2013 Is The Year To Be Open to Change

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Happy new year once more.

How will 2013 shake out for you and your family? Will the economy expand, and your finances improve? Will your minor aches and pains subside, or will health problems mount?

Energetically, this year promises to be a little bit more relaxed and friendly, compared to the last two. This comes from 9-star ki where we see that 2013 is a soil year versus metal.

So that bodes well for relationships, personal growth, and sowing the seeds for new businesses to expand in coming years.

As for health, it makes sense to look into ideas that you think can be of benefit. Perhaps this is the year you:

  • Try out more plant-based foods such as brown rice, miso soup, sea vegetables, mushrooms, beans, bean products like tofu and tempeh, all of which can be found at Whole Foods, or restaurants such as Masao’s Kitchen in Waltham, or most any Japanese restaurant, or some thai, korean and vietnamese joints.
  • Visit a chiropractor, massage therapist, reflexologist, acupuncturist, or naturopath.
  • Take cooking lessons in Sudbury, Brighton or Becket
  • Take up yoga, pilates, tai chi, meditation etc.
  • Begin taking more regular nature walks for mood and weight loss
  • Write in your journal, or write a short story or poem, or take a class

Whatever you do, do it with an open heart and be grateful that you are healthy and younger than you will ever be again!

Happy New Year 2013, gangnam style plant-based

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As 2012 ends, I dream of a world where:

  • We value all living beings, as well as people from all walks of life
  • We value our health and take care of ourselves, reducing suffering and costs
  • We learn to cook whole, organic, plant-based meals, and teach our children
  • We are free to enjoy life, and not work so hard to keep the richest from realizing their fears of living from the soul instead of the wallet

Happy New Year!!

Eating For Peace

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These are difficult times, with all the violence in our world, not only in countries far beyond our reach, but also in schools, homes, and even in the forest, where a former Boston Bruins player recently shot a 28 year old father to death in a hunting accident.

Ever since I heard someone say it about 15 years ago, I’ve believed strongly that peace starts on our plate. If we allow animals to be captured, drugged, maimed, tortured and murdered, without regard to the suffering of them and their families, and then we let much of that food go to waste, we are certainly doomed to the same treatment.

Now that we’ve witnessed six-year-old children being hunted in their elementary school, we need to take responsibility for it. Not just to write a letter to our lawmakers for tougher gun laws, or arm the school administration, but also to start seeing the way we perpetrate violence on the Earth and the animals, and bring more violence.

This may seem odd to you, but if you meditate on it, and become aware of what is routinely done in the world of ocean fishing and factory farming, you may begin to see it differently. Try reading The World Peace Diet by Dr. Will Tuttle.

If you are ready to make positive changes, start by never ever again eating veal, hamburger, chicken, shrimp and cheese. These are the most dangerous foods and the ones that cause the most harm to our world.

Replace them with beans, bean products, and mushrooms. There are many great recipes here and other places online. Masao’s Kitchen in Waltham also serves these foods, and has cookbooks available.

These changes add up, for you, for the environment, for the animals, and eventually for a less dangerous and violent world.

Peace for the holidays and always.

Doing The Best For Our Kids In School

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As the Massachusetts public school teachers assert their rights to earn a living wage with good benefits and limits on their responsibilities, I see another area where changes are needed, namely lunch times.

While dietary choices are not the best in school, the extreme variation in the lunch hour itself is enough to throw off the balance of any teen. My daughter has lunch as early as 10:55am and as late as 12:15pm, after having breakfast before 7:30am. It seems to be something can be done to allow children to have a regular schedule of meals, to support the stress of six classes and raging hormones.

What do you think about this?

Giving Thanks

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Great time to be alive. Kids are beautiful and talented, and iPhone 5 may spoil them a bit but it will also empower them. Lots of love in my life, and living for today. Printing a few pictures at Walgreen’s to remember it all.

Prayers for everyone not as fortunate as me, and to keep us in the flow.

Pain

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I’ve been fooling around with a lot of sugar lately, as I’m sure many of us have. Life is stressful and sugar gives us temporary pleasure.

I knew there would be a price, and it is a pinched nerve in my neck. Extremely painful, especially as I’m sitting in my car several hours during the day.

I am grateful for it, as it’s a reminder that the universe works, and that others are also in pain and need help and our empathy. After cleaner eating, some pain meds, chiropractic and today’s acupuncture treatment, I am on the mend.

Now I can turn my attention to you. How can I support you?

My Mindful Roller Coaster

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Life has its ups and downs.

I need to be mindful of my habits while I’m enjoying the highs and handling the lows. I must be able to live in the moment but be aware of my self enough to stay on track. I must honor my limits.

The thought of a roller coaster with an operator overseeing it might just assist me in remembering to take it all in stride.

Special thanks to Laura.

Enjoy the weekend!