Category: Health


What I Feed Myself

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14 July 2011

This week I decided to commit to 30 days of a raw and vegan diet.  Two friends of mine became interested in raw food eating lately, and since I’ve done this raw thang before, I found myself reminiscing about being super lean again, sleeping better, experiencing little-to-no illness, plus having ridiculous amounts of energy, blemish-free skin and brighter eyes.  I know… as IF my eyes could get any more beautiful, right?!  (Yeah, I’m owning it.)

Anyway, my friends’ dedication to this eating lifestyle inspired me, so I decided to go ahead and incorporate a return to raw food eating into my Way Mental summer.  It’s only 30 days (with the option to extend).  Plus, I’m definitely ready to enjoy some of the aforementioned benefits in my life again.  I ate this way for about 14 months in 2004/2005, and much of what I learned about food and nutrition during that time has stayed with me.

One of thing that happens to your body on a raw food eating regimen is kindof ooky to talk about, but to me, it is fascinating.  See, um… basically… well, because your system is taking in so much good, healthy, living food – and lots of additional fiber with all the fruits, veggies, nuts and seeds that comprise the diet – your body starts to let go of everything else.  And I mean EVERYTHING.  Not to be crude, but I would go the bathroom and wonder, “Where in God’s name is all of this coming from?!  That’s more than I’ve eaten in the past three days!!”  Before too long, each bathroom visit became a multi-flush situation, not to mention I practically needed a shoulder harness to keep me in place on the commode.  This would happen day after day after day after day, multiple times a day.  COPIOUS amounts.  Seriously, I had no idea my body had that much stuff all up in there.  Yesterday, this phenomenon began again in my Life.

A bit coarse, I know, but a really interesting metaphor, in my humble opinion.  What are we feeding ourselves?  Not just our bodies, but our Minds too!  When we fill ourselves up with nothing but Good, that which we no longer need can’t help but be forced out in time.  And WOW – there is a lot of stuff we don’t need, stuff we probably don’t even know is still in there, clogging us up.  With the raw food, when I’m deciding what to eat, the only question I ask is if it’s raw/vegan or not.  If not, it is not serving my current plan, and it’s done.  I’m working to get that way with my thoughts and beliefs, too.  If they don’t serve me, why would I buy into them for one second?  Time for those to be discarded too.  Time for a new plan.  That is my work right now.  I’m only interested in thoughts of joy, peace, love, family, friendship, health, abundance, creativity – all the stuff that feels good!

More lessons to come from 30 days of raw, to be sure!

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Dreaming It

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7 July 2011

In the Artist’s Way course, Julia Cameron has us doing affirmations out the wazoo.  I’m on board with this practice, actually.  I lurve affirmations, and when I get stuck in the morning pages, I always know I can write affirmations for as long as I want until the next astonishing thought reveals itself.  Early in the book, Cameron provides a set of starter affirmations to use, one of which is “My dreams come from God, and God has the power to accomplish them.”  While I enjoy that, I decided to tweak the first part, so for me it reads: “My dreams are God’s dreams, and God has the power to accomplish them.”  If I may say so myself, and I’m about to, that is an incredibly powerful statement.  I was using this affirmation yesterday and felt a remarkable shift – mentally, spiritually, even physically.

I mean… think about it.  Seriously.  Are we so egotistical to think that the most brilliant idea or dream we may have hasn’t already been conceived by the INFINITE INTELLIGENCE?!   Or that any idea from anyone, anywhere, throughout time didn’t already exist before they thought it?  Let’s use Einstein’s “E=mc2” energy equation as a point of reference.  It’s well known.  It’s commonly accepted.  As spectacular as this theory is, do you really think that equation didn’t come into play when, say, the Universe was created?  That once Einstein published it, God was thinking, “Son of a bitch!  Wish I’d thought of that.”  Are we really willing to say, “Yeah well… there’s Infinite Intelligence/Source/God, whatever, you know… yeah, it created the Universe and stuff… but my three-pound brain came up with this OTHER, separate idea that’s totes awesome!”  Really? REALLY????

So along those lines, if my dreams are God’s dreams, who am I to (a) resist their demonstration in my experience or (b) presume I have a better system or better set of resources for accomplishing them?  I don’t normally like to get caught up in ‘why’ questions, but I suppose I want to prove a point here.  Why would any of us stand in the way of the Power that created EVERYTHING wanting to co-create our lives with us?!  Why would I think I couldn’t do this or that thing to accomplish a dream or goal that is simply God wanting to express through me?  And why would I think I have a better set of contacts or connections or encyclopedias or internet links or factories to bring those dreams to fruition than the very Source Power that created all of those things?  And with that, why would I let ANYONE outside of my Self tell me I should adjust or rethink or let go of my dreams or goals?  Do they know better than Infinite Intelligence?  What do you think?

My dreams are God’s dreams, and God has the power to accomplish them.  Sweet.  Sign me up.  If God can create… you know… all of time and space and Life and perfection and beauty and Love (and then some), it’s a not a big stretch to think God – working for me by working through me and AS me – can sell a television show.  And whip this body into shape.  And enjoy loving relationships with friends, family and a perfect partner.  And have a sweet abode near the beach.  And start a new company.  And drive a black BMW 650i convertible.  And travel the world in style and comfort.  And be financially independent.  And… and… and… and… and…

There is a power for Good in the Universe, and I can use it – consciously, fearlessly and RIGHT NOW!  Who’s with me?

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Reseeding

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8 February 2011

I have a daily routine of reviewing my goals and the things I want to do, be and experience at this time in my Life.  I blogged in January about wanting to understand the feelings the experience of these goals will leave me with.  Lately, in looking over them, it keeps coming to me that I could still be much, MUCH clearer on what I believe with regard to these goals, and why I believe it.

If our lives are a reflection of what is happening in our individualized Minds – and I believe they are – why, for example, do I continue to have eating habits that do not support my goal of getting into the best shape of my life?  There must be some belief still at play that is creating the thought of poor eating habits, and thus that is what is showing up in my experience.  Hmm.  Maybe it would be more accurate to say I must have a belief that is creating a separation in my mind from the Truth of who I Am.  One that is obstructing my clarity of Truth, and one that isn’t serving the idea of my physical body as one that is lean, strong, balanced, flexible and, spiritually speaking, Perfect.

I’m reviewing the top goals in my life to get VERY clear on what beliefs and thoughts I have planted in Mind.  Universal Law does not analyze or make adjustments to what it receives.  Plant a cucumber seed, and you will get cucumbers.  Plant a rose seed, and you will get roses.  Ernest Holmes wrote: “The idea of the full-grown plant must exist somewhere in the seed and soil if it is ever going to materialize.”  Using the aforementioned example, I must be planting seeds of a doughy mid-section, because that is what the Law is giving me.  That is what is showing up in my experience.

I am ready and willing to plant some new seeds in Mind.  I must first be absolutely clear on what the seeds contain, however, because Universal Law works perfectly every single time.  This is my work right now.

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The World I Feel

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27 January 2011

As part of her Four Spiritual Laws of Prosperity, Edwene Gaines teaches that we should identify specific, tangible goals.  She calls them Golden Goals – your most important desires.  I’ve had an ongoing list since first seeing Edwene speak in 2009, but after seeing her speak Sunday, I knew mine were due for an overhaul.  It was time to reassess, and to get as clear and specific as possible without writing a book on each goal.  (After all, Edwene also instructs you to read your goals three times every morning and every evening.)

On Tuesday night, I went to see Marianne Williamson give her weekly talk on A Course In Miracles.  I’ve never studied the Course, but I understand what it is at a very basic level.  Spiritually speaking, it has many similarities with what I study and believe, and I love hearing the Truth from a variety of sources.  I also happen to enjoy that Marianne is an intelligent and compelling speaker.  This week was about Lesson #128:  “The world I see holds nothing that I want.”

Well, crap.  Which is it, people?!  How shall or why should I set my goals if the world I see holds nothing I want?  What I’m getting from Marianne is that the physical world – the world of form -  is not where I will find anything that makes me happy, and then I have Edwene telling me that “The more specific you are, the faster your goals manifest.”

What I know is that I am a spiritual being living in a spiritual world governed by my use of the spiritual Law of Cause and Effect.  In the scope of my experience in this physical plane – what I lovingly refer to as “God having an A.J. experience” – these goals on which I’m focused, be they things or experiences, are ephemeral.  They are based in time and space.  God, however, is Eternal, Infinite, and unbound by time and space.

Still… a pimped out new 7 Series BMW would be a sweet ride.  A-ha!  There’s the link, I believe.  What we really want are NOT those things as we know them to exist in this realm, but rather the experience of the feeling that new car, new home, $10 million dollars, healthy relationship or whatever will lead us to.  We want to know peace, happiness, love, joy, abundance, beauty – all things (and more) which we can not see, and which are qualities of God, are they not?  Unity with the Divine is our natural state, and these feelings remind us of that.  And it feels goooooood!

Ah, but the question becomes:  how do we experience this Godliness when we don’t have “the stuff”?  I think that’s where creating the goals and being specific comes in.  The clearer we are on what we want, which is really what God wants to experience through us and as us, the easier it is to tap into the feeling we believe that thing or experience will provide.  Each detail unlocks more of the feeling, intensifying it.  In my goal setting work, I’m even going so far as to identify what I believe each goal will make me feel.

When we live from those feelings, we are living as God, and “the stuff” manifests.

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Perfect Health

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2 January 2011

This is an awesome topic to be Proving I Am.  In recent months, my thinking around physical health has undergone a major shift, even moreso after reading “The Biology of Belief” by Bruce Lipton last year.  I was astonished to realize all the things I believed about my body and some of its minor “inconveniences” (let’s call them) simply because of what others told me.  I’m including in that group those with the best of intentions:  family, friends, doctors, the media.  What about what I think?  What about what I know in my heart to be the Truth?

As a spiritual being having an A.J. experience, perfect physical health is truly the only logical conclusion I can deduce.  I claim it for myself right now.  BOOM!  Done.

For me, that means a body that has a muscle/fat ratio that is optimum for my age, height, activity level and all of those other parameters.  It is lean muscle that is strong, toned and flexible.  It is a strong heart and lungs, and organs that work together in perfect harmony in each moment.  It is blood that is healthy and alkaline, digestion that is efficient, bones that are strong, and skin that is hydrated, clear and beautiful.  It is a masterful, beautiful synergy of all cells, tissue and functions working perfectly as one.

I fuel this body with healthy, living, powerful nutrients and plentiful water.  My muscles grow, and all unnecessary weight drops away effortlessly.  My eyes are clear and bright.  My smile is healthy.  My skin glows.

I breathe in Life.  I am Life.  I am ease, vitality, flow, light, love, sex, kindness, beauty and stunning, abundant health.

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