Creative Caregiving

by Allison L. Williams Hill In-Vesica Art Design Energy

“Do All Things In-Vesica.”

Originally posted on March 22, 2014

We were fortunate to live near the water. Transport by car was about five minutes. A good walk down a fairly steep hill got me there in about ten to fifteen minutes. Josiah’s Bay beach in the British Virgin Islands used to be deeper but sand mining in the eighties pushed the coastline back. Natural cycles replaced some of the sand but the beach was not what it used to be. Its value has increased recently, at least to me.

Clint Ober was a guest on Darius Barazendaneh’s online You Wealth Revolution. He discussed how his years of working as a cable engineer informed him about grounding. Clint Ober is the maker of the Earthing line of products. Mats for your feet or for your entire body are either plugged into the third opening on an electrical outlet or are connected to a grounding rod outside of your home to remove free radicals from within the body.

We used to walk along the beach and in the surf. The sun heated our bodies. The sand burned our feet. We would sit in the surf at the shore and let the waves slap us and wash over our bodies. After a time, we would walk through our gate, dry ourselves off getting as much sand off as possible, and walk to the car to drive back to our home.

We showered when we returned. I hung our rinsed bathing suits on the line outside for the wind to remove the very fine sand. Then we turned on the television or music and fell asleep. That was how we used the day. As work grew, I wanted to go to the beach less and less. I felt I could not afford to contribute that much time to “doing nothing.” I did not know it at the time but the tiredness was directly related to the amount of tension I held within. There was nothing else my body could do but completely relax after I released the tension. The Wise Me shunned this activity because of my perspective on how much time it took to recover from being completely relaxed, not from how much time it took to recover from being tense and wound up.

I learned, after reading and using Mr. Ober’s products that I could have done more for my body by going to the beach regularly and being slapped around more by the waves. Nature removes the free radicals that way, what I created during my tense, thinking/doing/creating periods. Another company now has patches available to draw toxins through the soles of your feet. Walking in sand, on grass, or on soil achieves the same thing.

If you are so tired that you cannot move or even entertain the thought, think of what you did to get that way. I did not. Now we are many miles from that beach. I don’t think I would have changed my feelings about relaxing completely but what I would change is how I got to that point. Periodic relaxations through breaks would reduce the amount of recovery time. For several of those years and now, I was and am a caregiver. Nothing says relax more than doing for two persons. Memories of those times spent on the beach with my beloved and sitting together with my feet on the grass do contribute to my well-being. However, I must be aware of how often I need to use the time to do little or even nothing.

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by Allison L. Williams Hill In-Vesica Art Design Energy

“Do All Things In-Vesica.”

Originally published on August 16, 2013

After we relocated to the US, a lot of my time continues to be used for caregiving. My husband and I are concentrating on his wellness. On my Creative Caregiving website I discuss that the VA clinic and medical center where we are have been responsive and wonderful in their support of my husband’s health.

My husband is now a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and through them I found out how much the federal government is delinquent in processing pension applications. I thought about looking up the names of the veterans used to discredit John Carey when he was running for president against Bush 43. Carey was a veteran; Bush was not and still is not a veteran. He played at being a pilot and that is a dripping wad of spit in every pilot’s eye.

Questions about Carey grew from testimonies about his shooting bullets into the heads of prone enemy soldiers. A nun, tortured in a South American country, managed to survive by appearing dead in a mound of tortured nuns and other people. She remembered hearing the supervisor talking on a phone in between the pain. “How are the children?” he asked. He had an American accent. The nun’s experience was aired on 60 Minutes several years ago.

So, it was not possible that some of those prone enemy combatants could have risen and injured American soldiers.

The Veterans Administration did poorly addressing vets’ needs during Bush 43’s eight years as president. The difficulty began during the Iraqi invasion. It seemed as if Rumsfeld was more concerned about minimizing the publicized numbers of the fallen than providing adequate services for the wounded. To those veterans who spoke out against Carey: How did you like those eight years? Got all of your needs met? Perhaps you did because you successfully helped non-soldiers “play” at being proficient as fighters and experienced strategists (called Republicans). Know anyone who did not get their needs met? There were many veterans who did not and still don’t.

In light of my husband’s pending application at the VA at this point in time, I had to make a choice: either work outside of the home and place my husband in a facility or stay home to care for him. My work has resumed fulfilling the latter, really the only choice, around the time that care is given.

The stream to attract people to my work and services has been stocked with more information, videos I enjoyed creating, and products. I do energy work for healing and for clear communication with Spirit. One of the insights I received was that only one of the websites is important: In-Vesica: “Do All Things In-Vesica.” The slogan means do all things from a spiritual place. My husband’s website, Hill International Group, listing his work on small business development from his PDE (Project Demonstrating Excellence- a term used by the Union Institute and University where he received his doctorate degree) will be separate as will Full Spectrum Living, a gift from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition to all graduates of the program for health coaching.

Allison L. Williams Hill has over thirty years of experience from various architectural firms in New York City, her own practice there and in the Caribbean. She began studying spirituality over twenty years ago and enjoys channeling through art. The architectural firm, L5 Design in the United States and L5 Associates in the Caribbean, was moved into In-Vesica where she integrates architecture and alternative medical therapy and her signature process, psycho-ecological design.