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Tips from Richard

Remember that your body is composed of some 50 trillion cells, and it is in a continual state of flux.  At an atomic scale the body is being completely replaced at least every seven years.  This situation brings up the question: “If my body is always changing and completely replaced every seven years, what then is the nature of my core identity that seems to never change?”  By practicing inner-access and deep meditative awareness there is a real opportunity to see past the bodily identification and to ‘re-cognise’ the still, silent, pure, open spaciousness that feels like ‘home’.  Who you are is not a story about a temporary body but rather a ‘non-object’ of pure open experiencing.  Sound weird?  You bet it does, but sometimes there are things that just beyond words and language.  We’ve heard it before from a number of sources … “Turn within.”   Go ahead and do it … and see just how that enhances your capacity to change your beliefs, your perceptions, and your world.

Richard’s Quote

“Powers are attributed to any structure of ideas. We all tend to think that our categories of understanding are necessarily real.  The yearning for rigidity is in us all.  It is part of our human condition to long for hard lines and clear concepts.  Yet when we have them, we have to either face the fact that some realities elude them, or else blind ourselves to the inadequacy of the concepts.”

Richard’s Link Picks

Richards Book Pick

Wherever You Go There You Are ~ By Jon Kabat-Zinn

This is a beautiful and soulful book about mindfulness meditation written in clear language. It is easy to read and apply, and it contains relevant quotes from world authorities. Highly recommended …

Jayana’s Pearls of Wisdom

Jo’s Pick

Just for the moment stop and ask yourself this simple question:

“What lens / filter am I looking my life through now?”

Is it lens 1:
Life not going to plan or Life going to plan (right/wrong path)?, or

Is it lens 2:
Missing out on needs and wants?

Maybe lens 3:
I/they should have behaved differently (blame , blame and more blame ), or

Is it lens 4:
Reduced self worth /value?

Once you’ve identified the lens press the ‘Pause Button’ immediately. Stop feeding it! 

Remember that by changing your lens you can change your response  YOU CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE .

Warm wishes
Mia

 

Ingredients
·      1 tablespoon Grape Seed or rice bran oil
·      ½ tsp cumin seed
·      ½ tsp black mustard seed (dry roast cumin with black mustard seeds in a dry fry pan with no oil, then leave to the side to cool)
·      1 medium brown onion, finely chopped
·      2 garlic cloves, crushed
·      3 coriander roots finely diced
·      1cm piece fresh ginger, grated
Add following ingredients into 2 litres of boiling water:
·      ½ tsp turmeric ground
·      1 cup dried red lentils, rinsed & drained
·      ½ tsp Vegetable stock (optional)
·      2 cups thinly sliced white Cabbage
·      70g baby spinach
·      ½ 
cup fresh coriander leaves

Chonce (Indian Stock)

1.     Heat oil in a saucepan over a medium heat.
2.     Cook onion for 8 to 10 minutes or until tender.
3.     Add garlic dry roasted seeds, garlic, coriander root and ginger, cook for 2 minutes or until fragrant.
4.     Add lentils, turmeric and stock to 2 Liters of boiling water & bring to the boil.
5.     Skim off any white milky substance from the top of boiling water.
6.     Add cabbage, to cook
reduce heat to low and simmer, partially covered, for 30 minutes or until lentils have softened.
7.     Cook, uncovered, stirring occasionally, for extra 20 to 30 minutes or until thickened.
8.     When Indian stock (Chonce) is cooked add this to cooked lentils to cook further 10 minutes.
9.     Remove from heat. Stir in spinach.
10.  Serve warm with fresh coriander and cooked basmati rice.

Enjoy
With Love  – Aravindha Chef @ The Health Retreat 

The 38 Best Methods of Successful Exercisers –Part 2

(thanks Richard for finding these great handy excercise tips…looking forward to seeing next months Part 3 tips…)

1. This is the one that’s helped the most:  I’ve made a point to really, really, REALLY notice how much better I feel now that I exercise regularly; I’m sleeping better, my mood is better, I’m much less sluggish.  It took about 3-4 weeks to see it, but it’s helped a lot.
2. Make it a habit, don’t rely on motivating yourself to workout, consciously think of it as just something you do after ‘x’.  This was a huge aha moment for me.
3. On that note, do it in the morning, habits are much easier to establish in the morning.  The triggers are much more dependable (finish cup of coffee – put on gym shorts).  Morning triggers are always there and the day has not polluted your plans yet.
4. A daily morning ritual to mark the beginning of training.  In my case, tying up my bandana on my head mean’t ‘It’s running time’.
5. I started running consistently the month before I got divorced.  In theory it was the lowest part of my life – but I’d never felt better.  I couldn’t get over that.  I was sold on exercise, though it took me a while to make running the non-negotiable part of my schedule it is now.  After I got married again and when our daughter was a baby I used to run at the high school track near our house.  I’d pretend the bleachers were filled with people cheering me on.  “Good job!” And, “It’s great you’re leaving the baby with Dad for a while on this beautiful summer evening to do something for yourself.”  Well, nice – and hell.  It was hell.  I wasn’t in shape, I didn’t want to miss a second with our new baby, and that was that.  The pretend cheerleaders must’ve helped.  Certainly they didn’t hurt.  Because eventually, through a series of learning and unlearning and relearning the importance of exercising, it’s what I do.  No discussion.  No bargaining out of workouts unless I’ve made them up in advance.  It’s soothing, really.  There are no decisions to be made about exercise.  I just do it.  To the extent anything else good happens, I attribute it to this: running is magic.

• more tips from the life coaches
• scrumptious recipes
• recommended reading
• exercise tips
• Helga’s boot camp champ
• and more…

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