Online Gratitude Journal Raw Food Adventure Edition #28

Aaaaagh, I forgot to post my Gratitude Journal entry last week! Not that I don’t have gratitude but just too busy living my life. (In my case, “busy” includes meditation, relaxing at Starbucks, and napping, too.) I guess I will make this series to monthly review now.

Eating foods of light and life

Part of the busy-ness comes from my recent adventure in modifying my eating habits as I wrote in my last Gratitude Journal. If you missed that post — it’s about feeding directly on Light rather than on foods. I believe this is the path we are heading as we go through Ascension, and I want to make sure with my own body.

First I tried to just reduce my food intake. This didn’t work very well. Evidently, my physical body was not quite ready. So I changed my plan and decided to increase the ratio of my raw food intake to see if this has a positive impact in the transition. Raw vegetables and fruits are the most light filled foods, and I think eating more of them helps our body to learn how to eat less.

I checked books on this topic at the bookstore and the library. While there are many raw cookbooks (or “un-cook books), I find 12 Steps to Raw Foods: How to End Your Dependency on Cooked Food to be most helpful. This book explains the benefits of raw foods and practical steps to eat more raw. The author, Victoria Boutenko, and her family has been eating raw over 10 years.

One of the things she strongly recommends in this book is green smoothie, which is just a blended drink made of dark greens like kale or spinach and fruits like banana or berries. She advises to drink it every morning until your body gets enough nutrition and enzymes that it’s been missing. You don’t need to change any other part of your eating — just drink green smoothie every day and after awhile, you will naturally want more raw foods because your body gets healthy and can wisely choose what and how much foods it needs. I’ve been doing this, and really, it tastes better than it sounds!

I also read blogs on raw foods. My favorite is In The Raw. (The link takes you to her post on green smoothie) She has obviously been studying the raw food diet well and I love her warmth and lightheartedness.

Sprouting and life

I also started sprouting. My first batch was a handful of adzuki beans because I have lots of adzuki in the pantry. I bought them to cook, but I’ve been putting it off… so they are over a year old.

I was pleased to see all but one bean sprout despite the age! Sprouts are so cute. It feels special to see these small beans coming to life. It’s like magic — you just water them twice a day and boom, they grow tiny roots and buds. These beans are alive.

It was interesting to check this one bean that didn’t sprout. It had white spot that I think is mould. So all the beans were in the same environment, but only the dead bean got mould, all the live beans look completely fine.

This can apply to human health, I think. If you have infection, whether it’s sinus infection or yeast infection, it may be about the overall liveliness issue rather than the local issue. The cause of the infection is there all the time but healthy body has a way to fend it off. When your body is weak, the external pathogens take advantage of you.

Today I’m grateful for the natural healing power within me. And for the farmers and produce sellers. I look forward to going to the farmers market soon. (Photo by Mr. Greenjeans)

Online Gratitude Journal New Macbook Edition #27

My new macbook 

I bought a new macbook — my first time to use Apple computer and first time to buy a laptop.  In the past, I waited until some kind of catastrophe happened to buy a new computer, but this time, I just got it because it looked fun.  Yep, I’m grateful for my wealth consciousness.  (And now I am a business owner, I can write it off as business expense ) 

I heard a lot of good things about mac.  Some even say mac is the lightworkers’ computer!  For me, however, it’s been a painful getting used to practice.  

First, the ergonomic issue with laptop.  My eyes get tired so quickly, and I get headache looking down this small screen.  Maybe I want to connect it to my monitor.  I’ve already resumed using the mouse (hate the touchpad), so getting the monitor back and making up a strange amalgam of laptop – desktop system is not so far fletched. 

I bought iWork to save files in PC compatible formats, but they operate so differently.  And I hate all the questions it asks when I try to save.  The text editor is weird, too — I get strange coding when I copy and paste to WordPress. I’m thinking of getting Quickbooks for Mac — does anyone know if this is a good program?  I don’t need particularly sophisticated program.  I just need to download data from Paypal and do a simple spreadsheet work for my accounting.

On the other hand, it sounds good when I watch movies.  My old PC had horrible soundboard.  I also like how quickly it starts and closes.  I’m probably saving power because now I actually shut down when I take a few hours break from computer work.  With my old PC, I kept it running all day.  

Can someone tell me how to love mac?  Maybe I’m missing something?  

Love, Light, and Foods

Since watching What If? movie, I’ve been thinking if we really need to eat all the foods we do.  Are we really eating to nurture our bodies, or are we eating out of habit?  Or are we eating for even worse reasons such as to numb our boredom and other painful feelings?  

Many people are turning to vegetarianism and raw foods, and that’s great.  But not so many people seem to have thought about the very nature of eating itself.  The What If? movie introduces some people living on light, not foods.

I gather there are two issues here:

1. Are we eating excess foods out of habitual action and thinking?
   If we believe we need to eat such and such, then bingo, that is what it is.  But have we really examined it?  I have the feeling we can safely reduce the food intake 20-30%.  Well, not only safely, but this may even enhance our health.  Overloading our bodies with excess foods can be so stressful to our system.  
2. Is it possible to live on non-food resources such as light?
   Living on light is also called breatharianism.  What If? movie introduces one from of breatharianism, which is to live on sunlight. And I don’t think this is a food-or-light choice but it can be a more flexible choice of food-and-light.

I’m starting to watch my food intake, along with my physical activities and spiritual wellness, to see if I can really reduce my eating.  I’m not a very technical type, so I don’t really know exactly how to measure up the percentage — nor am I going to bother myself measuring it day in and out.  But I will report my progress.  (My ultimate goal is to live 100% on light, but at this time, I don’t think my physical body is ready yet.)

Like with any change, my body may go through some detox process.  With less load on food assimilation, the body can focus more on getting rid of the stored toxins.  Luckily, spring is the best season to do detox.

I want to emphasize this is NOT about weight loss.  On the contrary, I expect my weight to be stable.  I may lose some excess weight I may be carrying, but after that, the weight should stabilize with only minor fluctuation with my cycle and the overall season, if I’m really doing well on the light.  And let my body decide what that ideal weight may be, not my ego thinking.

If you have a choice, would you let go (part of) your eating?  Why or why not? 

I found this website on breatharianism.  The linked article is a great read about our consciousness, love vs denial.

Today I’m grate for the cherry blossoms in full bloom.  And all the budding trees.  And my peaceful neighborhood.  This weekend has been beautiful — hope you are having a great time, too.  (Photo by Mr. Greenjeans)