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From Conscious Consumer to One Mindful Planet

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As a veteran TV producer, I learned early in my career how to research just about anything and everything, how to dig deeper, ask the right questions to uncover the often times hidden truth.

I knew about GMO’s before people were questioning them. I told everyone who would listen about the growth hormones in our livestock making us as unhealthy as the plumped up meat we were ingesting. I cut out gluten before it became trendy. I meditated, exercised, kept a gratitude journal, and was eating as healthy as possible. I was doing all I could to live a conscious and healthy life. But it wasn’t until I became a parent that I realized just how little I really knew about the world around me.

Becoming a parent is life changing, every person raising a child will agree to that. I expected little sleep, lots of diaper changes, and a halted social life. I was okay with all of that.

What I didn’t expect was the jolting wake up call regarding the potential toxins in everything my family consumed, touched, and surrounded ourselves with, from environmental considerations like the water we were drinking and the air we were breathing to simple aesthetic choices like the sheets we were sleeping on and the curtains being hung in the baby’s room.

It all started when I was researching organic, non-GMO baby formula that didn’t have arsenic in it. Yes…arsenic. It’s in most baby formulas including the organic ones, disguised as “organic brown-rice syrup”.[i] Insane right. Then I was searching for truly organic baby food, organic clothes, organic crib sheets and window curtains without the ever-toxic fire retardant substances in them.

I became a slave to the Internet, researching every company’s sourcing methods and stockholder allegiance, every ingredient in the food we bought, every product we use from our bathroom (soap, shampoo, toothpaste, beauty products, cleaning products, etc.) to our bedroom (sheets, curtains, pillows, rugs, furniture, etc.) and everything in between.

I was exhausted, spending my very little free time while my newborn was sleeping, scouring the Internet. I should have been showering or sleeping myself but I couldn’t. I was obsessed with learning all I could about the products we have here in the US and what they do to our minds, our bodies, and our environment. No sooner did I remove one toxic product from our house than I found another lurking somewhere I least expected.

As I researched and researched I found myself asking, why isn’t there a website that has all this information in one place? Why hasn’t someone created a website for people who are conscious of what they put into their bodies and fill their minds with, and are looking to make the world a better place for their children and grandchildren? I would find sites with interesting and mindful articles, a couple with great conscious media. You can even find organic, non-toxic, non-GMO, eco-friendly products if you search specifically for them, and you know exactly what you are looking for.

But there wasn’t one place. A hub, so to speak, that had it all in once place. A “go to” source for all things conscious, eco-friendly, green, organic, non-toxic, non-GMO. A space to learn, grow and share stories, modalities, products, and journeys with other mindful people; a conscious community of individuals who desire a better quality of life for themselves, their families, and their communities local and global.

So, as a seasoned television producer, one who loves a good story, knows how to research and seek out change agents, spiritual gurus, conscious coaches and teachers, experts who are devoting their lives to educate the masses, innovators and product developers who are making a difference, instead of waiting for someone else to do this, I would do this…for myself, my family, for you and your families, for all the families across the globe who are craving information and resources that are trusted, credible, and who always puts people’s health, wellness and the sustainability of our planet first before dollar signs.

I have always considered myself a student of life; ever seeking, ever learning, and always asking questions. I enjoy expanding and growing and I look forward to hearing from you, my new friends about how you live your life consciously, and what mindful practices center you, bring you more abundance and joy. Share with me what organic, eco-friendly, non-toxic products work for you and your family. And what new thought leaders are impacting your lives. I look forward to being on this journey with you all. I’m grateful that you found “our” site, because it’s not just mine, it’s yours too. We are now a “collective”, a community of conscious consumers for all areas of our lives, and together we can make better and more mindful decisions leading to happier and healthier lives for us all and our planet. That, my friends, is One Mindful Planet. Thank you for sharing this journey with me. With Love and Gratitude – Tammy 

[i] http://healthland.time.com/2012/02/16/oh-baby-why-there-may-be-arsenic-in-your-infant-formula/

Your Ancestors Have Waited Your Whole Life for this Moment

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Imagine it’s 2014 and you are at your best friends wedding reception in the penthouse ballroom of a high-rise hotel. It’s noisy, and you want to practice your speech, so you go into the stairway for some privacy. You hear the click of the door and your stomach turns over as you think, uh-oh and you reach back for the door, only to discover the door is locked.


This is just one great example of an ancestral touch-point, where you are experiencing the same dynamics that happened to your ancestor, that you might know nothing about. Yet, your eyes have a unique mark at about the 10:00-10:30 position of your left eye and 1:00-1:30 in your right.


In the world craze of every kind of DNA test imaginable, is it possible you could find the treasure map of your ancestors in your eyes? Irigenics Ancestral Eye Reading is the study and creation of a map of the eyes in relation to ancestral experiences.


Our eyes are the only part of our body to be full-size at the time of birth. Irigenics takes a close look at ancestral gifts, talents, abilities, motivators, energetic patterns, and the repeat patterns of our life (that often initiate an emotional or traumatic response).


In this example, you had a great-grandparent in 1895 who snuck into the shed at a neighbor’s farm, when he was six-years-old, to escape the winter cold air. He couldn’t read the sign on the door, “Careful – Door won’t open from inside” He hadn’t consciously noticed the click of the door latching when he entered.


Trying everything to get the door open. He began yelling, Help! Let me out! Let me out! But the neighbors were gone to a party and didn’t get home until after he had fallen asleep, shivering in the cold. They found him in the morning, nearly comatose with hypothermia.


As we fast forward to 2014 to your best friends wedding, the chain of events that led to your great grandfather being locked in, are being repeated.

Desperately, you pull on the handle. Your mind races through scenarios of your best friend fuming, “where is she? She is supposed to be giving the first toast!” and you begin to yell, Hey somebody! Let me out! Help!!
In that moment, it’s as if you have entered a holographic time-tube back to the moment of your ancestor hearing the click of the shed door. It’s as though that little boys voice is inside of you yelling “Help! Help! Let me out!” but his words are coming through you, even if he had cried out those words in his language (or accent) of German or Italian, etc. The emotional rise is the same. Your body is having a matching physical, chemical and emotional response to the situation that says the click of a door can be a threat – a big one.


In that moment you can jump right into panic, and scream and yell to be let out, or you can pause for a moment, and pull out your cell phone to call the front desk to let you out of the stairway.


In our example, the dynamics of the story are the ‘ignoring the warning sign on the door”. The trigger is the “click” of the door, signaling that you have entered the danger zone. The ancestral touch-point is that moment of panic and realization that you are locked in. Your response either “refuels” the pattern (that it is still a threat to your genetic line) by grabbing the door and yelling; or you deflate the energy by using a tool of today, your cell phone, establishing that this scenario is no longer a threat.


The marking in “escape” is fairly common and usually involves the dialogue of Let me up! Let me go! or Let me out! The interpretation is always in the dynamics of the story. For another individual, their same markings in “escape” and “not being heard” may involve being locked in the shed by a sibling and their friends, laughing on the other side of the door. Another may reveal the dynamics of their ancestor hiding beneath a broken window in the war, while enemy soldiers passed by, holding their breath for fear that they would be discovered.


Give it a try for yourself. Think of a time in your life, when you screamed or yelled, Let me up! Let me go! or Let me out! (especially if the situation happened prior to age 8-10 years of age) as that’s usually the timeframe of the first situation of a repeat ancestral pattern. What were the dynamics of your story that led you to that emotional and physical response? It doesn’t matter if you are adopted or don’t know your ancestor’s stories. If it happened to you, it happened to them and it’s the dynamics of the story that will repeat.


This is the ongoing evolution of your own personal genetic line – what threatens you, personally, in comparison to your friends, colleagues, spouse, or even siblings (as each of us is threaded to different ancestors). Perhaps none of them has a trigger for the “click” of a door, but they have a trigger in regard to issues with their identity, which you don’t have.
Certain threats, like bloodletting by doctors, don’t exist anymore. Remember this is all about dynamics. An ancestors issue with identity at Ellis Island will return as your on-line identity issue when your social media gets hacked. Your emotional response determines if the situation is still a valid threat to your personal genetic line, or not.


What makes Irigenics ancestral eye reading more like cartography than pseudo-science is that the map is still being studied and created. The interpretations of the signature markings will be an ongoing study for many years.