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Frantically waving to the world… 10 years later

I am feeling moved today, and a little overwhelmed. Yesterday, November 1st, marked 10 years since I sent out my very first blog post.

This month also marks 10 years since I published my first novel on Amazon (The Necklace of Goddess Athena), and consequently entering the indie publishing universe for one bumpy yet enthralling ride thus far. This is the picture I posted in that very first blog post 10 years ago… I titled it ‘Frantically Waving Across the Distance’ to introduce myself and ask the world out there to connect with me. Reading the short post now fills me with nostalgia, but also with amazement at how little I have changed since then in the way that I think and express myself.

The only things that make me cringe as I read it are the repetitive mentions to the tax office haha. But hey, in my defense, I wrote this at the heart of the Greek credit crunch and everything was about the lack of money back then. Oh, how little did we know back then about what really matters! But anyway, here is an excerpt, if you’d like to take a peek:

“Would you come with me for a quiet ride along the sparkling lagoon waters that lie ahead? You will find a lot of poetry here, not just in verse, but also in the way of my thinking. By the way, I’m not much of a talker. This quirkiness of mine, in a world full of loud and busy voices, has allowed me to learn more this way through my eager ears and my silence. Furthermore, I’ve always preferred the written word to speaking in order to express myself.

“Although I write novels these days, I started with writing poetry. I have been scribbling verses ever since I was as young as ten and often relished my solitude even then, armed with a notepad and a pen, writing about an anthill in my gran’s garden or about the moon on a clear, starry night. Join me as I experience the world, not through the tired eyes of the forty-something who has just been handed a tax note too many by the postman, but through the clear, full of wonderment eyes of the perpetual child inside me.

“Welcome here on my desert island and hop on that boat with me oh friend; let’s transcend magically the geographical distance between us as we cheer together as one: “Happy travels!” ”

I would like to end this post by offering thanks. To all of you who stuck with me these last 10 years. Authors who mentored me, like Jackie Weger and Carmen DeSousa, authors who helped me tremendously along the way, like Nicholas Rossis and MM Jaye, and even more authors who trusted me by associating with me numerous times, like Amy Vansant,  SR Mallery and Chris Kallias.

Last, but not least, I thank the readers of my blog who have been sharing my posts, like Dr Glen Hepker, Annette Rochelle Aben, and Marina Costa, and, of course, the loyal readers of my novels, like Jean Symonds, Louise Mullarkey, Cheryl Worrall, and many many others. I could not possibly list everyone here but I will hold you all forever in my heart with sheer gratitude.

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Beautiful Corfu town and… spetseriko, Corfu’s secret spice mix!

The vaulted street of Liston in Corfu town was modelled after Rue Rivoli in Paris

Hello, All! I am back from Corfu, where I spent 10 wonderful days, and I am thrilled to share with you today a few photos from the old town. Also, I am about to spill the beans on Spetseriko–the traditional, delicious AND secret spice mix of Corfu! Below, you will find out where you can get the real deal while in Corfu town AND how you can make it at home on your own too! Sounds good? Let’s go!

A sea view from the grounds of the Old Palace

My husband and I spent a sunny morning around the capital of Corfu, visiting the old quarter.

Our day started with the must-have coffee at Liston–the famous vaulted street which was made during the French Occupation of Corfu. The French modelled it after Rue Rivoli in Paris. The old town quarter with its stunning antiquated buildings and the large square of Spianada remain silent witnesses to the history of Corfu.

In succession, the island was occupied first by the Venetians, who made the Old and the New Fortress, then the English, to whom we owe the beautiful greenery at the Old Square (Spianada) as well as the cricket green before Liston where the Brits taught the Corfiots how to play cricket!

Finally, the French, the last foreign occupants on the island, decorated the Spianada with gorgeous architecture. I’ve already mentioned Liston, which they constructed, and they also made the round edifice with the colonade all around it that still stands at the end of the square beyond the bandstand.

Speaking of Liston, did you know that in the old days there was a thing called Libro D’ Oro which is Italian for ‘Golden Book’? The names of all the aristocrats were listed in it. And only people whose name was in the Libro D’ Oro were allowed to walk along the street of Liston! Talk about keeping the riff-raff away, LOL. Things were pretty strict back then!

Anyway… During our visit, we enjoyed the generous sea views from the garden of the Old Palace such as the one you see above. All around these grounds, there are marvelous vistas that compel the visitors to use their cameras. This summer, there were two art exhibitions housed on two different sides of the palace. Buying one ticket gave you access to both, and they were delightfully diverse, which was a bonus.

My favourite was a homage to the Greek Revolution in 1821 which depicted in paintings mostly prominent figures from that time. The other exhibition involved paintings of contemporary themes by a single lady artist. I loved the flowers she painted especially. Stunning stuff. I don’t know for how long these exhibitions will be at the palace, but if you are on the island, they are well worth a visit.

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Sssh! I am about to disclose a secret! The secret of Spetseriko!!

During our day in town, we made sure to visit this old pharmacy… to buy a spice mix for pasta!!!!

During my long summer stays in Moraitika in the 1980s, my granny was forever taking my sister and me for a walk around Corfu town and for a spot of shopping too. She never missed visiting this old pharmacy just off Sarocco Square. It’s situated on the right side of the road, just after Sarocco, heading towards Liston and the old town quarter.

I hadn’t been in there for many years, but I never forgot Granny referred to it as ‘the Pitsilos pharmacy’. As I stood at its facade, I realised at once it had been heavily renovated and guessed it was under new management too. Going inside, I saw the antiquated cabinets I recalled from the old days where no longer there, but I have to admit the new decoration was just as beautiful and paid homage to the pharmacy’s long-standing tradition on the island.

Before I knew it, I was asking the owner about the name ‘Pitsilos’ and he didn’t seem to know it in relation to the property. Then again, he was very young, in his 30s I would think, and if my granny was alive today she’d be 99 years old. So, she probably had seen this place change hands more than once during her lifetime. The kindly owner, other than selling me a large sachet of spetseriko much to my delight, told me that, as far as he knew, the pharmacy was owned previously by a lady called Carmella. When I asked around later on, other locals confirmed that name and some still refer to it as ‘Carmella’s pharmacy’.

None seem to have heard of the name Pitsilos, though, but since Granny had a sharp memory till the day she died at 92, I can only give her the benefit of the doubt. Perhaps it was owned by a pharmacist called Pitsilos much earlier in time. After all, the place was founded in 1915 according to the writing on the facade. And a website I found claimed it was in operation back in 1850!

Chatting with locals on Facebook about this place, I found out that a few decades back, at least one doctor used to work from this pharmacy in the evenings. I can only guess that every day people didn’t have easy access to doctors back then. Visiting a pharmacy and getting some advice from a doctor rather than having to visit a remote hospital or a costly private surgery, may have been easier to afford and provided many with prompt access to medical care.

Apparently, in the old days, all pharmacists in Corfu made spetseriko and they were called ‘spetsierides’ because of this. The word ‘spetseriko’ has Venetian origin. It is derived from the word ‘speci’ which means ‘spices’. Every pharmacist had their own recipe for spetseriko back in the day, and, at least this specific pharmacy I visited, which still seems to make it, keeps theirs a secret to this day.

By the way, the owner of the pharmacy today is Mr Skiadopoulos and the address is Georgiou Theotoki 56, Sarocco Square – in case you wish to have your own sachet of spetseriko!

I put my recent purchase to the test the first time I made Bolognese and it was as divine as I can remember. I cannot wait to try it also in Pastichio like my granny did too. She also made the best Pastitsada with spetseriko. I urgy you to try it if you cook any of the aforementioned meals, or in any tomato sauce for pasta.

Just use very little at first, and see how you go. Perhaps 1/4 of a teaspoon at first. I once made a mistake of putting 1 teaspoon in my Pastichio and it made me VERY ill. Do not try this, folks, unless you’re sure you have the system to take a large amount. As it was proven, I don’t 🙂

And, hey, did I say you don’t have to visit Corfu to get spetseriko? As it turns out, there are recipes online! I found a Greek blog that shares an easy-to-follow recipe. I’ve translated it into English for you. Enjoy!

10 gr ground clove

50 gr ground cinnamon

50 gr ground nutmeg

70 gr sweet paprika

50 gr ground cumin

20 gr spicy chilli powder (i.e. spicy ‘boukovo’, ground)

100 gr sweet chilli powder (i.e. sweet ‘boukovo’, ground)

20 gr ground allspice balls (i.e. ‘bahari’)

30 medium laurel leaves (ground to fine powder)

25 gr ground black pepper

Mix the ingredients together well, and keep in a sealed jar in a cool place.

Sources for the recipe: SecretKitchenandTravel.gr and AtCorfu.com

Note: I found other recipes too, and each one had more or less the same ingredients but with different measurements and proportions, but it’s worth saying this: All the others I found omitted the laurel leaves and just advised to add 2 laurel leaves in the pot with the spetseriko. I would go for that option, personally, but it’s up to you!  

Interested to see more of Corfu town? Check out this older post of mine. Magnificent vistas in Garitsa & Anemomylos, the stunning old quarter of Campielo, and a traditional soap factory. Enjoy!

 

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A post about my father, may he R.I.P.

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It is with great sadness that I am announcing today that my father passed away earlier this month, at the age of 81.

In the end, there was nothing I could do, no matter how hard I tried at home to make my father strong again with the help of two highly experienced and attentive nurses. His three long stays at the hospital since June while taking endless courses of strong antibiotics to fight the many infections caused irreversible damage to his organs.

He tried so hard and he was so brave, and now he is finally rested… I am comforted to think of him in heaven now, reunited with my dear mother. The fact he didn’t feel the slightest twinge of pain in his last days is also a great comfort for me, and a good indication that your collective prayers did a miracle to make his passing as easy as possible. And, for that, I will always be grateful to you all.

My father had a great affinity for horses, having been raised on the island of Limnos with various farm animals, including horses, thanks to his father’s job–he was a merchant of livestock. In the army, my father was put in charge of the horses, and he loved that. He was a bit of a horse whisperer too, in the sense that he could tame even the most wild ones – at one time surprising even his father with this skill when he was still very young.

Dad has always been super strong, despite being thin, thanks to his Greco-Roman wrestling training that he did as a youngster. In the army, he used to lift his friends up into the air while posing for photographs. I am sharing these pictures today with you all, as I find them very comforting.

I prefer to think of my father like this, rather than the way he looked on those dreadful last days, trapped in a skeletal, broken body. He is clothed in the glory of God right now, anyway, surely looking in heaven exactly as he does in these pictures: Forever young and able-bodied, eyes sparkling, face beaming.

To all those of you who have lost a loved one, I hope you are joining me in remembering that our separation from them is only temporary. Death is only for the body, after all, as the soul is eternal. Also, let us be comforted with the fact that the sadness is only for us, who are left behind, and never for those who leave us. The kind souls who move on beyond the veil have only bliss and only joy to look forward to. Love and blessings to all, till next time.

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FREE books and a strange event in my sleepy little town

The derelict old factory in my seaside little town of Nea Peramos (just 36 kms west of Athens) came to life last month… but only for two nights. The old factory used to produce linen and distribute them all over Greece – the brand name was Peiraiki-Patraiki, and later it was taken over by the paper company, Softex, around the 80s-90s. Then, in the 00s, it was abandoned and left to its fate, to weather away through the decades that followed. The factory, and especially its beautiful facade, became famous all over Greece in the 60s as it became the set of the legendary Greek movie, ‘I Kori mou i Sosialistria’ (My Socialist Daughter) starting the most popular Greek movie stars at the time – Aliki Vougiouklaki and Dimitris Papamichael. Today, the factory is derelict and it’s always quiet over there, since it’s flanked on both sides by open fields for quite a distance. This is why, as I drove past one evening last month, I found it very peculiar to see cars parked back-to-back along the road, for hundreds of meters before and after the factory building.

What’s more, from a nearby field, I saw youngsters emerging in large numbers onto the road. They were walking along the field on a dirt path that was situated on one side of the building. So, if they were visiting the old factory, why were they coming out via a field and not out the main gate, which remained locked like always?

It was all very peculiar, and my first guess was that perhaps something illegal was going on. A rave party? (if these are, indeed, still happening? I wouldn’t know as I am too old, obviously haha!) Some kind of happening for sure!

The people were just too many, most of them looking barely out of puberty too. Arriving home, I checked for new posts in a local Facebook group where the people of Nea Peramos discuss events, and share advice and information among them.

Sure enough, someone had already expressed their intrigue about the parked cars and the many people sighted near the derelict factory.

‘Not to worry!’ someone commented under the post. ‘It’s just a painting exhibition. It’s happening just this weekend!’

‘Oh, now it makes sense!’ another quipped. ‘I spotted a black Jeep parked outside the building the other day. Some guys were standing at the gate and talking’.

The rest of the comments were complaints, as one might expect. ‘An art exhibition? In our town? But, how come we are not aware of this?’

‘Yes, how come?’ another frustrated local would add. ‘Why didn’t they advertise it anywhere so we can go? Who are these people going there and how did they find out then?’

My own reasonings were similar. If, indeed, this was a legit ‘painting exhibition’ then why didn’t it get advertised properly and openly? Why all the secrecy? The factory gates weren’t even opened. And how was it that the only visitors I saw at the site were youngsters? Surely, middle-aged and even elderly visitors would jump at the chance to visit an ‘art exhibition’!?

To cut a long story short, this same oddity was repeated the next evening, and after that, the factory reverted to its usual ghostly state. And that’s when we got to hear the rest of the story…

As it turned out, this was a street art exhibition, after all, and it had been prepared and opened to the public secretly, on purpose. Whoever planned this, wanted to experiment, apparently, to see if such an event could be advertised secretly and still be a success among the young.

For two years, 20 street artists visited the building under wraps to work on a total of 70 murals!

The team that organised the whole thing gave the project the code name ‘Project Peramo’ (from our town’s name, Nea Peramos). The code name had been whispered from person to person these past two years, making its way online only via private Direct Messages – never posted properly on social media. And it still became a success on the weekend of the opening.

Two years of work resulted to this event, a spotlight of just a few hours. No one knows what will happen to the murals post-event. The only thing I have found that I perceive as good news is that the old factory has recently been acquired by a construction company called Dimand and that another company – Royale Sugar – is planning to operate in the building.

The locals, including yours truly, have grown upset over the past decades to see this old gem left to its fate so this is going to excite everyone – to see it in operation again after twenty odd years.

It seems to be frozen in time, judging from the pictures I saw in a blog post online (in Greek) that reported on the street art event.

In one of the photos, you can see a chart where work shifts were being recorded back in the day. And on another, the sign of the staff canteen sports the old font anyone will recognise from the 70s and 80s…

Go here to see plenty of photographs from the street art event!

 

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How to get stress relief fast. An easy and quick method you can do anywhere!

In this recent post, I shared with you a couple of free books on the subject of negative emotions and their relation with dis-ease. Negative emotions, such as stress, anger or upset, can compromise our health, eventually manifesting in our body as dis-ease, if we don’t keep them in check.

I have been researching a lot on this subject for many years and have picked up a lot of new skills along the way to keep my mind calm and my uncomfortable emotions under control even when a storm is raging around me and my life’s circumstances can be too much to bear.

With my mother passing away in 2020 after battling cancer for 4 years, and my father developing cancer first, then deep depression too after her loss, you can imagine how the angst of the past few years has affected my own life and health by now. But, the new methods I have learned really help me find relief, each time I resort to them for assistance.

Today, I am pleased to share with you my favourite stress-relief method. It is called Tapping (aka EFT). It is like acupuncture, except it uses the fingertips instead of needles so you can do it anytime, anywhere.

Tapping has been proven to dissolve cortisol (the stress hormone) in the body in a matter of minutes!

Have you ever heard about EFT (Tapping)? It changed my life!

Learn how to tap with this short video. It’s so easy to do!

Note on the video: I just want to clarify that, in each session, you say ‘the set up statement’ three times on the ‘karate chop’ point, then you don’t do it again. After making the statement, you just do rounds of the 8 tapping points. You can stop after a few rounds and take a breath. Ask yourself how you feel. I bet you you’ll admit you’re feeling the difference!

Here’s how Tapping works:

While you tap, you basically let it all out! You simply speak aloud about your problems, your physical pain, your anger, your stress, your sadness, whatever it is that’s bothering you. Imagine that you’re talking to a friend and hold nothing back. Sounds simplistic, I know, but it works like a charm!

The tapping serves to open a door to your subconscious, so to speak. And it is the subconscious that then responds to work on your body to dissolve the negative feeling, or a physical pain or discomfort, and in every case to give you a unique sense of calm and peace. After just a few minutes of doing this!

Sometimes, your subconscious will give you thoughts or images as you tap, especially if you ask questions… It’s literally, a conversation with your subconscious – the latter being the real genie in the bottle, the miraculous agent in the body that makes everything possible.

If you want to really delve into the amazing stress-relief practice that is EFT (Tapping), I highly recommend the book below by Nick Ortner, which has helped me deal with (and to dissolve) chronic tension in my neck that wouldn’t go away. But then one day, during a tapping session, as I tapped and expressed aloud how I felt, I was able to pinpoint the traumatic memory that had caused the tension.

An image from an old memory flashed in my head. It was the image of a loved one crying on my shoulder. She had rested her head in the crook of my neck as she cried and I felt her pain palpably at the time. Someone had treated her unfairly and I wanted to say something to that person, to defend her, but she asked me not to. I guess I kept it all in, for her sake. And, instantly, it made sense why my body had ‘stored’ chronic tension right there.

And then, during the tapping, when I realised, it simply disappeared on the spot and never came back! I just tilted my head sideways towards that shoulder and it nearly touched it. For years, I hadn’t been able to tilt my head towards that side in the least. It felt like a miracle and I guess it is. Being able to speak to your subconscious mind and get it to ‘talk back’ surely is a miraculous thing!

The book below by Nick Ortner makes references to real people’s stories that used tapping to heal from all kinds of dis-ease. Yet, it focuses mainly on battling stress. The author has published another book that is more about pain management.

Whichever you go for, I know your life will change forever with Tapping. It will allow you to quickly resolve all sorts of health complaints and to maintain a calmer mind in your daily life.

Have you ever tried Tapping? Did you get any good results? Make sure to comment and let me know. I’d love to hear from you! 

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Concerns about the involvement of AI in fiction writing and other human art forms

It’s very disheartening (and alarming) to know authors have started to use AI platforms to create books. This makes it so hard for authors who still refuse (and will always refuse) to do the same. So these authors who refuse to use AI (and I am one of them) are in a bit of a pickle. I mean, how do you compete with an AI that’s tireless and all brilliant?

But AI-written books can be a form of a ‘threat’ for the readers as well. In terms of quality, for one. Book-writing is an art form, as we all understand. Are we sure that what the AI offers will amount to what a human being can offer to a reader? Writing a novel involves the heart and the soul of the writer – plus, a mystical connection with something ethereal, something ‘out there’ that even though every fiction writer experiences as a ‘download’ of information, they often have no idea where the inspiration is really coming from. Anyone who’s ever written a novel understands this statement.

Reducing the art form that is called fiction-writing to something a piece of code can put together (using its admittedly powerful and brilliant skills), is something that the human race cannot possibly benefit from. Why? Because, as I said, the writing process will not involve the workings of a living soul. What makes good writing is the quality (and the height) of the emotions the reader experiences. When a reader laughs out loud or reaches out for a hankie as they read, it’s only because the human being who wrote the book did the same as they read it themselves previously. This creates a connection between the author and the reader that no AI can ever form.

To be honest, I am very concerned that the ‘soul-less’ pieces of writing churned out by an AI will in time change the experience of the readers, habituating them to it, enough for them to ultimately settle for less. There’s also the matter of plagiarism to consider, whereas there’s no relevant legislation in place involving AI.

In case you’re not aware, an AI devours everything out there as it trains itself before it’s ready to become a ‘writer’ itself. And when I say ‘everything’ I don’t just mean the classics. It registers the works of contemporary authors too. For what I know, AIs have access to all books EVER WRITTEN, including mine.

But are they licenced to do that? No, they are not. There is therefore an ethical matter to consider here, as this is plagiarism if a passage from an author’s book winds up in an AI’s piece of writing.

But is it plagiarism if an AI wrote it when there’s no legislation to call it so? How then, will a human writer ever be able to protect their copyright in a court of law against an AI software platform or an author who used AI software to write the offending book? You see where I am getting at here?

Things are not that simple. And they are bound to have severe implications in the authors’ sales/lives in the long run. The AI platforms that provide the software make it sound like it’s the best thing ever… They promise authors high earnings if they jump first into the game. They say, ‘Get the AI to write a book for you. You publish it, and everybody’s happy…’ But no, not really. I don’t see authors becoming happy, for one. Including those who will let an AI write their books for them.

I am very curious about the readers out there, about what they will choose to do. It will be good news for me to hear that readers will actually tell the difference and will not enjoy an AI book anywhere near as much as one written by a human being. But what if they do? Now, that is my greatest concern…

Consider someone who is forced daily to eat the food of a bad cook… The first time they may think it’s yukky, but if they try it again and again, in time it may taste a little better. Why? Because the human brain is hardwired that way. It gets used to bad experiences with repetition.

So, when you ‘consume’ something of a lesser quality long enough, sooner or later, you will compromise… you’ll begin to forget what you used to ‘consume’ before, so this bad soup (or bad book, as the case may be) starts to seem okay… And, in time, it even becomes wonderful!

And, just like that, we could all wind up witnessing masses of readers worldwide queueing outside the big stores to get the next paperback of the most celebrated AI out there. Sounds like a sci-fi story? No, not really. That may very well be our near future if we’re not careful. If we don’t nip this in the bud.

If we allow this craziness to start with literature, then what stops an AI from trying its ‘hand’ on painting next? How about photography? Music-writing? Screenplay writing? Or even fashion design? What will become of our world if we let AI take over and make decisions for us about our entertainment, what we eat and what we wear?

And here’s another question for you to perhaps mull over: Does art have any value when the thinking, emotions, traumas, and the whisperings of the soul of a human being are not involved in its birth? I’ll let you answer this question for yourself.

Regardless of all that… I expect you’re feeling curious to read a book written by an AI. I’ll be brutally honest. SO AM I! But being curious is not the same thing as opting to buy such a work again and again. As I said earlier, AI is presenting a threat not just for authors but for all kinds of artists.

Choosing AI-generated art means that with our hard-earned money we are failing to support human artists instead. And most artists are forever plagued by a lack of sufficient funds. This would seriously threaten the survival of many. Many will be forced to stop creating their art and go get a mundane job instead. One that will make them as soulless as the AI, I will add. Their talent will be kept to themselves, never put to good use, their works never shared. And that, in itself, is the epitome of misery for any given artist.

For what it’s worth: I urge you to resist this AI takeover on the art of literature. For the reasons I have explained, I find it unethical and demoralising. But, of course, you can decide for yourselves on that.

Now, something you should be aware of, either way: Writers who use AI platforms to write their books for them, are obliged to declare this clearly inside the books. So, you have the chance to know what you’re buying and reading. Just make sure to read the copyright page carefully. If it states that the writer is a piece of software, you may want to think twice before buying it. If you lean towards supporting human writers, that is.

Hopefully, this new, appalling trend will create a big bubble that’ll soon blow over. And it’s all up to us. All of us, human beings, to make the right choice and support each other. It’s always up to us to choose to protect or not to protect our own – and the true essence of art, if I may add.

For all the reasons I have put forward, I ask you to consider protecting and upholding the importance of the living soul in the creation of any art form out there.

 

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Can negative emotions such as stress, sadness, or anger cause disease?

I found this quote by Hippocrates mounted over the exit of the hospital where my father was treated recently. It reads the following, in Greekgood v:

“Before you cure someone, ask them if they are willing to leave behind all that makes them sick.” ~Hippocrates

It struck me as 100% wise and true, but also as a huge irony, seeing that conventional medicine focuses on the body and often overlooks the importance of the mind and the spirit in the process of healing as well as the catastrophic effects of negative emotions.

Those who’ve followed me for a while know that I keep a natural approach to maintaining good health. I am passionate about healthy living/eating, and also about discovering ‘alternative’ practices and techniques to manage negative feelings (including stress) and to keep myself healthy.

To me, all diseases are psychosomatic. Even if what causes a disease can be something wrong in our diet or lifestyle, or a certain nutrient deficiency, the catalyst is always a negative emotion. According to the philosophy of Qi Gong (an ancient Chinese healing practice that I am fascinated about), every major organ can become sick from a specific negative emotion. Given enough time, fear hurts the kidneys, for example. Sorrow hurts the lungs, stress hurts the stomach and the spleen, anger hurts the liver, and malice or bearing grudges is bound to hurt the heart. To Qi Gong, disease is nothing but negative emotion (stale energy) stuck in the body.

Using Qi Gong exercises or a Qi Gong healing practice, the energy meridians are cleared of the stale energy. Qi flows effortlessly along the meridians anew and thus health is restored. It sounds very simple, I know, but it certainly works. In the past year, I have learned to do simple Qi Gong exercises at home to get the Qi moving and remove stale energy. I’ve also attended an online seminar to learn the basics of the ancient healing practice of Qi Gong. It’s very self-intuitive and it makes me very excited when I work on someone and get to guess where they have pain or discomfort!

But it’s not just Qi Gong that I picked up in the recent years that helped me change the way I look at dis-ease. There’s also the amazing medicine of Dr Hamer that tells us that every disease has an emotional trigger…

Back in the 1970s, Dr Hamer began to develop the ground-breaking Germanic New Medicine – nowadays more commonly known as ‘German New Medicine’. According to his findings, every dis-ease has an emotional trigger. In response to that detrimental emotional trigger, the mind runs a ‘program’ in the body, which we call dis-ease, and which has a cycle and a healing phase.

Dr Hamer charted the human brain, recording which part of the brain corresponds to which part of the body. He noted that in the case of every dis-ease, the brain acquires marks that look like shooting targets in the corresponding part of the brain for the ailing part of the body.

His colleagues used to hand him the brain MRIs of their patients and Dr Hamer would tell them which dis-eases their patients had in the past and in the present time, based on the look of these target marks. According to him, when the brain runs the ‘healing’ program, it can employ viruses, bacteria and fungi in the body to eat away at anything that needs to go – cysts, fibroids or cancer tumours, for example.

For the ‘dis-ease program’ to stop running in the brain, the patient needs to pinpoint which was the stressful or upsetting or otherwise emotionally negative situation that triggered their dis-ease in the first place. Germanic New Medicine is truly a remarkable medical method, and I have full faith that it will gain more ground in the years to come.

I have a British friend in India who has saved the lives of at least 200 terminally ill cancer patients in this country so far using the Germanic New Medicine method. Just by talking to them and helping them find the trigger that gave them the cancer. He works for free, treating poor families there.

Those patients were told by their doctors they didn’t have long to live. They could help them no more and basically sent them home to await the inevitable. But this man sat them down and asked them a few questions to pinpoint what happened to them emotionally around the time when the dis-ease started. That conversation was all that was needed. Every time. You see, once the patient realizes, the dis-ease ‘program’ in the brain is ceased and a new ‘program’ for healing kicks in.

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The author is happy to give out free copies of his book to anyone willing to consider posting a review on Amazon upon reading. To claim your free copy, simply email the author directly at dc@danny-carroll.com

A presentation of the book by the author:

My name is Danny Carroll, I have been researching cancer for nearly two decades, and spent the last seven years helping terminally and chronically ill cancer patients, who medical doctors had given up on, to fully recover their health. And I am not a doctor.

My teacher was a traditional medical doctor specialized in research and in 1978, discovered a critical link between emotional trauma and cancer when he was diagnosed with cancer two months after his 19 year old son was shot and murdered. His subsequent medical discoveries are quite extraordinary.

“This is one of the most empowering books on cancer you will ever read. We are so used to symptom treatment being our medical standard of care today. Everyone deserves to know and understand that their bodies have the innate power to heal themselves. This is our birth right that we need to accept, acknowledge, and activate. This book helps you to do just that.” – Tessa Anthia John Guerra, Licensed Psychologist & Psychotherapist

Email the author at dc@danny-carroll.com to request a FREE copy of this book. All he asks is that you will consider posting a review on Amazon upon reading – if you choose to do so.

Update: Now, you may also purchase the book on Amazon. It is a bestseller!

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Fascinating stuff, huh? If you’d like to know more, there is a free book on the internet that analyses the philosophy of Dr Hamer’s Germanic New Medicine. It also lists all diseases with real cases recorded by the doctor himself, with advice for healing.

I use it as a reference book to look things up (it’s been accurate so many times!!) but it’s very ‘meaty’ in many parts, getting into fascinating details about the philosophy of this medical practice and the workings of the human mind.

The book is called THE PSYCHIC ROOTS OF DISEASE BY BJORN EYBL. Just google it and download a FREE PDF. Other electronic formats may also be available.

Alternatively, you can buy the paperback on Amazon:

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On the subject of cancer, I highly recommend this book. It explains things simply and mentions various protocols on how to beat the dis-ease naturally. The author, Ty Bollinger, has made an amazing documentary on the subject, which I’ve watched on the Internet and found mind-blowing. See my review of the book and links to the first couple free episodes of the docuseries here: http://effrosyniwrites.com/2017/12/04/book-review-the-truth-about-cancer-by-ty-bollinger/

 

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How to grow sprouts in a jar. Delicious and packed with nutrients!

Hi All!

Today, I am sharing a bunch of free books in my newsletter, including a very special book from a man who is saving cancer patients in India, just by talking to them! Interested to hear more? Scroll all the way down for my newsletter link!

And now, to tell you about this exciting new discovery I made…

I recently watched a video by nutrition expert Mike Adams about how to grow sprouts in glass jars and got so excited I immediately set out to find jars with suitable lids. I just had to grow sprouts in a jar! It looked so easy to do. Growing alfalfa seeds in particular seems to offer a wealth of health benefits.

Finding sprouting seeds online was easy, but the jar was a totally different story. It proved impossible to find glass jars with mesh (plastic or metal) on the lid. Once again, hubbie saved the day. He cut up the metal lid you can see here and added a sheet of plastic mesh. That did the trick to grow the sprouts twice, then the lid began to rust, which wasn’t good. So he made a ring out of plastic to use as a lid. Using brass nails he then attached some plastic mesh to the lid. This did the trick just fine.

Basically, I put a spoonful of organic alfalfa seeds in the glass jar, fill it with filtered water and leave it standing upright covered with a towel away from sunlight for 10 hours (the seeds should not be left to soak much longer).

I always start soaking the seeds in the morning. Then, in the evening (10-12 hours later max), I drain the water and put the jar upside down in a narrow container, a little tilted, in indirect sunlight. I use a strainer to sit it on, with a breakfast bowl underneath, and I rest it against a wall to be safe. Anywhere in a sunny room will do, as long as the sunlight doesn’t directly shine on the jar.

After that, twice a day, morning and evening (about 10-12 hours apart), I fill the jar with water and drain it immediately. I repeat 2-3 times to rinse the sprouts well, then leave the jar in its makeshift cradle upside down. That’s it.

You can start eating the sprouts after 4-5 days of doing this twice a day. I leave them for about 5-6 days in the jar in the way I explained, then I drain well and put them in a container in the fridge to enjoy in salads or sandwiches. They are delicious!

If I start eating from the jar, I cannot stop haha. They are so crunchy, a wonderful texture. Last time, I threw in a few broccoli seeds too (they have a slight kick) so I enjoyed a mix with the alfalfa seeds. It was very nice. Radish seeds are supposed to have a kick too, but I haven’t tried those yet. Always use organic, no matter what sprouts you go for.

You can watch Mike Adams’s short video HERE

I hope it will inspire you the way it inspired me.

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FREE books, a beach vacation in Corfu and more Greek summer fun

Yowza! I had a hit of bad luck last month. I went on vacation to my granny’s house in Moraitika, Corfu for my annual summer break to find the old metal pipes had rusted and there was not a single drop of water! To cut a long story short, my intended 10-day vacation in Corfu (staying on my own for the most part at the house) ‘shrunk’ to the precious total of just 3 days staying at a hotel.

My husband, Andy, was planning to leave on the weekend anyway as he was starting work on Monday so I decided to return to Athens with him. At least, we know the house will be ready for us by next year as the plumber who informed us of the problem committed to changing the pipes for us this fall during our absence.

Best silver lining: We were lucky to get a room at Romantica at high season. Incredible! The owner, an angel of a man called Leftis, made us feel right at home. And he even gave us precious parting gifts of his own making. Low-acidity extra virgin olive oil and a skin cream made with organic herbs. A man of many talents!

We’ve enjoyed staying at Romantica so much that it actually makes me feel sorry to know I won’t be going back again. And for anyone who knows how much I value my granny’s little village house where I’ve been staying almost annually since the 70s that says a lot, LOL!

In the 3 days of our stay on the island, we had a couple swims in perfect, (jellyfish-free!) waters, including one in Messonghi, and enjoyed dinners at Jimmy’s (in Moraitika) and Bacchus (in Messonghi). Both, highly recommended if you visit the area.

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FREE books, an impromptu air show, an ancient temple and Lord Byron’s carving

Greece is having a summer for the books. After two devastating fires earlier this month in the Peloponnese and Evia that burnt thousands of acres of forest land, many homes, and even wiped out whole villages from the map, it was ‘our turn’ last week here in West Attica. A fire in the area of Villia blazed for five consecutive days, every day getting closer and closer to my seaside town near Athens, making everybody nervous. I do confess, I did pack, just in case. The only ray of sunshine we had last week was the swims at the local beach that daily came with a free air show! Both Erickson helicopters and Canadair planes kept coming over to refill. Even 6 Canadair planes at one time. And they all came and went perfectly synchronized. Everyone held their phones at the ready and I couldn’t help myself either.

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