Exercise: Escalators
Food: litre of OJ, about 10 bananas, handful of cashews and almonds, green salad - baby spinach, peas, avocado, celery, cucumber and raw pesto
Sometimes I have moments where it feels like I am living in some weird and wonderful world of my own (indeed I am and so are you!) with the various journeys I have embarked/am embarking on in every area of my life, and it is literally every area. So much is changing or changed, just a few,
- I don't watch TV (not a rule or a conscious decision would watch if I wanted to, it simply went from medium priority to low priority to zero priority. )
- I would not have called myself a nature-lover before now I know that I am
- While not being a beach lover I wouldn't have been my choice to visit a cold country during their cold season. That is not an issue now
- I shop intentionally, I visualise what I'm looking for and then go and find it. I no longer shop to escape or for retail therapy anymore. Still enjoy shopping just clearer about my objectives!
- I eat a natural, unprocessed plant-based diet. A colleague asked me if it was hard eating out as there is so much I can't eat. I said everywhere does a salad! Also explained I'm not doing this from a place of deprivation but of abundance. I can eat ANYTHING I want, it's just that I choose not to. Big difference.
- My courage muscle is growing bigger!
- My desire to learn is huge
- Much better able to detach from emotions
- Trusting God's work
quote from author Neale Walsch... "You can live a charmed life, and there is a formula by which you can make this work." Here is the formula: "You can live a charmed life by causing othersto live a charmed life. That is, be the source of "charm" - ofcharming moments and experiences in the life of another." "Be everyone else's lucky charm! Make all who you touch today feel"lucky" that you crossed their path. Do this for a week and watchthings change. Do it for a month and you'll be a different person."***
I'm taking up this challenge....
And,
"To be nobody but yourself - in a world which is doing it's best, night and day, to make you like everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight - and never stop fighting.
E.E Cummings, poet
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Showing posts with label raw vegan; persistence. Show all posts
Showing posts with label raw vegan; persistence. Show all posts
Thursday, 22 May 2008
Thursday, 17 April 2008
Another Little Habit
Exercise: Escalators
Food: 5 small bananas, 2 glasses oj, salad: lettuce, mange tout, sweetcorn, edamame beans, sweetcorn and some tofu (a very rare appearance), some cashew nuts,2 peach bellinis, coconut and mango smoothie (yum), 3 ginger snap Lara bars
Saf restaurant is open! I missed the opening night. Popped in on way home after drinks but they've not yet got the take-away side sorted. Didn't fancy sitting as I wanted to get home so will report on the menu another time ;(
It was really light walking to the station, woo hoo the days are getting longer (I know an illusion as it's the same 24hrs!) and summer is on its way. Was thinking how the escalator habit is now entrenched incremental exercise. I've decided to find a liitle habit to start at the beginning of each month. For May I'm going to start dry body-brushing, it's something I've done sporadically but not enough to see if it's worth doing!
My upstairs neigbours have wooden floors and I used to shout at them to shut up when they would be clunking around or dropping things. I'm not sure they actually heard me I think it was more an emotional release for me! Anyway I've been intentionally learning not to give my power away by reacting to external circumstances but instead building my character by responding purposefully. I decided I would use this as my testing ground. So when they made noise I didn't shout I just thought about what might be causing the noise, or distracted myself by moving to another room or singing, although initially it was difficult because I was tempted to go back to my default setting. And now I don't react to it in fact it seems like they make less noise. The best thing is seeing that I can change my behaviour, I can change my 'default setting' if I persist long enough.
That's what we do when we continue to eat mainly or all raw, we are changing our default setting and after a time when we eat cooked or decide to satisfy a craving we may realise that it doesn't actually hit the spot anymore. Someone turned the dial!!
Persistence, never underestimate it.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=cebeaatVcGY Something to wind down to.
Food: 5 small bananas, 2 glasses oj, salad: lettuce, mange tout, sweetcorn, edamame beans, sweetcorn and some tofu (a very rare appearance), some cashew nuts,2 peach bellinis, coconut and mango smoothie (yum), 3 ginger snap Lara bars
Saf restaurant is open! I missed the opening night. Popped in on way home after drinks but they've not yet got the take-away side sorted. Didn't fancy sitting as I wanted to get home so will report on the menu another time ;(
It was really light walking to the station, woo hoo the days are getting longer (I know an illusion as it's the same 24hrs!) and summer is on its way. Was thinking how the escalator habit is now entrenched incremental exercise. I've decided to find a liitle habit to start at the beginning of each month. For May I'm going to start dry body-brushing, it's something I've done sporadically but not enough to see if it's worth doing!
My upstairs neigbours have wooden floors and I used to shout at them to shut up when they would be clunking around or dropping things. I'm not sure they actually heard me I think it was more an emotional release for me! Anyway I've been intentionally learning not to give my power away by reacting to external circumstances but instead building my character by responding purposefully. I decided I would use this as my testing ground. So when they made noise I didn't shout I just thought about what might be causing the noise, or distracted myself by moving to another room or singing, although initially it was difficult because I was tempted to go back to my default setting. And now I don't react to it in fact it seems like they make less noise. The best thing is seeing that I can change my behaviour, I can change my 'default setting' if I persist long enough.
That's what we do when we continue to eat mainly or all raw, we are changing our default setting and after a time when we eat cooked or decide to satisfy a craving we may realise that it doesn't actually hit the spot anymore. Someone turned the dial!!
Persistence, never underestimate it.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=cebeaatVcGY Something to wind down to.
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