GREAT DAY at Heart and Hara Studio
I was blessed to be invited to read hands at Heart and Hara Studio, Amber Hunt’s amazing healing space, in Pine River, MN. There was even a parade, I assumed it was in my honor and was a bit surprised to learn it was NOT!
Amber has a fabulous energy, grounded, connected and totally emanates an energy of Earth and Fire, I loved sharing her space! It is so warm, cozy and decorated perfectly. I will post a few more pictures over the next few days.
The hands I read were attached to lovely people and I made some true heart connections.
I will share one little anecdote…the last person I read for had a marking that pointed toward some potential ability to connect with those on the Other Side. So, I mentioned that if she were to want to connect with “Aunt Tilly” on the Other Side to set her intention and so on and so forth. She got a really funny look on her face and her eyes got WIDE and she asked where I got the name “Tilly”. I told her it just popped into my head and she told me she DOES have an Aunt Tilly who is deceased….
“Well, Aunt Tilly has a message for you, I do believe,” was my response! Whether that WAS the message, an acknowledgement of her love from the Other Side or what, Aunt Tilly made herself KNOWN yesterday!
What An Honor
I am thrilled and honored to have a link on the Internationally Renowned Hand Analysis site HandResearch.com Of course, I invite you to go see MY link, but while you are there…please look around and immerse yourself in the many, many cutting edge articles made available by Martijin van Mensvoort.
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Why Do WE Have Fingerprints????
It is fun to ferret out all the fascinating info available on FINGERPRINTS….here is a great link to a podcast and a bit of info on WHY we have fingerprints? Click and Enjoy!
Born Without Fingerprints: Scientists Solve Mystery of Rare Disorder
Brian Handwerk for National Geographic News
Two rare and related diseases leave their sufferers with no fingerprints. Now scientists may have cracked the genetic code behind the inherited ailments.
Researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa and Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia report that defects in the protein keratin 14 may be responsible for both diseases, known as Naegeli syndrome and dermatopathia pigmentosa reticularis (DPR).
The lack of fingerprints can cause vexing social problems, which are magnified because few people have heard of the condition.
Cheryl Maynard of Fairfax, Virginia, is part of the fifth generation of her family to have inherited DPR from her mother’s side. “My father was in the military and he had top-secret clearances,” she recalled.
“We moved a lot, and everywhere we went they’d say, What do you mean your wife doesn’t have fingerprints? What do you mean that you have kids without fingerprints?” Maynard has personally experienced many fingerprint-related snafus, often related to employment.
She works as a flight attendant and noted that a standard background check by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration, which took about 2 weeks for most of her peers, took 14 weeks in her case.
“I applied for work at a jail facility, and they were naturally fingerprinting people who were going to be employees,” she said.
“I kept hearing, Of course you have fingerprints. And five or six different technicians were telling one another, You’re doing this wrong, let me do this. I have to tell them I was born without them.”
“Things like that are a problem,” Maynard said. “It has delayed me [from] getting jobs.”
Unable to Sweat
For the handful of people without fingerprints the physical impacts are few.
Maynard has normal feeling in her fingers, though the lack of fingerprints deprives her of some grip, which makes dealing cards or turning pages more difficult.
But the lack of fingerprints is not the diseases’ only, or even most serious, impact.
Patients also experience thickening of their palms and soles of their feet. They suffer from anomalies in the development of their teeth, hair, and skin, where pigmentation can appear patchy and uneven.
Most dangerously, they have skin issues that can inhibit their ability to sweat normally.
“That’s the only really serious manifestation as far as potential harm,” said professor Eli Sprecher of the Technion-Israel Institute. Sprecher is co-author of the study that discusses the conditions in the October issue of the American Journal of Human Genetics.
“Because they cannot evacuate heat, they can develop heat stroke.”
Maynard added that this problem has always made sports a trial.
“I swam competitively as a kid, but some parents would always ask why I was sitting on the side of the pool. My mom would have to tell them, Even though the water is cold, she’s overheated from swimming.”
As an adult Maynard is careful to stay hydrated, keep ice packs handy, and use air conditioning for most of the year.
Link to “Suicidal Cells,” Cancer?
Unfortunately for those who suffer such ailments, a cure is not at hand.
But the protein culprit, first identified by Technion graduate student Jennie Lugassy, could be the clue to cracking more common and dangerous diseases.
According to Gabriele Richard, study co-author and geneticist at Thomas Jefferson University, “apparently keratin 14 is very important for developing skin in the fetus and creating the fingerprints.”
Researchers are also pondering the protein’s connection with programmed cell death—information that could someday help with many skin disorders.
Programmed cell death, a form of cellular suicide, is the way that cells typically expire when the useful phase of their existence is complete. The process is often disabled in cancer cells, allowing them to live and proliferate.
“It looks as if the disease is associated with the inability of the cell to produce normal levels of keratin 14,” Sprecher said.
“It would be interesting to determine if keratin 14 has a role in cell death.”
The Truth About Gossip
If you don’t have anything nice to say . . .
By Bhikshuni Thubten Chodron
Seven Tips for Giving Up Gossip
1. Recognize that gossip doesn’t undo the situation you’re talking about. It only puts in motion another situation based on negative feelings.
2. Know that comparing yourself to others is useless. Everyone has his or her own talents. In this way, give up jealousy and the wish to put others down.
3. Be aware of and transform your own thoughts, words, and deeds rather than commenting on those of others.
4. Train your mind to see others’ positive qualities and discuss them. This will make you much happier than gossiping ever could.
5. Forgive, knowing that people do harmful things because they are unhappy. If you don’t make someone into an enemy, you won’t want to gossip about him.
6. Have a sense of humor about what you think, say, and do, and be able to laugh at all of the silly things we sentient beings carry out in our attempt to be happy. If you see the humor in our human predicament, you’ll be more patient.
7. Practice saying something kind to someone every day. Do this especially with people you don’t like. It gets easier with practice and bears surprisingly good results.
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