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Positive thinking is great

it can help you survive the day

get you through tough times 

but in the end all your emotions

will catch up with you and any little thing 

can tip over the scale.

Once you harness positive thinking

it is important to connect those thoughts

with your emotions.

Because once you are really centered,

connected within, the nothing 

can knock you down.

A- 

I came back from yet another stage from school and I just wanted to eat green stuff! 

I also stated the insanity workouts and just to make my mom feel a little better I promised her I would have more "protein" so I soaked mung beans, black chickpeas and adzuki beans, 2-3 days later, I'm having the best, freshest, crunchiest sprout salad ever! 

It is so nice to be able to eat a meal and at the end of it not have a feeling like you want to take a nap. 

Also, incredibly…

 INTEGRATE WHAT YOU LEARN

NURTURE THE EARTH AND THE SELF

SAIL IN THE SEA OF GRATITUDE

POWER UP YOUR ACTIVITIES

IMPROVE EVERY DAY

ROAR WITH LAUGHTER

EMBRACE INFINITE POSSIBILITIES

DEVOTE ENTIRELY…

It was three days of just watermelon and I couldn't be happier! 

I had a good supply of watermelon for the three days, I wasn't hungry and my energies were up, I noticed the difference yesterday when the stock of papaya I had was limited and I was eating smaller portions, in the morning my energy was fine, went to school to do some paperwork and then worked in our garden - our herbs are looking pretty by the way! - but after lunch time I was really tired and took a 2 hr…

Well after three days of cantaloupe I have to say it is important to be prepared.

Before this fast, at the beginning of June I did 2 sugar free weeks with a friend. It was harder than these few days on melon but also let my body prepare for this. 

I have had "ok" energy levels. Last week was very active with lots of events and I noticed just once I was very grumpy but after a melon snack, the feeling went away. I'm taking a nap around 5 pm which helps to replenish…

After almost a year in Italy, a month away of finishing my first year at the University of Gastronomic Sciences I have come to one conclusion: this is a school of gluttony. 

This year we had 4 trips around Italy all focused on diverse products or regions where as obvious as it may seem we do for the food, to discover and experience many dishes and ways to produce certain raw materials. 

However in these week long trips all we do from dawn till night is eat! we are offered…

Here is a quote I love that didn't fit in 140 characters.

"Change diet as exercise - that solution requires you to act, to have a discipline, to sense your own condition. It means to take responsibility and use your gifts and the temple of your body" - by Yogi Bhajan

Love,

A...

Beautiful film on gardening, you can watch it on the website. Perfect example of a person living from the heart, being kind to nature and receiving the best reward.

"We are human beings, not human doings" - Yogi Bhajan

What I just finished devouring...

I found this book by chance at the public library, so happy I did! The Fasting Path is a book by Stephen Harrod Buhner, talks about fasting (focuses on dry, water and juice fasts) and even though it looks like a small book (only 190 pages) it's filled with amazingly useful information and gives you some insights as to what effects a fast has on the body, the mind/emotions and the spirit. Plenty of guidelines of what to do to…

Is what I need right now!

I wanted to do a video for the end of week 2 of raw results but my internet connection hasn't been the greatest so now that I have time, I'll write a litte instead.

I haven't been having the greatest week and a half. I started great on week 1 and for some reason I'm just running to the opposite direction and (another reason I didn't make a video or write last weekend is because) I don't want to complain, I want to remain positive and keep the hope that…