20 December 2021|Health, Nutrition, Recipes, Sustainability, Testimonials
Like many, I was feeling frustrated by border closures and restrictions this morning, then I saw these photographs…
Talk about a reality check: A hand-written message to a friend’s brother saying he and his family are safe. They are on the Philippine island of Siargao, 95% of which has been damaged by Typhoon Rai.
“This moment that humanity is living through can be considered a door or a hole. The decision to fall into the hole or go through the door is yours.
If you consume information 24 hours a day, with negative energy, constantly nervous, with pessimism, you will fall into this hole.
But if you take the opportunity to look at yourself, to rethink life and death, to take care of yourself and others, you will go through the door.
Take care of your home, take care of your body. Connect with your spiritual home. When you take care of yourself, you take care of others at the same time.
Do not underestimate the spiritual dimension of this crisis. Adopt the perspective of an eagle that sees everything from above with a broader vision.
There is a social demand in this crisis, but also a spiritual demand. The two go hand in hand. Without the social dimension, we fall into fanaticism. Without the spiritual dimension, we fall into pessimism and futility.
You are prepared to go through this crisis.
Grab your toolbox and use all the tools at your disposal. Learn to resist by the example of the Indian and African peoples: we have been and continue to be exterminated.
* But we never stopped singing, dancing, lighting fires and having joy.
Don’t feel guilty for feeling lucky in these difficult times. Being sad and without energy doesn’t help at all.
* Resilience is resilience through joy!
You have the right to be strong and positive. You have to maintain a beautiful, cheerful and bright posture.
This has nothing to do with alienation (ignorance of the world). It is a strategy of resistance.
When we walk in the door, we have a new view of the world because we have faced our fears and difficulties.
This is what you can do now:
– Serenity in the storm,
– Keep calm, meditate daily,
– Make a habit of encountering the sacred every day.
Demonstrate resilience through art, joy, trust and love. ” Hopi Indian Chief White Eagle.
As our Contributor Jue‘s ‘life verse’ says: ‘But those who trust in the LORD will find new strength. They will soar high on wings like eagles. They will run and not grow weary. They will walk and not faint.’ (Isaiah 40:31 NLT).
Recognition for the work we feel led to do is always encouraging. I received this from a girlfriend this week, who’s supporting her friend through a breast cancer diagnosis.
Anyone else feeling a bit lost, daunted, frustrated? Pretty sure it’s not just me and Brené Brown
‘Healthy land, water, and animals = healthy humans.’ say the team behind To Which We Belong. Dr Nasha Winters (The Metabolic Approach to Cancer) pointed us towards this new film this week. It focuses on regenerative farming and it’s benefits for us and our planet.
Screenings begin early in 2022 – here’s the trailer to whet your (plant-based) appetite:
Dr Michel Greger is an inspiration: His ‘passion project’ Nutrition Facts is in it’s 10th year. Now a self-sustaining non-profit organisation it has over a dozen staff and scores of volunteers. Supported in it’s entirety by donations it has 2k+ videos on nutrition topics – added to daily.
‘I started Double-zero.org because it’s the resource that I wish I’d had when diagnosed with breast cancer’ – Denise Stevenson of Double-zero.org
One day… one day…
Eating the leftovers of this as I put together the week’s Something New.
It started off as an apple and blackberry crumble recipe on Deliciously Ella‘s site, but as is often the case, morphed into another dish completely.
This became a Deliciously Apricot Crumble, with fruits from our very own tree, halved and frozen in what feels like forever ago – summertime 2021.
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