Conscious eating

Eating is such a huge part of our lives, no matter how healthy or unhealthy we are. No matter how disciplined we are in eating the right foods, its a massive part of our daily lives.

What should I cook for Lunch?,dinner?, Is it lunch time yet? What do I feel like? Im craving this, I wish I had that! Lets catch up over breakfast! What shall I Cater for that event. We use feasting to celebrate events, to mourn our losses and to cope with discomfort, Its endless, but tasty right?

Very seldom do we ask the question; why am i eating right now? – to nourish our body ofcourse ! In fact to many this question seems silly. But are we realy nourishing our body and mind all the time? Are we experiencing true hunger all the time?

Im my experience in juice fasting/feasting, after day three or four without solid food, the digestive system closes down and the body’s nerve energy is redirected to detoxify the body and mind. At this time, hunger feelings vanish and physical and mental energy soars. So where does this abundant energy come from if Im not eating at all, let alone once or twice a day?

I studied Dr Herbert Shelton’s work on Natural Hygeine. He facilitated over 10 000 fasts during his career in healing many dis- eases. He stated that true physical hunger has not been experienced by many people because we eat all the time. In fact true hunger is not an uncomfortable feeling but rather a subtle prompting by the body, much like thirst.

Your body is so amazing and infinite in its intelligence, it will tell you what you need, when you need it, If you eat consciously. This means being mindfull when you do eat.

Before you reach for that bag of crisps or cook that meal, ask yourself:

·         Am I really hungry right now?

·         What does my body need the most? (maybe its water, rest or fruit instead of a snickers bar)

·         Where are my emotions at? Am I sad, Happy, angry? Am I using food to suppress this emotion?

·         While you eat, become aware of how you are feeling, your body will tell you when to stop, when enough is enough. This will always prevent over-eating and weight gain. When you eat consciously you will stop eating at satisfaction instead of when you feel stuffed.

Asking yourself the right questions always brings the right answers from inside you and you start to become conscious about your relationship with food. Awareness is the first step to making a change in the direction you want, be it more energy, weight loss or physical self-esteem. Eat consciously.

When you listen to your body and its true needs your health will improve dramatically, over time your weight will be balanced, your mind will be clear and emotions stable. You will be happier. The answers will always come to you, in the form of a feeling, a thought or a mental picture. Your Body and unconscious mind has all the answers and your answers are perfect for you and not the same as mine.

You are welcome to me with your thoughts, experiences and questions, Id love to hear from you.

Love

Evagelia

 

(picture credit; livewellfitnow)

 

21 Day Juice feast Success.

Hi Everyone,
It has been a while since my last post. Quite a lot has happened.
I want to share my experience of my 21 day juice feast.

Juice Feast?
Yes: Consuming atleast 4 litres of fresh raw juices a day, half of which are green alkaline juices.

I reached out to a very special nutritional coach, Courtney Pool, to coach me through my journey. It was one of the best decisions Ive ever made. You can find her at www.courtneypool.com. I cant say how important it is to have an experienced coach helping one through this because it does get tough and having someone who understands what one goes through is oh so valuable.

Let me start with a quick backround. I used to eat emotionally. Food was my drug of choice to mask unhapiness with my life and self, to numb my pain and insecurities. I struggled with weight problems a lot, rollercoasting between funny diets that did more harm than good. I knew there was a way of living that could heal of of this. Ive always believed that pure health and vibrant freedom was MY foundation to success in every other area, right? So for me, a living food diet was my answer, i resonated, but I struggled to make the shift from a SAD diet to living food nutrition.

So what changed for me in these 21 Days?
Physically;
I released quite a lot of toxic waste. waste = weight.
My skin blemishes cleared up. Its like my skin glows now. oh so smooth.
I have so much energy and need less sleep.
My hair, skin and nails are healthier, stronger.
Sorry but this is important - No more constipation! feeling lighter.

Emotionally;
I faced toxic emotions that I had burried and let them go, now my emotions are so stable and peaceful. I feel them more and its wonderful to not resist them.
I feel happy all the time.
Complete Freedom.

Spiritually and Mentally;

Limiting beliefs surfaced, all of them. As an NLP coach I thought I dealt with them but I had more to learn. the feast woke me up from the illussion I had about my 'limited worth'. Funny in Hind Sight.

I discovered Self Love for the first time. So wonderful. Loving myself completely has rippled into every other area and my life is still changing before my eyes. As within, so without ;) I Beleive that taking care of my Body in the best way is a practice of Self Love.

My Juice feast forced me to drop all my props; food, caffeine, sugar, junk food and do a lot of healing. I cant explain how profound a juice feast can be. It forced me to look inside and shoved me in to the present moment. When I took food and cooking and comfort eating out of my life, I had so much time all of a sudden. Me time. Time stood still and I consciously chose how to spend it. pouring my new found energy into my passions, things that make me feel good, like reading, art, dancing.

This journey propelled me to take action toward my passion, hence this blog, and Conscious eating. Nothing makes me happier than helping people reach hapiness through  real health. I am now committed to sharing my knowledge and connecting with people all around the world that want to take their own journey and change themeselves from the inside out, literally.

If you have any questions please connect with me. Id Love to hear from you.

Much Love

Eva

Comfort and change

My wonderful friend and consciousness coach, Marcel Dallende, inspired me a long time ago, to make a move out of my comfort zone, scary but sooo rewarding.I want to share this with you .

 Successful performers know that the most uncomfortable place in which to be is the “comfort zone”. Anthony Steward who in 1992 sailed around the world in a 5.8-meter open boat was asked to tell when he was the most afraid, and his answer was, “When I was on the island, because I was going nowhere”.

Comfort zones do not allow you to go anywhere. Instead they cause you to experience frustration, resentment, fear, anxiety, etc. The focus becomes inward and you begin to be a victim.

 The absence of risk is called: the comfort zone. The more you are in your comfort zone the less you are alive. We as human beings are in constant need of challenge. Failing to continuously set new targets puts an individual at risk to automatically get ruled again by the old patterns uploaded by the sub-conscious.

What positive challenges can you think of committing to?

It doesn’t need to be a big change. Less is more. For me particulary, small changes out of my comfort zone create longer lasting results that a major leap out of it. My 30 day smoothie challenge (below) was a small step, but a powerful one.

On a deep note...

I talk a lot about change. Its what I help others do as an NLP Results coach.

Its our nature to grow. Growth is never ending. No matter how wonderful your life may be, it can be better, you will want more. I do. This is not an ego thing of never being satisfied. Its from our deep knowing of our infinite ability to grow and change into anything we desire, anything we want to experience. As we change and grow in a positive direction, we change the lives of the people in our world. Its bigger than just me or just you.

 My positive change unconsciously gives others permission to do the same. Your positive change and growth unconsciously gives others permission to do the same.

Put simply....

Day 30 of 30 day Raw smoothie challenge

What a challenging yet wonderful journey this month has been. 30 Days to form a positive habbit changed so many other things in me too. I learnt to be patient with myself, that good food is love and loving my body, by this one act alone is powerful.

As an NLP Results Coach I am in love with the Human nervous system, its infinite potential and power. Its not just a knowing in my mind anymore but a physical feeling, that is very subtle and it comes from the living energy I fed my body. I felt lighter in a different way and as heavy as lead on the days I missed my raw smoothie. Living foods realy change a person from the inside out.

I am inspired to do better. I will return with another project to share, motivate and inspire you and myself to be the best in anything and everything. Thanks for following.

Todays recipe: lots and lots of freshly squeezed oranges. So yummy, my skin is thanking me :).

I love you all.
Eva

Day 29. Energy and Time.

Everything is energy. Everything in existence, the only difference is the frequency of different vibrations. Kirlean photography allows us to capture enery not visible to the naked eye. Its so cool. We would look very much like this raw apple here, just with a slightly stronger vibration and more colours.

So I invite you to consider; If its true that we are what we eat, this means we take on the vibration of everything we consume as well. An amazing thing begins to happen to your body when you consume raw foods. What happens is every one of your trillion cells vibrate at a higher vibration, the vibration of living foods. The effects are - MORE ENERGY amongst a million others. You are what you eat. In my expereince when I was high raw I had so much energy, I had extra time from needing less sleep than others. The human digestive system uses atleast 40% of nerve energy to process cooked food. When I switched to raw, all that energy was freed up because all raw foods have living enzymes that do the digestion for me.

On raw foods, my body does not need as much sleep to detox. From 7 to 8 hours of sleep a night, I was sleeping three hours less on average. This is normal for raw foodists. Lets do the math. Two hours less sleep per night equates to an extra month a year ! What could you do with that extra time? How much more could you achieve?

Initially the transition to more raw foods will create detox, during this time you may even need more sleep to heal. But after the cleansing crisis, Oh boy, your life will change due to more energy and time alone.

Here is a kirlean photo comparing the energy of cooked and raw cabbage.

Todays smoothie recipe: 1 head of baby cabbage, 3 pears and the juice of 6 oranges.

Day 28. Oh My....

Hello Beautiful People.

Day 28 hey! time flies. almost the end of my 30 day challenge and let me tell you it has not been easy. My comfort zone is rather powerful and persuasive in keeping me cosy and unsatisfied ;).

I have learnt a lot this month for which I am grateful. I did miss a few days of keeping up with smoothies and juices and upon self introspection I was able to understand the garbage that supported my sabotage. and its wonderful to uncover, forgive myself and try again.

I learnt that I was not allowing myself to be completely happy. For me happiness is completely dependant on feeling great physically, being healthy, vibrant and confident. This feeling of what i call physical freedom permeates into every area of my life - business, family, being intimate... This awareness brought light to every other area of my life where I was able to take full responsibility - oh yeah - not so easy to do. But, responsibilty is the most powerful force to propel me (and you) to making the change. Because, when you empower yourself with complete responsibility for your creations and feelings that means you can change it all 100%.

So, as my challenge comes to an end, I am deciding on my new journey to raw foods. my new challenge will be refined to take the lessons from this one and keep moving forward.

Success is the progressive realisation of a worthy ideal.
Note to self - its a progressive realisation... not an over night achievement.

Whatever your goal and journey, id like to assure you that one step and one day at a time is powerful. Keep at it. It creates momentum and then one day, voila, you will be living your dream, and so will I !

I love you all.

Isnt this a beautiful inspiration to eat more vibrant foods?