Spiritual Seeker? Be A Critical Thinker

In the beginning of a spiritual journey it is very easy to take spiritual messages and teachings at face value. I remember in the first five years of my spiritual path I was like a sponge, keen to absorb everything and anything. I loved the metaphysical and new age, and I met a lot of people with the same interests. However, I lost my critical thinker. I guess I wanted so much for techniques, messages, training to be for me that I simply believed everything.

Review: The Raw Chocolate Company

WARNING! This post can cause adverse drooling.

(And everything in moderation of course)

Three months ago this carb-aholic, sugar addict could not go a day without her chocolate refined sugar cruddy milk fat chocolate bar.

I ate weight-inducing chocolate, blood sugar nightmare bars, and now I am a recovering sugar addict I prefer quality in my chocolate habit. 

So you have been warned - look away if you are a chocaholic!

RECIPE: Sugar-free Chocolate, Date & Walnut Fudge (and Peanut butter!)

After 4 months being sugar-free, I have been keenly trying out lots of different treat-type recipes and I adored fudge as a sugar addict and I am happy to say you can still enjoy fudge when you go sugar-free or are diabetic (in moderation of course!).

Chocolate, Peanut Butter, Date & Walnut Fudge

 'Diabetic Friendly'

(Totally sugar-free OR you can use LOW GI Coconut Sugar)

Ho'oponopono - When The Whole World Is Inside You - A Beginners Experience

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Ho'oponopono what? Yes, it is a long word, a word I often have to think about when I try to spell it, but a word that describes an ancient Hawaiian healing process. As many of my readers will know I have  been experimenting with many different spiritual techniques and healing practices over the past 10 years and more. Ranging from Shamanism, NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming), EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique), Law of Attraction - create your reality visualisation - vision boards, scripting, affirmations, angel meditations.. well, you get the drift. I have probably been to most classes, workshops, read so many books and bought many a t-shirt.

Book Review : The Easiest Way (Including The Easiest Way To Understanding Ho'oponopono)

Title: The Easiest Way

(Solve your problems and take the road to love, happiness, wealth and the life of your dreams)

Includes The Easiest Way To Understanding Hooponopono.

Author: Mabel Katz

Published: 2009
Pages: 179

Price:  $19.95
Genre : Psychology/Self Realization

Buy 'The Easiest Way' Special Edition - Includes The Easiest Way To Understanding Ho'oponopono

I came across Mabel Katz by some synchronistic online search, not intending, and I still have no idea how I found her, but I am glad I did. I had dabbled in Ho'oponopono many years ago but I was not ready to take responsibility for my life back then and I did not understand the true meaning of Ho'oponopono which is the ancient Hawaiian Art of problem solving. In my past I used the statements "I am sorry,please forgive me, thank you, I love you" as an attempt to get what I wanted and control my life. Not to surrender and let go. I had not understood Ho'oponopono. 'The Easiest Way' clarified my thinking and understanding on this amazing mode of healing.

Is The Deadly Nightshade Family Good For You? Tomatoes, Potatoes, Eggplant, Pepper

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I like tomatoes, especially cherry tomatoes. The only thing is, if I have tomatoes for a few days in a row, I come out in an itchy painful whitehead rash on my cheeks and chin. So maybe tomatoes don't like me.

Well, I recently discovered tomatoes are part of the deadly nightshade family which also includes: potatoes, eggplant (aubergine), peppers, goji berries, gooseberries and TOBACCO.


Now, I'm not a big fan of egg plant, and peppers are okay occasionally in salads and stir-fries, but potatoes are a major staple food item in many people's diets and so are tomatoes.

Focusing On Lack Is Like Searching For Lost Keys

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During an extra long EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) session some time ago, something dawned on me about desire and focusing on lack. It could be lack of anything, money, love, health, physical beauty, anything we feel we have a lack of in our lives.

We may crave connection, love, friendship, money and yet it eludes us like a carrot on the end of a stick being dangled, always just in front of us.

Brad Yates, an EFT teacher, wrote in an e-book that when there are clouds over the blue sky we don't doubt that the blue sky is there, we just trust and know it is there. This made me think about how frustrating it can feel when we lose something like keys, or something we feel we really need in that moment. We scurry around frantically searching in boxes, cupboards, shelves; we search every nook and cranny and we simply cannot find it. And so, we give up, sit down, make a sandwich, do something else, and suddenly a light-bulb moment and we walk right over to where the object we have lost is, with no effort or thinking process involved.

My Sugar-Free Journey : 3 MONTHS and Counting - From Addiction To Change

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If somebody had told me last year that I would not be eating anything with refined sugar in it, I would have said they were crazy. I wasn't able to go 2 days without my bar of chocolate, my sugar in coffee, or my slice of cake. My meals consisted of shop-bought sauces full of sugar, my sandwich spreads the sweetest you could find, and my after-dinner treats my extra sugar laden sugar high for the day. I started my day sweet, continued my day sweet and ended my day sweet. My tastebuds were sugar sensitive and needed sweet food.

"I was officially hooked on the sugar drug"