Swimming In Gold Medals | National GreatnessUnity Consciousness #270

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Great Britain Swimming In Greatness

At some point, not too long ago, Great Britain decided to improve their “gold medal count” in the Olympics. They established a system to find people with promising athletic ability. The system also funds the development of this ability by paying for living expenses, facilities, trainers and anything else needed to achieve program goals. In this way, athletes don't have to try to be great while using a lot of energy trying to survive and trying to scrape together what is need for training.

According to their definition of success (winning medals or finishing at certain levels), Great Britain has had some success. The program's relatively short duration seems to indicate the balance of credit for this success leans towards the natural talent of the athletes.

According to their definition of success, Great Britain has also had some failures. The program's relatively short duration seems to indicate these failures are mostly attributable to a program philosophy that lacks understanding. It lacks understanding to ensure enough persistence is in place (commitment and process revision) and it lacks enough understanding to then have patience. This is evident in the fact that the Olympic program has abandoned some athletes due to non-achieved program goals. The reason this shows lack of understanding is that it solely and wrongfully attributes medalling or placing at a certain level to its own program and its own athletes when many other factors are involved, notably competition and the “any given day” truism.

Potential Greatness Abandoned

On the one hand, the program takes full credit for successes and no blame for failures. As a result, the program abandons athletes.

At a minimum, since the program is an important part of the athlete's Olympic performance, if athletes do not achieve as expected, the program should self-examine to find flaws within itself rather than simply abandoning athletes.

Abandoning any group of athletes is counterproductive to all athletes in the program, thus it is counterproductive to the program's stated mission.

Abandoning athletes puts undue and unnecessary mental focus and pressure on winning rather than performing. It also places a heavy burden of responsibility on each athlete for all athletes waiting to follow. This weight can overwhelm athletes on the biggest stage when its time to perform at their best. The potential for national shame inhibits the potential for national gain.

What Else Can Be Learned?

1. Due to lack of understanding, Great Britain has not used a holistic optimal approach to integrate the essence of the goal* into the culture. They do not recognize that the Olympics are a metaphor for all other types of greatness the country needs. The Olympic process from start to finish must encourage the pursuit of greatness. It must not punish people for trying. When it does, it punishes the country because individuals are less likely to put their potential greatness out there in any area and are more likely to travel a safer, less innovative route.

2. When a country devotes the necessary resources to finding and developing human potential greatness, it can and will be found. This is true of higher self potential greatness and lower self potential greatness.

3. Even without the country's national support, as long as a country is not fundamentally structured to inhibit greatness or ignore greatness, greatness will come forth – not just here and there but everywhere. Since the higher self is the naturally dominant spirit within us, it is that potential greatness that will show and override the lower greatness.

4. When a country decides to solve a problem and dedicates resources, the problem can be solved relatively quickly or at least significantly reduced.

Great Britain has been the example but many countries have their own versions of what Great Britain is doing – program-wise and behavior-wise, plus they have been doing it much longer.

Swimmers Swimming In Greatness

Just by watching YouTube videos of athletic ability in people, we realize there are a lot of people who have Olympic potential that never make it on stage. For example, one such athletic area is swimming. In many places where people live on islands or near coasts, children grow up in the water.

These people swim like fish, yet they are not represented in Olympic swimming events. Why not? Many of the current cast of Olympic swimmers would be blown out of the water.

Be not be deceived by this sports analogy. The approach to greatness discussed throughout this message, including the non-diversity of greatness, is abnormally commonplace and rampant in societies in all areas of human potential, especially in those areas deemed to intellectual.

For these reasons, human greatness, expressed and/or acknowledged is right now, nowhere near what it could be, should be and will be. Even in areas where the greatness of the higher self is being made manifest, there is even greater greatness. This will come through the process of unifying understanding of self. This is true for the Creator and the created.

How UK Sport Funding works
Olympic sport funding: Winners and losers, sport by sport
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How your spending on National Lottery tickets funded Britain's Olympics success

*In this instance, the essence of the goal means the higher self is not in control, rather it is the lower self national ego, thus, we have the proper context for understanding the driving force behind the decisions that have followed.

Simple Nutrition & Nutrients | Food Fight #58

Why would the Creator, who has provided everything needed, make it complicated to know what to eat? It ain't that way.

From the start, The Creator has planned and provided for babies of mammals. First, before the embryo attaches to the uterus and forms the umbilical cord, then by way of the umbilical cord and then by way of breast milk. Each time, there is enough nutrition to sustain the child. Each step of this process helps the child grow and develop fully and naturally for several months.

Now, it doesn't make creative sense for the Creator to leave babies hanging after providing for them thus far in a pretty simple and straightforward manner. It ain't that way.

There is an abundance of naturally occurring foods for babies once weaned from breast milk. By eating what is widely available in the surrounding natural environment, total nutritional needs can be met.** Of course, this assumes living in a year-round natural environment suitable for food production. Even if this is not the case, the goal and focus remains the same – obtain nutrients from four basic areas.

Consume The Fresh Primordial Four

Eat fresh earth through naturally, homegrown plants. Drink fresh water. Breathe, absorb and bathe in fresh air. Absorb and bathe in fresh light from the sun, moon and stars. That's it. Here's just a little more detail.

Eat a variety of plants. Eat a variety of plant parts such as roots, stems/stalks, leaves, flowers, fruit, seeds. This includes naturally growing edible plants that are not cultivated such as dandelions, ramps, sourweed, clover flowers, etc. Do not peel fruit and veggies whenever possible. Most fresh foods do not need to be cooked due to already being cooked by the sun and baked in the hearth of Earth. Eat some food with every meal that has not been cooked by humans.

Though this list is short, there is a universe of possibilities. The Supreme Creator has put the same nutrient in several places – to give us more than one option to get what is necessary.

Decide what to put in the body temple - man-made concoctions or Supreme-made perfections. This is a choice between expensive, low-nutrition, toxic imitations or free and relatively cheap, nutritious originals.

Major contributors to nutrition are how food is grown, stored and prepared. Those with knowledge of health, control these three aspects.

Nutritional Responsibility

All portions of food unwanted and not intended to be consumed should be returned to the earth soil where you live in your own yard or given to other creatures as close as possible to where you live. All other items should be recycled as much as possible. This is reciprocity. It is returning nutrition to partners in the ecosystem. Though thanks is given in words before a meal, this is the follow-up action.

Either avoid completely or reduce what is sent to the garbage dump, especially that which will decompose, can be de-composted or can be decomposed faster by burning.

Even though full nutrition is required to develop full potential, it's simple.

Let Food Be Your Medicine | Let Medicine Be Your Food

Listen closely to your body.

**An additional way to know this. There are multiple redundancies built into the immune system for protection. There are also multiple redundancies in the body for bodily repair. It is more than likely there are multiple redundancies in food and inside the body to get the nutrients we need. What this also means is, we have to be way out of natural sync in order to not get nutrition, not have a strong immune system and not have a body that can heal itself.

6 Fundamental Keys To Life & ExistenceWays Of Knowing

Fundamental Keys & Extensions

These are but a small portion of many original, fundamental keys. Even so, these six keys are exactly what we need to unlock our potentials. These “extensions” are derived from using the keys. The ability to extend knowledge into more knowledge is one of the main reasons we must use these keys.

KEYS

1. As above, so below.

2. Know yourself.

3. Let food be your medicine and medicine be your food.

4. Everything is free.

5. It takes a village to raise a child.

6. One in many, many in one.

EXTENSIONS

1. As within, so without, As without, so within.

2. Know all else.

3. What satisfies also purifies.

4. Basically, resourcefully, naturally, yet nothing is free of responsibility.

5. It takes shared values to raise a village.

6. The singular and plural are in each other.

As you can see, "lucKY" is not one of the keys.

These six keys, in conjunction with self-study, give us entry to what is otherwise inaccessible.

Where Are These Keys? Where Are Our Keys?

Once again, we are reminded these keys are in our hands. Not only do we have the keys, we have the locks. These locks are in us. Now tell me, what else can be easier?

Yet, we linger outside closed doors and cry and moan and protest and hurt. Our children die and are dying. Those still with us physically are on their way to the level of deadness in us. Yet and still we devote several, precious natural resources to tithing, socializing and self-gratifying even though the return on investment to satisfy our needs and concerns, does its own testifying.

Instead, we must re-devote our natural resources to their maximizing which would move us beyond a stage focused on surviving and into higher consciousness where all else is ours for the realizing.

All it takes is effort. Simple, back-to-basics actions will turn the keys we have, inside the locks we have. Once we snap out of stupidity and take charge of what is in our hands, we will put key to lock, key to lock, key to lock... As these locks open, potential energy will be released in us, in Earth and in the Universe.

What will life and existence be like then?

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Asante Sana, Sš3t/Tšw8t Ntr.
Ashe (ah-SHAY), Heka (hay-KAH), Hiao (hee-AH-o) Nsamanfo (n-SAH-mahn-fo)

Fundamental References:

Science Expanded | 6 Ways of Knowing

Giri So to So Dayi | Levels Of Awareness & Understanding
African Consciousness Ways Of Knowing

Day 6: Intuition & Wisdom Aligning, Ways Of Knowing

Temples Built With Cellular Nutrition

Food Fight #41

If my body is a temple, shouldn't I build and maintain it with the best materials? The best materials for buildings are designated on the architect's plan. A quality building requires good planning, materials and workmanship. Likewise, a quality body requires good planning, nutrients and working systems.

Nutrition Is Synonymous With Health Before Conception.

Separately, the health of egg and sperm begin to define the individual. This is true for one simple reason:

Sperm and egg contain genetics. These genetics were formed using nutrients. How accurately these genes were formed depends a lot on the nutrient history of each parent.

Nutrition Is A Significant Consideration During Childhood

Before the time a human gets teeth, most caregivers tend to give nutrition significant consideration, after all, a rapidly growing body needs nutrients. Growth, development and learning require nutrients to give the child the best chance to develop to potential. It is said, 0 to 3 are the critical years and evidently, that's it. Afterwards, it's usually a free for all, free fall from an optimal approach to eating, even to the point where soda, candy and countless unnatural things become rights/rites of childhood with the full support of frequent traditions.

Nutrition For The Fully Grown

Though an adult may not be growing rapidly in physical size, there is still a continuous need for nutrients. Nutrients are still needed for growth, learning, development, sharpness, daily activities, metabolism, digestion and maintaining health. Most of the cells in the body must be replaced on a regular basis. This includes the genetic code. If meals supply partial nutrients, no nutrients or nutrients mixed with toxic materials, the structural integrity of the temple will start to erode.

Nutrition sets the foundation for quality of life. From each cell's perspective, there is no time where not getting nutrients is not a big deal. This is true not because of a single day or meal but because the notion that sometimes is okay opens the door for this practice to expand or increase to continuous or intermittent habits that creep into life undetected until symptoms appear years later.

The same quality materials that build a body from the start must be used to keep it in good condition. In current societies, after teaching a child harmful eating habits, it seems the trend accelerates in adulthood because increased purchasing power is often used with no oversight to purchase inferior building materials to satisfy the likes of corrupted childhood taste buds.

Nutrition From The Past

The body has been constructed from what parents ate and what the individual eats. Every part of the body requires nutrients to construct it properly in appearance and properly in soundness. For instance, skin is a bunch of nutrients and bones didn't form today. Both were formed from what was eaten in days past.

Past nutrition is stored in cells and all body structures because cells and body structures are made of nutrients. When those structures are replaced/repaired, they are broken down and what can be reused, is reused. A nutrient eaten long ago can be used today just like materials from an old building can be reused.

We've learned the body will manufacture certain nutrients if those nutrients are not eaten. The body is only able to make nutrients if the components (other nutrients) are already in the body.

Picture Your Dream Home As A Temple

A healthy body requires healthy organs. Healthy organs require healthy tissue. Healthy tissue requires healthy cells. Healthy cells require nutrients. The picture of health is eating to provide construction materials so the temple maintains its structural integrity according to The Architect's Plan. We have a good plan, all we need to do is return to it, burn all those “How To” books and use the ashes to return nutrients to the soil.

Companion Planting: Three Sisters, Oh Bother!

Planting corn, squash and green beans together is a symbiotic relationship recognized long ago. The corn provides a support for the climbing beans and squash's broad leaves shelter the soil from sunlight, thus preserving moisture and retarding growth of other plants. I'm sure there's more to it but the potential of the Three Sisters to help use limited space more efficiently was enough for me to try it out even though sharing the same soil is at the basis of what an ecosystem means.

First experiment, first results

The corn matured beautifully but by harvest time, the green beans had coiled themselves so tightly around the stalk and the ears, it was difficult to pick the corn without damaging the green bean vine.

Also the green beans were both adventurous and amorous. They traveled over to other stalks and met in the air above the corn and entwined themselves into several multi-vine groups. These masses were higher than the corn and thus each weightier and weightier group, with nothing to cling to, bent over and over taking corn stalks with it. Add whipping about in strong winds and the risk of vines breaking increased.

Mind you, I didn't plant the beans until the corn was in the shin to knee high range.

I did plant the squash at the same time the corn seeds went in but used squash plants. The corn overtook the squash, casting its low-lying sister into photosynthesis reducing creeping shade.

At my house, the Three Sisters did not work or play well together. Perhaps it was the space allotted and/or the varieties chosen but with lessons learned, there's hope.

Next experiment, what might work

1. Start with more overall space for the trio.

2. Plant squash on the outside rows of corn only, approximately one squash for every 8 to 12 corn plants. Getting to the squash, corn and beans without acrobatics should then be easy.

3. Plant squash on the outside of the corn facing the strongest sun, otherwise the squash will get “sun-squashed.” Seeking light beyond the corn's shadow, these sun-starved plants started to spill outside their allotted space.

4. Don't cheat on the suggested plant spacing.

What else might work to bring the Three Sisters back together in an average city/suburban space? You tell me.

The Need To Be With Someone

One of our most touted traits as humans is that we are social beings. However true this may be, we are spiritual beings first. If there is a common thread for the planet and even the universe, it is spiritual. The Ancients strengthened their awareness of this connection by learning more about the natural and supernatural worlds. They sensed, that despite countless physical differences throughout these worlds, there was a greater similarity beyond the visual. Therefore, their first need was not to be social and to be with someone. Their greater need was to remain interwoven with the common thread. Even if they didn't understand everything, the Ancients followed their intuitive sense that all things above and below share a spiritual heritage and thus a need to remain in sync.

Being aware and seeking harmony with the spiritual component of life, places us right in the path of our purposes and passions. The collision is unavoidable. This alone led the Ancients to the thousands of discoveries that allowed them to grow and prosper. These discoveries were not as much discoveries (humans figuring them out) as they were revealings (human mind maturing, expanding and evolving the more it became in sync with everything else).

This is still available to us today. The more time we spend strengthening our communication with the spiritual, the more we will receive revealings of potentials and possibilities. It will happen because we will become aware of why we are and who we are. The soul will no longer search for itself in someone else. Harmony won't allow it. The overwhelming and constant need to be with someone in order to feel complete will then find its rightful, less dominant, resting place. It will only rise when it is well with our souls.

The Art of Epiphany

As thoughts, feelings and experiences turn into words turn into poetry, epiphanies are unfolding. What I create my entire lifetime has existed in the incubator of all imagination, the ageless Spirit, for less than a minute.

An epiphany is the art of the Spirit; therefore, the art humans create contains the richness of this Old Soul. Each person, each day, each epiphany and each piece of art all have the same power. I get the feeling there are many epiphanies hanging out on the periphery, waiting on me.

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