Posts Tagged ‘Health’

Look at yourself… No, seriously… Look at yourself. What I mean is, what are you connected to? What are you hooked up to?

Check this out… Most trees begin to sprout leaves in the Spring. These leaves then fully bloom by the Summer. It’s the rain, and the sunlight that get the Xylem and Phloem (aka Tree Blood, lol) flowing and that’s what feeds the leaves and creates a union between the leaf and the tree. The better the connection between the tree and the leaf, the more healthy the leaf looks. When the Fall and Winter months come around, the Xylem and Phloem slow up and that’s what causes leaves to turn yellow… then orange… then brown… and then die from being disconnected to the tree. So, I ask you what are you hooked up to? What are you connected to? Is it making you green and rich? Or making you brown and closer and closer to death? Before you answer that…

Let’s take it a step further… The average person may look at a grapevine and see the big green leaves and flourishing vines and naturally assume that the vine is fruitful. However, big green leaves sometimes block sunlight. This blockage hurts the production and growth of more fruit. Our lives are the same way. We may have things and people around us that, from the outside looking in, appear to be helping and adding to us when they’re actually keeping us from developing more fruit. Pruning, is getting rid of the excess in order to produce more fruit. The same way a vine dresser prunes his vines, God does the same for us. Life sometimes needs to prune us, more times than not it hurts.

So again, I challenge you to ask yourself, what is my relationship hooked up to? Is it hooked up to a genuine desire for us to please each other in a righteous way? Or is it hooked up to, “Oh girl he’s fine” OR “Man, I just gotta have her“? What are your finances hooked up to? Are you in crazy debt and living check to check? Or have you created a plan to Spend, Save & Invest wisely? What is your health hooked up to? Are you eating right, and working out? Or do you just expect obesity and heart disease to just skip over you because you’re a “good” person? What is your spiritual life hooked up to?

Take a minute and Click ~> HERE <~ for a FREE download of a song I did a while back called “Searching” (Featuring Regal) off of the Brooklyn Spartans Mixtape. You can actually watch a live performance of it ~> HERE <~ as well. I think that song is a good theme song for you to listen to while you look at the different areas of your life and tell yourself the truth… Are you happily hooked up in a healthy way or do you need some pruning in certain areas to keep your fruit intact and your leaves from turning brown?

Your thoughts?

-Kel Spencer

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Queen Cougar herself, Pam Grier. Born 1949…

I remember when I was in Elementary School and even Junior High School, there were one or two HUGE females in the school, then you had another 20 or 30 kinda chubby girls, then you had those 3 or 4 girls who were over developed and already had the bodies of grown women and then the rest of the girls all pretty much had the same shape and you would just pick who you wanted to steal a kiss from by how cute they were or how pretty their hair was.

Then came college, Of course that ratio changed but the bottom line is, there are waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too many out of shape, flabby, lazy, inactive YOUNG females out here these days. I had a talk with a friend of mine the other day. She’s several years older than me but she isn’t really a Cougar per se’ since she’s only 38. She talked about how she and her girlfriend laugh at these younger girls who can barely attract the eyes of a man, let alone his heart. I even watch older women in the gym… Come to think of it, 90% of the women that I see in the gym are older women, unless of course the warm weather is approaching and then all of the sudden the ladies my age and younger show up for about 2-3 weeks, for what? I’m not sure… But anyway, I watch older women in the gym, crowd around the water fountain or whisper to each other while on the treadmill about how TERRIBLE the younger girls look AND how lazy they are when it comes to doing something about it.

If you go to a Best Buy or electronic store, and go over to the flat screen section, you are GUARANTEED to see 90% men in that area. Why? Because we are visually driven. It doesn’t have to be about sex, we might just want to have the game seen on a bigger brighter screen, or even a movie, we are designed to receive pleasure impulses through our eyes. Not saying that women don’t, it’s just that men are more prone to that. With that being said, I would think that today’s women would play into that, No? You can get the dirtiest, grease ball man on the planet who ONLY has selfish motives to give a woman a compliment. Why? Because, generally speaking, women like it when their womanhood is noticed and appreciated. So if a jerk like that can play into what a woman likes, even if it’s just to get a quick 13 minutes of Happy Horizontal aka The Headboard Body Rock, why wouldn’t a woman do the same in reverse for purposes of attracting these men, who for some reason aren’t out there… But that’s another Blog Post… Why?

Maybe the older women should school some of these younger women in that regard. Or maybe not. I don’t know. But what I do know is, I only know a handful of the women between the ages of 20 & 35 who actively take a daily positive approach towards their physical health, from what the will/won’t eat to their workout habits to even their sleep and stress amounts.

Anyone wanna share?

Anyway…. If you’ll be in the NYC area in Late February/Early March and would like to attend the soon coming FREE shoot/show, (Read What is #FPBK for details) please send a quick e-mail to 3HirdPowerEvents@gmail.com with “#FPBK Show/Shoot” as the title and info will be sent to you soon. In supporting this movement, you are indeed supporting me but more importantly, you’re supporting yourself…

Gimme your thoughts!!!!

-Kel Spencer

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First off, I want to thank you ALL!!!!!!

What you’re doing for #TEAMELEXIS shows that there still are good people with good hearts and I appreciate you.

Today’s post was actually sparked the night of Elexis’ wake (Thursday July, 22 2010). I facilitated the wake so I arrived early. My brother (Flo), My good friend, C-del (Elexis’ Step father) and Caden (Elexis’ little brother) walked a couple of blocks away to a West Indian spot on Flatlands and Remsen. Caden wanted gum from the gumball machine and his father got him one. As he put the blue gum ball in his mouth, he of course got the blue coloring all over his hands and mouF. As we got some wet paper towels, to rub it away before he made more of a mess, it dawned on me that this same blue dye that we’re scrubbing off of his hands, is just some of the stuff that we put in our bodies. Here we are… practically trying to wipe away a layer of skin to try and get this stuff off of his hands, yet we won’t hesitate to put these things in our mouths? Or in our stomachs? And the real kicker is… While this is happening, Caden’s sister lie asleep 3 blocks away in a casket because of Cancer.

Am I saying that blue gum is what contributed to Elexis’ neuroblastoma? No. But I am saying that the rising cancer rate is connected to what we eat. I’m not exactly a health nut myself, and I can use a lot of improvement but I know people (none of you of course) who don’t even know what the inside of a gym looks like… Who refuse to stop eating the very things that are slowly killing them… Who pay no attention to the chemicals, artificial preservatives, colorings, dyes, and hormones that are contained in what we eat. And we do this day after day, year after year and wonder why the doctor walks in with bad news when we’re only 45 or 50 years old… Sometimes even younger. Or maybe I’m bugging and what we eat has nothing to do with diseases and sickness. Either way, I just figured I’d share…

So, thanks again for all of your well wishes, and prayers, and cards, and donations. I figured, I’d share a little something in return :  )

-Kel Spencer

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