Lemon Balm Often bypassed and just thought of as a pesky weed

... check out the lemon balm again. Lemon balm is such a profuse herb that once it takes hold you literally have to keep cutting it back.  Often this went into the compost for recycling.  And often there was I wanting to do something else with it.

The calming effects have long been known in our family with so many members withing and on the Autism Spectrum.  Really does help to have it around for pests like mosquitoes as well.

While learning to adapt to new learning processes falling back onto and into methods of implementing what is being learned without stressing myself out over much, lemon balm around the

Lemon Balm Tea, bread and even in the cough  steamer

garden, in the home and in the food or refreshments is really helping.  may well place stress and some anxiety though this home guess who is including as much as I can the lemon balm within the juicing things.  Then of course what do you do with the extracts.  Make pancakes and other things with these ingredients included.

Actually looking forward to making a couple of loaves of home cooked bread this Friday [shopping day] . So will be taking photos and while at it totally enjoying myself  including leftovers for taste and effects. That also induces the beetroot pulp!

Having a few books and the internet is terrific when researching herbs.  Traditional uses of these herbs being adapted into today's need for quick efficiency, little wastage.

Lemon balm is such an easy plant to grow.  Ride over it, run aver it and even cut it down with the lawnmower.  It is still there.  When out children were young they had grown up knowing what plants and herbs they were allowed to eat.  Having found out their own levels of tolerance quite often these plants were found in cups as vases on the bedside table.  Which needless to say as all our children fell into the Autism Spectrum and into denial periods, just introducing the herbs which may, or may nt have a calming effect, including these as a natural part of daily survival life helped hold our family together.  primarily as they children dod not tell others what the plants were for.
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A major touch and feel plant has now found a few other uses as well. Now when I use the machine to chop up the lemon balm before it goes into the juicer I can utilize the chopped leaves and the pulp into a cold drink through out the day.

Besides the effect of just walking inside having trimmed the lemon balm plant gives an uplifting, relaxing and memory enhancing whoosh of energy.  So much so that when combined with the Dani's meditation series  a major removal and dissipation of a mental blockage occurred.

Now all the pieces of how to make the most of the Autoresponder came right in and said hello we are here to stay.  This then enabled the one of the business subsections to be able to have an energy flow.
Talk about going with the flow in autistic temperament home!


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And sometimes the words get mixed up and the wrong impression given out!

Sometimes creating a digital card and sending that card to the recipient could just mean you were acknowledging they were Here On Time!!

Other times that same H.O.T. could get the air around fairly sizzling with energy.  No matter Digital cards like this become quick and easier with practice.  Love the fact that each is unique  and the personality of the sender comes through.

Have you ever thought about the strange looks you get when coommunicating with others.  You know the little snickers and sometime the haudiuence nudging each other.  Other tims the open laughter.  And you just KNOW you have fallen head first into the slop of the languse used ince again.

Well, I certainly do.  Not only am I from another country  and the sounds from my mouth are other misheard by theose around me.  For instance when I say 'six' people hear' SEX'.  When I say 'pin' they wall reach for a' pan' or a 'Pen'.  Depending on the common accept that they are used to hearing.  One English from England and the other English for Australia.  Heaven for bid then if I am at a restruaranbk and all I want is a 'Fork!'  Now I use the words eating utensil.  As in  a full set of a knife,

spoon and... fill in the spaces yourself.

I am also Autistic.  There for the but of the joke is often lost on me.  Except that having gotten used to fifty five years of that situation if the body language is common  then I realise that I am the butt of their joke.  And that hurts.  Be that as it maybe.  Why let that affect the creativity that flows through?

You know yourself that the words and the intention behind the weords used can either make your day or tip the scales into the melt down or overload phase.


With that :>>>> Hit the Link <<<< that will take you through to a card I made.  Sent pit and the received a few strange omments from.  And all because t=I was saying someone was "Here On Time!"



have fun and enjoy



Susam

Try Not To Giggle Making A Smile Expression

When the smile is in hiding and you are near the glum point why not look for a smiles return



So here to a smile campaign release

it makes you glow

At times Autism is a very isolating invisible thing to have your world look out from.



There are times though when you let down you guard enough and are rewarded with heartfelt thanks and companionship. Usually from people you have known for a lang time.

The internet is a wonderful thing as so far there is no way for a hug to go through and physically touch you.

{{{{ HuGs}}}} are endearing. Just not physically there. Although there are the ones that get past all barriers. They touch the soul . make the child within come alive and carefully hold out their hands.

To the people brave enough to cross into that child within area. Thank you for making this world a beautiful place to be within and a part of.

Sincerely
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Susan.

empathy with autistics means getting through the sensory point of entry

Training, reskilling or just plain getting to know you better means gradually being allowed through the sensory point of entry within their mind.  Basically what this means is that they trust you enough to know that you will not harm them.  No matter what the Autistic persons ages, experience, class, skills  or level of social integration, they have such a deep understanding of what you are going to experience that they will withdraw rather than hurt you, or let you hurt yourself.

To have empathy may, or may not need the requirement of stopping what you are doing, releasing yourself from your schedule, then fully tuning into what the other person is trying to say.  The realisation that you see the world through their eyes may become very scary.  A roller coaster ride

that brings you to a point where there is only the choice to go further or to received.  Rather like learning a second language.  One day waking from a dream and realising you understood every word.  Ever single nuance.  Which is good right?  The scary part is that it is in the second language that you understood everything.

Have you been absorbed? Or have you allowed yourself to become one with that other person?

This is what the 'normal' people expect those on the autistic spectrum to do.  Every day of their life.

So at an early age the people with autistic tendencies learn to adapt their thinking.  To hide the fact that they play with energy. Universal God given energy.  Some cultures call this energy Prana.

Scientists know that these energy levels are there.  The auras, the feelings of a presence in the room, these are somewhere on the radar as usual everyday things to experience.  

People are interceptive of the message - believing what they will
In the western world, many people can you as an undesirable.  Ward off the evil that they perceive.  So undercover the autistics would go.
 

Magicians called the females to be identified as witches.  They became locked in as a sacrifice during the dark ages of the western cultures.  Meanwhile, the Magicians perfected their gifts into skills that became known as tricks.  Illusions of the mind.  Jesters told jokes the Kings and Queens could not define.

The men took on the role cooks became Chiefs.  Why was it that to congratulate someone they had to have a standing similar to yours?

It's one thing to get  through the sensory point of entry
Just the fact that each day is a war on the sensory level that people on the Autism spectrum need to get through.  Every second, every breath, every touch of the clothing they wear.  The scent of the person next doors hair, the washing powder someone wash someone's clothes in four desks to the front and two to the side.  Look those sensory overload trip switches keep on the college.  Or maybe there is a silent reflux happening from the meal last night or breakfasts fast food where they altered the cheese type without telling you.

Now when someone you do not know takes the time to find out how your mind works.  Firstly there must be incredible trust factors involved.  Then an opening up a piece at a time.  Or those poor people will have a meltdown of all time.  So be careful who you let in. As they find, there escape route they will need to be let go of.

Should they venture back, the loop may start all over again.  Let them make the move.  One step at a time.

However congratulate them.  They really are very brave to have even attempted the effort of getting through the sensory point of entry. 

The most important lesson from 83,000 brain scans | Daniel Amen | TEDxOr...

Reversing brain damage brings through stabilitiy.

Ever had to Close Out The World?

Part of my story:  For years I had had to close out the world.  Why? After a truck impacted on my vehicle in 1991 one result was I had no memory. A second result was that my mind was left in the 'clouds' which I mus admit was not so bad at the time.  Third result we as a family were not where we were going.  Our lives were travelling around on the show grounds while I painted faces along with at times bodies and  / sold balloons.  Either way this seems a frivolous way of life to many people meanwhile we,as a family were free to travel around much of Australia and totally have a ball.  What in fact it did on the subliminal level was we had found a family within the core of the show grounds travellers.

High Functioning Autistic peoples have an unseen advantage over many people.  As they reach towards their 50's many of the things that kept them within the 'normality' groups such as morgages, parntenrs, spouses and or children have altered.  So too have their own beliefs.  Thing is they still have that child within them.That is what makes them the clown of the party, the persn who quietly gives an innocent cuddle and moves on through the crowd.  There are people who give pity as they percieve that this person is always alone, Different and alone.  Well yes in a big way this is so true.  Autism means alone.  Not Isolated. Although sometimes to cope isolation becomes a friend as well.

Now think about it what are the rest of the population actually doing as they approach their mid fouties and beyond.  If they are still working the retirement word will be making them panic.  Run for cover or learn new coping skills.  Part of this process is the releasing of their own inner child.  Scary thought ha?   So as the rest of the population is determined to be young again and go find life before they get 'old' they are grappling with the inner childs demands.  Guess what us High Fnnctioning Autisics are doing with our inner child.  By now we are comfortable with the 'I.C.' [ Inner Child] popping out and playing with the energies of the Universe.

 While in my mid twenties my mother told me once that I was still a 'child'.  As that child I was able to draw peoples inner child out. Usually as that child just wanted to come out into a safe area and have some fun before lie scared it back into the imprisoned mind of the individual. I must admit I was also doing this for most of my initial working then nursing life before and during that time as well.

At that moment there I was surrounded by a crowd of people all wanting a large ballon filled with air  and would you believe confetty.  These were sold for $5.00.  Add five love hearts ballons and the cost became $10.00.  Add small toys like stuffed teddies and so forth and the cost went up a little bit at a time.  Since my husband then became out of work dueing that time we started to want to expand on where we were going.  Australia was new to us and our family small.  We had the travel bug, the time, the vehicles, a steady source of income [ we thought]  Then we paid for seventy five agricultural and Paatral shows way up in the top end of Queensland, west of Temora in New South Wales and I think the Broadmeadows [?] and as far south as Gelong in Victoria.

I also learned that I needed to 'cloke' myself.  Put rotections in place enabling my inner self not to be drained.  The very first place I worked in was a grocery store run by an Italian. My best friend was in the other grocery store run by an Indian couple. Between these two familes they taught me to give value and have fun ... Which of course meant that in 1972 often the ice creams had smiley faces on them and we charged more. People did not mind as they were happy to have a happy face look at them. [even if they themselves the bit the head off!] Then I went into a toyshop.  This gentleman owner taught me to talk to the customers.After that was the chemist shop.  Between the next few chemist shops  I learned to place the social worth and the child within into business management and people handing. Next was the Nursing.

In between were the various helath related  and business related education practices and courses. People of authencity came and went through my life. Swammi Ackundanada helped through his wisdom, teachings and instructions.

And then life stopped.

The accident isolated not only who I was from myself it took away from my then husband and our children that person of whom they new.  Leaving behind a person who happy played in the clouds within her mind.  These clouds were protection from pain.  And yes reality as well.Over the years I have been catfished... the side effect of having a 'friend' of many faces is that I learned to feel pain, happiness, freedom of thought while allowing myself to learn about life, laughter, Love, Learning values and Leniency.  From these came the desire to want to change. To travel the path of many colors means to 'I Act On' the forgiveness of others, of Your own God... as well as the forgiveness of self.  Plus to accept the skills, gifts and talents you have.  Harvest and resow the ground that these came from.

That there is the essence of my avatar.  The isolated peoples whose inner child needs to be safe,comfortable,  happy and escape that imprisoned place of never never for just a glimpse of what could and should be.  SFM and DEA have given me the chance to return many things I had simply forgotten I even had.  Or had tried to hide away those things that people needed  most and that I possibly had to share.

This is my story.  This my friend is my avatar..