Detox is over

As of last Friday, I completed my detox. I had to do it. I headed to DC for an end-of-summer cook out.  Wow. Did my body feel the difference in putting the ‘bad’ foods back in to my system.  Potato chips, potato salad, alcohol.    Hey I had to try the new Bacardi Mojitos. (No different than the other malt beverages, like Smirnoff Ice).  Anyway, I started feeling a little tight pressure in my head. Very interesting.

 The good news is that I have slimmed down (except for my butt) and that I’m not craving junk food the way I used to. (Exercise has helped too.) Organic food tastes great!! The food is so flavorful. McDonald’s fries are good but they really have no taste. What am I saying?!  Okay, they just don’t taste as good as they used to before the detox.

Inspirational Quote

“If you think you’ll have more time to run tomorrow, remember, you said that yesterday”   – Nike ad

Day 7 of Diet(“fast” & still burping)

So I am on Day 7 of my diet. I’m no longer calling it fast, because I am eating food.  For that matter, it isn’t really a diet either.  I’m eating meals on a regular basis, however I am eating organic/non-processed foods. I am not drinking any soda or chewing any gum.  Both of these types of foods/drinks are known for causing bloating.  My stomach is half the size it used to be.  I’m still burping.  I really don’t know what that is about at all.  I’m also taking herbal “smooth move” teas. This is to help keep me regular.  Additionally, I’m drinking every other day a natural purgative.  This is to cleanse my system as well.

For the life of me, I can’t figure out why I keep burping.  I’m eating regular meals.  I’m cleansing the system and so on.  I think it’s just all my stored up gas from the 1 per day soda that I was drinking.  That is the only thing that I can figure out.

Mind over Matter

If I could teach the young people today what it really means when we say “mind over matter”. Even when I haven’t perfected the lessons myself. 

mind (Latin) = mind/ (in Greek, mind=menos=spirit)
mater (Latin) = physical substance

For example, to teach that the glass ceiling is not a physical thing. It doesn’t even have to be an imaginary thing. Because what happens when you remove it from your imagination?  It no longer exists.  Then circumstances, conditions won’t hinder you in the same way. They are hurdles to jump, but they will no longer keep you in your place or prevent you from moving in a different direction.But this hurdle does exist for many and so as we speak it, it has become more powerful. Making the chore so much harder. We reduce “the power” of it by not acknowledging it.

How do I teach the young people that not even the sky is the limit? Their thoughts transform their reality. I know I will get the job that is intended for me because I have seen it in my mind. New Yorkers…my train will get me to work on time.

How do I teach the young people that the mind  [can win] over matter? Only by doing it myself and sharing the knowledge.

Day 1 1/2 of ‘Fast’

Recently, I’ve been having some small signals that I’m not taking care of my body.  First, the pain on the right side of my upper body.  There is a knot in my back right under my shoulder blade. I’ve encountered this before during a fast. But this time, I think my body was telling me that I’ve had to much soda.  I slept with a heating pad on it (to loosen the knot), but to my surprise I started burping and burping. Ha! Ha!  Then in my chest, I felt a tightness and also had a little cough at night.  I attributed this to the 2 weeks straight of Ben and Jerry’s Phish food. I love it but evidently my body doesn’t.

So now I’m on an organic fast. This is totally made up by me.  I’m using the lemonade fast plus focusing on eating only organic foods.  I had a relapse last night and ate McDonald’s, which is why I’m not on day 2.  I’ve done the true lemonade fast in the past. I lasted a whole week on the fast. It’s true what they say.  Once you get past the 3rd day, you no longer have the desire to eat. My mouth felt like chewing on something, but that’s it.  I haven’t fasted in so long that I didn’t dare try it. 

I used to fast quite regularly in college.  It would do it if I knew I had a lot of work coming up. I also did it for spiritual reasons.  Fasting helps with clarity of mind. The less junk you have in the system, the more you can focus on the right things.  I need to get back to it.

Being Information Rich…

THOSE WHO DON’T READ ARE NOT BETTER OFF THAN THOSE WHO CAN’T READ!

pass that around… just a l’il diddy I picked up from the richdad.com camp…

Social Values – bridge blunder pt. 2

You’re right SisterSibling. The need to pause and heal is of paramount importance. And typically, this kind of thing would really launch me into a good long rant. I LOVE A GOOD RANT. But this time, I’ll be brief.  Collapsing bridges, cities without any power for weeks on end, and still other cities buried under water. I can’t help but think that people are asleep at the wheel, or are foregoing these ‘needling’ little details about repair in order to ramp up profits. [Just in case you didn't hear about this disaster] Neither is very good. But it could have happened to the best of us. Let’s use these events as lessons to get our country back in order. We can all orient ourselves a little more towards social value, i.e. concern for each other, the people within our society.

Let’s end this on the important point by taking a moment to pause and put out a prayer, positive thought, or just some silent reverence for those whom were affected…

Bridge Blunder

This catastrophe that occured in Minneapolis is so unfortunate.  It also hits so close to home. I cross over several bridges and go through several subway tunnels to get home.  Much of the infrastructure was built in the late 1800s and early 1900s.  I must admit I always get apprehensive about going through underwater tunnels.  Sylvester Stallone’s movie “Daylight” didn’t help.

 I can’t stand the fact that politicians and news “talking heads” are  weighing in and saying what should have happened, etc. Yes, we know what should have happened, but let people deal with all the grief and find people first. There will be plenty of time to point fingers later. Actually, it shouldn’t even be about pointing fingers.  It’s so sad.  The leaders should get together and determine how to ensure this doesn’t happen again.  Then share this information with the other cities in the US.  Blame will not help heal people’s hearts.

Cultivate The Abundance

Abundance is all around us. And like soil, it must be cultivated in order to bear a harvest. By itself, it is only potential. Energy and effort must awaken it, sow the seeds, and bring it forth as whatever the mind desires. But what must be realized is that abundance is here right now…

But you must find it, right here.  Think about it…  Right here and now…  What could it be?  What would you like it to be?  Think about it, then…

Simply uncover it.

THE ROAD NOT TAKEN – by Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.