Archive for May, 2009
Rational Fasting
May 28th, 2009
About this book
Here is yet more information from Arnold Ehret on his methods of healing the body and returning it to vibrant health. This book focuses on the role fasting plays in healing the body of any disease.
Conclusions
This book can be used in conjunction with his Mucusless Diet Healing System. I enjoyed reading this book and getting a clearer picture of the role fasting plays and how it can be done safely. Read this book before you go and do a fast yourself. Also check with your health care practitioner before changing your diet or your lifestyle and especially before fasting.
View product details at Amazon: Rational Fasting
Posted in Peaceful Morning Meditation, or not
May 21st, 2009
The question:
Have you ever noticed that during your evening meditation your mind is easier to quiet? Well I have, and I believe I’ve figured out why that is. At least, I think I’ve figured out the physical reasons but there are probably mental and emotional reasons as well.
The answer:
In Arnold Ehret’s, Mucusless Diet Healing System
Putting the answer together
What this means in that in the morning, before we have our break-fast (before we break our fast of the night), those foods, toxins, mucus and whatever else, are in our bloodstream from our intentional fast. They flow with the blood through our bodies and also through the brain, activating thoughts.
To prove the point
Just think about previous eating experiences you’ve had. Hmmm…. Here are some memory joggers: Have you ever had a highly processed meal or snack and then found it hard to focus? How about a lunch of pasta and then not being able to focus in that afternoon meeting? Here’s one of mine: I remember playing a memory game with my daughter a few years ago. I had won three games, then we had some organic cookies with organic flour and sugar. She won the following three games. ‘Nuf said.
My potential solutions
I can…
use this challenge as an opportunity to redouble my efforts to stay in the moment. Ooh, that will make the meditation even better since it’s all about being in the moment.
eat a mucusless diet and after I finish detoxifying there shouldn’t be as much in the blood stream. I guess that’s a very long-term solution, though.
drink water to flush it out of the bloodstream. This could work if it’s a short meditation otherwise I’ll have to get up and use the bathroom during my meditation or have the added distraction of a full bladder, huh?
learn some cleansing breath techniques. anyone know of any that purify the blood?
do some purifying yoga asanas. Yoga’s great to do in the morning.
do the energization exercises that are part of the spiritual study program from Self Realization Fellowship. Nah, this requires concentration as well and my mind definitely wanders the same way.
Conclusions
I haven’t found any sure-fire way for helping bring more peace to my first-morning meditation but I think it makes it easier to address now that I have some idea of why it’s occurring. Please let me know if you come up with some ways that work for you.
Goddess Retreat 2009
May 11th, 2009
From Edie Moser’s Description of the event:
An Invitation To Transformation
Goddess Retreat 2009
We are on the brink of extraordinary transformation, we can feel it in the air, our bodies are all a-tingle with the energy of it. Our hearts are racing in anticipation. Our minds are brimming with ideas for evolving ourselves in new and magical ways. As women, we are such creative beings.
From July 18th-25, 2009, women from all over the planet will be gathering for the third year in a row at the beyond beautiful Mt. Eden Retreat Center in Washington, New Jersey for Goddess Retreat 2009. The heart and brain-child of the dynamic facilitator Amy Storm, it is a co-creation of other talented teachers and healers, as together we weave and blend magical modules that will help you stretch and grow in ways that you have desired and perhaps ways you have never considered.
At this retreat, you will also be pampered by the environment itself. “Every time I have driven up with winding road that leads onto the grounds of Mt. Eden which for many years has been the home of the Kindred Spirits Festival, through lush greenery, I have felt an immediate sense of ahhh…as I have entered into a realm of relaxation in which ANYTHING is possible”=-Edie.
Physical nourishment comes in the form of vegetarian, organic, gourmet cuisine that rivals that of other retreats that I have attended throughout the country. Three meals a day, plus yummy snacks and decadent desserts keep us fueled for the inner and outer work that we do for and with ourselves. A key ingredient in the food is the love that is poured into it, as the ‘kitchen Goddesses’ work wonders.
Emotional and spiritual nourishment emerges from our time together. We are all blown away by the ideas that blossom, the insights that arise and the profound healing that takes place for each of us. Tears and laughter abound, bonds form, delight deepens, personal visions come to fruition, relationships are healed.
Those of us who have attended and facilitated have found that our lives have changed dramatically. “It was at this retreat last year that I learned how to simply BE rather than keeping busy doing all the time and I’m convinced that as a result, one of my long held desires came to be…the interview with His Holiness, the Dalai Lama that I conducted within a few weeks after the retreat last summer. I first got word about the impending audience with him while at the retreat.”-Edie
The modules celebrate “All that is Human, all that is Woman and all that is Divine” with not a single aspect ourselves left behind. Together, we sing, dance, drum, play, meditate, practice yoga, create art, learn how our own bodies work, create rituals and experience pleasure.
What would make this experience even more complete for us is if you were there:)
According to Amy:
“Think about this: the entire Goddess Retreat is priced at $1800. For 7 days. That is only $257 per day, including meals and lodging, and all modules! The going rate for any full-day quality class is $200 per day. At the Retreat, the participants get full days of transformational modules, PLUS gourmet vegetarian food, PLUS lodging, PLUS community! I am still rocked by what a bargain it is.”
If offered ala carte, these services would cost $2,800 in total!
Consider what you spend money on without even thinking twice about it. Also, as women, it is our tendency to put ourselves last. This is an investment in yourself with life-long benefits.
WE KNOW you are worth it and what is also cool is that Amy has said many times that the families and partners of those who have attended have expressed gratitude to her for the transformation that has taken place for the women who have returned simply glowing. It is a radiance that doesn’t fade since those of us who participate remain in contact via a yahoo group in which we support each other on a daily basis, even if we live a distance from each other. It is hard for us all to imagine a time when these wonderful women; part of our ‘family of choice’ were not part of our lives. YOU can join the family that we think of as ‘Goddess Sistahs’ too.
If you have any questions, please contact:
Amy Storm 410-290-9090
Edie Weinstein-Moser 215-249-9190
And please pass this on to women you know, post it to any groups you are on, any networking sites. This is how all successful ventures thrive, through personal recommendation.
Love and Gratitude,
Edie
Goddess Retreat 2009 starts AT LUNCH, on Saturday, July 18th. Arrivals will be from 12-1pm. The Goddess Retreat will end with Lunch served on Tuesday, July 21st. COST for participants has shifted! Instead of $1800, it is only $975 What a bargain since it includes all of the workshops, beautiful accommodations, 3 gourmet, organic veg meals and snacks per day, art supplies and take home items AND best of all…lifelong friendships. (That part is priceless:)
Please visit the website at www.goddessretreat.net and register today. Space is limited, but YOU are unlimited.