Don’t Leave the Neti Pot Behind!

Published October 8, 2008 in Creative Living, Health & Wellness and Travel. 0 Comments


Wow, it’s been a long time since I’ve posted any relevant content on here. What’s my problem?
Well I’ve been really busy with a number of things in my life–mostly good. Unfortunately, the blog has had to take a bit of a back seat to other things. Nevertheless, I’ve not forgotten about the blog. And I’ve been meaning to get back to posting on a more regular basis.

So, I want to post today about jala neti (a.k.a. nasal irrigation or cleaning). I’m seeing a lot of people coming to the site via search engines, looking for solutions to their nasal and allergy problems. (I’m tracking these visits through Google Analytics. If you don’t have it on your site, you should definitely consider adding it. It’s free to use. Just check out: Google Analytics.)

Seeing that a large percentage of my visitors are coming here seeking solutions for sinus relief; I thought I should post more information about jala neti, and some of my own experiences with the cleansing regiment.

Over the past weekend I attended a Pet Sitters International regional conference in Alexandria, VA. I spoke on the subject of Search Engine Optimization and how an effective SEO plan can draw more traffic to a website.

Foolishly enough I didn’t bring my neti pot on the trip. I thought that I could make it for three days. And maybe I could have if I hadn’t gone with a group on a boat ride across the Potomac on Monday evening.

That night in bed at the hotel I began experiencing terribly uncomfortable postnasal drip. At that late hour there was really nothing I could do except endure the suffering.

The next morning I awoke to a stuffy head and soar throat. It began to clear up as the day progressed, but I still wasn’t in excellent condition.

Later that evening I drove home. As soon as I got there, I raced for the neti pot, slapped some salt solution in it and processed to flush all that Potomac nonsense from my nostrils. Oh, the horrors that spilled forth. Lots of the green sort of stuff that one would expect. But this was accompanied by what I can only describe as orange-mucus. It wasn’t dry-blood or even fresh-blood mucus that one sometimes sees when cleansing. No, this was orange—like the inside of the fruit of the same name. I’d have taken pictures, but I don’t want to freak you guys out.

Needless to say, I felt much better after having rid myself of the mess. And the moral of the story is the bring your neti pot with you! A small effort to make space in your suitcase, will pay off in sustained comfort and health.


Pet Sitters International Regional Conference

Published September 24, 2008 in Internet. 0 Comments

This weekend I will be speaking at the Pet Sitters International Regional Conference. i plan to speak to pet sitters about generating more website traffic from search engines by strategically using keywords in their content.

Here is a preview of the transcript.

Good morning everyone.
I’m here to talk to you about getting the most out of your website by generating traffic through Search Engine Optimization.
At first I’d considered discussing features that can be added to websites to make it easier for your clients to interact with you.
However I had a chance to look over several of your websites.
And I found that many of you already have these features in place, and that most of you have very well-built websites.
So, instead today I want to talk to you about getting more traffic to those sites.
Many of you might have a well-built website, but are the maximum number of visitors seeing it?
Today I’m going to talk about a couple of ways that you can help insure your website is reaching the most potential visitors.

Because, more traffic to your website means more potential clients.

More clients equals more sits

Which, means more revenue.

So what are some means of drawing more traffic for your website?
Two points I want to cover today are:

Using search-friendly domain names.

And, Using search-friendly content.

Let’s face it; people do judge books by their cover.
The same holds true for websites and their domain names.
A domain name can either make or break a website.
Your domain name not only gives access to your site, but makes a statement about your business.
So, what should you do, or not do, when choosing a domain name?
The first and most important point to remember is that your website is a part of your business, not the whole business.

With websites like Google, flickr, and Yahoo! the website is the business.
These websites have strange domain names that don’t necessary relate to their business.
I mean, what’s a Google anyway?
The point is that these are not brick-and-mortar businesses; they function primarily in cyber-space.

However, as pet sitters, all of you are dealing with real people and real situations out in the real world.
So you need a real solid domain name.
You also need a domain name that conveys information about your business.
Obviously you need a domain name that relates very closely to your business.
Ideally this should be as close as possible to your actual business name.
Now I realize that many of you already have domain names that are closely linked to your business name.
And I’m not advocating abandoning your current domain.
Not at all.
But having an extra domain name, formatted as I’m about to show you, is a great tool for generating extra traffic to your site.

So what are some other things you can do to make your domain name better?
A question I often hear from pet sitters is, “How will clients find my website in a certain area or geographical region when searching online?”
That’s when you need a domain name that conveys info about your location.

For example, let’s say that your business is Pet Nanny.
And you wanted www.petnanny.com as your domain.
The Pet Nanny is a fairly common name for a pet sitting business.
PSI has a number of members registered under that business name.
So with a lot of pet sitters scrambling to get that domain, someone is going to get left out.
But with a slight change to the format you can get the domain that you want while at the same time drawing more customers from search engines.

By adding information into your domain name that conveys your location, you will draw more relevant traffic and have less dead leads.
Let’s say that your business is the Pet Nanny and you’re located in Washington, DC.
So, you chose www.petnannyofDC.com.
With a domain like this you are more likely to get relevant traffic from clients looking for a pet sitter in Washington, DC.
At the same time this eliminates the likelihood of someone in California coming to your website needlessly.
They will be able to see from your domain name that you are in Washington, DC.
A better choice for them might be www.petnannyOC.com.
So you see, just a slight tweak to your domain name can make finding your website much easier for your potential clients.
Now, let’s take this idea one step further, by making it easier for search engines to find and categorize your website, which by extension will draw more potential clients to you.

Now what I just showed you will do a lot of good for your search engine rating.
But there is one other technique that you can use to give yourself a leg (or in this case a paw) up on the competition.

This technique involves breaking the domain name down to separate each individual keyword.

Let’s take the Pet Nanny for example again.
www.Dallaspetnanny.com is a great domain name.
It’s got the business name.
It also tells about the businesses location .
However, the whole thing is run together.
Which means that it is not as easy for the search engine to distinguish the keywords.
However, a simple tweak of adding a hyphen between each keyword will help the search engines better categorize your site.

So, now that you have a domain that will put you in higher ranking with search engines, we need to move on to the body of the website, and how we can use that to draw traffic as well.
This is where Relevant Content comes into play.
Back in the old days. The days of Web 1.0 as they say. Search Engines categorized site based on keywords attached to a website.
However, spammers started abusing this and so Google and Yahoo had to build smarter programs.
(I’ll show you an example of this in a minute)

These new programs, which are called Web Crawlers, literally read the content on websites to look for consistency and for reoccurring keywords.
Now, these Web Crawlers look for keywords in content, such as articles, paragraphs, and so forth.
So by relevant content, I mean text that relates to the subject of your website.
The whole idea is to make sure that the keywords you are using are consistent with your website, so that you show up in the right search.
So, if your website is about pet sitting, the text on your website should be relevant to pet sitting.
Keep I mind that it’s the job of the Web Crawlers to scour the internet constantly “reading” content on thousands of websites and categorizing them in google or yahoo!s databases.
And the more often a keyword appears on your website the better your search rating.
So, don’t go and just start posting keywords without relevant content.
Place your keywords inside of content.
When you have a real website with a real purpose behind it—such as promoting your business—it’s really easy to include keywords.

The following is a piece of content I wrote up as example of how easy it is to place keywords that search engines will recognize into the content of your website.
In the following paragraph I’ve underlined the keywords that a search engine Web Crawler would recognize and categorize.
“In this example I will be talking about using keywords for search engine optimization (SEO). When you are a pet sitter, you want to emphasize the fact that you do sitting jobs for cats, dogs, birds, etc. The more your content mentions these things, the more likely you are to get a higher search engine rating. A lot of you ask about SEO for particular geographical areas. Let’s say that you are in the Piedmont Triad area of North Carolina. This area includes King, Winston-Salem, Greensboro, High-Point as well as Kernersville and Oak Ridge to name just a few.”
As you can see I’ve placed several keywords that identify services as well location into a single paragraph.
Imagine what you could do with several paragraphs, writing about what you do in you business.

Remember the Web Crawler programs search for relevant content.
Now, what do I mean by legitimate lists?

On the right you have a list that is recognizable by people and search engines as content-relevant.
Clearly it is an informational list that is relevant to your pet sitting website.
The list on the left, however, is the kind of list you might see on a spam site.
It starts out with related words, but even these are jumbled together, and are obviously intended for the search engines’ WebCrawler programs.
You’ll also notice lower down the list words that don’t relate to pet sitting start to show up.
I mean is Brittany Spears relevant to pet sitting?
That’s how spammers draw extra traffic to their sites—by tricking people into going there.
You probably won’t see this sort of thing very often for two reasons.
One reason is spammers usually make the text the same color as the background, so you cannot see it with the naked-eye.
But while you and I can’t see it, search engine web crawlers can.
That’s when you start getting banned from Google and Yahoo!
So, if you make a list, make sure it’s relevant to your content.
That way Google and Yahoo! are happy and you are getting traffic from people who are looking for a real pet sitter.

So, now that you are getting all this extra traffic, how are you going to keep track of it?

Google Analytics is a great tool for tracking website visits from multiple angles and levels.
The really useful area of Analytics as it relates to our topic today is the ability for you to view reports of where your traffic comes from.
Analytics can track visits that are generated by search engines.
It will even tell you which keywords people are using to find you site.
And how many people use a particular keyword.

Google Analytics is completely free to set up and use.
All you need to do is sign up for an account.
Once your account is set up, you will need to place your unique tracking code into the HTML of you website.
Your tracking code is unique to your website, and Google will provide this to you during account set up.

So using keywords in your domain name and content will greatly increase traffic to your website.
And Google Analytics can help in keeping close track of the newly generated traffic.

More on Jala Neti

Published March 6, 2008 in Creative Living and Health & Wellness. 0 Comments


It’s been over a week since I began using Jala Neti as a twice daily cleaning routine (once in the morning and at night when I brush my teeth). I’d like to share with you what I’ve experienced so far.

After practicing Jala Neti for about a week I abandoned my Claritin allergy pills. The result is that I have not experienced any earaches or swelling of the ear canals, which was a daily occurrence before without the Claritin. So far, I’ve been off of the Claritin for about a week and am doing quite well on that front.

Another great benefit I’ve discovered is improved clarity–especially during the day. Normally I experience at least one groggy period during the day where I zone out and have difficulty focusing. This is usually accompanied by a lack of energy in general. I’m not really physically tired, just sleepy. Most of the time caffeine does little, if anything, to alleviate these groggy periods. Using Jala Neti completely eliminated the zoning out spells. Using Jala Neti at night and the next morning gave me better focus and concentration throughout the day with not one instance of grogginess.

Unfortunately, the plastic pot I was using for Jala Neti developed a crack and I can’t use it. So, the universe has forced a control into this little experiment of mine. And I’m none too happy about it. As of this posting, the last time I performed Jala Neti was Wednesday morning. I didn’t perform it last night, or this morning. And let me tell you, I can feel the difference.

This morning I got out of bed late, and was subsequently late for work. Not severely late, mind you, but enough for me to notice the divergence from my alert Jala Neti practicing self. I am, at this moment, experiencing a very overpowering grogginess.

All this leads me to believe that the nasal cleaning is not a placebo. Jala Neti definitely makes me feel clearer, more alert and healthier. More definite yet is the fact that I feel almost miserable without it.

As soon as I replaced my neti pot, I’ll update with any changes/improvements I notice.


Jala Neti

Published February 24, 2008 in Creative Living and Health & Wellness. 0 Comments


Do you walk around in a haze, that no amount of caffeine seems powerful enough to affect it? Do you have trouble focusing, or just can’t help zoning out sometimes. Well, you certainly aren’t alone. Fortunately, there is a non-drug remedy out there which may help you.

It’s called jala neti

Jala Wha’?
What is jala neti? Jala neti, in the simplest of terms, is nasal irrigation. Used to cleanse the nasal sinuses, jala neti is like the extreme version of saline sprays. Think of it like this; if saline sprays are your average garden hose, then jala neti is like standing under a waterfall. The basic concept is that you insert a spout into one nostril and tilt your head to allow the water to emerge from the other nostril (not down the back of your throat!). Special neti pots are used for this practice and they come in a variety of materials such as; plastic, ceramic and stainless-steel. The water is essentially saline, one part non-iodinated salt with nine parts water. This is basically the same constitution as human tears. Make sure the salt is not iodine-salt, as this could cause irritation. Also, make certain to thoroughly mix the salt with the water or you might get a nasty surprise at the button of the pot.

I happened across jala neti while doing some research on mudra at Health & Yoga. It’s used by yogis for clearing-up a variety of ailments the majority of which are sinus related. Chronic sinusitis, allergies, post nasal drip, etc. On a spiritual note, jala neti has the added benefit of unblocking the third eye chakra. The result is more powerful and better focused meditations as well as better alertness during daily activities.

A session of jala neti in the morning incorporated into the other cleansing rituals of showering and brushing your teeth can bring lasting benefits throughout the day.

What I’ve Discovered so far
I’ve been using jala neti for about a week now and the results I’ve seen so far are as follows;

improved clarity and focus
slight improvement in vision (better able to take in visuals, less zoning out)
decreased post nasal drip.

The latter ailment has been one that has pledged me all my life. And a love of dairy products simply proved to compound the issue over the years. I’ve been on an allergy pill for nearly a year now, due to the fact that I’ve developed outer ear aches as a result. After another week’s regular use of jala neti, I plan to drop the allergy pill and see what happens.

Now I’m not saying the jala neti is a cure-all, but consider it along the same lines as brushing your teeth. Could you imagine what sort of shape you’d be in if you never brushed your teeth? Not only would you have poor teeth and mouth health, but a myriad of other problems associated with lack of oral hygiene. So wouldn’t it make sense to give a regular cleansing to another important bodily gateway? Consider that far more passes through your nose on a given day than does your mouth (unless you inhale through your mouth, which is another problem jala neti is capable of tackling).

Just Feel Better
Another really fantastic benefit to jala neti is an increased sense of ease, or well-being. I’d read that this was a benefit, but didn’t wholly believe it (though I didn’t discount it entirely). I’m not sure why this is true, but I just feel better throughout the day when I’ve done jala neti in the morning. Perhaps it’s the relief from nasal sinus pressure, or maybe it’s related to having the third-eye unclogged. Regardless, I feel much better on the days I do jala neti than the days I don’t. Along the same lines as breathing one’s teeth; aside from the offensive smell I’d subject others to, brushing one’s teeth does make you feel better (just try and go a morning without it and see how you do). So perhaps, jala neti works in the same way. Most practitioners of jala neti practice it as a daily cleansing ritual (usually when brushing one’s teeth). Thus a great many practitioners perform jala neti at night as well as in the morning.

The benefits of performing jala neti before bed should be self-evident. But in case they aren’t; consider the peaceful and restful night’s sleep you would get from having a clear head. And because jala neti cleanses not only the nostrils, but the tear ducts as well, you’ll wake up with less sleep in your eyes (you know, the crud that collects around your tear ducts at night).

I plan to make jala neti a regular part of my daily cleansing routine in the morning and at night. Some people might say that I should only do it once a week, but try brushing your teeth just once a week. It’s essentially the same thing.

With flu season in full swing, it makes perfect sense to have your first line of defense cleared and ready for the oncoming season. Below are a few helpful links that I hope you will benefit from:

Health & Yoga

http://www.falconblanco.com/health/neti.htm

Wikipedia Article


Certificate of Demand #2

Published February 21, 2008 in Creative Living. 0 Comments

The latest Certificate of Demand is the manifesting of a new house. Whether it’s you first, home second or vacation, use this tool to visualize and bring into reality a new home of your very own.

I Demand a NEW House!

Mind Control, Ninja Style

Published February 17, 2008 in Books and Human Perception. 0 Comments


This last weekend I was shopping with my girlfriend at Barnes & Noble, looking for books on timber framing. Unfortunately, the book store was pretty limited in their selection of materials relating to timber frame homes.

While, browsing between the architecture and home resource sections I turned to make my way back to a previous section I’d been in. But instead of just turning around, I decided to make a circle around the general area—just in case I was missing something.

This took me past the martial arts section of the store (why it was in with interior design and architecture is beyond me). While I had no more intention than to glance at it while I passed, I suddenly felt the need to stop and examine a few titles. A small paperback volume immediately struck my attention. It was titled “Ninja Mind Control.” Corny sounding, I know. Nevertheless, I picked up the book to examine it closer, firstly just because of the amusing title. But upon reading the contents of the first page I realized that this book had nothing to do with hypnotism or other supposed ninja superpowers. Instead the book dealt with issues of, and techniques for, controlling one’s own mind.

“Now, that’s more interesting,” I thought.

Naturally, I wound up purchasing the book (I never did find any timber framing books).

While this book does cover a few basic fighting techniques, the text mostly deals with the spiritual/psychological side of ninjitsu. In actuality very little of the text itself comes across as “ninja” and seemed more along the lines of Taoism and Hinduism (both of which are referenced in the book several time). More over, the text often speaks of cultivating peace, rather than seeking combat. The idea of true control as presented in this book is the ability to defeat an enemy with the mind; and not through hypnosis or invasive control, but through understanding of oneself and ultimately those around us. To defeat an enemy without harming him, that is true power.

A related subject covered in the book is the idea of using mudra to reach one’s goals of control over the mind and ultimately one’s environment. I’d never tried mudra before, at least not on a conscious level, but was surprised to see a few concepts that I had been introduced to while training in iaido. Both being Japanese martial arts, I shouldn’t have been too surprised at intersecting techniques.

Though many of the mudra techniques are focused on certain “ninja pursuits” (Like slowing down space and time. Funky.), the majority of the techniques can benefit one in everyday life. There are techniques for healing, wellness, calm and strength.

Admittedly, I was genuinely surprised by this little book and found some useful nuggets. Given the West’s (especially Hollywood’s) flamboyant treatment of ninja culture I was relieved to find a book on the subject containing some actual substance.

You can check it out on Amazon, Ninja Mind Control


Certificate of Demand #1

Published February 8, 2008 in Creative Living, Income and Law of Attraction. 2 Comments

As promised, here for download, is the first in my series of “Certificates of Demand.” It’s in PDF format and ready for printing on letter sized paper.

Certificate of Demand #1


Making Demands

Published February 7, 2008 in Creative Living, Human Perception, Income and Law of Attraction. 0 Comments


Demand more out of life.

Now, I’m not talking about demanding more out of the people around you (or even the people in power). Demanding from other people is not only almost entirely useless, but selfish as well. People are limited in what they are willing or able to give. And what others have to give may not be in alignment with what you want.

You should however, demand more from your potential and from the universe at large. The universe is/has an unending supply of, well, everything. Demanding abundance from the universe is like demanding water from the ocean. Don’t worry about running out of supply. You will never be able to use up all that the universe has to offer.

So rather than constraining the universe by demanding from it through other people, make demands of the universe directly. Ways of doing this have already been covered in several blogs on this site (and others that I recommend). But today I want to broach a new idea.

You may have noticed that I’m using the word demand in this blog entry versus the usual intend. Well, like monkey-see, monkey-do (doo?), I got it from someone else. But I’ll get to that in a second.

Now, if demand is too aggressive a word for you, intend will certainly work. However, the technique I’m going to employ here demands (pun intended) a more aggressive approach, and therefore, a more aggressive word to follow suit.

Got that?

Good.

On to the aggressive technique for manifesting!

I was visiting Joe Vitale’s blog today (you may remember Joe from The Secret). While their I had the chance to view an internet TV program called “Feng Shui Your Way” in which the host of the show visited Joe’s house in Texas and proceeded to give his office the Feng Shui make-over. I picked up a couple of interesting points from the host. But the one idea that struck me the most was something that Joe already had in his office.

What Joe had pinned to the wall was a certificated demanding the universe for 1 million dollars in residual income per month! The fact that Joe was making demands of the universe struck me. I thought, “Well, if Joe is doing it. Then I should be too.”

With that in mind, I now intend to demand (fun with puns, someone stop me) some things from the universe, using a certificate as a visualizing tool. I’m going to make several different certificate templates and posting them on this site for reader of LucasVaden.com to use in making their own demands.

So, stay tuned as all be uploading these template certificates from time-to-time starting with two in tomorrow’s post.

Until then, best wishes. And don’t be afraid to be demanding (at least toward the universe).

Update: follow this link tot he first in my new series of Certificates of Demand. Enjoy!

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Examining the Past

Published October 22, 2007 in Gratitude and Human Perception. 0 Comments


One way to elicit gratitude toward your current life is to examine the past in comparison with where you are now.

Lately the universe has been giving me opportunities to do just this sort of examination. Thom Somes, who is the owner of Pet Tech and an acquaintance of mine, recently told me, “If something keeps showing up in your life, then it’s a sign that the universe is trying to tell you something.” Well, I think that’s just what the universe trying right now. I think the universe is trying to get me to look at my life now as compared to just a few months ago.

I often examine my life and consider how far I’ve gotten, and I’m grateful for what I have now. But perhaps the universe wants me to focus on it more closely.

For instance, the other day I read a blog from Stave Pavlina about a certain meditation practice that he employs. The practice is where he goes into a meditative state and imagines himself five years from now and asks his future-self questions. After that, the future-self leaves and a past-self from five years ago enters. He examines the past-self, and allows the past-self to ask questions the same way that the present-self had just done with the future-self. In this way Steve gains a hopeful positive outlook for the future by examining those fears and goals that the past-self had, which the present-self has already overcome.

Another instance was a couple of days ago, when at the doctor’s for a physical the receptionist said, “Don’t I know you?” To which I replied, “You, look familiar. But I’m not sure.” Eventually we recalled that we had worked briefly together at a dead-end low paying temp job. We both remarked about how well things were going for ourselves and how we’d “gotten out” of that job. And not just the job, but the whole mindset that attracts that sort of job.

Just a few short months ago, I was working long hours in a warehouse with no heating in the middle of winter, I had to wear a coat all day despite the fact that I was involved in constant physical labor. I had no benefits. I was single, and not entirely enjoying it (contrary to what I was telling those around me). Things didn’t look that great in the present.

Nevertheless, I’d recently seen The Secret and was working to redirect my focus and awareness toward the life I wanted for myself. Even though the job stank I was grateful and stayed positive about it. Soon things started turning around one-by-one.

Now a few months later I’m in a caring relationship with a women I deeply love. I run my own blog and work part-time as a webmaster at a trade organization (where I get benefits). My life is so very different now, and I know that it is because of my mindset. I look around me now amazed at where I have come from in so short a time.

That thought fills me with excitement for what is to come in the future. I still have dreams and goals to reach. But knowing that I’ve reached those past goals and grown as a person, I know that I can achieve my present and future goals.

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God in Me, God in You

Published October 1, 2007 in Christianity, Human Perception and Spirituality. 0 Comments


Why is it so easy to see God in ourselves and not in others? Why do we base the worthiness of God’s love toward someone solely on our own opinion of them? “You did something that I didn’t like, therefore God doesn’t like you.” How pretentious. How dangerous. Worse yet, “You didn’t do something that I wanted for you [regardless of the fact that you are able to govern your own life]. Thus, God will not bless you.”

I recently had someone tell me that I was “moving away from God.” Firstly, how does one move away from something that resides on the inside? God is in me, and I in Him. That’s like trying to run from myself or from the air that I breath. It’s a useless and ridiculous idea. Nevertheless, this person was not speaking from a rational, loving perspective. Instead this person was speaking as a reaction to having their ego bruised. Bruised, because I refused to be what they wanted me to be. It’s not that I was doing anything immoral or wrong. It was simply that my life was taking a direction that didn’t fit with their own wishes (read: plans) for me. This person had developed a false delusion of what my life was supposed to be in relation to theirs; and when I moved in a direction that deterred from that they railed in indignation.

I’ve seen so-called “Christians” bless one another out, and turn around and say that it was in love and for the good of the victim. Ridiculous. You don’t know what is going on in another person’s life. Yet, you seem to know exactly what they ought to be doing (despite functioning on limited information). You don’t see what they have to deal with when you aren’t there. You aren’t omniscient, you are not God. And since God is omniscient and hasn’t seen fit to punish them, then what gives you the authority to do so in God’s stead?

How can we demean another human being and call it love? What sort of madness is that? “I love you, therefore; I am going to hurt you.” If you really truly love someone, you will keep them from harm (especially harm originating from yourself). “But that person needs correcting,” you say. Based on whose authority? Yours? Yes, that should hold a goodly among of water. Maybe a sieve’s worth.

Even if the person in question does need correcting, it can be done in a positive and non-harmful manner. (Write a blog about it, and leave their name out.) This way they are more likely to listen and not end up thinking that you’re crazy.

Why do we equate God’s love with our own opinion? Why do we think so highly of ourselves and so little of others? A little religion is dangerous. Be spiritual, not religious. Jesus said that He came to free us from religion.

Dwelling on the imperfection in others (or even in yourself) is dangerous. God is love, and therefore in order to be connected to Source, we must be, and express, love. Love to God, to others and to ourselves.

Just because someone did something that disagrees with your sensibilities does not automatically mean that they are wrong. Perhaps your indignant behavior is offensive to others. I know it offends me.

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