Dear Friends,
For you this week: stimulating thoughts from Swami Kriyananda's course The Ethics of Yoga for Successful Living, a course which is helping people around the world to find deeper meaning in their work, their relationships, and all of their creative endeavors. We hope that these "wisdom remedies" will bring light into your daily activities this week, and illumination to your soul.
Monday 26
Generosity expands your self-identity. The more expanded your self-identity becomes, the more successful you will be even in material undertakings.
Tuesday 27
One factor essential to inner peace is a clear conscience. Never do what others urge upon you unless your conscience endorses their advice. Seek assurance first of all in your inner Self.
Wednesday 28
True peace comes from victory over one’s lower self. It must be one’s present reality. By straining to reach out to it, people only drive it away.
Thursday 29
It is vitally important that one never take moral shortcuts. Going that route will cost one’s inner peace, self-respect, and happiness.
Friday 30
If a person is willing to harm or to cause harm to come to anyone, he will create in himself a perception that others are equally willing to harm him. Ahimsa, or harmlessness, is essential to the sense of inner security and peace everyone desires.
Saturday 1
One should develop a “straight-spined” determination to live by truth no matter how difficult he finds it to do so.
Sunday 2
To be guided by intuition, calm feeling in the heart is needed. To achieve that feeling, be calmly impersonal, yet kindly disposed. When you achieve that state of mind, intuition will become for you a reliable guide.
Inspiration from Yogananda
excerpts from Conversations with Yogananda by Swami Kriyananda
Love and abundant of unlimited Blessings to all beings!
xoxoxoxoxoo
Tuesday 27 April 2010
Listening to our bodies!
Toleration to poisons is merely a slow method of dying. Instead of seeing in the phenomena of toleration something to be sought after, it is something to seek to avoid the necessity for.” –Herbert Shelton
'Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all' sung by Whitney Houston in the 80's!
'Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all' sung by Whitney Houston in the 80's!
Monday 26 April 2010
Be The Change You Want To See In The World..............
With this brilliant resource:
Sun-food Living: A resource Guide to Global Health(Says it all really:)By John McCabe
Everything a Consciences Earthling needs to know, it's all in here!
Sun-food Living: A resource Guide to Global Health(Says it all really:)By John McCabe
Everything a Consciences Earthling needs to know, it's all in here!
Friday 23 April 2010
Buckwheat Heaven!
Enjoyed a lovely substantial brekkie of buckwheat groats, almond milk, banana and a tsp of blackstrap molasses(It was soo good:)!
Thursday 22 April 2010
Earth Day 2010
Time for reflection me thinks! What does today mean for you and your family's future?
Our health equals the health of wildlife and Earth. We are all connected. What you do each day impacts wildlife thousands of miles away. People should recognize that and adjust their lives accordingly to be a part of the solution rather than carry on being part of the disease we are calling global warming.
Namaste:)
Our health equals the health of wildlife and Earth. We are all connected. What you do each day impacts wildlife thousands of miles away. People should recognize that and adjust their lives accordingly to be a part of the solution rather than carry on being part of the disease we are calling global warming.
Namaste:)
Tuesday 20 April 2010
Detox(Morning after the night before:)!
Breakfast: Green smoothie(Organic spinach and pineapple:)
Created a pineapple, chia and cardamom concoction(served with raw zucchini perhaps?!:) for later1
Created a pineapple, chia and cardamom concoction(served with raw zucchini perhaps?!:) for later1
Monday 19 April 2010
We need to be the Change We want to see in the World!
Ecologists assert that the only large mammels to survive in the future will be those which humans allow to live. Biologists predict the Earth cold lose 1/4 to 1/3 ofall known species within our lifetime.
Earthfirst.org
The future of the Earth is in balance, it's up to us - who else? There is no one big fix. It involves everything we do permanently forever.
Sir, David Attenburgh
A human being is part of the whole, called by us the 'Universe', a part limited by us in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in it's beauty.
Albert Einstein
We must act now as a matter of urgency ,it is us human beings that created this mess; for our future here on Earth.
Go on do the right thing!
Blessings to all:)
Earthfirst.org
The future of the Earth is in balance, it's up to us - who else? There is no one big fix. It involves everything we do permanently forever.
Sir, David Attenburgh
A human being is part of the whole, called by us the 'Universe', a part limited by us in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in it's beauty.
Albert Einstein
We must act now as a matter of urgency ,it is us human beings that created this mess; for our future here on Earth.
Go on do the right thing!
Blessings to all:)
Saturday 17 April 2010
The man who lives without money By Mark Boyle
The man who lives without money
By Mark Boyle
ABC Environment | 12 Apr 2010
Mark Boyle has a cuppa out the front of his caravan. He has forgone money and says he has found happiness.
Irishman Mark Boyle tried to live life with no income, no bank balance and no spending. Here's how he finds it.
If someone told me seven years ago, in my final year of a business and economics degree, that I'd now be living without money, I'd have probably choked on my microwaved ready meal. The plan back then was to get a 'good' job, make as much money as possible, and buy the stuff that would show society I was successful.
For a while I did it - I had a fantastic job managing a big organic food company; had myself a yacht on the harbour. If it hadn't been for the chance purchase of a video called Gandhi, I'd still be doing it today. Instead, for the last fifteen months, I haven't spent or received a single penny. Zilch.
The change in life path came one evening on the yacht whilst philosophising with a friend over a glass of merlot. Whilst I had been significantly influenced by the Mahatma's quote "be the change you want to see in the world", I had no idea what that change was up until then. We began talking about all major issues in the world - environmental destruction, resource wars, factory farms, sweatshop labour - and wondering which of these we would be best devoting our time to. Not that we felt we could make any difference, being two small drops in a highly polluted ocean.
But that that evening I had a realisation. These issues weren't as unrelated as I had previously thought - they had a common root cause. I believe the fact that we no longer see the direct repercussions our purchases have on the people, environment and animals they affect is the factor that unites these problems. The degrees of separation between the consumer and the consumed have increased so much that it now means we're completely unaware of the levels of destruction and suffering embodied in the 'stuff' we buy.
Very few people actually want to cause suffering to others; most just don't have any idea that they directly are. The tool that has enabled this separation is money, especially in its globalised format.
Take this for an example: if we grew our own food, we wouldn't waste a third of it as we do today.
If we made our own tables and chairs, we wouldn't throw them out the moment we changed the interior décor.
If we had to clean our own drinking water, we probably wouldn't shit in it.
So to be the change I wanted to see in the world, it unfortunately meant I was going to have to give up money, which I decided to do for a year initially. So I made a list of the basics I'd need to survive. I adore food, so it was at the top. There are four legs to the food-for-free table: foraging wild food, growing your own, bartering and using waste grub, of which there far too much.
On my first day I fed 150 people a three course meal with waste and foraged food. Most of the year I ate my own crops though and waste only made up about five per cent my diet. I cooked outside - rain or shine - on a rocket stove.
Next up was shelter. So I got myself a caravan from Freecycle, parked it on an organic farm I was volunteering with, and kitted it out to be off the electricity grid. I'd use wood I either coppiced or scavenged to heat my humble abode in a woodburner made from an old gas bottle, and I had a compost loo to make 'humanure' for my veggies.
I bathed in a river, and for toothpaste I used washed up cuttlefish bone with wild fennel seeds, an oddity for a vegan. For loo roll I'd relieve the local newsagents of its papers (I once wiped my arse with a story about myself); it wasn't double quilted but it quickly became normal. To get around I had a bike and trailer, and the 55 km commute to the city doubled up as my gym subscription. For lighting I'd use beeswax candles.
Many people label me an anti-capitalist. Whilst I do believe capitalism is fundamentally flawed, requiring infinite growth on a finite planet, I am not anti anything. I am pro-nature, pro-community and pro-happiness. And that's the thing I don't get - if all this consumerism and environmental destruction brought happiness, it would make some sense. But all the key indicators of unhappiness - depression, crime, mental illness, obesity, suicide and so on are on the increase. More money it seems, does not equate to more happiness.
Ironically, I have found this year to be the happiest of my life. I've more friends in my community than ever, I haven't been ill since I began, and I've never been fitter. I've found that friendship, not money, is real security. That most western poverty is spiritual. And that independence is really interdependence.
Could we all live like this tomorrow? No. It would be a catastrophe, we are too addicted to both it and cheap energy, and have managed to build an entire global infrastructure around the abundance of both. But if we devolved decision making and re-localised down to communities of no larger than 150 people, then why not? For over 90 per cent of our time on this planet, a period when we lived much more ecologically, we lived without money. Now we are the only species to use it, probably because we are the species most out of touch with nature.
People now often ask me what is missing compared to my old world of lucre and business. Stress. Traffic-jams. Bank statements. Utility bills. Oh yeah, and the odd pint of organic ale with my mates down the local.
Mark Boyle is the founder of the Freeconomy Community www.justfortheloveofit.org. 'The Moneyless Man', a book about his year without money, is out in June.
By Mark Boyle
ABC Environment | 12 Apr 2010
Mark Boyle has a cuppa out the front of his caravan. He has forgone money and says he has found happiness.
Irishman Mark Boyle tried to live life with no income, no bank balance and no spending. Here's how he finds it.
If someone told me seven years ago, in my final year of a business and economics degree, that I'd now be living without money, I'd have probably choked on my microwaved ready meal. The plan back then was to get a 'good' job, make as much money as possible, and buy the stuff that would show society I was successful.
For a while I did it - I had a fantastic job managing a big organic food company; had myself a yacht on the harbour. If it hadn't been for the chance purchase of a video called Gandhi, I'd still be doing it today. Instead, for the last fifteen months, I haven't spent or received a single penny. Zilch.
The change in life path came one evening on the yacht whilst philosophising with a friend over a glass of merlot. Whilst I had been significantly influenced by the Mahatma's quote "be the change you want to see in the world", I had no idea what that change was up until then. We began talking about all major issues in the world - environmental destruction, resource wars, factory farms, sweatshop labour - and wondering which of these we would be best devoting our time to. Not that we felt we could make any difference, being two small drops in a highly polluted ocean.
But that that evening I had a realisation. These issues weren't as unrelated as I had previously thought - they had a common root cause. I believe the fact that we no longer see the direct repercussions our purchases have on the people, environment and animals they affect is the factor that unites these problems. The degrees of separation between the consumer and the consumed have increased so much that it now means we're completely unaware of the levels of destruction and suffering embodied in the 'stuff' we buy.
Very few people actually want to cause suffering to others; most just don't have any idea that they directly are. The tool that has enabled this separation is money, especially in its globalised format.
Take this for an example: if we grew our own food, we wouldn't waste a third of it as we do today.
If we made our own tables and chairs, we wouldn't throw them out the moment we changed the interior décor.
If we had to clean our own drinking water, we probably wouldn't shit in it.
So to be the change I wanted to see in the world, it unfortunately meant I was going to have to give up money, which I decided to do for a year initially. So I made a list of the basics I'd need to survive. I adore food, so it was at the top. There are four legs to the food-for-free table: foraging wild food, growing your own, bartering and using waste grub, of which there far too much.
On my first day I fed 150 people a three course meal with waste and foraged food. Most of the year I ate my own crops though and waste only made up about five per cent my diet. I cooked outside - rain or shine - on a rocket stove.
Next up was shelter. So I got myself a caravan from Freecycle, parked it on an organic farm I was volunteering with, and kitted it out to be off the electricity grid. I'd use wood I either coppiced or scavenged to heat my humble abode in a woodburner made from an old gas bottle, and I had a compost loo to make 'humanure' for my veggies.
I bathed in a river, and for toothpaste I used washed up cuttlefish bone with wild fennel seeds, an oddity for a vegan. For loo roll I'd relieve the local newsagents of its papers (I once wiped my arse with a story about myself); it wasn't double quilted but it quickly became normal. To get around I had a bike and trailer, and the 55 km commute to the city doubled up as my gym subscription. For lighting I'd use beeswax candles.
Many people label me an anti-capitalist. Whilst I do believe capitalism is fundamentally flawed, requiring infinite growth on a finite planet, I am not anti anything. I am pro-nature, pro-community and pro-happiness. And that's the thing I don't get - if all this consumerism and environmental destruction brought happiness, it would make some sense. But all the key indicators of unhappiness - depression, crime, mental illness, obesity, suicide and so on are on the increase. More money it seems, does not equate to more happiness.
Ironically, I have found this year to be the happiest of my life. I've more friends in my community than ever, I haven't been ill since I began, and I've never been fitter. I've found that friendship, not money, is real security. That most western poverty is spiritual. And that independence is really interdependence.
Could we all live like this tomorrow? No. It would be a catastrophe, we are too addicted to both it and cheap energy, and have managed to build an entire global infrastructure around the abundance of both. But if we devolved decision making and re-localised down to communities of no larger than 150 people, then why not? For over 90 per cent of our time on this planet, a period when we lived much more ecologically, we lived without money. Now we are the only species to use it, probably because we are the species most out of touch with nature.
People now often ask me what is missing compared to my old world of lucre and business. Stress. Traffic-jams. Bank statements. Utility bills. Oh yeah, and the odd pint of organic ale with my mates down the local.
Mark Boyle is the founder of the Freeconomy Community www.justfortheloveofit.org. 'The Moneyless Man', a book about his year without money, is out in June.
Tuesday 13 April 2010
Wake Up!
Our health equals the health of wildlife and Earth. We are all connected. What you do each day impacts wildlife thousands of miles away. People should recognize that and adjust their lives accordingly to be a part of the solution rather than carry on being part of the disease we are calling global warming.
Monday 12 April 2010
Easy Sprouts!
Soak green lentils / aduki beans / mung beans / dried chickpeas overnight in plenty of water. Rinse and drain every morning and evening in a stainless steel colander. Great in salads, stir-frys,sarnies etc. .
Wednesday 7 April 2010
Opps! Thakoon Dress down to £18(In season this was £80.00)
Blue sold out. In sizes 8, 10 and 12 Fuchsia pink! In the softest and fairest organic cotton:) Peopletree's garments are incredibly soft!!!
Ethical Fashion Mid-season Sales
There are still some ethical / fairtrade fashion steals at peopletree.co.uk. Click on offers.I noticed there was a fab Thakoon elegant blouse in black for £14(It was £65 in season:)in sizes 8 and 10 and a Thakoon fuchsia dress for £22(In season this was originally £80.00).
Conscious consumerism at it's very best!
Conscious consumerism at it's very best!
Sunday 4 April 2010
Eat Green Algae(Happy Easter:)!
Yaaay....... My Chlorella Tablets has arrived!!!
EAT GREEN ALGAE
Take 6 to 10g of powdered sun chlorella (a type of green freshwater algae) every day after surgery, says Randall Merchant, professor of anatomy and neurobiology at Virginia Commonwealth university in the U.S. 'Chlorella has been the subject of clinical trials which have found it useful in helping the body heal after trauma.'
It's rich in nucleic acids, the building blocks needed for replacing injured and dead cells. Recent studies suggest it restores the normal functioning of genes which were turned off by cell injury. Being a rich source of chlorophyll it's a great cleansing, detox and healing aid that's good for restructuring skin and strengthening body.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1262111/Algae-singing-facials-Simple-steps-speed-post-op-recovery.html#ixzz0k9eDecc4
EAT GREEN ALGAE
Take 6 to 10g of powdered sun chlorella (a type of green freshwater algae) every day after surgery, says Randall Merchant, professor of anatomy and neurobiology at Virginia Commonwealth university in the U.S. 'Chlorella has been the subject of clinical trials which have found it useful in helping the body heal after trauma.'
It's rich in nucleic acids, the building blocks needed for replacing injured and dead cells. Recent studies suggest it restores the normal functioning of genes which were turned off by cell injury. Being a rich source of chlorophyll it's a great cleansing, detox and healing aid that's good for restructuring skin and strengthening body.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1262111/Algae-singing-facials-Simple-steps-speed-post-op-recovery.html#ixzz0k9eDecc4
Friday 2 April 2010
I've Got Chia!
Have you? If not why not? Chia seeds are a great fuel source for EVERYBODY, from athletes(Their traditionally known as the perfect endurance fuel for runners) to overweight / diabetic individuals, nursing and expectant mothers alike. If your travelling or sleeping under canvas they are the perfect food to take with you containing protein, essential fatty acids(essential for a healthy brain, heart etc.)and hydrating electrolytes(just add water to form a gel) too!
I ordered some Chlorella(Cleansing Algae) tablets at the same time(Monday), but I'm still waiting for those:(
I ordered some Chlorella(Cleansing Algae) tablets at the same time(Monday), but I'm still waiting for those:(
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