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Travel Size Chocolate Bliss Recipe

When we travel to hotels we usually make smaller, “daily” batches of Chocolate Bliss. We have found that a 24 ounce water bottle full of Bliss (and ice) will keep one person satisfied and energized for a full-on day of workshops and events (we have successfully proven this in several situations).

Here’s how we make this smaller travel size portion of Chocolate Bliss:

Bring a small portable blender, like this Hamilton Beach blender we use.

Pour 8 ounces of water into the blender (seems to be the perfect amount for blending). Add

2 Tbsp of Chocolate Bliss

2 Tbsp of Vanilla Agave Nectar

Blend well (this will take longer than a Vitamix since it’s so small).

Then put this blended mixture in a BPA-free 24oz water bottles and fill it up with water to about the 20 ounce mark and the rest with ice to chill it and help keep it cold all day long (adding more ice as the day progresses and you drink down the Bliss).

Enjoy!

Blood Pressure, Caffeine & Getting Off Medications: An Interview With David Favor

Here’s another awesome interview I had with David Favor (creator of Chocolate Bliss and all-around wise raw superfood being).

In addressing the scenario of a specific client’s health concerns we talked extensively about the real issues behind high blood pressure, the truth about caffeine, and how one might go about getting off of medications and more onto raw superfoods.

[watch on youtube]

Primal Digest Enzymes For Sinus Infections, Heartburn and Food Comas

Primal Digest Enzymes

One of our long-time superfood customers has been telling her digestive enzyme stories at our Raw Superfood Dinners for a while now and we finally sat down to record her experiences to share with those of you who aren’t able to show up in person at our events.

Here’s what Katherine had to say as I interviewed her about her journey of upgrading with Primal Digest Enzymes …

What do you like most about the Primal Digest Enzymes?

I think what I like most about the Primal Digest Enzymes is how good I feel after I eat a heavy meal, or if I’m just tired. If I take the enzymes I feel better – it gets rid of the lethargy and sleepiness.

It’s really evident for my mom who has MS. Anytime she eats she gets really tired afterwards. She lost a lot of weight because she wasn’t eating because she didn’t want to get tired (and have to take a nap). So anytime we have a meal together – a cooked meal or a big meal – I’ll give her some enzymes and she’ll take them and a half hour later she’ll say “I feel pretty good!” and she’s not tired.

I also notice that if I take the enzymes as David Favor described – taking 2, 4, 6 a day – taking the enzymes with and between meals, that it clears me out. I poop more, I don’t get an upset stomach, and I don’t get heartburn.

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Blessing Your Food

Love Plus Gratitude Water Crystal

No matter what you eat, whether raw or cooked, meat or plant, processed or whole, the ONE thing you can always do to upgrade the quality of your food, the enjoyment of your dining experience, and the health of your body, is to Bless Your Food.

I don’t mean you have to be religious or say a specific prayer. I mean, sending loving intent to the food you are about to eat. Loving what you are eating. Savoring it. Appreciating how you got the food, how it will serve your body, and your body’s ability to turn that food into fuel for your life.

There’s a beautiful science and imagery behind this suggestion that you bless your food (and your drink and your body for that matter). Dr. Masaru Emoto researches and photographs water crystals that have been subjected to varying thoughts/words, music and prayer/intent. The positive oriented influences create beautiful crystalline structures of the water. The negative or null influences show water with little to no crystal structure and often ugly-looking pictures.

Your body is made up of quite a bit of water and so is your what you eat. Can you imagine putting the energies of love and gratitude into your food and your body and what that might do to your overall body-mind consciousness? As my mom used to say, “it can’t hurt, and it might help.”

The way I do this is I keep written positive words (like Love, Gratitude, Energy, Peace, Health, Enlightenment) on our water cooler so that every drop we drink has passed through those positive words. When I eat or drink anything I do my best to remember to send my food and all who helped create it some love and appreciation (usually while I hold my hands over my food as an act of imbuing it with this energy). I also keep quartz crystals (and sometimes amethyst and citrine and danburite crystals) in my water bottles that I have intended hold distinct energies (like love, enlightenment and health). All these things I feel are helping to structure my food (and my thoughts) towards the consciousness I desire to create in my life. And I feel good!

To further inspire you, here’s a beautiful video that demonstrates some of Dr. Emoto’s work with images of water crystals subjected to positive and negative thoughts and words:

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Letting Go of Measurements & Labels

Wow, I’ve totally observed this happening in people’s health journeys:

“It is a common thing for people to begin to lean in the direction of recovery, only to stop and take score too soon. And when they still find unwanted symptoms or conditions, they then offer resistant thought and lose the improved ground they have gained. With consistent releasing of resistance, all unwanted conditions will subside, returning you to your natural state of Well-Being.” ~ Abraham

When I returned to my natural weight via raw superfoods I didn’t weigh myself hardly at all – my focus was purely on enjoying the upgrade to my lifestyle. And then after a few months I noticed that I had to tighten my belt and I celebrated that too.

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All About Cleansing – Our First of Four 10-day Cleanses

Day 7 of Juice Feasting Cleanse

This year we are doing four 10-day cleanses, each timed with an equinox or solstice.

I’ve heard it’s good to cleanse 1 day for every year you have lived, and this year I will have gone around the sun 40 times. Woo hoo! In celebration I am honoring my body (and mind) with some self-designed cleanses … so of course I’m going to share them with you.

My mate Dan is choosing to go on this journey with me because, as he says, “I like to do what you do.” Also, since I’m the primary creator of delicious eats in our house, it’s easy for him to drink what I drink and it’s also easier for me to make juice for two than for one. I love how things have that way of working out wonderfully for us.

We are starting with the vernal (spring) equinox for our first cleanse. With the change of the seasons from winter into spring it’s natural to feel inspired to do a little spring cleaning – inside and outside of your body. I love what my friend Rick The Health Sleuth says about equinox cleansing:

“Equinoxes represent renewal as the seasons change; and the body’s internal clock recognizes them and proceeds to undertake its natural cleansing and detoxification processes during that time. The vernal equinox is an excellent time to do an herbal cleanse, juice feast, water fast, juice fast, kidney flush, liver and gallbladder flush, or whatever other detoxification process that one feels called to try.”

To help you intuit and decide what to incorporate into your next cleanse, I’ve described below (in this now quite long post/article!) what I think about some of the cleansing options I’m aware of, followed by the guidelines I used for our “2012 Vernal Equinox Cleanse”

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