Raise Your Vibration With Food

Here we are right in the middle of the Solstice - Christmas - Yule - New Years season and it all feels great so far. Or does it? How are you feeling right now, really? Do you feel over stuffed, full, heavy, like your digestion has stopped moving all together and generally yukky?

Yesterday I saw someone had written a Christmas greeting to their friends - 'Happy Bloated Christmas' and it got me thinking or more precisely remembering how I used to feel during this time of the year. Bloated, tired, achy, tight, stiff, sick, stagnant - you name it, however even with all the negative feelings floating around..... 

I never once put down how I was feeling to wickedness, evil or dark energy being sent my way from some of the people I was associated with. And these were my 'family' or friends!! But what was far worse, this was supposed to be a great time of plenty (food, drink and people) and this was relatively normal.

The back biting, gossip, negative comments, ridicule, bullying, maligning, two facedness and general wickedness - and that was just with family members in a small circle of people. I could not be part of this (even if I was not participating, I was still condoning it by my presence) and still maintain a healthy spiritual connection within myself.

How sad was all of that?

So, what I have done for well over a decade now since I walked (ran!) away from all of that - is a few different things. Of course I cut ties and stayed away from people who pulled me down, used my energy or spread negativity around in any way. 

But the bigger part of this cleanup was I completely changed my diet, my habits and my lifestyle into something far more suitable for a person walking a spiritual path. The irony here is that most of the changes I have made over the years have come about because of the behavior I saw around the Christmas season. 

Besides, all of this negativity around was causing me to eat all the dark, low vibration food that was showing up at my place in the hands of those same people (sound familiar?). Empty dead food which is devoid of life force is a vessel for this evil energy. 

And when we feel awful for one reason or another - what kinds of foods would we be tempted to turn to for comfort? That's right - the sugary, dead, highly processed and chemical containing low (or no) vibration foods.

So for me, when I let go of the one side of this equation (the dead end relationships), I also had to clean up the poor relationship with this kind of food. In fact one went out the door with the other....

And in it's place ever since has been a energy that has been healing, filling up with goodness, good will and happiness. It takes time to build a life around you and raise your physical vibration - but don't let that stop you - start with something kind and compassionate (organic wholesome food) and take it from there! 

April

Wholesome goodies - nut butter, oatmeal raisin and molasses ginger cookies (organic, spelt, whole grain, sugar free)

Vibrational Shift....

Today is a feast day - and for us this means lots of food and tasty treats we wouldn't otherwise have very often. But it also means many other things as well - this time of year especially is all about the return of light breaking through the darkness.

I don't know about you, but there is often nothing darker then some of the foods that people are expected to eat and perhaps nothing more evil then the energy they contain. Food is like anything else really - when depleted it will fill up on whatever it is exposed to.

And if that happens to be drained, poorly paid, unhappy employees, clanging machinery, in a profit driven company - then that's what the food will carry. It's the same with people, once our systems are pulled down by life, stress, poor diets, over exposure to chemicals and toxins, we too have a low vibration.

It takes an enormous amount of energy to pull ourselves back up from some of the dark depths we might be found in...

However, all is not lost! Once you begin to make any effort at all, with even the tiniest of intentions, your body will more then meet you half way and work very hard to come back into proper alignment within.This means balancing and bringing back normal function in all tissues and organs.

Today was perhaps the most anticipated day (in a collective global sense) we have seen in some time on this planet. With so many of us considering the changes, energy shifts and perhaps endings associated with this date - I wonder if some other important aspects were lost in the shuffle.

The only way to change your body in a healthy meaningful way (this changes your mind and spirit too by the way) is to alter your diet and the water you drink. Take this a little bit further and the only way to shift into a higher cellular vibrational frequency (or to experience states of higher expanded consciousness) is to change your diet and the water you drink! 

It really all is this simple and today was a giant leap forward towards breaking free of the old ways that have enslaved humanity for a very long time. We are moving forwards into very interesting times indeed...

April

Sticky Date & Fig Pudding was delicious!! 

Don't Let Anyone Change Who You Are - By Telling You What to Eat! (rant)

Today I was leafing through the local adverts from a supermarket - it's getting close to Christmas and I would expect it to be full of items people might think they need for these holiday dinners...such as the veg, some kind of meat, flour and fixings for desserts and so forth.

However I was quite surprised at how far away the marketing has come from reality and perhaps how far away I am now from the rubbish they are expecting people to buy and eat (and I have an Honours degree in Food Marketing, so I studied this stuff). The thing that got me going was that there was not one single raw ingredient advertised in over 10 pages of pictures and prices.

Each and every single item was of something prepared, either cooked or ready to put in the oven and cook. So, it seems you are expected to purchase your 'holiday' meals ready to pop in the oven (or microwave?) and just press a button.

Then presto - it's like some sort of magic - you have a ready made already assembled Christmas dinner - all you have to do is fork this into your mouth.

This is not the kind of magic I am interested in at all. Who wants someone else's energy (hung over employee unhappy with wages, co-workers, self and life) spread all over their food? It's more then enough to deal with our own stuff, but at least that's familiar to us!

Oh, but my rant continues! You are not only expected to buy and eat this prepared food (it's cheap), the ingredients are already selected for you. You can have carrots, potatoes, parsnips or 2 other vegetables combinations. With tiny bits of parsley as a garnish.

What happened to the other 90 vegetables in the kingdom? Where are the real herbs? Does everything have to be slathered in butter? Not to mention cooked and then packed in plastic trays (were they cooked in plastic too?).

Probably tastes like garbage bags....

I mean why would they even bother with the plastic trays of 'food' - why not condense it down further and just put each dinner into pill form and we can all pop those. So convenient - we wouldn't even have to taste anything...

Indeed, it seems as if they are busy creating their own reality...with the consumer in mind.

Do yourself a favour this year - find some different vegetables at a Farmers market (organic if you can) look for celeriac, purple carrots, rare varieties of apples, heaps of fresh herbs - and then look up recipes online or make up your own.

Have some fun with your food - but whatever you do, handle and prepare it yourself. Don't let anyone dictate to you what your meals should consist of by cooking them for you....don't let anyone change who you are.

April

Now, we need to get our green branches and it will take shape... table centre piece