Water for Health and WealthBy Gary Scott Messages at www.spottingtrends.com often look at how international investments in water can affect our wealth. We should never forget water’s value to our health as well! One threat to our water is an at home pollution….called the microwave. According to www.rense.com a girl in a school science project divided filtered water into two parts. The first part was boiled on the stove. The second part was boiled in a microwave. After cooling, the water was fed to two identical plants. There was an amazing difference (the plant fed microwaved water died while the other thrived). You can see for yourself at www.rense.com The Indian Trough One reason we love our farm is that The Native Americans used to work their way up a narrow trail through these mountains and they stopped right here at the farm at a now historic watering spot called the Indian'sTrough. Just up from our pond, where a flock not too wild mallards swim and really wild turkeys graze beside deer and our geese, sits this magnificent spring - gallons of the purest fresh water pouring out every minute. The Indians carved out a hollow at the base of the spring to water their horses and this moss covered watering hole is still there. Later the locals came and found that the water held healing magic as well. They would hike the same trail and collect it to purify their blood and heal their aches and pains. This must have worked. The headstones in the family cemetery here show the residents were aged 86, 91, 95, 100 and 115! They (the locals) still come. A few years ago a neighbor who had throat cancer made a dying wish, "Could he taste the sweetness of those waters just one more time?". We happily, with sadness, sent an oak barrel full to comfort his last days. But what to do with all this water that just pours into Fern Creek? First we diverted it into our house so it is our drinking water. But we can't drink that much and we wouldn't dare sell it to a fancy bottler who would bring in trucks, pollution and noise. I worried this question so often someone in the family finally piped up, "Go soak your head!" I of course took them literally and set out to create the most unique spa where I could luxuriously soak my whole body (head included) at the Indian's Trough. Scouring the world we found the answer in Seattle (created by students at the University of Alaska). A solid cedar Japanese soaking tub, (650 gallons that easily sits six) heated by a wood burning stove plunked down in the middle of the water. They call it a snorkel. The building is all cedar construction in a hollow just below the Indian's Trough and sits right above Fern Creek. The tin roof makes it cozy in the rain and even more stunningly beautiful in the snow. Changing the water every day (it pours in fresh from the spring) means no chemicals are required. Starting a fire in the morning (the water from the spring comes in at 49 degrees-burr!) means by noon it's 105 degrees (the fire box raises the temperature about 30 degrees an hour). Soak in the afternoon and we guarantee (we have learned this from experience) you'll sleep well though the night. We have hollowed out a pool in the creek for serious Scandinavian type bathers who want to go from hot to cold. Here is the spa.
Here I am stoking the wood fire.
Join us for a very special cleansing with Vaidya RK Mishra! Vaidya Mishra is a fully accredited ayurvedic healer, practitioner, and teacher, with a decade’s exposure to western lifestyles and culture. After nearly 20 years of study and practice in India, he came to Europe and the US. Since then, he has been healing, teaching, and researching western lifestyles and culture, adapting Ayurveda to our current pace. Visit the web at www.vaidyamishra.com for testimonials Vaidya Mishra’s three day course covers special information for those of us who use computers. Electromagnetic energy disturbs vibrational circulation and transformation inside the body. Without addressing this aspect of toxic buildup, there can be no proper spring or seasonal cleansing. Cleaning up computer toxicity is just one reason we are delighted Vaidya Mishra will be able to conduct a three day course, here at the farm, this coming June 16-17-18. Two days of the course are on how to be healthier and one day is on how look better! The Vidya is a skin specialist. One day of the course teaches the Marma Face-lift, an age-old facial treatment that enhances the glow of the face, toning the facial skin and invigorating it, making you look younger in one treatment. Marma points are the Indian equivalent of acupressure points. This day teaches the all natural ayurvedic marma face-lift process that includes treatment with Transdermal Face-Lift cream, the Lalita Mantra (the bliss-giving aspect of the Eternal Enlivening Feminine Energy), a herbalized clay application, a herbal steaming treatment, a milk-foam treatment and application of “Lalita’s Age-Defying Cream” on the facial marma points. Properly done, these cleanups and times of R & R can clear your mind, extend your life, stimulate your creativity and lengthen your working life and lifespan. As the Vaidya will be offering private consultations after the course, attendance will be strictly limited. If you want more details please contact Merri directly at merri@littlehorsecreek.com All guests are welcome in the spa, the steam bath and massage chair (we call the chair Fred and costing several thousand dollars he is not a toy). He really does work wonders.., no extra charge. A spring water fed washing machine and dryer are also available. We bring in a licensed massage therapist when a number of guests are staying and several would like a long leisurely massage in a meadow, by the bubbling creek or in front of a roaring fire. Pure water right from the springs, fresh air and homespun silence so you can really hear, are always...always free. Back to Natural Health Secrets Index List of articles on this website May, 2006 |
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