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Intuitive Affirmation of the Day 


I am grateful for the present moment. @intuitiveaffirmations @intuitivemagazine 

Plant-based Protein Smoothies Nutrition for Intuition

 

How To Follow Your Intuition – Trust 

Your intuition is like your inner navigation system, always working to move you along your life journey path. 
The push or pull felt from your intuition not only alerts of impending danger, but can be used to guide which step to take next along your path. Relying on your intuition in daily moments makes life much easier to navigate and ultimately helps you create and live your best life! 

Movie Star 

You are the screen writer star in your own movie. Think of emotions as your own personal movie, they provide you with your life context, your perspective, and lead you to the next important segment of your story. Those are  helpful on your life path. Like a movie, you are meant to experience your emotions through imagination, share discussion, healthy release, and other such healing methods. On screen you are not meant to live your emotions as if you are the movie itself.

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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. 
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Butterfly Pea Flowers 

Edible petals, Butterfly Pea Flowers has been used as a “smart drug”  to enhance memory, cognition and intelligence. Butterfly Pea Flower has long been recognized in Ayurveda and other forms of traditional medicine for its medicinal purposes. Tinctures made are beneficial for skincare, haircare, bodycare, and beautycare. 

Butterfly pea buds themselves have a subdued flavor similar to a slightly more herbal black tea, but the plant primarily functions as a natural dye that’s subtle in flavor but bold in visual color and attraction. 

The flowers are most famously used to make a traditional Thai welcome tea known as dok anchan, which is served  frequently to travelers upon  arrival. And after centuries of use in Southeast Asia for health purposes like strengthening hair follicles and helping fight depression, butterfly pea tea and its concentrate found themselves in blue beverages, butterfly pea concentrate became a darling of the cocktail world. The tincture allows bartenders to craft drinks with a cool- sunset-style color spectrum and chefs to decorate dishes with elegance. 

Which Aromas are Best for Vata? 

Vatas are full of energy and creativity when their dosha is in balance. When unbalanced, Vatas have a hard time focusing that energy and they can become anxious and restless. That’s where aromatherapy comes in. 

Aromas suggested for Vata 
For someone whose primary dosha is Vata, warm, sweet, and sour aromas are generally the most balancing. 

Basil

Orange

Rose

Geranium

Clove

Patchouli

Vanilla

You can place a drop of the oil on the back of your hand or wrist and inhale the scent. Another way to use aromatherapy is to place about 10 drops of an essential oil in hot water and allow the scent to fill the room for a half hour. It’s fun to experiment with the combinations and create your own essential oil mixtures. 

Explore for yourself and see which aromatherapy techniques work best for you.

Edible Flowers 

Nothing says gourmet like a sprinkling of colorful edible flower petals, a tiny bouquet of edible flowers are a fun and a simple way to add color and flavor to all sorts of dishes-  especially when you can pick them right from your own garden.
Most edible flowers are best eaten raw. Simply pick and rinse with water. Flowers will taste and look their best right after they have blossomed, rather than after they have been open for a few days.
Not every flower is edible. So stick with flowers that you know you can eat to ensure your safety or check out our edible flowers list below

1. Flower power Rose 

Not only delightful to witness they are an edible. 

2. Violets

Violets are medicinal. Sweet violets are edible flowers that can be used in a variety of salads, soup, desserts, tea and other medicinal uses.  
3. Daisies 
The tiny flower buds and petals make great sandwiches, salads, and children love to flower pick daisies and make daisy necklaces. 

4. Allium

Every part of these plants are edible flowers. All blossoms from the allium family (leeks, chives, garlic, garlic chives) are edible and flavorful!  

5. Angelica

Beautiful color and variety, flowers range from pale lavender-blue to deep rose and have a licorice-like flavor.
6.  Anise hyssop

Both flowers and leaves taste like licorice and subtle anise. 

7.  Arugula

Small Blossoms with a peppery flavor much like the leaves. 
8. Bachelor’s button

The petals are edible and are grassy in flavor and taste. Avoid the calyx, it’s bitter. 

9. Basil

Blossoms come in a variety of colors, from white to pink to lavender; it tastes like the leaves, but milder.

10. Bee balm

Minty flavor in the red of the flowers.
11. Borage

Blue Blossoms that taste like cucumber!

12. Calendula / marigold

Calendula blossoms are spicy, peppery and tangy. A great flower for eating, and their golden color adds vibrant golden to any dish.  

13. Carnations / dianthus

Petal blossoms taste like their perfumed Aroma, and are sweet, once trimmed. 

Eat only the petals, remove stamens and pistils before eating. Do not eat roadside flowers or those picked in public parks. Both may have been treated with pesticide and roadside flowers may be polluted by car exhaust.

If you are allergic to anything,  introduce edible flowers gradually, as they may exaggerate the allergies.
Water your flowers and communicate with them as the grow. Flowers are highly intuitive and speak with you in a telepathic language. 

Flower tip: Ice water can revitalize limp flowers. 

We love flowers and plan on sharing our edible flower series of ebooks coming soon to a smart phone, tablet or any other technical device soon. 
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Intuitive KS aka Kelly Krishna Dunn 🙂