Mr. G's Mind

“The only ‘Get Well’ card that may actually improve your health!”

Now there’s a quote for you. How can a get well card make you feel better, both psychologically and physiologically?

When we don’t feel well, of course a positive message on a card can make us happy, maybe even feel better, but it’s short term.

Several year’s back, I decided to create 3 get well cards that added another concept to a ‘get well’ card. I added a fluorescent yellow-green dot to the inner card, based on the research of neuropsychologist Dr. Brian Costello.

Dr. Costello discovered that if you visually condition yourself using the fluorescent yellow-green dot, which is at a specific optical frequency, your brain produces more alpha brain waves. Alpha waves cause you to relax, reducing stress, pain, blood pressure, and heart rate, improving your overall health.

The card of course can be viewed over and over again. Continued viewing improves the user’s outcome.

The 3 cards feature the following positive messages:

Universal Health / Will Be Yours

Visualise Total Health / In Body, Mind & Spirit

Healthy In Mind / Healthy In Body

Inside the card is the fluorescent yellow-green dot, along with the corresponding positive message.

The back of each card provides the instructions for use.

I hope that you find the idea interesting.

When you desire ‘a little more’ backyard privacy, fence toppers are the way to go.

Suppose that you do not want to leave them up all the time, or want to grow vines on them and access them easily. Solution – attach the toppers to the fence with hinges. That way, they can be folded down whenever necessary.

Using hinges was not difficult, but ‘how to’ support the toppers needed an idea. I decided to use fence U-brackets, and slide a piece of flat wood into the bracket, and secure that to the topper. I will use a heavy duty tie wrap, which can easily be removed as required.

When I wanted to fold the topper down, I’d cut the tie wraps, pull out the pins, and slide the wood out. The topper could now be folded down.

First step was to add some 2 x 4’s to the top of the fence.

I then screwed the U-brackets to the existing fence posts.

I used square lattice and redwood channel to build the toppers. I made 3 toppers, each 7′ long and 2′ high.

Make sure that you carefully layout the redwood channel pieces prior to cutting the 45 degree angles. I suggest cutting one 45 degree at a time and then lining it up with the lattice as shown below.

You do not want the result shown on the left – oops! Don’t become a member of “The Temple of Accumulated Error.” You want nice tight fitting 45’s, as on the right.

I positioned the hinges, and glued a small wood spacer directly behind the open space in the lattice. This provided more wood for the hinge screws to bite into.