BODY:

***None of these will upset your stomach so not to worry.   All good for anti aging and cleansing the body.  Whole Foods carries all of them. They are less pricey at Lindberg Nutrition
 

Simple Food Swaps That Save Calories

If you think little changes in your diet and physical activity don't mean a lot, think again. Those small changes can really add up.

The difference between maintaining your weight and gaining weight, for example, may be as little as 200 calories a day - one candy bar.

If your weight is stable, but too high, then making choices that save 250 calories a day may result in a weight loss of a half-pound a week. Save 500 calories a day, and you may lose 1 pound per week. Everyone is different, of course, but big lifestyle changes are often built one change at a time

Are You Drinking Enough Water?

Make sure you are at least drinking 6 -8 glasses a day for the sedentary lifestyle. 
If you are athletic or ill you need to double that amount.

Drink your water at intervals and not all at once.  Drinking a full 8 oz. at one time is to
much for the body to process and absorb all at once.  Sip 3 oz. or so at 10-20 minute intervals
for complete absorption and utilization.

Some key benefits of proper hydration include:

* Wastes and toxins are flushed from the body.

*Oxygen and nutrients move through the bloodstream more efficiently

* Appetite is naturally suppressed

* Stored fats are metabolized better,  so drink before and during your workouts.

*Energy levels increase as dehydration is a major cause of fatigue.

*A more youthful, healthy appearance.  A dehydrated body will provoke the development of
  aging, inflammatory compounds.

EXERCISE:

  MIND

Expand Your Imagination of What's Possible!

HOW TO ELIMINATE NEGATIVE THINKING;

                      THINK    -     ACT     -    FEEL

THINK-  The best way to eliminate negative thinking is to be an observer of your thoughts. Listen in to the conversations you have with yourself in your mind.  When you observe a negative, dis-empowering, or unsupportive thought that makes you feel bad, sad or depressed, immediately change it into a positive thought, statement or affirmation in your mind or even better say it out loud to over-ride or cancel it out.  

i.e. " I am so fat.  No one will ever love me like this."  
New Thought: " I am loveable.  There are allot of beautiful things about me."

ACT- Next take a positive action to follow through with your new positive thought. Do something, anything in that positive direction.  It will not only make you feel better, but it will help you to create a new behavior pattern and overtime train you to have better conversations with yourself.

Action:  Make a list of the beautiful things about yourself.    or
              Go for a walk by the beach.    or  
              Write down a new diet program.   or 
              Sign up at a gym...

FEEL-Finally, after taking action notice how you feel about your new thoughts.  If they are still negative then Think another positive thought and  take a positive Action again until you are feeling good.   

Most unhappy negative people  Feel first, Act second, then Think.  If we react to life this way we will be unconsciously creating out of our disturbed emotional state. 

When we Think first, Act second, then Feel we respond to life  with conscious choices and can be in control of our emotions instead of our emotions controlling us.  

Much of the time we won't take any action at all  when we Feel bad.   We end up in a Feel, Think, Feel, Think, Feel, Think cycle, which is called rumination.  This emotionally paralyzes us from taking action and moving forward with our life choices.  If rumination continues long enough ( 10 weeks or more) it may also  make your brain chemistry imbalanced.  

Take the following Pledge to overcome negative thoughts and emotions;

PLEDGE  "  THE MINUTE I HAVE A NEGATIVE THOUGHT, I WILL AUTOMATICALLY THINK A POSITIVE THOUGHT, THEN TAKE A POSITIVE ACTION.  IF STILL I DO NOT FEEL BETTER I WILL REPEAT THIS  UNTIL I DO."

 

  SPIRIT

"It is a mistake to assume that our secret thoughts toward
others do not matter. They matter very much. It is not sufficient 
to behave kindly toward people in public. Our secret
manners, that is, our inner attitudes, must be just as kindly.
Otherwise, we pay a painful price. If I think enviously toward
another, I am punished on the spot for that envy. You can't be
envious and happy at the same time. We must do more than act
kindly; we must be kindly."


                  
When we are in the world of the thinking mind, we are somewhere in the remembered past or the imagined future. We are in a world of thought, memory, concept, idea, opinion and belief. We are not here now. What we are experiencing is not the truth and reality of the present moment.

In a very real sense, the past is intruding into our experience of the present moment, coloring and distorting it. All those limiting beliefs and painful experiences of the past adversely affect our experience of life.

To awaken simply means to awaken out of the world of the thinking mind into the world of the present moment. This does not mean that your memory of the past or your sense of the future disappears. You still participate within the world of time, but you are no longer identified with or defined by those memories from the past or imaginings into the future. You come to know yourself as the One who exists in this moment. You know that only the present moment can fulfill you and so you choose to live more and more fully in the present moment. The present moment becomes the very foundation of your life.

As you awaken, your experience of yourself and the world will dramatically change. Fear, anxiety and conflict disappear as you enter into a world of love, peace and abundance. You come to know yourself as LOVE. You encounter the living Presence of God within you and within everything around you. Separation dissolves as you enter into Oneness.. This is what is meant by enlightenment. It is what Buddha spoke of. It is what Jesus spoke of. It is what Lao-Tzu and Krishna spoke of. It is what God promised to Abraham.

Creating balance is to find the middle of two opposites.   It means not having too much or  too little of something.  

The Buddah once was sitting by a riverbank meditating.  He found a conversation on a traveling boat with a music teacher and his student caught his attention and made clear the importance for finding balance.  He heard the music teacher say to his student who was learning to play the sitar (guitar type instrument), " If you keep the strings too loose it will not play, If you make them too tight they will snap." 

The Buddah founded what he called The Middle Way from this passing conversation.  He realized balance is the way to peace and happiness in all aspects of life.

Where do you need to find balance in your life?  Is it with Work and Play?,  Food and Fast?,  Exercise and Rest?,  Mind Fast or Mind Feast?,  Giving and Receiving? or  Loving Others and Loving Self?

 

  WHAT'S NEW IN HEALTH?
                     updated article
  A new product called STEVIA ( from the stevia plant), a healthy no calorie sweetener is on the market and now available in health food stores. It is an all natural safe alternative to Nutra-Sweet Equal and Sweet and Low, both which have negative effects on the body.  Both of these old no calories sweeteners are stressful on the liver organ.  Studies show that they cannot be processed by the liver and get stuck in your body and accumulate over time.  We all know the damage that sugar can do to the body. It compromises immunity, promotes the growth of yeast (Candida), decays tooth enamel, increases insulin levels, promote brain tumors and is loaded with calories.  

  DID YOU KNOW THAT...

Your body requires 5 tastes to maintain balance of all the organ systems of the body?  According to ancient Chinese medicine the body needs sweet, spicy, salty, sour and bitter.   If all of these 5 tastes are present at every meal the body will feel complete satisfaction.  

Did you ever notice how you may crave something sweet after your meal?  You probably missed that sweet taste in that meal.  Or maybe you wanted a coffee after a meal instead in order to feel satisfied.  The coffee represents the bitter taste that is usually present in salad greens or peppers.  The reason for the coffee boom in the country is not just about people needing caffeine for an energy boost, it is mostly a lack of bitter in the diet.

Sweet nourishes the stomach and spleen.
Spicy nourishes the lungs and large intestine.
Salty nourishes the kidneys and bladder. ( ***yes, some salt is good.)
Sour nourishes the liver and gallbladder.
Bitter nourishes the heart, small intestine, thyroid and sex organs.
( the colors are the associated color of that taste and element.)

The organ systems of the body work together in harmony.  If you over nourish or under-nourish a system of the body the rest will be thrown out of balance.  Have you ever notice how you want something sweet (stomach/spleen) after over- indulging in something salty (kidney/bladder) or vice verse?  You over nourished one organ system causing another to become under nourished and your new craving was your body's attempt to rebalance itself.  

This is also why Western Medicine drugs have many side effects. Only the organ with the main problem is medically treated, thus throwing the other organs out of whack to cause more ill symptoms. A vicious cycle has been started. Symptoms begin to jump from one organ to another causing more serious imbalances overtime.
  
So to maintain health and wholeness, keep in mind and in your belly all 5 tastes at every meal. 

*** If you eat salt or sodium with a little bit of oil and a half a cup of water you will
not retain water in your body.  The oil and the water allow your kidneys to process the sodium in a way that it is not retained in the body.

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  jOKEs OF THE MONTH

Did you hear about the dyslexic cow that attained enlightenmet?
Instead of saying Moo, he kept saying OOOM , OOOM,  OOOM, OOOM.

A priest and a bus driver lived together and one day they also died together. When they arrive at the pearly gates, St. Peter allowed the bus driver to go to one of the highest heavens while the priest had to wait.  After some time of waiting the priest asked Peter:" Why could the bus driver go to the highest heaven and I who all my life spoke about God have to wait for so long"  St. Peter said:" When you were speaking to the people at your church everybody fell asleep, but when that bus driver was driving everybody prayed!"


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