Nature gives us everything we need to regain and maintain great health and fitness. Only when people deviate from simple eating habits and whole foods for a length of time do they find themselves in a health crisis.

Often people get the message to make better food choices when they become ill. Perhaps they buy healthy chips, crackers, maybe healthy frozen foods; and while those changes are alright, they won’t restore healthy mineral and enzyme levels in the body.

The basic foods to regain great health are fruits and vegetables. When a person is truly ill and wants to get healthy again, these are the foods that will replenish minerals and enzymes and restore good health. Minerals and enzymes assist the body digest food, and do not deplete the pancreas, and other enzyme producing organs. For humans that is truly the bottom line because bad digestion is the root cause for bad health.

The good news is that there doesn’t have to be deprivation to be well. And once health gets balanced you can incorporate a healthy treat every now and again.

Most chronic disease starts when the body doesn’t have enough minerals and enzymes to assist the digestion process. From that sad state of affairs, undigested food that is, food ferments and poor health sets in.

What will change bad health and overweight conditions back to great health, positive ways of thinking and freedom from unhealthy cravings? Eat as many fruits and vegetables as you care to: lightly steamed and with garlic, sea salt; eat them raw; juice, juice, juice. Carry on with this cleansing and rebuilding diet for a month and let your body regain health.

This kind of nutritional choice is not a “diet”. This is a “live it” and it prompts you to want more of what is healthy and want more of that feel good feeling. Changing to food choices that create an alkaline condition also create a place where illness and imbalance, yeast and parasites cannot exist, and allergies disappear.

Certain foods do not support you as you cleanse and rebalance the body: dairy, bread, sugars, alcohol, red meat (and for awhile chicken and fish) fast food, and snack foods. Those are choices that do not re-mineralize the body, and give organs a chance to heal, regenerate. After balance is created and maintained for a time, certain foods can be re-introduced like healthy bread, yogurt, grains, free range and organic eggs, fish and chicken.

Re-introduction of foods would be determined by blood type or dosha diet, and then testing for allergies.

Building muscle does not mean the consumption of a lot of red meat or animal proteins.

Usually when people think of proteins they think of animal protein. Every food contains protein because all cell growth requires protein. The foods highest in protein are vegetables. That’s right! Chlorella and spirulina, blue green algae contain 60% protein. Barley grass and nutritional yeast are 35% protein. Wheatgrass powder, and sea vegetables like dulse, nori kelp, peanuts,  are 25% protein. Other high protein vegetables are soybeans, olives, nuts,wheat germ, beans and peas.

With all of these great foods to choose from it’s easy to maintain great muscle tone with vegetable choices.

After a cleanse it is a good idea to use a reputable excipient-free digestive enzyme and HCL with all cooked meals.

Drinking pure water, eating mineral-rich food, enjoyable exercise, positive and hopeful thinking, supportive environments and rest all work together to create a healthier more balanced and successful you. My thought is that you deserve it.

Statistics show that one in every two Americans is overweight.  Are you or a loved in the fifty percentile ranks of the overweight American? With the numbers in, you know you’re not alone and today, with this article let us take the heat off of the idea that you’re an out of control person.  That may not let you off the proverbial hook as far as your eating habits for good and long lasting health. Let’s shed light on the root causes of the overweight epidemic.

Just as good digestion is the root of good health, poor digestion is the root of illness, into which category obesity and overweight fall. Illness is technically the body-out-of-balance; so, feeling uncomfortable in your body is illness. In the early years of bad digestion, unless a person suffers from acid reflux, it is possible that very few symptoms are experienced; however, there is still stress on the liver, gall bladder, pancreas, small intestine, putrefaction that builds in the large intestine. None of these aforementioned contribute either to good health or to healthy weight as bad digestion impacts detrimentally every organ in the body.

The liver and gallbladder emulsify fats.  The liver lies over and almost completely covers the stomach. As the body’s largest organ, save the Integumentary system, it has many metabolic and regulatory functions but the digestive role is to produce bile which is not an enzyme. Bile salts emulsify fats which is crucial. As bile accumulates it is stored in the gallbladder, a tiny green walled organ that nestles itself in a shallow at the liver inferior surface, until fats enter the body. If a body is overloaded with sugars, fats, alcohol, fast food and stress, the considerable stress on the liver begins to restrict its ability to perform important functions which help the body digest fats and metabolize sugar.

The tiny gallbladder seems dispensable. Most doctors will take it out for you, and sometimes rightly so because gall stones can travel through ducts and get stuck. Although there’s much talk about gall stones, gravel and stones can accumulate in the liver, kidneys and urinary bladder. When you lose your gall bladder you lose a giant in fat emulsification. Only the pain is gone, the root cause, bad digestion is still there. Keep your gall bladder, emulsify those fats.

The pancreas in today’s society is a much overworked dynamo of an organ. Eating too many cooked, sugary, junky meals without replenishing the body with raw fruits and vegetables, with all of their juicy minerals and enzymes intact, forces the pancreas to endlessly pump pancreatic enzymes into the duodenum, the first portion of the small intestine. The powerful small organ is the only one that produces enzymes that will break down all categories of food. A sluggish overworked pancreas cannot produce insulin, an important regulator of blood sugar, and it won’t do the job of producing pancreatic digestive enzymes.

Ulcers are not uncommon with today’s stressors, fast foods and lack of fresh and raw fruits and vegetables. The stomach, another organ which plays a huge role in digestion can become a fermenting dump instead of a healthy spot for protein digestion. All food passes through the stomach from the esophagus via the cardio-esophageal sphincter and into the small intestine via the pyloric sphincter. It is a temporary storage site and place for further food breakdown. It churns and mixes food, produces gastric juices and intrinsic factor for B-12 absorption. Protein breakdown by the stomach depends on the production of hydrochloric acid, HCL by parietal cells which then interact with pepsinogen produced by the chief cells to make pepsin, a necessary step to proper protein digestion.

Production of HCL dwindles around the age of forty, depending on digestive health. A person with truly bad digestion or bad eating habits could have poor HCL production in early years. The small intestine continues the breakdown of all foods, including proteins and carbohydrates. The breakdown of carbohydrates begins in the mouth with salivary amylase and continues in the small intestine with pancreatic amylase. Absorption of nutrients occurs along the many feet of the small intestine by the finger-like projections of the villi and microvilli until the end of the ileum.

All of this being said, once digestion, enzyme production and proper food assimilation decline, food is not digested properly, a body becomes undernourished, systems breakdown, waste accumulates along the walls of the large intestine, and something called leaky gut syndrome caused by candida yeast and parasitic infection is inevitable. Cravings for sugars, fats, alcohol, caffeine and fast food begin to rule the appetite. The entire body suffers and of course the body, out-of-synergy, accumulates unwanted pounds.

The solution, if you feel your body has succumbed to this syndrome and you are concerned with your health and overweight conditions, there is a healthy and happy solution: a mineral-rich diet from organic fruits and vegetables, perhaps digestive enzymes and HCL, eight glasses of pure water every day, minimal and selected protein from soy, spirulina, certain beans, organic chicken, eggs, and salmon from marine approved waters. No deprivation or starving, just better choices. You will let go of sodas, fast food, red meats, white sugar, white flour, white bread, dairy and alcohol. Let your body rest, exercise, cleanse and replenish and the weight will literally fall off. Make this not simply a week or month long diet, make this commitment a new way of life and live in the body of your desires.

So, what about it? Do you feel pretty good all day at work or out, then come home and feel a drag? It could be the electrical lines coming into your home, cell phone towers or your cherished computer, TV or cell phone making you sick.

Changing the bioenergetics of your home is related to Vastu principles.  Taken from Dr. Robert Marshall’s paper:

optimize a person’s living conditions), there are two universal

geomagnetic energy or Jaivik Urja) and the second fromeast to west (called solar energy or Panick Urja). When

 Recognizing the human body as it truly is, as 99.999% pure energy, it makes sense that food, supplements, home, job, in fact, all of your environments that are not energetically “friendly” bring your energy level down. That effects your physical nature.

This blog concerns supplements: herbs, vitamins, protein powders or bottled drinks that people use to boost their daily intake. I have a lot to say on this subject but I’ll spare my listeners the diatribe and get to the point which is: don’t waste your money on sub-grade products.

Look for nutritional products that are:

1. Excipient Free

2. 100% Nutrient Value - Whole Nutrition

3. Grown Organically and in a Clean Region

4. Formulas with Herbs that Enhance Each the Other

5. Not Synthetic

6. Easy to Absorb - Accessible - Cell Resonant

7. Whole Food - not Isolated

To recap, like food, you want supplements that you will absorb, that will enhance your quality of life, that will raise your energy level and boost your awareness level for many months, not just the typical one month afforded by poorly made products. Look for supplements that encourage cell regeneration.

Remember that the Energy Being you are is hungry for that which will replenish and only introduce the best supplements into your precious vehicle.

In 2002 My husband and I were privileged to see a version of the play “Copenhagen” by Michael Frayne. The beginning, off to a slower start than many of our fellow theater goers were used to, prompted several couples to excuse themselves after the first act. Oh, if they had only seen that acceleration was in play here, they would have been in for the treat of a life time.

The astute observers realized that something great was about to be uncovered here. As for myself, I was not aware at the time of Heisenberg, Bohrs, Quantum Theory, Mechanics or any such thing, so I was amazed at what came up for me as the very sentient production dug further into the most important revelation of the millennium: Quantum Mechanics, the realization that a subatomic particle is not stable, hard matter; however, it is the all-potential, superposition and malleable by the observer to become whatever is believed.

The emotion and the spirituality of the entire play was so moving that by the end, those faithful who knew indeed that the play’s the thing, as Master Shakespeare so aptly said, found themselves standing with ovation for the three actors onstage. As I peered around choking back tears, imagine tears over Quantum Mechanics, I saw that I was not alone. Something in the essence of the play itself, the spirit of the time back in the 1940s, the relationship of Master teacher, Niels Bohr with his protege’ Werner Heisenberg since 1924, and the toll the controversial war years took on friendships stirred the hearts of the participants in our small B Street theater. The actors were crying and the audience right along with them.

After that I went home and used web resouces to find out what I had experienced.  What was Quantum Mechanics?  Why was it so moving to see “Copenhagen” played out?

When I read about Quantum Mechanics, how it shifted perceptions from classical Newtonian physics as solid and set, to the field of all potential, giving the Observer the pass to move ahead and create.  I was amazed to think to myself, “I believe that”.  And information is just another key to what is possible, right?  It sort of gives the hearer permission to go for it.

You and I are the Observers in our lives.  What we “see” is literally what we get. So, being in gratitude and happy will accrue more of that. Seeing yourself as worthy to create money out of nowhere will accrue more of that. And why???

Because Quantum Physics states that electrons move according to the Observer. And because of the electromagnetic charge of subatomic particles, and because other particles are connected in all ways, the Observer has a large field of potentiality to work with, well to play in.

And so it was the essence of the revelation, the relationship of teacher to student, re-uniting of teacher to student during the very trying war years, seeing how these strengths could be used for the benefit of humankind rather than destruction; it was that and more I’m sure that created such deep emotion at our production of “Copenhagen”. I will not forget the impact of my first glimpse into the Quantum Field. 

Anything is possible and I believe in you.  So, what are you creating today?

What would you really like?  I think you’ve already got it.

It has been a dynamic and busy week since I am back here in my blog post. I do want to pick up where we left off: with meditation and the power in summoning the quiet space.

Mind chatter can literally carry away all good intention if we allow negative messages, panic, worry and fear to overwhelm us.  Becoming still not only reminds us who we really are, by stopping the voices in our head for awhile but it allows for connection with the quantum field from which we come. When chatter stops about what we have come to memorize as “who we are”, as we connect with the quiet from which all energy and matter spring forth we are given the opportunity to open up as it were, to FEEL we are something greater and much more than gross matter.

Within that realization we are “observing” that we are clear and “All Potential”. The observer we are picks up on our true nature and is more allowing of the miracle to occur. The miracle of course is our unique ability as observer and to create what we want instead of being thrown about by what we suppose to be our fate.

In that space also we have the opportunity as the Observer in our life to observe something new, different and greater perhaps. As Co-Creators we have the ability to re-pattern old ways of thinking about ourselves. In other words if we choose to observe something new, bigger and different, this is the space we do that in.

When meditation feels difficult, make a commitment to meditate often throughout the day, even at three or four minute intervals.  Meditate in the shower or tub, at a stop light, on the subway, light rail or bus, on your break and walking.  Use every opportunity you have to connect with Quantum Field, your own Inner Guide, God or Source energy.

In the place of letting go, surrender, and connection, imprint your new observation, what you truly want, on the blackboard of the Quantum Field.

Have fun sowing those seeds.

Have you ever heard people describe themselves based on the illnesses they’ve been diagnosed with?  They hand it all out as if it’s their calling card.  An interesting pun at the end of it would be, “call me if you want to hear more.”  Of course you don’t and you won’t be calling for an update.

Transformation through the healing process depends on several uniques strategies: focusing on health by focusing on great healing herbs, foods, environments, and thoughts.  It’s a lot of work and a lot of re-creating; in brief, it is joy and enlightening.

It is very true that all suffering happens with thought.  We literally think ourselves ill, poor, not-enough and unworthy; and so what is the turn around?  The turn around place, the place of letting go, resolution, integration and new life begins with the quieting of the mind and letting go of the need to think our way into anything.  It is the “s” word: Surrender.

You might think prayer is the solution.  It is a part of transformation through transition; however, it must be real, uncontrived and not performed by formulation.  Prayers answered are done in the quiet place, also the place of no thought, surrender.  Thery are prayers deep enough to touch the God-Self within, uniting the sub-conscious and supra-conscious mind.

How do we access that place?  It is in the quieting of the human logical brain; it is in meditation.  So take a deep breath, and if only for a moment be very still; think nothing, do nothing, trust that all is well.

Tomorrow we’ll dig deeper into how to proceed and why this process of real healing works but for now breathe deeply and realize you are All God potential.