Food is anything that can be consumed. It could be material. It could be information. It could be energy. It could be space. It can be consumed and it can be imbibed. What you consume or imbibe becomes you. You are what you food. You are food. You are part of the food chain, literally and figuratively. What kind of food you are depends on what you pay attention to. What you pay attention to becomes food for thought, whether you like it or not. Pay attention to what you pay attention to and you know what is that you consume, and what becomes of it. You become the food you consume and imbibe.

Bon appetite!

As clichéd as it may sound, there really are two aspects of us that are poles of each other - lets call them the archetypal 2 wolves (honouring the ancestors whosoever introduced the idea of the wolves to the masses). What we eat feeds either the healthy wolf or the unhealthy wolf (I degress from tradition here - they are not the good and the bad wolves).

When we eat our veggies and drink our milk and honey, the healthy wolf gets stronger and has us choose healthy constructive lifestyles and healthy quality of life than we would have asked for. When we feed us a lot of coke, fried potatoes, more meat than our body needs, and cigarette and alcohol, the unhealthy wolf is happy and gets us into more trouble than we would have asked for.

Bon appetit !

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
                                            ~ Marianne Williamson

Place soles of the feet flat on the ground.
Knees soft. Elbows soft.
Tuck the tail bone in (slightly firming/tightening the lower abdominal muscles will help with this) and pull back the neck.
Spine erect, with the vertebral bones aligned one on top of the other, starting from the base of the spine through to the base of the skull, with the head softly placed on top of the spine.
Jaws soft - unclenched (allow tip of the tongue to touch the front
roof of the mouth, with tongue tip touching the back of the front upper row of teeth; this helps relax the jaw).
Shoulders back (rotate the shoulders front-up-back and then drop them. This would help bring the head and neck back and also broaden the chest while bringing the shoulders into a more anatomical unstrained alignment with the rest of the skeleton).
Feel or sense the top of the head (crown region).
Relax the forehead. Relax the face.
Relax the thighs and calf muscles.
Relax the abdomen.
Relax the pelvis and hip joints.
Feel or sense the breath through inhalation and exhalation.
What thoughts are running through the head, what bodily sensations there are at the moment, what emotion is present?
Checkin on how the skin throughout the body feels. Feel the air and clothes on the skin.
Tune in to all the sounds you can hear.
Tune in to smells.
Tune in to taste.
Look around and orient to the variety of colors available to see.

This is ground zero. Anytime you feel confused or in trouble, come to this as a baseline. This is basic alignment/orientation.

(I will fine-tune this post in time but this is available for now)

Do not be taken aback by the rock-like music and bright colors. Watch the video until the end to see what I am telling you. There is a story being told here and a message for you.

What is trauma? Anything that has one dissociate from life the way it is, in response to an incident, after which life is never the same again. Of course, life can never be the same again with a happy incident, but "trauma" is when life is never the pleasant way it used to be again.

In the movie, Frozen, Elsa has had to defend herself from the environment she was in by offense (she had to create an ice fortress to ward off from the hurters/judgers. She had to shut off her emotions so she could no longer feel, so she could no longer feel the pain. She had immense power but she could not control her power when she needed to (to save her sister Anna's life from the impact of Elsa's own action...the act of directing her icy wrath on Anna when Elsa wanted no more of Anna's attention). It was only love that could thaw the ice and bring the emotion required to melt the icy statue that Anna was getting frozen into. It is only love that could help Elsa control her power, and not be a force of destruction. It is with love that she could breathe, heal, love and live again amidst people.

People either Fight, Flight, or Freeze to deal with life's situations. When you dont come out of Freeze or are stuck in a perpetual Freeze state (emotionally usually, but could also be physically or intellectually or spiritually) that life is never the pleasant way it used to be again, and then you have to work to 'be strong' in order to deal with the 'bitch called life' (the pleasant, smooth, flowy life becomes a 'bitch' when life is not pleasant anymore and you have to deal with life rather than live life, because something happened and life was never the pleasant way it used to be).

If any of this resonates with you, time to give me a call or message me on the Contact page. It is time to heal, breathe, love and live again.

We keep talking about the mundane, routine, pointlessness and meaninglessness in living. "Like Sisyphus futilely pushing the rock up the mountain" has been a constant example. But, no one can keep pushing a rock up a mountain and not get stronger muscles! Repeatedly doing such activity must at least build the 'will muscle' stronger and that translates to endurance! The way I see it, routine is not boring at all, thanks to the article below. There is something happening just by perseverance.

Click on the button below and see where I got this idea from.

Everything is food; depends on the proportion.
Everything is poison; depends on the proportion.

This image represents the proportion of Sattvik, Rajasik and Tamasik foods required to maintain health and activity in a constructive (libidinous) tendencies and lifestyles. Disproportion leads to destructive (destrudinous) tendencies and lifestyles.

(Will update this post with more info on the 3 types later).