What a wonderful world?

This song has been stuck in my head for the past couple days. I am so torn on this issue right now. Is it still a wonderful world? Parts of it, yes, and other parts are far from it.

I ended my night last night watching "Food Inc." a documentary about food production in America. I spent a fabulous part of my day today outside, in the sun. It is a beautiful day. Today it is a wonderful world, last night though, not so much.

As I have said before, I am trying to be healthier and have better habits. Watching "Food Inc." makes me want it, and actually do it, that much more. It also makes me look further into important issues. While I might not turn vegetarian, I can watch the quality of my food and know where it comes from as well as decide where and how to spend my money. (I highly recommend watching both "Food Inc." and "The Future of Food" by the way. Both are very informative films about the food we eat everyday, though I feel the latter is a bit more factual while the former plays a bit more on your emotions. Both are still great and should be watched by all.)

Today, even though I started my morning with a coffee brewed with Starbucks beans(free from my brothers so at least I saved money there!) and a bagel with cream cheese, I will eat better the rest of the day. And after reading a very informative book in my Eastern Concepts of Health and Healing class, where we spent the day outside in the Piazza by the fountain and the trees, I will definitely cut back on coffee because of all of the adverse affects I realized it was having on my body. Look up everything you eat and drink and you will find such interesting information, both good and bad! Coffee was only one of many things I looked up.

Anyway, class ended a bit early and I had some time before my next class so I took my professors advice and went and sat with a tree. It was a bigger tree to its energy weighed a bit heavier with me, just as she said it would. It's amazing to me how westernized we are and a few people gave me the "what the hell is she doing" look. I didn't mind, I just leaned into it and smiled. Thinking back, I should have hugged it... I'll save that for next time. But it was interesting to me how just sitting down and letting go allowed me to sense things I normally wouldn't.

I guess I'm just tired of our western and closed-minded ways and I'm sick of having to constantly ingest pills for my allergies and acid reflux. Even with the medication I take for my acid reflux I still get it which makes me have to take more meds. I started taking a prescribed herbal remedy a week ago and haven't even had a hint of acid reflux since! Obviously people survived and adapted since the beginning of time without our western remedies so I think I will continue to venture more into older ways and I encourage others to do the same. Of course there are plenty of illnesses and problems where obviously a westernized fix is the better choice, but in my daily life I would rather try to work with more natural ways of healing my body and living in general.

I encourage others too look more into the things you eat and what goes into your body on a daily, weekly, monthly, whatever basis. Anything else interesting you care to share? Comment below.