LICKING THE RAZOR’S EDGE Addiction #01 – the challenge of ALCOHOL Alcohol is the oldest drug in the world. Chemical tests of ancient pottery jars have revealed that beer was produced about 7,000 years ago in what is today Iran, and it is safe to say that it was brewed long before that. Even more […]
LICKING THE RAZOR’S EDGE Addiction #01 – ALCOHOL (Part two — A WAY OUT) “I can’t convince you to put the drink down … You have to want to do that.” ~ Don Young So, maybe you have decided that you would like alcohol to play a diminished role in your life. Maybe you have […]
LICKING THE RAZOR’S EDGE Addiction #02 – the challenge of SMOKING … This is going to be a tough post to write. Nicotine is especially insidious, so most smokers who read this information could very well “tune out” before they even get to the information that could help them free themselves from its grasp. And […]
LICKING THE RAZOR’S EDGE Addiction #02 – SMOKING (Part two – A WAY OUT) On a conscious level, roughly 70% of daily smokers really want to stop. And yet few of them understand that they are dealing with more than just an addiction; that they are dealing with a permanent “priorities disorder” – a real […]
LICKING THE RAZOR’S EDGE Addiction #03 – the challenge of CAFFEINE “Way too much coffee. But if it weren’t for the coffee, I’d have no identifiable personality whatsoever.” ~ David Letterman Now I’m going to start by saying that I am NOT trying to tell any of you what to do. Just as it is […]
LICKING THE RAZOR’S EDGE Addiction #03 — COFFEE (Part two – A WAY OUT) “[The coffee industry] benefits from … our dependence on their product to make us feel good, by having us forget that we were feeling Good in the first place.” ~ Naisah van Vliet You might think that you don’t drink enough […]
LICKING THE RAZOR’S EDGE Addiction #04 – the challenge of SUGAR “Television sugar-pushers tell us about their products that are ‘made from natural ingredients’. Of course, the word ‘from’ is not accented on television. It should be … Even refined sugar is made from natural ingredients … But that four-letter word ‘from’ hardly suggests that […]
LICKING THE RAZOR’S EDGE Addiction #04 — SUGAR: a Solution … “Foods high in bad fats, sugar and chemicals are directly linked to many negative emotions, whereas whole, natural foods rich in nutrients – foods such as fruits, vegetables, grains and legumes – contribute to greater energy and positive emotions.” ~ Marilu Henner I realize […]
LICKING THE RAZOR’S EDGE Addiction #05 – the challenge of EATING MEAT “Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all human development. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we remain savages.” ~ Thomas Edison “For as long as men massacre animals, they will also kill each other. Indeed, he […]
LICKING THE RAZOR’S EDGE Addiction #05 — EATING ANIMALS (Part two – A WAY OUT) “Then GOD said, ‘I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. And to all the beasts of the earth […]
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