September Magic
Life is Magic not Logic
It's my Birthday this month :)
38 years on this planet! 38 years around the sun!!
What major changes this planet has gone through in just the last 38 years…
For instance, when I was born we had black and white TV sets (if at all, as TV broadcasting in Israel only started in 1968), telephones, with no answering machines, that required moving your whole hand to actually rotate the dial (then I could remember phone numbers off by heart - today I don't even remember my mother's cell number!). We handwrote letters to people overseas that took at least a week to arrive, and we were actually excited to see the mailman (today we prefer not to see him/her as it's usually only the delivery of a bill of some sort). We ate meals sitting down with our families and the food was actually FOOD! Locally and organically grown, cooked in our own kitchen. Not laboratory/factory created, not hormone and antibiotic pumped, not genetically modified, nor pesticide/herbicide/insecticide sprayed. Not grown on the other side of the planet, created and boxed in some factory, flown/shipped/driven to the store and sitting on the shelf for months before warmed in the microwave (a dangerous machine, by the way) and popped into our mouths … Wow!
(and this is just the tip of the iceberg, or as we say in Hebrew, "the tip of the fork").
What things have changed since you were born?
With the way I am living and eating now I probably will live to way past a 100 rotations (knock on wood), but do I even want to live that long?!
Well, as long as I'll be healthy, happy, doing what I love and being with people I care about … which I will be … why not!! A good question to ask ourselves is: Why do we want to be healthy? What are we actually living for?
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This year's goal:
Let's make this year Magical
The first step in reaching what we want and making our life the best ever is to be Clear: getting in touch with our desires, from relationships to material possessions to feelings to vacations — anything and everything. Chances are better we will actually get it.
This month it is Rosh Hashana - the Jewish New Year. Let's make a list of what we really want to create for ourselves this coming year:
A desire list.
Don't hold back – be imaginative, creative and let the magic of life unfold.
Step 1: make a chart with 3 columns: Desire, Done!, Gratitude.
Step 2: Start by listing your desires. You can begin simply. You will notice that more ideas will come to you once you focus. Use any language you are comfortable with, such as “I want…” or “I desire…” or “I intend…”
Example: I want to go to Thailand for two weeks.
Step 3: When you complete a desire, put a checkmark (“V”) in the “done!” column and then write a thank-you note to whoever helped you complete your desire. You might be thanking yourself.
Example: Thank you, Mom.
Step 4: Put the list in a place where you see it, such as on your
refrigerator and add to it as you wish.
Step 5: Be patient. Know that it might take time to complete your list. Enjoy the process of fulfilling your desires and know that when you are clear about what you want, you are supported in getting it!
Adapted from: The Institute for Integrative Nutrition
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Food Focus: Cacao – one of the Magical foods
In order to live a magical life we have to put magical foods into our body. Imagine what would happen if you would put the wrong type of gasoline in your car. Similarly, there is no way we can eat junk food and have happy, inspiring, creative thoughts and feelings. If you live on junk food you'll have a junky life. "U R what U eat" is right these days more than ever. The clients I work with usually experience amazing shifts in their moods, thoughts, happiness, awareness, energy level and overall life as they change their diet.
So let's talk chocolate. What I actually mean is cacao – the bean of the cacao tree from which real chocolate is made. This is one of the most magical foods we can find. Human use of the cacao seeds may go back in time up to 15,000 years ago, beginning in South America. It is the number 1 source for Magnesium (the most deficient mineral in people's diets today), contains Iron, Chromium (which stabilizes blood sugar levels and moods), it balances brain chemistry, strengthens bones, is one of the foods most rich in antioxidants (way more than red wine and green tea), is great for the heart and brain, is a natural laxative, hormone balancer and more…
Makes us feel happy, in love and relaxed since it raises levels of serotonin, dopamine and phenylethylamine (the love chemical).
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Recipe of the Month:
New Years Apple Pie with Cacao
Serves: 8 - 10
Crust:
1 1/2 cups of sunflower seeds
1 cup raisins
Juice of 1/2 an orange
1 thin slice of lemon including the peel (discard seeds)
2 Tablespoons of cacao powder or crushed cacao beans
Place all ingredients in food processor until finely ground and mixture sticks together. Press into 8 inch/ 20 cm pie plate. Push crust right up to the edges.
Filling:
4 large apples, cored and seeded and cut into quarters (no need to peel)
1/2 cup agave nectar
1 teaspoon cinnamon
Juice of 1/2 lemon
In food processor, process 2 apples for about 1 minute. Add remaining apples with all other ingredients. Process until everything is combined and chopped into small pieces but not mushed. Strain off excess juice (you can use the sweet juice in a morning shake or for another recipe).
Put the mixture into the pie crust and smooth out.
Can be eaten in two ways :
1. Raw – for the raw foodists: Place in fridge for 1 hour to set (recommended: use saran wrap to line the pan and cover the filling – makes it easier to flatten out and remove when slicing)
2. Baked: bake at 180C/350F for about 45 minutes
Decorate with a choice of : shredded coconut, ice cream, tehini paste with honey, cinnamon powder or ground cacao beans and honey.
Adapted from: Naked Chocolate
Happy Birthday to me and to all the other Virgos around.
And Happy Magical New Year to us all.
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Bulletin Board
Radically Detoxing the Body - Support Group
Beginning November - exact date will be announced
Introductory lecture - end of October, exact date will be announced
Give yourself a true gift of physical, mental and emotional health.
Allow your body to regain its vital life force energy
by releasing accumulated toxins.
Feel like you never have thought possible!!
My very good friend Vishva Mitra and I
will be leading, for the first time, a 3-week Body Detox Program.
Vishva Mitra is, for the past 20 years, a passionate health consultant.
Meet him once and your life transforms instantly.
He has lived in India for many years, studying Ayurveda and nutrition.
In the last few years he has been traveling widely, helping people fast,
detox and regain their inner balance.
In November Vishva will be visiting Israel
and will offer this support group for the first time
and for a special introductory price.
The detox program is 21 days long and includes:
7 days of preparing for the fast
7 days of fasting (customized individually)
7 days of breaking the fast
Fasting is an ancient, simple, easy and super safe way to let
the body rest and heal itself.
clik here to read more
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Strengthening your immune system
by natural means for winter
Changes are in the air, autumn can be felt, and with them is the global intimidation of "the impending flu pandemic". People easily feed on fear – that place inside us all that is drawn to crises (otherwise why would we be reading up on alarming news events so closely ever single day!). I hope there is an increasing awareness that vaccination is definitely not the right action to take, but that it's a billion $ profit-making business at the expense of our health.
Alternately, there is another approach: we can strengthen our immune system beforehand in a natural way, based on ancient Chinese wisdom.
click here to read more
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Free Consultation
Many people today deal with their nutrition as though the world is flat. But there too, the nutrition world has been updated to round.
Please – wake up and "smell the Chumus".
Do something extraordinary… schedule a free Nutrition session.
click to take the first step.
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Health Food Store Tour
Monday, September 14th at 18:00
Do you ever wonder which oil to buy? What is Himalayan salt? What do you do with Amaranth?
Or even what it is?
Please click here for more information
Please book ahead
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Following the successful class and by popular demand
Another Super class on Super foods
Smoothies & Healthy Sweets
Tuesday, September 25th at 10:00
What are these Superfoods?
Why are they soooooooooooo healthy for us?
Why can they transform our life?
and How can we incorporate them into our daily diet?
Click here for more information for reservation : 054 - 4670239
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Magical Chocolate for the holidays
For over a year I have been making and eating my own home made delicious chocolate.
Beware! Once you taste this chocolate – you'll be hooked forever.
Coming out with two new flavors:
Chocolate Tehini – with whole sprouted organic tehini paste
loaded with calcium for strong bones
Chocolate Mint– with organic mint - NEW
Chocolate Goji– with organic Goji berries full of protein - NEW
For more inforamation and for purchasing please click here
For more information (in Hebrew) on Cacao please click here
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HASADNA
The positive workshop
Looking for special gifts for Rosh Hashana?
In Hasadna’s new shop you can find Recycled-ecological products, cool T-shirts, “Local Fairies” collection..
& NEW!! A set of dishes with positive messages :)
Like a fortune cookie, my message is waiting for me, and is exposed at the end of the meal, just in time…
(small Plates, large Plates, soup bowls & cake platter.
Can be purchased separately)
You are most welcome..
Hasadna, The Workshop Store
Rabbi Nachman 2 The Flea Market, Jaffa
10:00-18:00
Tel. 03-6877374, Nomi 052-4753034 , Tal 054-4480173
www.hasadna.org
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Studying (at my school) to be a
Certified Holistic Health Counselor
The Institute for Integrative Nutrition (IIN) located in New York City, where I studied and had the most AMAZING experience ever, is opening it's gates for Long Distance Learning studies.
You no longer need to be in NYC.
Please click here for more information
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