Help for Your Health

I am blogging later than normal today because I woke up later and had my early morning interrupted by things I usually do later in the morning. I finished all of the grocery shopping and am really excited about the lunch I am making today! After several weeks of digestive trouble, I have successfully restored myself! Hooray! Aaaaaaaaand in the interest of not only using the things I have learned, but most importantly to honor my body, I am instituting new habits related to food consumption. For example, drinking a liter of water before consuming food, starting with fruit, resting on my left side after eating to stimulate digestion, and also allowing food to digest completely before throwing more down the hole.

I have not been bloated since I started this, it has only been 36 hours, but I already feel better. My belly is happy and it doesn't feel like I have a family of ferrets in my intestines. :)

There are so many little things we can do to show some love to our gut, in addition to the ones I listed above, you could take up to a tbs of coconut oil, consume pre- and probiotics, eat fermented foods, drink plenty of water, rest adequately, don't eat when you are angry or sad, chew your food 20-50 times, eat slowly, eat living foods, bless your food, feel gratitude for being able to eat. Feel happy.

Enjoy gifting your belly with your new habits, and the increase in energy it brings!

Add a New Habit Today! Here's Why.

Subtraction by Addition 

In this video blog, I explore teh concept of "Subtraction by Addition".  It is something I have been doing for awhile, but not with any consistency until now.  We think we know what we want to "quit" doing, but it may not be the thing you need to let go of, there may be a deeper issue that causes the behavior. 

I know you are probably thinking "Okay, so what?"  Well, so what is that if you don't get involved in your own head, and let it sort itself out, you will naturally come into balance.  Here's my theory, try it for yourself and post about it, please.  Fill up before emptying out (watch blog), as you do this, your new positive habits will become surplus, and the old habits will naturally flow out and go away.  You may not even notice you not doing them any more.  For example, you just add a ten minute walk around the block in the morning, and a few weeks later, you realize you've stopped biting your nails and you don't even remember when. 

Even if you don't release bad habits, you'll have increased your well-being with all of your new good habits eliminating a lot of the negative effects of other things.

Video Blog on Butter vs. Margarine

Video Blog with messy hair and no makeup about real butter vs. the fake butter I once ate by accident. Kerrygold vs. Blue Bonnet

Yummy! Kerrygold website. 

Whatchyou Got?

I love my jewelry. It's not antique, or made of precious metals and gems, but it is mine. I love the quirkiness of my collection and I love to wear it. Not to show it off so much as to have it on. I feel like a warrior when I put on my gear. A love warrior of fashion and peace. Ha ha. I almost always wear a necklace, a bracelet (left), and a cocktail ring (right). If I wear an anklet, it is on the left. Earrings in both lobes, and on special occasions in the two extra piercings on the right side.

Why am I telling you about my awesome jewelry? It's because recently people have been noticing it and asking its origin. Quite simply, I was gifted with most of it by the Universe. I spend little to nothing on jewelry and have so much. Why, because people associate me with it, so they give it to me as presents. I have patience, so I am led to jewelry at thrift stores and yard sales by my shopping angels. I “put it out there”, but have no attachment to the outcome, and gratitude with the rewards. It is “my thing”.

Think about your life, what do you manifest easily? Can you use that trick on other things? I am learning. We often want something so badly, that we hold onto the desire and never let it go. If we are in a state of wanting, we aren't in a state of appreciation. We aren't being grateful. When I first heard that, I was like, “What? I am totally grateful for stuff!” Then I would catch myself not being grateful and cursing the “stuff” I have. Oopsy. Without attachment and time restrictions things can come to be in a natural way. I can look around this room and see many things I wanted, forgot I wanted, and then was gifted!

I'm not telling you to go read The Secret, or study manifestation (although I do), just really take the time today to watch your thoughts and actions.

Take care of the things you have, love them, bless them. If they no longer serve you, release them to the wild to be someone's treasure! Who knows, you may have something that someone is manifesting into their life right now! Be a part of Universal generosity!

From The Secret Daily Teachings

To allow the Universe to move you in your life to happier and better things, you are going to need to look around you and appreciate the good things here and now. Seek the beautiful things and count the blessings of where you are. Dissatisfaction will not bring the happier and the better into your life. Dissatisfaction roots you to the spot where you currently are, but appreciation for what you have attracts the happier and better to you.

Remember that you are a magnet! Appreciation attracts appreciation!

May the joy be with you,

Rhonda Byrne
The Secret... joy for billions

Get to the Good Stuff!

Today is day two of my Restorative Yoga Teacher Training. It certainly doesn't suck that we get to experience the poses. It is a lovely thing to lay, propped just right, for 10-15 minutes per asana and just be. I love Yoga, it is one of the purest forms of self-maintenance. Moving the body in just the right way to nurture, strengthen, and detoxify. Beautiful.

What I am looking to even more than the training, are my Yoga peeps. There is such an air of acceptance in this group, I feel like a kid! I call it my “Hippie” Community. It is full of love and understanding of each human just as we are. Hugs and smiles and support and joy and well-wishes, and lunch. Yes we will dine as a group with our food all together and sharing the bounty. I have already set aside my contributions: raisins, seaweed, coconut water, and bananas. If I need anything else, there is a Sprout's practically next door.

Going back to school has taught me how to make friends. It has allowed me to meet people with similar interests and similar beliefs. It was weird at first,a s it has taken me almost the entire two years here to let go of the “old” me. She is grown up now, and doesn't make fun of people, or try to be edgy, or controversial, or shocking with words or clothes. I let my real Self out, and she is loved, and she loves. I was the kind of person who would find much amusement in making fun of me and my friends, calling us names and cutting us down. Why? Because I was angry and I lashed out at people with happy faces. Now, I'm a happy face assisting others to find their own happy face.

There is a period between learning and knowing, and knowing and understanding, and understanding and acceptance, and acceptance and assimilation. Take time to get to know and understand yourself without judgment, and you will accelerate at breakneck speed forward to your Highest Self.

Blessed be!

2 Video Blogs to enjoy

Too Much "To Do"?

Undermined by Underwire!

Smile on Eachother, Everybody....

Before I lapse into my day, I am going to check in with a moment of gratitude. I am grateful for my life, and grateful for the people in my life. Things are just things and they will fall away. They are made to be temporary. The connections we make with people will be with us forever, whether positive, or negative.

Friends come and go, and some stay and stay despite distance and silence. We are gifted to have briefly met someone who will change our life forever. You never know. Always be kind, because that person could be your next best friend, or they may have something to teach you, or you them.

We do not encounter souls randomly on this planet, we are all connected. Be grateful for the time you spend, because it may end sooner than you thought.

I was blessed to meet a lovely woman when I was training to be a Yoga teacher. I remember how not only how nice she was, but also how authentic. Unafraid to ask questions, or challenge answers. She came out and talked to me on lunch one day, just because. It was at a time in my life when I was still getting used to people looking forward to seeing me, or smiling and hugging me. (I was not a nice person in my past, and had been carrying that old feeling with me, even though I had made a 180 many years ago.) She talked to me, and so did all of the other beautiful souls who had been strangers only 4 weeks ago. People, warm fuzzy people. All different and special, all with big open hearts.

At graduation this lovely woman presented to our teacher a piece of art that she had created with the help of the rest of the class, we decorated CD's and she made a collage. It was a beautiful moment of true bonding. I have never felt anything like it. Until I found out she died. It was so sudden. She was on;y a bit older than I am, and nobody had heard she was sick. So, it hit us like a ton of bricks, and we all came together to share our memories. It was also a beautiful moment of hearts connecting, this time to grieve. We sang and made a nature mandala in her honor. Then, parted ways. Merry meet again.

Today, take the time to really appreciate the people in your life, and maybe open up to adding some new ones. Make real human connections with those you encounter at the store, or at work and school. They may be hiding something and your cosmic duty is to shoot them a smile and say hello, validate that they matter to the planet. You matter, I appreciate you. Thank you for stopping by.

Enjoy this lovely tune: Let's Get Together