Month: March 2017

Mindful Monday: Affirmation of the Day 

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Plant-Based Food 

Discover your relationship with energy and how it relates to food and everything else. Experience the powerful energy of the mind in motion. 
#krishna #plantbased #ayurveda #intuitive #eatingdisorder #recovery

Llama Farm 

Today was a day filled with horseback riding, learning how to drive a farm tractor and hanging out with a couple of llamas in NorCal on a beautiful farm. 

When a llama crosses your path a #llama reminds you that a chapter is closing in your life right now, and you will benefit most from the outcome of these changes. Even though a sense of fear arises during change, the angels/ascended masters assure that receiving your due diligence, as they bring into your life reflections that will empower you to move ahead. 

The llama is a symbolic meaning of illumination, change, restoration, mysticism, worship, and prayer. A reminder that in each of us, is our own unique source. We are all connected, all power comes from the same source. It is just interpreted differently. 

Make use of this beautiful time in your life, as you have earned it through your personal determination. It’s a beginning to acknowledge your own steps and the contribution that others have made into your life over the course of your life and in your goals and dreams. 

Speak and act in the vibration of who you truly are always. #llamafarm #horsefarm #soulfulsaturday #krishna 

Peace with Food

Intuitive eating is an approach that teaches you how to create a healthy relationship with your  mind, body, and food, where you ultimately become the expert of your own body.

You learn how to identify between physical and emotional feelings, and gain a sense of self-confidence through body wisdom.

It’s also a process of making peace with the relationship towards food—so that you no longer have constant “food-related anxiety” thoughts.  It’s knowing that your health and your worth as a person do not change, because you ate a food that you had labeled as “bad” or “fattening”.

The underlying premise of Intuitive Eating is learning to respond to your inner body signal cues, because you were born with all the wisdom you need for eating intuitively. On the surface, this may sound simplistic, but can be rather complex.

This inner wisdom is often clouded by years of dieting and food illusions that abound in the culture. Give yourself unconditional love and permission to eat.

When you tell yourself that you can’t or shouldn’t have a selective food, it can lead to intense feelings of detriment that build into unmanageable cravings and, often, bingeing When you finally cave – in to your forbidden food, eating will be experienced with such intensity, resulting in overeating, and overwhelming guilt.

Honor where you are at. Find ways to comfort, nurture, and resolve your issues without using food. Anxiety, boredom, anger are emotions we all experience throughout life. Each has its own trigger, and each has its own moderation. Food does not fix any of these feelings either does alcohol and other alter substances.

Intuitive eating is a philosophy of eating that makes you the ace of your body and its signals. It teaches that you are the best person – the only person – to make new loving and healthy choices.

#krishna

 

 

Persephone and Pacific Northwest’s Winter

My winters for the past ten years have been while living in southern California, my winters were not very different from my summers. Although, I’m born and raised from New York, and east coast winters are intense! However, this year I found my own spiritual journey that had lead me to the Pacific Northwest where I found immense happiness– as well as my first true experience of living through a Pacific Northwest winter.

In Greek Mythology, there was a goddess named Persephone. She was a child of Zeus, the king of the Gods and Demeter, the goddess of Earth and nature. Persephone was wooed by many gods, but Demeter, ever the over protective mother rejected all their advances and eventually hid her daughter away. It was shortly after this that Hades, the god of the underworld abducted Persephone and swept her away to his kingdom. As Demeter desperately searched for her beloved daughter, the world began to change. Life came to a standstill. The flowers fainted away and died. The grasses faded away. Trees bore no fruit and the temperature turned antarctic. As Demeter’s anguish grew, earth continued to die and rest in peace. Zeus intervened and summoned Hades return Persephone to her mother. Before he agreed, Hades tricked Persephone into eating four pomegranate seeds, which effectively forced her to spend one month each year in Hades for every seed she’d eaten. When Demeter and her daughter were together, the Earth flourished with radiant vegetation and bright color, but for four months each year, when Persephone returned to the underworld, the earth once again became an infertile realm of darkness. This is an origin story to explain winter.

There is something about this season of winter that almost forces you to begin a process of turning inward, of reflecting upon the events prior to this slowed kapha activity.  Surely during this time, Demeter remembers happier times with her daughter.

This is a time of year when the world, and our own spirit, is renewed once more. It is a time of endings and new beginnings that fills our hearts with peace, joy, love and laughter. We are almost forced by Nature to spend more time with our beloved, with our friends and family, sharing our abundance with them.

#krishna

Lucky Pot of Gold 

You can chase all the silver ‘Cause I’ve found somethin’ to hold 

You can run after rainbows ‘Cause I just found my pot of gold 

You can chase all the silver ‘Cause I’ve just found my soul 

You can run after rainbows ‘Cause I just found my pot of gold! 

Shamrockin Sydney 

Irish Australians and Irish come together on St Patrick’s Day to celebrate Irish culture and St Patrick Day parades that are held in cities such as Sydney and Brisbane. 

The celebration of St Patrick’s Day in Sydney is almost as old as the colony. In time the public celebration of St Patrick’s Day, sometimes known as ‘St Patrick’s Festival’, has become a major event in Sydney. It extends to various entertainments, including horse races, banquets, parades, picnics, concerts, dancing and games. Nevertheless, it changed in form and tone over the century, often reflecting the change in mood of the Irish citizens of Sydney and their place in the wider community and over the course of the years St. Patrick’s Day celebrations took various forms. Sydney has observed St Patrick’s Day with much enthusiasm and the day does not  pass without some form of public celebration. 

St Patrick’s Day has continued to display its remarkable ability to adapt and change, ensuring that the feast day of the patron saint of Ireland does not pass unnoticed in Sydney. 

Gut Feelings

Intuitive decision-making is linked to gut feelings. The neurobiological gut-brain pathways. A gut-brain pathway carries gut-based, emotionally-charged signals carried by microbes from your gut to the brain where they can affect brain function.

 According to research, intuition and gut feelings are built on a series of both positive and negative gut-brain signals beginning at birth. These include gut-brain emotions such as reward hormones (dopamine), and hunger and craving hormones (ghrelin) which train the central nervous system. 
Years of repetitive gut-based brain signals form memories of emotional states that,  including predictions about the future and intuitive decision-making. 

In Ayurveda, predictions and intuition are similar concepts; both based on the extension of logic. There are many explanations for intuition, higher cognitive function, and higher states of consciousness. 

Ayurveda suggests living a positive, loving, giving, caring, lifestyle, called a sattvic lifestyle. A sattvic lifestyle is a prerequisite for the development of intuition and higher states of consciousness.