Thursday, March 22, 2007

Satisfying Hunger

I recently led a 90-minute workshop in Atlanta titled "Satisfying Hunger: The Secret Your Body Wants To Tell You." (Click here for details on the program.) Here's a comment from one of the women who attended...

My experience at the workshop, after doing some of the belly-energizing exercises, was a delightful and delicious sense that I was completely filled with my Self.

The struggle or effort I continually put into "connecting" to myself was gone. The distance or gap I imagine to be present most of the time as I journey through daily living, vanished. The energy released from my belly filled me up — it filled in the gap — effortlessly.

What is most interesting and most exciting to me is that although I "know" that the gap isn't real, I still feel it most of the time. I've gotten used to it and tend to try to fill it with food — the image that comes to mind is throwing food into Tallulah Gorge. It's about that senseless and satisfying.

So, I'm excited about making these exercises/practice part of my daily routine. I love the feeling of being filled with Self. I think the belly work will be a crucial part of healing my relationship with Self. Again, thank you, thank you!!

Tuesday, March 06, 2007

Do not strip mine our daughters!

Corporations have a long history of exploiting natural resources – the earth's body – to make their profits. Think global warming. Think strip mining.

The drug companies are exploiting another resource:

Women's bodies.

Drug-manufacturer Merck, for example, is capitalizing on women's susceptibility to cervical cancer.

Merck has waged a nationwide campaign to make its Gardasil vaccine mandatory for sixth-grade girls. The company has lobbied state legislators to make 11- and 12-year-old girls ineligible to attend school unless they've received the vaccine's three doses.

Why bother creating consumer demand for a drug with limited effectiveness when you can bypass the illusion of free enterprise and free choice?

Why bother creating consumer demand for a drug with limited effectiveness when you can use the government to enforce it?

The company recently suspended its campaign in response to parents' and medical groups' objections. But not before the campaign had made its mark. And not before its questionable practices had come to light.

Continued, with links to updates, at lisasarasohn.com/gardasil.

Menstrual supplies for women's shelters

Click on a link and Seventh Generation, an earth-friendly paper products company, will donate a pack of organic cotton tampons or chlorine-free pads to a women's shelter in the state of your choice.

The link is at http://www.tampontification.com/donate.php.

What could be easier?