Meditation: a health requirement

today's lunch: marinated portobello mushroom sandwich with avocado, lettuce, and tomato on raw sprouted grain bread...delicious






I know it can be tiring to hear about all the new things they have to do every day in order to be healthy. It IS a lot of work when you grow up in a modernized society where we are supposed to work at least 40 hours/week, go drinking with your friends, get enough sleep, etc. All these obligations take time.

However, nothing is more important than health. If you are in pain or unable to enjoy life with others, little else will really matter to you.

When I hear people say they don't have time for such things, what I automatically want to ask them is, "how many hours of TV do you watch per week?" Exercise can only take 3-4 hours per week, and meditation as little as 1-2 hours per week. Can we not eliminate a few of our favorite programs to lengthen our lives and dramatically improve our quality of living?

If you don't make your health a priority, this so-called civilization WILL drag you down and you will be sucked into reality shows, potato chips, and a half-asleep, sedated kind of awareness.

So, yes, no one else may be doing it, but: you have to exercise regularly. You just do. You have to eat foods in their whole, original form. You may not buy things that come in boxes. You may not eat at a fast-food restaurant. You may not eat un-organic meat or dairy products. Yes, I am issuing an ultimatum.

So this one more thing... You have to do it too. You have to meditate.

Let me say right away that meditation does not necessarily equal keeping the mind silent for a certain duration. This may be one type of meditation, and it seems to be meditation's definition to most people. However, I expect this to be a huge deterrent to an otherwise interested person--this the hardest meditation technique out there!! Meditation can be extremely simple and easy.

First of all, what is meditation? There are a lot of ways of looking at this word. Meditation can be a quiet walk in the park and it can be an 8-hour marathon during a retreat. My definition of meditation is a state of receptivity and quiet where you stop doing or thinking about any physical or worldly matter.

What generally happens during meditation, when your intention is set, is divine energy comes down through the top of the head. Energy is simply your life force. It keeps you alive and "energized" when, without this energy, the physical body would die. When we quiet ourselves, we open ourselves to this divine energy.

We are all already connected to it. Every living thing has what is called a spiritual cord going out from the top of the head to this infinite source. In the average person, this cord is very thin, like a thread. In a regular meditator, it is wider. In a saint or highly developed teacher, it can be much wider than the physical body. The larger your cord, the bigger the supply of steady energy. During meditation, the cord expands and then partially retracts again afterward. It's one of your spiritual muscle, and you want to make it as strong as you can.

So you don't have to have a perfectly quiet mind to let this energy in. You just have to be still and set the intention to meditate, to be in a state of relaxation and peace and to receive healing and rejuvenation. Set this intention or ask for it specifically...and I promise you will be heard.

Meditation is your metaphysical daily exercise routine. Remember, healing can be done on a physical or energetic level or both. Energy healing can often be faster than physical. If you are already charging up your energy body daily, you are healing yourself energetically daily. This is extremely powerful.

You will notice significant changes over time if you make this a regular practice. I can tell you what you might expect, or you can just try it yourself. There's already enough written on this topic. Everyone is different, and there's no need to believe what I am saying. Just try it for yourself and prove or dis-prove it.

One thing I've noticed with myself is that if I go a long time without meditation, I start to get slightly depressed. The world also starts looking very one-dimensional, dull, depressing, linear, and also infuriating. Everything is infused with energy and has its own "magic." You will have very little sense of this truth if you have no energetic healing or meditation experience to expand yourself. Meditation gives me a sense of excitement.

So, yes, robust health does take time. But your meditation doesn't have to take longer than 15 minutes a day. And at least you don't need to pay for a gym membership....

P.S. At pranichealing.com you can purchase the CD for the Meditation on Twin Hearts. It takes 20 minutes and is extremely powerful. It is designed to flush out the energy body of negativity and congestion and then powerfully energize it.

100% Raw for 2 months!

I woke up today, feeling kind of groggy, and thought, "I can't wait till I do my next raw food experiment and have that amazing, energized feeling again, it will feel so good." And I have had this thought every single day for at least a month. I figured I'd start in a week or two, after having received another new raw book in the mail that I ordered. But today, the absurdity of looking forward to starting this eating plan when I can start it any minute I want finally hit me. So...nothing to look forward to--it's here!

The book I ordered is The Sunfood Diet Success System by David Wolfe, and it is fantastic. Everything you need to know is finally in one book. The other books I've read still left me with a lot of unanswered questions, mostly about the science/nutrition aspects. This guy has degrees in mechanical and environmental engineering, law, and a master's in nutrition. Both his parents are doctors. So he doesn't do anything that doesn't hold up scientifically, and he explains every detail to you in this book....at last. I am so totally fired up.

Welcome back: mental clarity, physical energy, total calmness, no food cravings, no under-eye circles, reduced weight, and 7 hours or less of sleep a night.

I am going to focus more this time on meditation and Pranic Healing and what changes happen on this food because it's common knowledge that the lighter the body is, the more energy it can hold. This will make you more sensitive and more powerful as a healer. I am really excited to see what happens with meditation experiences as well.

I did one month of 100% raw last June and loved it but caved into social pressure in the end. I have never been able to sleep under 9 hours for some strange reason, and I enjoyed 6.5-7 hour nights and woke up feeling like a million bucks. It is a huge time-saver, as you can imagine. The most amazing thing besides that was the total calmness I experienced. I have read many times that bad food makes you mentally negative, impatient, and generally miserable, but I didn't really believe it. I always thought, "I'm in control of my emotions, and if I'm negative, that's my fault for not being in control of my own mind." That may be true to some extent, but if you want to stop trying to be calm and peaceful and have it just come upon you effortlessly, eat only raw vegan food. Even when my husband did something "irritating," it didn't even irritate me, I literally didn't care and just felt love and happiness toward him. Some of the things that happen to you when you eat this way sound literally impossible. But if you don't believe me, try it yourself! The above book is the best one I've read (out of 4). It's the best place to start, I recommend it to everyone.

projectaskgod.com

This website has totally changed my day-to-day view of spirituality. I have read many books on the subject and understand the whole topic to be a lot more dynamic than "God helped us write a book called the Bible 2,000 years ago." But this blog really takes it to the next level.

The writer of this blog is Brian Scibetta. He's an 18-year-old indigo from Portland, OR who started the blog, I think, when he was only 16.

First of all, what is an indigo? You usually see this term as "indigo child," but in talking about someone in their teens or older, the word "child" doesn't really work, so I leave it off. However, most indigos are young because this is a new vibration of human that did not exist before this time in human history.

People can be described based on the dominant color in their aura. Everyone has one or two dominant colors that will determine their personality or maybe worldview or possibly spiritual abilities to a certain degree. The indigos are called as such because the dominant color in their aura is the color indigo. These people are basically born with more advanced levels of perception. Although many people throughout history have had clairvoyant and other special senses, indigos universally have heightened perception in one or more ways which can include clairvoyance, advanced healing abilities, and general increased awareness that in children sometimes gets labeled as ADD. (It's not attention deficit but attention surplus, being able to focus on so much at the same time.) They see easily through lies and other nonsense and cannot be fooled in any way. This is a very brief description and I am probably leaving a lot out, but that's the general idea. Please do more research if you are interested--there's a fabulous book you can read called The Children of Now.

Brian has the ability to speak directly to God and to his and others' angels. He is also clairvoyant and is a powerful energy healer. He started doing readings for people a few years ago and a little later started the blog. The blog is a way for any visitor to submit a question for God, and Brian will answer it for free (one per person, please) and post it. Reading this blog is beyond-fascinating, and reading it regularly will bring an element of spirituality to your daily life, and an awareness otherwise difficult to gain. I think the blog, with chosen questions and answers, would make a great book.

If you read it for a period of months, you will start knowing most answers to questions before they are written. You start to see the patterns of how life works whether regarding romantic relationships, getting a job, how to find The One, forgiveness, loved ones who have passed away, how angels work, how to heal yourself, and also some larger mysteries regarding religion, spirituality, and the universe.

This is what I've learned from reading it regularly:

-Everyone has at least one soul mate option, and as soon as you make room for this person in your life (a.k.a. end your current unsatisfactory relationship), decide exactly what you want in that person, and say no to everyone else along the way, then ask God to bring them, that person will come.

-Everyone has at least one angel with them all the time, and this being is with you to help you with any matter, large or small. they cannot help unless you ask!!!! They must be invited in to heal you, to heal others, to remove roadblocks in your life, to give you advice, and everything else. Talk to them every day and multiple times a day!! You don't have to know how many or what their names are (if they have names), just know they are there. They are waiting to hear from you!

-There are negative forces that can impact us, though they are very weak. However, if you are sick, having strange nightmares, pains, or addictions, it could be from such negativity. It is easy to remove this--just ask your angels and/or God to do so, and it will happen instantly! To keep your energy strong and resistant against such pests, meditate regularly.

-After death, there is only heaven.

-Many of us are not getting what we want because we don't know what we want. If you are not getting what you want, get very very clear on what it is you want. Then ask God and your angels to help bring it to you.

-Lastly and most importantly: MEDITATE. This is not an option. I repeat, this is not an option. Meditation is not for some. It is for all. It is in virtually every answer to every question. Why? When you meditate, you invite God in. It's much harder for God to be with you in a significant, helpful way if you don't invite Him in and spend at least 15 or so minutes a day with Him. We can live and breathe because of two factors: physical energy and spiritual energy. When you meditate, you "eat" your spiritual energy for the day. You can starve yourself of this energy all your life, but you'll make it much harder on yourself in every single area. This is the #1 way for God to communicate with you. You may not hear Him say during meditation, "hey, buddy, quit your job," but you will start to notice over time that your thinking becomes clearer, you seem to know better what to do in different situations, and your own negative thoughts seem reduced which is because they are getting cleaned out on a regular basis. Meditation is your spiritual bath. It cleans out the mental/emotional crappy buildup. In the same way, your physical bath cleans out dirty physical buildup.

You can purchase Brian's meditation CD from his website, or you can just sit in a very quiet spot and invite God and your angels to heal you and bring you peace and clarity. Then just sit in a receptive, relaxing position for several minutes. I am partial to the Meditation on Twin Hearts, created by Master Choa Kok Sui and available from the Pranic Healing website www.pranichealing.com. It is a very powerful guided meditation that flushes out the energy body and then charges it with lots of fresh prana (energy). It will vastly increase your divine connection over time, and you will notice serious changes in your life if you practice it regularly, which I can tell you from experience.

And much, much more.

I can only recommend to everyone that they read this blog, it's 20 times better than most self-help books on the market, and it's 100% free to read! Plus, ask a question. It is awe-inspiring to hear God talk to you this way, and you will feel peace in reading the answer to your heart's question. For a full reading from Brian, click on the link to his website from the blog for info. I have had a reading with him myself, and it was amazing.

Green Smoothie Experiment

I almost called this the "The Accidental Experiment" because I wasn't trying to learn anything, but after drinking green smoothies regularly, I got kind of bored with them and stopped. I've never been nuts about them, but I learned about the health benefits of consuming raw greens, and it seemed like the easiest way, so I started doing it.

For those that have not read a bunch of raw food books as I have, eating food raw keeps the enzymes intact which the body needs for various functions. Cooked foods have no intact enzymes, and the body then uses up its own stores to digest food which is very taxing, especially after doing this year after year all your life. Some people really connect loss of enzyme reserves to aging. Aside from that, cooking food destroys 75-97% of the vitamins and minerals. This is huge. Even if you are eating spinach for dinner, if it's cooked, you're not getting many of the vitamins and minerals. (Add onto that if it's not organic. Non-organic fruits and vegetables have significantly less nutritional content.) It's a big shock to realize most of the food the average person eats isn't feeding their body at all.

Greens like kale are full of calcium and other vital nutrients. Consuming them raw is the absolute most nutritious way. The problem is that raw kale is a little tough to chew and doesn't taste great. For some, it can even be difficult to digest and give some feelings of indigestion. The reason for this is simple: we are meant to chew our food into a liquid, and doing this breaks down the tough cellulose wall of the plant. When we don't break down this wall with our teeth, our stomach can have a tough time with it. Your options are to chew your kale to death or stick it in a blender. Thank you, Vita-Mix!

In casual experiments, raw food teachers/coaches have noticed that consuming these raw greens regularly drastically reduces peoples' cravings for unhealthy cooked food such as fried foods, sugar, and cheese. Most will tell you that if you want to go raw, start first by adding green smoothies to your regular diet, and after you don't crave your usual foods, you know you'll be able to cut them out completely.

SO... as I said, I stopped drinking these, not thinking about any daily impacts to my life. I forgot I had made this important move but noticed I was feeling cranky, impatient, and then started thinking about food all the time, craving sugar, cheese, and fried foods. Now, if I hadn't eaten any of these all this time, I wouldn't have suddenly gotten cravings for them out of nowhere, but I occasionally do indulge. This time, though, a couple of indulgences turned me into an addict! The crappy food made me feel more sluggish and crappy, and it was this downward spiral. It wasn't until yesterday that I realized this had all started a couple of weeks ago when I took this extremely important component out of my diet! (duh)

Today, I am on to PCC Natural Market for some kale, collard greens, and spinach.

If you are interested in trying this yourself, here is the general formula to make one: 60% fruit and 40% greens. This makes it sweet and very drinkable. About 2 cups of water. Make sure there is enough water or you'll feel like you are chewing what should be a drink. You can go online for some more specific recipes. The Vita-Mix is the best blender because the blades turn at something like 500 mph which obliterates those cell walls quickly and easily. For other blenders, I would recommend leaving it in to blend for a good minute or two so it's broken down as thoroughly as possible.

This is the most powerful "diet" drink out there. Try it for yourself, and you will be amazed that you don't crave unhealthy foods anymore. It's miraculous.

A great way to drink these is to have them handy when you're doing something else like working on the computer. You'll mindlessly keep sipping away and consume a large quantity without thinking, "ok, here's my smoothie, now I have to drink it."

By the way, most people love them. You will probably just love the smoothies. I am weird and don't even really like fruit smoothies, I don't know why. My sister doesn't have any special fascination with raw food but makes one every day and LOVES it. So don't let ME get you down!

Enjoy!