  Earlier this year I found an entirely different benefit to seaweed. I began meditating on it in response to people or situations that made me feel crazed.
Some people were coming into my life like a tornado with their patronizing or agist comments, their guilt trips, or just their multitude of dramas, and I was getting caught up in it every time! So I developed a visual on which I would meditate when their voices or words caused that nervous feeling deep in my chest. I imagined myself as seaweed rooted securely in the ocean floor, swaying in the gentle movements of the ocean deep.
Every now and then, a giant wave passes over me, and it may even be strong enough to muddy my ocean deep waters, but I am rooted, so those waves can roll on by, causing nothing more than a little sway in my beautiful, graceful tendrils. Anyway, urlLink Lisa's found a somewhat more applied use for this urlLink generous autotroph in recuperation from her c-section. urlLink cadence90 : "Seaweed. That's what I've got packing my incision at the moment. Unfortunately for me, my incision came partially open, and since it wouldn't heal that way, I had to have it opened and cleaned.
And then I had it packed with seaweed, what with a little gauze on top. It's a good thing I am a nerd and can be amused by stuff like alginate wound dressings, which use the medicinal and antiseptic properties of seaweed to help people heal. Otherwise this would not be funny at all! " 
