in this book contain substances which regulate the body’s metabolism and thus control cravings. They help us tune into the body’s natural appetite, so that when you are eating superfoods on a daily basis, it becomes really hard to overeat or undereat. When superfoods are an integral part of your daily diet, you just don’t get hungry in the same way. Low blood sugar, unhealthy food cravings, and issues around weight become a thing of the past. Weaknesses over food start to fade away, and sustained energy and vitality replace them. When I wrote Eat Smart, Eat Raw, one of my sayings was “If you want to lose weight, stop counting calories and start counting nutrients.” Perhaps now we should change that to “Stop counting calories and start eating superfoods.” Not only are weight issues a major factor in illness, they are a preoccupying concern for so many people in society, particularly women. Think how much female power will be released when women stop obsessing over their dress size and are able to channel that trapped energy into more positive and creative pursuits!
It is the alchemy contained within these foods that puts them in the elite class of superfoods. It is an incredible nutritional profile, combined with an amazing vibration from the land where they are grown, and then presented within an easily accessible and bioavailable form that the body naturally recognizes and understands. Superfoods are “you can have your cake and eat it” foods, foods of enlightenment, foods of the gods. They fulfill both our needs from food: to be delicious, nurturing, irresistibly good, and satisfying, but also to meet all our nutritional requirements and fuel our bodies to the optimum. You need to love your food while you are eating it, and it needs to love you while it’s in your body. It’s all about the love, and double the love isn’t just love plus love, it creates a magic which is infinite love. Eating these foods cause chemical reactions in your brain which put you on the right pathways, they guide you back to yourself, your inner wisdom, and enable you to make empowered choices which will create the life of your dreams. When we are living in accord with our higher intelligence, we become tuned in to ourselves and each other, and the magic flows. These foods nourish our bodies at the deepest level, the cellular level, and when we create harmony and alignment in our bodies, it manifests in our lives. That’s why superfoods create superbeings. And the world really needs more superbeings right now.
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How To Have A Magic Day, Every Day
A fulfilling and healthy lifestyle needs to contain a balance of elements to keep you running on all levels. If you are too much in your head, on the computer all day, you’re always going to be feeling a lack, that there is something missing in your life, because you’re stuck in one place ignoring so much of the world around you. Likewise if you spend a lot of time doing things for other people and none on your own doing things for yourself, you’re going to start feeling resentful and used. We find fulfillment through service, through giving, through knowing we have done our bit that day to make the world a better place. And we need to keep that in balance with the work we do on our own inner soul growth. Too much giving and we get burnt out; too much complacency and we are not contributing to the greater good. It demands skill to keep the balance between fulfilling our roles in the world and preserving our internal core, a skill which in itself needs working on and developing throughout our lives. I believe there are five elements we need to include in our daily routines to keep whole, to keep dancing. Of course we rarely get to include them all every day, but if we make them our focus, if we keep them in balance within the week, then everything else flows around that.
1.Exercise is integral to a healthy body, oxygenating the blood and stimulating the lymph. Daily stretching helps to relieve tension and improve mental clarity, loosening mental as well as physical rigidity.
2.Love makes the world go ’round. Human beings need love to flourish as much as we need food and water. Spending time with people you treasure and who treasure you is the most important part of your day.
3.Service. What is your gift? Your unique individual special talent that no one else has. What do you love to do to make other people happy? This is your life’s work, your mission on the planet, and is usually manifold.
4.Food of love is the biggest gift we can give ourselves. Feed yourself the best organic, seasonal, local produce available, and see the world offer you the best right back at you.
5.Meditation. Time spent alone is essential for inner peace. Even if you can only find ten minutes early in the morning, that is time well spent to set your focus and intent for the day.
I have friends who are healers, singers and mothers; artists, musicians and fathers; managers, writers and chefs. Many combine something in the healing arts with something creatively expressive; many combine something more left-brain like teaching with something more right-brain like design; the vast majority do not have a “boss” but work independently. In virtually every case, what we do benefits those around us at the same time as enriching our own lives. As we come into our power, we discover these different strands to ourselves, and it becomes our passion to share these with the world. This is what we mean when we call ourselves multidimensional beings: people who are experiencing life in all its different facets, who enjoy a rich and rewarding social life, family life, love life, work life, and creative life, and who successfully dance between the different, often paradoxical aspects of themselves, by retaining a deep connection to their divinity.
The key to a happy life is simplicity and sustainability. If we are all living in tune with the environment and in harmony with our fellow beings, if we are not plundering the earth’s resources and abusing her abundance, then our needs can be met effortlessly. All the most effective tools for living are simple, easy and often free. As we come together with the same vision, we develop communities which operate harmoniously and make life even easier as we share the burdens and responsibilities of day-to-day life. We live in simple and sustainable dwellings, and we grow our food simply and sustainably; we spend our time in pursuits that give back to the earth rather than benefiting man at the earth’s expense; we use natural household and bodycare products, and clothes, bedding and towels made of fabrics like hemp and organic cotton. We don’t need endless possessions because we have inner peace, we don’t consume more than is necessary because we have inner contentment. We don’t pollute the water and the land with chemicals. This is the paradise vision: it is easy to achieve, simple to manifest, once it becomes the consensus reality. Playing in Gaia’s garden, nurturing and being nurtured, healing the planet with our love, one day at a time, one acre at a time. It’s not an impossible dream; there are communities dotted all over the world already living this way, and the more of us who move toward this vision, the more possible it becomes.
When we are flowing with the universe, the universe looks after us. When we are living in our most spiritual truth, vibrating at our highest level, magic occurs and miracles manifest. Our needs are met, we are provided for, our dreams start to come true. Synchronicities abound, joy overflows, love is everywhere. All it takes is that leap of imagination, to step out of the box, to take risks with the unknown, to not be scared of not understanding and not being in control. It just means taking small steps every day, moment by moment, and before you know it, you have the best life ever.
This is one of the most common questions I get asked. Where do you get your B12 from? Do you take supplements? Yes, it is one of the few vitamins that is next to impossible to find on a raw vegan diet. There are many rational answers I can give to that question, facts and statistics I can trot out. I have looked into the subject, and it is not something I worry about. If you want to know more,
