seconds, hold for four seconds, then exhale for seven seconds, and hold for another four seconds before repeating. This is a great way to get in touch with your breath and inner-self.

Sit on or touch the earth/ground. Walk on the ground in bare feet. Going into nature is one of the most grounding experiences a person can have. It is powerfully cleansing and helps us focus on a world outside of ourselves.

Visualization and Clearing 

Visualization is a great way for keeping other people’s energy separate from your own. You can visualize yourself protected by a huge rainbow bubble when interacting with “energy-suckers”, or you can visualize yourself in a box. The box allows positive energy to enter, but repels any energy you don’t want. You can still sense what others are feeling and thinking, but once you have recognized their energy, it stays with them. You don’t become entangled in their energy at the end of a conversation.

Respite

Charles M. Schulz: The Doctor is In

Luxfer Prism Glass Tile

The concept behind the Luxfer prismatic glass tiles utilizes refraction and diffusion of natural daylight creating maximum interior lighting efficiency .

Luxfer Prisms were manufactured by the Luxfer Prism Company.  In 1895 Frank Lloyd Wright designed and patented 41 different designs.  These were U.S. Patent #27,977. Filed October 4, 1897.  Serial No. 654.088. Of his 41 designs, only one FLLW pattern was actually produced. This is the unique "flower" design patented in 1897 by Frank Lloyd Wright. 

Prism glass tiles were typically used in storefront transoms to light the interior rooms. In the 1890, electric lighting was not well developed, and prism glass tiles were designed to reflect light toward the interior of the storefronts.

Dress for Success: The Wright Hattitude

Frank Lloyd Wright knew that style was a person’s signature. His look was both impeccable and unmistakable -- a cape or scarf, a cane that was used not for walking, but gesturing, and finished with an exquisitely made porkpie hat. Like the eaves of a well-designed building, Wright’s hat completed his personal design,” says Stuart Graff, CEO and President of Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation.

Food for Thought

Researchers Reveal Two Possible Causes of "Gluten Sensitivity" -- And Neither Is Gluten

According to the findings of a recent study, gluten-sensitivity may be triggered by something other than gluten.

This study was published in "Gastroenterology," and it was conducted by researchers from the University of Oslo in Norway and Monash University in Australia.

According to reports, 13% of people believe themselves to be gluten-sensitive as a result of the symptoms they experience, such as bloating after eating foods like bread and pasta, but only 1% of them actually have celiac disease, which can lead to a severe autoimmune reaction to gluten that is characterized by symptoms like diarrhea and indigestion.

Researchers have found that people are actually sensitive to a sugar chain called "fructans," and not gluten.

Peter Gibson from  Monash University’s told "New Scientist":

“Gluten was originally assumed to be the culprit because of celiac disease, and the fact that people felt better when they stopped eating wheat. Now it seems like that initial assumption was wrong.”

Gluten sensitivity can be a controversial subject, but researchers have found that non-celiacs show no difference in symptoms between foods that do and foods that don’t contain gluten.

They asked 59 non-celiacs who followed a gluten-free diet to eat special cereal bars, one daily. The first one contained gluten, the second fructans, and the third none of them, but participants didn’t know which bar was which.

They were divided into three groups, and they ate the bars one week, made a week-break, and then continued.

The findings indicated that the fructans bar led to 15% more bloating cases than the control bar, as well as 13% more gastrointestinal symptoms.

Also, the gluten bar led to the same results as the control bar. Therefore, this means that gluten sensitivity might be often misdiagnosed, and the real cause is actually the presence of fructans.

This may make foods low in fructans and high in gluten popular, such as soy sauce.

The gluten controversy might also be caused by the use of the herbicide called "Roundup," which is rich in glyphosate, a harmful ingredient, which is deadly to wheat and barley. The prolonged exposure to this causes inflammation and adverse effects like obesity, depression, gastrointestinal disorders, diabetes, heart disease, cancer, infertility, and Alzheimer’s disease.

Furthermore, people with celiac disease should become aware of the possibility to treat and avoid its symptoms, which are over 200 in number, by changing their dietary habits, and following a healthier lifestyle.

Sir Edwin Henry Landseer

Sir Edwin Henry Landseer RA (1802-1873) was an English painter and sculptor, well known for his paintings of animals -- particularly horses, dogs and stags. However, his best known works are the lion sculptures in Trafalgar Square.

Landseer was born in London, the son of the engraver John Landseer A.R.A. He was something of a prodigy whose artistic talents were recognized early on. He studied under several artists, including his father, and the history painter Benjamin Robert Haydon, who encouraged the young Landseer to perform dissections in order to fully understand animal musculature and skeletal structure. Landseer's life was entwined with the Royal Academy. At the age of just 13, in 1815, he exhibited works there. He was elected an Associate at the age of 24, and an Academician five years later in 1831. He was knighted in 1850, and although elected President in 1866 he declined the invitation.

In his late thirties Landseer suffered what is now believed to be a substantial nervous breakdown, and for the rest of his life was troubled by recurring bouts of melancholy, health anxiety, and depression, often aggravated by alcohol and drug use.

After a breakdown in 1840, partly caused by the failure of the royal portrait, Landseer had a permanent fight against depression and ill health, although he continued to paint brilliantly almost until the end of his life. In the 1860s he modelled the lions at the base of Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square and these were unveiled in 1867. In 1866 he declined the presidency of the Royal Academy, and after 1870 sank slowly into mental illness. A major exhibition of his work was held at the Tate Gallery in 1981, organized by Richard Ormond.