Friday, March 23, 2018

40 Day Challenge Day 1


It's easy to slip into the practice of other people and deviate from your own. I know that happens with me. It's easier and more social to live that way. It takes more focus to think for yourself and follow your own heart. That is my experience.
Have you noticed that when we squash down the parts of ourselves we don't think we want, that they find a way of manifesting themselves at the mist inopportune times? Until we learn to accept ourselves the way we are, we will continue to sabotage ourselves and then run to our distractions and comforts to numb and deny ourselves.
I want to live the rest of my days with the most health, happiness, and authenticity available for me, whatever that may be. The best way to do that is by elimination. Getting better is a process of subtraction, not addition.
I have created for myself a 40 day challenge to eliminate the things that hinder. I am calling this challenge The 40 Day Clohesy River Health Farm Challenge. The goal is to take the principles taught and practiced by Dr. John Fielder at his farm on the Clohesy River in Australia and reclaim them as my own.
Today is Day 1 of 40 for me. Feel free to join in if you desire.
Day 1: Here is my food for the day.
Jnatik Mayan Coffee Alternative with a spoonful of coconut sugar.
Smoothie (coconut water, chia seeds, banana, spring mix greens, kiwi, papaya, pineapple, coconut, frozen blueberries, frozen mixed fruit)
Fruit available to choose from: cutie orange, naval orange, grapefruit, avocado, mangoes, apples, and grapes.
Salad to choose from: spring mix, cucumber, tomato, celery, avocado.
Sauerkraut
Pecans. Dates. Raw bars.
Kombucha.
The food will basically be this everyday. The fruits may change, and there may be some refining.
To health and happiness.

Natural Living As Activism

Once you are able to see that clean and wholesome living is normal and that accepting the widespread junk food society is a social disease, many of us become somewhat radical...activists..in order to help us heal and to overcome the role of victim.

We have all been conditioned...programmed...and in order to overcome the conditioning we substitute activism. It is a healthy alternative. It keeps us from feeling helpless.

When we speak out against the destructive effects of our culture, it helps us affirm our resolve to stop harming ourselves by living in such a way, and if, by chance, we can make a change in the environment around us, it makes our healthy lifestyle easier to maintain and live by.

My own interest in food and hygienic living has involved learning to deal with social pressures to conform to traditions. All of us that decide to follow a hygienic way of living will find it necessary to adopt somewhat of an activist stance in order to initiate and maintain change.  It's not necessary to make your activism an obsession, even though our addiction to habit and tradition is quite obsessive.  There is a better way of freedom.

Keki Sidwha gave us some suggestions on how we can be advocates for Natural Hygiene while creating a healthy environment for our healthy habits as we try to change ingrained habits from years of conditioning.

You are an activist when you speak out to the waiter in the restaurant about the quality of the food that is being served.

You are an activist when you offer to bring the fruits, nuts, and nut butters to the party.

Remember when the  activists fought for and won the right for unpolluted air.  Thanks to them we now have smoke free public places and cleaner cities.  It was a major battle won for our lifestyle.  We can follow their lead and work to make healthy food a choice. We don't have to assume that foodless food addiction is our cross to bear.  We can assert the fact that processed junk food is bad for everyone and irreparable harm to the nation.  Ask that junk food be eliminated and quality food be offered instead. When enough people do this, we will build a healthier society.

Once you are able to see that clean and wholesome living is normal and that accepting the widespread junk food society is a social disease, many of us become somewhat radical...activists..in order to help us heal and to overcome the role of victim.

We have all been conditioned...programmed...and in order to overcome the conditioning we substitute activism. It is a healthy alternative. It keeps us from feeling helpless.

When we speak out against the destructive effects of our Western culture, it helps us affirm our resolve to stop harming ourselves by living in such a way, and if, by chance, we can make a change in the environment around us, it makes our healthy lifestyle easier to maintain and live by.

My own interest in food and hygienic living has involved learning to deal with social pressures to conform to traditions. All of us that decide to follow a hygienic way of living will find it necessary to adopt somewhat of an activist stance in order to initiate and maintain change.  It's not necessary to make your activism an obsession, even though our addiction to habit and tradition is quite obsessive.  There is a better way of freedom.

Keki Sidwha gave us some suggestions on how we can be advocates for Natural Hygiene while creating a healthy environment for our healthy habits as we try to change ingrained habits from years of conditioning.

You are an activist when you speak out to the waiter in the restaurant about the quality of the food that is being served.

You are an activist when you offer to bring the fruits, nuts, and nut butters to the party.

Remember when the  activists fought for and won the right for unpolluted air.  Thanks to them we now have smoke free public places and cleaner cities.  It was a major battle won for our lifestyle.  We can follow their lead and work to make healthy food a choice. We don't have to assume that unhealthy and disease producing food addiction is our cross to bear.  We can assert the fact that processed junk food is bad for everyone and irreparable harm to the nation.  We can ask that junk food be replaced with whole, ripe, fresh food.  When enough people do this, we will build a healthier society.