Thick and Fast

Have you noticed, or is it just me, how thick and fast information, inspiration, comfirmation, and the whole energy behind rawfood news and lifestyle is picking up at such a pace?  Virtually everyday of late, a new insight, website, video, a book, a gorgeous recipe, a great dialogue with someone, or a nugget of wisdom just rolls into my life.  So much so that at times I feel full to the brim with joy and anticipation for the more that’s coming.

I’ve just ordered four new raw food books from Amazon, on top of the millions I already have (can’t get enough); I’ve just printed off some lovely colourful leaflets that will be a great spokesperson for the Raw Food Workshops I will be hosting very shortly. (Do find out more about them from me).  And whilst at a Natural Health Exhibition yesterday, co-running a stall in Nutritional Healing with some friends and colleagues, I found myself engaged in loads of spontaneous conversations that kinda blew my head abit.  People wanting answers to health problems, or direction in terms of how they should be eating; and lots of inspiration from others to go deeper in the practices of Meditation, Flower Essences, Reiki and Crystal Healing in several separate conversations.  On top of this I gave two 20min Free Talks on Nutritional Healing to some of the vistitors, with the intent to inspire people to dig a little deeper in this profound subject.  Raw Food came up, as did acknowledgement of our true nature as spiritual beings, and I felt the energy in the room lift by the time people were ready to leave.  It was such a buzz.

The most exciting conversation yesterday was me listening to a man who quite organically, gave me a reading of my palm in the middle of our dialogue.  He said in the middle of a thought,  ’I'm reading your ancestry right now as I’m talking to you’, and I thought ‘mmmmm, really - okay’.  He then decided to share what was coming through to him about me. I felt quite open, and curious, a little cool and non-plussed at first.  He told me a number of encouraging things which included some direction for me – that’s me developing my writing and getting it published (that the literary way was a must for me); that I would benefit from pursuing raw foods in my own unique way whilst trusting that people will want to read my work; encouraging me to trust more, trust people, discern those who are trustworthy and them let them in; and to understand that ‘all problems pass and dont last forever’; he also empathised the importance of succeeding as the ultimate way to overcome blocks, let-downs and difficulties.  He picked up quite a few things about my past (my up-bringing too which was quite accurate and meaningful to me).  He left me with one dominant thought that the way to over come any obstacle is to just succeed.  BE SUCCESSFUL, THAT’S THE WAY TO OVERCOME ALL THE HARD STUFF THAT GETS IN THE WAY.  And you’ll get those too, that just a part of life.  I guess I’ll prove the significance of this with my life, when I make this really real for me in a meaningful way.

He really inspired me in a quiet, intense kind of way.  And alot of other stuff he said actually rang true.  In some ways he was confirmation for me from the universe that I must be moving in the right direction, on the right track, on my unique path which is unadoubtledly unfolding before me.  If you haven’t yet read, or listened to the audio and dvd works of Jerry and Esther Hick (on the Law of Attraction – and the wisdom of Abraham, please do.  They teach with crystal clear clarity, just how we attractive what we want and don’t want into our environment).

When I think about the wonderful saturation of inspiration I get flooding in from the rawfood lifestlyle, from friends, raw buddies (I have a few now), and people who are sharing this type of information, I know that I’m drawing more and more of that to me because - it is what I am passion about.  What you think about most is drawn to you, and you get more of it, because your thoughts are attractive.  So to focus on what you want and what excites you is very very important.  For to focus on the negitive or on complaint or your worries is going to bring more of that to you too, whether you want it or not.  It means we have to take care to give energy to the things we desire, predominantly. I would like to add to this – understand also that money comes where your passion is.  Let me repeat that. MONEY COMES WHERE YOUR PASSION IS! Observe it for yourself, in people who are doing really well. and see. And perhaps find something that you are absolutely passionate about, that when you do it it doesn’t feel like work, but is a thing that just really turns you on, and makes you feel pleasurable and fortunate that you have found it.

What a joy it would be to be doing a job that you love (Beauty), and that totally supports your life (Benefit) and enables you to help other people (Good).  Nichiren Buddhism says that we should look for these three qualities in our goals for our ideal job, career, relationship, infact everything you do - Beauty, Benefit, Good.  Do you have these in the activities that you find yourself engaged in? All of the time?  At least some of the time maybe?  This week I’m in rehearsals finalising a beautiful one-women theatre play I’m performing in, which tours for a few months from next week.  I really really enjoy the story-telling of it, it tells a great true-life adventure of a great Victorian, Jamaican British woman, Mary Seacole.  Next weekend I am off to a RawFood Workshop class for one full compact day.  Hoorah. Can’t wait.  Dead excited in fact.  I’m going to turn this new knowledge of new recipes into more Beauty Benefit and Good in my life, I’ve decided.  Infact I’m doing to join lots of different raw food workshops and courses where I can, across the country this year,  to keep training and training and training myself further.  What for exactly? I only know that the universe knows.  I just have to be ready for when it become mind-bloggingly, outrageously clear…

Rainy Sunday

What did I do today given the weather? I lay in the bath of about an hour and a half (bliss); holding a coffee enema for 20 minutes for a detox; then lost myself in a great book that I just can’t put down. It’s an biography about the amazing life of Mary Seacole by Jane Robinson. Then I bought some dried Mullberries from Iran at my local shop and found them to be absolutely delicious – I actually prefer them to goji berries, and to all commercial sweets and gelatine confectionary, being far more superior and healthy too.

Then I made some lovely easy-peesy gorgeous tasting raw recipes, inspired by my Potluck party last night.  I made Mullberry Chocolate Pie (and there will be no wastage there I promise you);  Kofia Meat Balls (fabulously substantial with a salad – in fact who needs meat ever again in this life-time when you discover these?  Definitely not me, especially when you taste the many textures and flavours you can create with raw foods); and finally Creamy Cheese Pate, with Spring Onions (amazingly authentic and yummy). These will all keep for a week in the fridge so I’m sorted for grub for a while. That makes me happy!

Just in case your mouth is watering or you’re just plain curious, get on the phone and call me, and join me for the day in a great Raw Food Prep workshop.  We’ll eat a range of foods I’ll create, have a great chat, we’re answer our questions together through discussion, and feel more inspired about the power and joy of wholesome nutrition, and its profund power to heal the body.  Waiting to hear from you… 

Why Raw Foods Are Beneficial

“Now, what is the reason why a one hundred percent raw vegetable diet exerts such a beneficial effect on civilised individuals?  First and foremost, because the raw food is live food as it is handed to us by nature.  We all know that life on earth is completely dependent on our sun.  If we had no sun the earth would be without any life, dark and icy cold.  Vital force is therefore identifical with sun energy!

… It is, however, only the plant with its widely unfolding thin green leaves, that is able to catch the sunlight and to deposit it in the form of roots and tubers, fruits and seeds.  We human beings and animals, with massive bodies, are not able to utilize it to a sufficiently high degree.  Therefore both men and beast use plants as carriers between the sun and themselves. A fresh, raw vegetable diet is sunlight nourishment!”  Raw Food Treatment of Cancer, Nolfi, page 4.

As Storm highlights the question  in his film Break Through, ”Do you want your food with or without the nutrients?”, it is certainly something to think about.  One of the best ways to get that liquid sunshine directly into your body is eating chlorophyl-rich food, such as the dark green leafy vegetables, like kale, spinach, rocket, spring greens, collards etc. Not the roots where all the sugars are, that lie under the ground to feed the microbes  that support the soil, but the green tops that the animals come along and like to chew off as food. Amazingly wheatgrass is 60% chlorophy and effectively pure medicine for those who can take it.  It’s the plant blood that becomes our own blood (the chloropyll structure almost exactly resembling our haeomogoblin molecule bar the central molecule being Magnesium instead of Iron).  A little dose goes a long way – did you know that 1 ounce of wheat grass is equivelent to 2 lbs worth of greens?

Those to eat a daily Green Smoothie however, managing to down say a 200gm bag of organic spinach leaves (perhaps also half a cucumber, some celery stalk, and some barely green powder), blending in with one’s favourite sweet fruits (like pineapple or pear and banana) are really winning in the game.  Subtle essential fatty acids present with there electron-photon activity, oxygenation from the chloroply, nutrients like magnesium, calcium, protein, and the alkalinity - are offered to the body in and easily digestible, tasty form. Never did I ever perceive that one day I would be saying that I love my greens and really mean it, or in fact really crave them every day.

Thank goodness of Victoria Boutenko’s book The Green Life that puts a clear  fresh perspective on consumning more greens via the smoothie blend. Not that she invented the Green Smoothie way, some people had been doing it long before.  She did succeed to revive something  in her own eating regime by giving it new focus, enabling the collective conscious in us raw fooders can pick it up again, and make it more common place individually and more mainstream, and make  the raw diet more balanced.  Balanced means getting the best ratio of sugars, fats and greens, AND clean water for our bodies - and for that you are your own experiment. Trust not the raw food gurus but your own body as the authority on how you feel and what you need.  Make a deeper physical relationship with the green smoothie so you can become the best of friends, and give the best to your cells.

Cleansing can be fast, so you might want to take it slowly.  Know yourself so you can comfortably take responsibility is important – for you know your body better that anybody else does.  A green smoothie a day, even a little one with fruit sugars at 50%  to suit your tastes will contribute to alkalising the cell of acidity, (it’s internalised mucus which deadens our potential on so many levels), and creating a filling meal that often satisfies the body for many hours. As your diet evolves, and you with it, the desire for sweet fruits may well diminish tremendously, so you get high or for some people more grounded, simple from the vegetables…

MAKING A GREEN SMOOTHIE – click for video clip

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Proper Eating Techniques

“We must learn to eat slowly, chew well, and avoid over indulgence, by stopping just when the food tastes best.  If we still get a feeling of having eaten too much, it is advisable to skip a meal.  Then too, we should think of what we eat.  By enjoying every mouthful we increase the flow of gastric juice and thus facilitate digestion.  When the feeling of satiety comes, the gastric juice has been used up.  If we eat more than the gastric juice can digest, we nourish our diseases instead of our health”.   Kristine Nolfi,  Raw Food Treatment of Cancer, page 27, 1995.                                                                     

Tonight I went to a wonderful potluck, and it was, for me a great party, of deep and meaningful conversations with like-minded people as passionate about the raw foods as you can get in your area.  So I obviously felt very at home.  As social beings, connecting with each others mutual interests and experiences is like watering your own seeds inside so they’ll grow, it is so so important.  It’s such a refreshing way of affirming your values, and embedding them further in your heart.  I felt that everyone there was a unique and wise being, and had something special to teach me.  So I wanted to stay open and really listen – and sometimes write down their words in my little note book to capture the nuggets of wisdom that kept popping out of the mouths of many of those at the potluck - I did get to mingle abit too, and make new friends. 

I discovered fantastic synchronicities going on through some of my conversations – parallel experiences almost to the letter which was very interesting – talk about Law of Attraction; and information and news on the raw scene were being freely shared; recipes got swopped, tasted and recorded; AND I witnessed that my ‘melt in your mouth raw chocolate’ went down a treat for many, which was very encouraging. Yes, I definitely felt refreshed, invigorated and wonderfully stimulated on many levels. Today I felt so happy to be raw, and was so proud to be a part of this little group, in this little village, eating little bits of everything spread on the table. 

I overate somewhat too though, and got a little belly-ache afterward, from all the poor food combining I was doing, which I often forget I do only to repeat it at the next potluck.  Witnessing my belly’s response to  mixing foods harphazardly is my body’s voice loud and clear. However great a time I’m having, the principles of good raw nutrition combined with good coordination still apply, and the quote above is just as valid as the day it was first written.  So I log this moment as a moment to remember for next month, before the potluck fun begins again next time…

My Favourite Meal

 What is more beautiful than a platter of mixed fruit,  that you can feast your eyes on, for the rainbow colours that are there, stimulating your appetite and capable of satisfying your hunger? Sweet, sharp, fatty, textured fruits satiate me for their sugars, natural water, filling fibres and nutrient content, most of the time. My favourite meal used to be brown rice tossed in vegetables, seaweeds, raw garlic and flax oil. If I still had the desire for it I would eat it tomorrow. But these days I am humbled and happy by a simple creamy smoothie.  I love the texture of a thick smoothie blend, as I used to eat a bowl of porridge as a child, that is off the spoon, substantial in consistency yet super smooth, and easy to digest - only this is far better.

If I had to choose a particular fruit, I would have to say “sorry, I can’t do that. There are far too many delicious fruits of the sun out there that I’ll not be brought to restriction over them”. Now that might be cheating but I have to say that I’m happy with big juicy watermelons, mangos, dark red grapes, durians, creamy avocados, custard apple, mangosteen, good quality ripe organic vine tomatoes,  cucumbers even, and not forgetting the staple bananas or the delightful fresh figs. And as one piece will not suffice, a mono meal plate of any of these  would be just perfect. My favourite meals are fruits, no doubt there. And to balance that with greens and fats, is a pleasurable job also. I’m certainly not complaining there - I’m a girl who loves her food, and I love it raw, full-stop.

Raw food for me, is about abundance. It is no longer about what I don’t eat (such as cooked, wheat dairy etc) but the life-force and colours that I do eat. The colours of the rainbow in them represent the wealth of sunshine, antioxidants, nutrients, and variety that the soil has so generously and thoroughly given birth to. Bless you planet earth, for sustaining everything that lives and breaths.

My Thoughts for Today

Monday – I realised that I’ve not had a green smoothie for a number of days, and it is that which is so centering to my mind and body. So I know it is a good food for me to make up regularly, even just a little - for it is literally the giver of liquid sunshine in the form of chlorophy. Must get some in my body sometime during today for sure. Vegetable juices can really balance out the sugars of a raw food diet.  For now though, this morning it’s yummy chocolate smoothie time.

It’s made up of  Almond Milk, Frozen Bananas, some superfoods such as dark rich grounded Cacoa Nibs, Maca  (and l’ll try some Spirulina algae with it too first the first time); Also I’ll want to add delicious Agave nectar, and some Vanilla. I’ll then fortified it with some high quality Flax oil, Lecithin  granules and Biovital Plus powder (a lovely multi vitamin and mineral). As always, this will be so yummy, very thick, filling, creaming and comforting. Nutritious too. Great start to the morning for  feeding my sweet Earth Element constitution. 

And I have soooooo much work to do today, and over the next 3 days too before beginning a new project. Time to stop hibernating I think, and procrasinating louisa - and take vital action on the things that need to be done.  I need to summon up much more life-force energy to fulfill my mission for day, generated from the inside of my cells as much as much as from the outside. To help me with that though, perhaps I might do 3 live food smoothies today, I feel that that will be supportive and hydrating. A little exercise to - some gentle yoga, definitely more water, some fresh air, and some daimoku (buddhist chanting) too. 1 hour’s chanting tomorrow in fact would be a good thing to push for as it will enable me to reveal my Buddhahood, which really increases my life-force and drive,  and my focus. This will be the best use my morning. All I need to do after is then follow my ‘to do list’, and work my way through my tasks.

My mantra for today  will be my prayer Nam Myoho Renge Kyo,  as always – putting myself in rhythm with the Law of the universe, and praising my life through it. AND not forgetting to claim my gratitude affirmation, I will say several time to myself’ thankyou for my victorious day today.’  A am so happy and grateful for my victorious day. Not forgetting that, since doing i the last 10 days I can se that  it work. What you expect (allow) becomes real.  I have a victory or two, or four, or or anytime I affirm these words in my morning prayers, its marvellous. Victories in your endeavours, brings inner satisfaction and a sense of achievement, which is a joy.

Hello world!

Wow,  isn’t this wonderful? Having a blog-come diary.  A great opportunity for me, to talk my face off.  A new blog - my first ever (not including myspace which is a little different) – and a blank screen to write on and post writeups on the web. I can’t quite believe I’ve worked out how to set it up myself.  Very straighforward, and especially for a computer toddler like me.

What I can do well without too much effort though, is ponder alot, write and express ideas, let myself be inspired by stuff.  So how should I best use this blogging space to create the maximum value with it, for the greatest good of all I wonder? I guess only doing what I like doing best: being excited about raw foods, about healing, and about cleansing.  Encouraging people to eat foods with the most life-force without, creating their own energy from within, and manifesting the dreams they hold in their heart about being here on the plant.

I’ll include simple raw recipes I’ve recently tried or discovered, add articles, and write up any interesting fresh thoughts or experiences  of mine as they come up, and share it! Well here goes…