PH Miracle

"There's nothing complicated about eating to stabilise your blood sugar. Eat plenty of less acidic food, and skip the very acidic foods. You need to eat lots of green vegetables, (good) water, and (good) fats. You need to NOT eat sugars and starches. You need to eat frequently, and you need to STOP eating when you are satisfied."

Dr Young, taken from The PH Miracle for Diabetes.

I'm back on the PH Miracle. I've been on and off the plan a few times in the last two years and followed the guidance to different degrees. I decided last night the time had come to go back on the plan and give my digestion a break. So, that means soups and juices for the time being. I'm going to notice the impact on my digestion and judge the length of my juice feast based on that. I don't want to scare myself by putting a number of days on it. I previously did the juice feast for 21 days and I'm noticing I need to manage my thoughts around doing that again. So softly, softly to start with.

One of the programmes in my mind, that has been running since before I can remember, says I have to finish everything on my plate, and I mustn't waste anything. It's not very helpful when you're trying to eat for energy and vitality. I can remember being praised as a child for being able to eat anything, and being the dustbin of the family. If only we'd known. With determination and discipline I'm building the muscle of the new belief that there is always plenty of food, it's not scarce, and that I choose to eat for health!

I've had a good day so far. Drinking lots more water, had two lots of soup and vegetable juice too. I don't feel hungry. I'm noticing the effect of taking insulin and what level my blood sugar is, really does impact on my emotions and I've been in a vicious cycle where one thing feeds the other! Letting go of the need to eat to feed my emotions has felt hard to conquer. I feel I'm nearly there though.

The truth is we're taught from the moment were born to associate food with comfort. Whenever a baby cries one of the things we do is give them milk until they stop. I know that lots of people, myself included, find it a challenge to notice when hunger is genuine and also when to stop eating.

I want my life to be my responsibility - I don't want to be ruled by my emotions, getting lost in them as I have done. I want to use the messages I receive from my emotions to change my thinking and manifest what I want!

Fayx

Communications!

For some years now I have written questions to myself and gotten some amazing answers. Within the last couple of years I have noticed that these communications appear to come through me but aren't of me, if that makes any sense.

A while ago I took the scary step of asking exactly who was answering and received the answer "God". I've continued these communications off and on for the last two years and, lately have been told that I am in communication with the Pleidians.

I had never heard of the Pleiadians until I started attuning to Reiki energy. On the first course a woman told me about an experience she had while exploring her past lives and, how she had received a visitation from a Pleidian. I admit I was very intrigued, and very sceptical but all the same, curious as hell. I bought a book, read a little and put it down. Since that time over a year ago now, they have popped up in conversations and my consciousness.

So, it was no surprise at all to discover recently, that the beings or being I am communicating with is a Pleiadian or Pleiadian energy. I'm still understanding how to describe this as you can see.

I am putting this as a blog entry, as I have finally accepted the truth of this gift and experience and want to share it with others.

My intention is to put together the information I am receiving from them so that others can benefit from it.

Watch this space and keep smiling!

Fayxx

The Next Step

It's 12.55 am, late or early dependent on your perspective.

Spent the weekend at The Next Step with Joseph McClendon in London. A seminar on "The Science of thought, emotion, attraction, focus and action!

Wow, I feel so lucky. I only discovered I was going last Tuesday and I feel so "grateful" and "great full" to have manifested the opportunity and to have experienced the energy we all shared. The ticket was a gift from a brilliant coach, Rich Waterman.

I met some amazing people and learnt more and more about how to manifest! Like all of us I've been manifesting all my life. It's only in the last couple of years that I've realised there's a science and an art to it. Since that realisation I've been honing the skill. This weekend has been a weekend of mastery. So, watch this space to hear what shows up in my life.

The next Cosmic Ordering course starts on Wednesday. If you're ready to step up to the challenge of manifesting what you want rather than remaining stuck with what you have, then you are very welcome to come along.

Living the life you want, takes high self-esteem, courage and confidence. Whatever your conditioning and the beliefs of your peer group, you can decide what to believe, and today could be the day to think I deserve more, I'm worth more and I'm going to take responsibility for making it happen.

At the end of the day I have learnt lots from the wonderful mentors I've heard, read and seen but it's me that has to decide to make it happen or not, through my thoughts, emotions and actions. The responsibility lies with me, and you, to manifest what we really want.

We can do it!!

Smiles and smiles, love Fayx

Day 9

I'm home! So, in a matter of 9 days I've become, yet again, a new version of myself. Master NLP and Hypnotic Practitioner!

Wow, I'm so proud of myself. I met some fantastic people from all over the world, a coach from Japan, a hypnotist from Australia and many others from the UK. How lucky I am to have the course virtually on the doorstep, when some people travelled from the other side of the world.

Richard Bandler asked, today, if we'd surprised ourselves.

I've surprised myself a lot over the last three years, the surprises started when I began writing. So, it's not a new concept to me, however I have been surprised by how much I knew already and how I was able to work with other people on the course and see some incredible changes. Receiving great feedback from the trainers was lovely too. It makes such a difference when people believe in you!

We're conditioned from a young age to focus on what we can't do well, and this is then pointed out by people, and ourselves, for most of our lives in some cases. I, for one, have stopped doing it. It makes no sense to keep telling ourselves we're not very good at stuff, when most of the time it's not true anyway! It's a ridiculous habit that can be changed.

Noticing and changing the areas we want to develop is a much better plan. Focusing on what we do well, and doing more of that is where the joy of life is. Once you're in that space, you can seek out new opportunities, that's the way to surprise yourself.

When was the last time you surprised yourself? If suprising yourself is something you think you haven't experienced, then think back to being a child and notice how many times you surprised yourself, for example, in terms all the things you learnt to do, from the minute you were born.

After all, you learnt to breathe, cry, see, crawl, walk, talk, play, laugh, smile, sing, paint, write, read, I could go on, are you getting the idea???

We take so many things for granted and we forget the wonder that is life!

Go on, surprise yourself!

Day 8

Two more days then home!

The day started to sounds of workmen, traffic, and people moving about in other rooms. Have you ever noticed that sometimes you just sense all these different noises and sometimes you don't? Have you ever wondered why? It's all about focus and which sense is heightened and how conscious you are.

Play with focusing on what you can hear or what you notice about what people are wearing, choose a focus for the day and see if you can maintain it and notice what you notice.

The highlight of today was seeing Richard Bandler, transform five people who had been told they weren't artistic and musical, into creative beings. It really is magic and I for one, am a believer. "Seeing" isn't believing you know, seeing as our eyes aren't the ones doing the "seeing", our brains are.

It's our brains that decide and then communicate what our eyes see and experience, and it's wave patterns of energy that are outside us. It's our brain that transforms these into the images we see.

There's so much I thought I knew, that has surprised me over the last few years. It's a joy to accept that I'm often wrong and that there's so many new and wonderful things to learn and experience.

The same goes for you!

Here's to the last day. Let the magic be unleashed!

Fayxx

Day 7

Meta Programmes!

These run throughout our lives and we didn't even know it. It's been an interesting and inspiring day. I've learnt about how programmes run in our daily lives, and tried out the concept, seeing how it fits with my own experience. I am curious about how I can use these, to improve myself and my life, and support others too change what isn't working.

A programme we examined was around "same" and "difference". In terms of decision making, where on the scale from, everything must be the same, to everything must be different, are you? Ask, do I notice the things that are the same, then the differences, or someone who notices difference then sameness.

An example we used, was who goes for the same biscuits as they've had previously at the break and who wants a different sort. It's an interesting and very useful idea to play with!

Do you go to the same restaurant and order the same meal or do you try different restaurants and order different meals each time? There's no right or wrong. It's not that it particular says anything about you or me as a person, but it does give you information about your experience that you can play with. It also helps you notice what works in relationships and what doesn't. You're much more equipped then, to improve life. A person who likes things to be the same in a relationship with a person who likes everything different, could be a fun show!

Have a play!

Question to ask yourself today:- How much fun can I have? Take this question in your mind and apply it to each moment of today and see what happens.

Fayx

Day 6

The Best Day Ever!

To put it in a nutshell would be impossible. I have learnt and become aware of so, so much today!

If I tell you I was put into a deep state of relaxation, layed across three chairs with only my head and feet on the end ones. Then, had the middle one removed and remained ram-rod straight, would you believe me? And I was aware of everything.

I've always known that the programming I've received in my life up until a couple of years ago had some major faults. The main thing I was taught to believe, was life is hard! Consciously and unconsciously my mission has been to re-programme the behaviours and attitudes that have held me back, and then to use this learning to wake up people to their potential.

Well, this week has been about me realising my potential, and coming face to face with a reality I've been dreaming of. Human potential is infinite. Anything is possible.

I worked with a man on the course and through deep relaxation, I was able to give him the ability to hear and amplify a conversation. In his normal conscious state this was impossible.

I've always known I'm an agent of change. Now, I have the tool I can use on a whole new level to really help the people I work with, to change beliefs and gain strategies, that will give them feelings of happiness, joy and pleasure whenever they want!

Life is easy, it's glorious and shiny bright, once you take off your filters and give them a clean so they sparkle!

Is it time you had a look at your beliefs and how they're keeping you stuck in life?


Fayxx

Day 5

Blimey, it struck me today that this is the half way point.

It really is amazing to realise that there's still four days to go, what wonderful insights and revelations are to come!

I want to tell you how well the management of my health has been while on this full on training. I've achieved some amazing results in terms of my blood sugar being very stable and taking low doses of insulin. Increasing my intake of avocados to at least two, has given me some great results. I'm amazing myself and other people! Having quite a few conversations with people about the food they eat and interest in what I eat. "Vegetables" I hear them say. Do you eat bread? Dairy? Meat? People find it hard to comprehend that I don't. I understand their view point as I was one of them until I started this journey, which began when I decided not to eat meat. It's hard for me to believe sometimes, especially if I look at all the rows and rows of food that can be found in supermarkets.

Anyway, I'm having a cold soup consisting of avocado and leaves and cucumber and celery etc for breakfast and for lunch a big salad and similar for tea. Obviously I'm rotating leaves and veg, which is giving me lots of variety. I feel fantastic. I'm having 6 hours sleep a night and feeling refreshed and wide awake (apart from when I'm in trance) on the course. I really am very proud of myself!

As a treat I've found a shop where i can buy raw ice cream that's made with cashew nuts and agave nectar! It won't do my blood sugar much good but it's all about feeling good, caring and nurturing yourself and having a sense of balance in life.

In terms of the course, today was a gift from the Gods. To be honest, I feel a little unclear about how to put it into words here, so hopefully by tomorrow, after a good nights sleep, I'll be clearer! The thing about NLP and Hypnosis is that it's all about getting past the conscious mind and connecting with the unconscious, in order to create strategies that will make your life work the way you want it. It's as simple as that!

I'm really looking forward to the end of the course and using what I've learnt with clients by helping them change patterns of behaviour that are limiting them. First client booked today!

Bye for now...

Love
Fayx

Day 4

I really am in an NLP bubble, I seem to be losing track of what day it is!

I have to tell you about some of the wonderful people I've met here. There are 90 people and the atmosphere is great. Lots of different nationalities all eager to learn how to make themselves more successful and happy. I wouldn't want to be anywhere else.

I'm moving around each day and meeting new people, as well as keeping in contact with the people I met at the start. It's great seeing everyone looking more confident about what their learning and seeing the smiling faces. There's a complete contrast when I get on the tube to travel to the hotel near Earls Court. Not a smile in sight, well apart from mine, that is, and the odd smile returned. What a shame that people are so serious, when they would feel so good inside with a smile on their face. We all think and feel better with a smile.

I'm taking my own advice and leading by example. I had a conversation with the cashier at M & S today which was good. We spend too much of our time when we're moving from place to place missing out on the wonderfulness of the people around us. Often this can be because of fear and being taught that someone we don't know is a stranger and that "strange" is something to fear.

What if we re-constructed the word, "stranger", in our minds and gave it a different meaning? Something like, a stranger is a wonderful person we're going to feel curiosity and wonder discovering more about. I wonder how that small shift could change our individual worlds and the planet as a whole. I have a feeling it would make a big difference. I'm going to use that meaning from now on and empower myself to connect with more "strangers", I hope you do too.

To complete a fantastic day of learning. I went with a friend I've met on the course to a shop called, Mysteries in Convent Garden. He bought his first pack of Angel cards and a crystal pendelum. What an experience for him and me. We met at the beginning of the course and had lots of angelic weirdness ("weird" another one of those fear inducing words - that I love) to share as well as guidance and stories. I feel so pleased for him to be opening up to the spirit world and all it can offer him and the people he meets.

So much has come into my life that I am grateful for since the Practitioner Course this time last year. I would never have believed it was possible for my consciousness to be at the level that it is now. I'm filled with joy and wonder at what the future holds for me!

Day 3

Day 3

Three days has gone by so quickly. I've been sitting on the front row for all three days. This is something I never did a few years ago and it's taken me re-programming myself via my thoughts and feelings over the years. I'm now able to comfortably sit there and not feel scared that I'll be picked on. It's refreshing and amazing to be me and to have thoughts like "pick me", "pick me". I'd love the opportunity to be hypnotised by Richard Bandler! Watch this space. Lets see if the Law of Attraction provides!

We looked at language patterns today and the wonderful things people say and what these words say about us as people. Fascinating stuff! Of course, we all do this intuitively, through body language, things we leave out, noises we make, etc. I'm seeing it as fun to unpick what I do naturally, label it with a name and then put it back into my brain.

The trance exercises we did today were about illiciting an optimists strategy (we used mine, which I've been perfecting for years!) and then helped a pessimist change theirs so that they are now more optimistic about their life. We worked in three's and it was great. I saw an optimist literally change and start to believe he could do anything! Amazing feeling for him and me!

I also picked up a wonderful tip that can be used in trance and visualisation to improve a person's confidence. So I'll be using that in future in playshops and individual coaching.

I heard today that the strongest instinct in human beings is to make life familiar! How true that is and if you translate it, it means that we as human beings have a fear of the unknown and this can be an appropriate one or totally out of proportion dependent on the human.

When you actually look at this as a concept - to be scared of the future - it's seems ridiculous to me, as we'd be bored stiff if we knew everything that was going to happen. The fun is creating it to be the way you want as you go along, knowing always that you can cope with everything. Because when you look back at your life, you always have.

Celery, avocados and lots of love - (because I'm being soooo organised and goooood eating raw and healthy from my hotel room in London!) xxx

Getting Closer to the Dream

Day 2

Finally,I'm letting go of the overthinking! Experienced working with someone today using trance/altered states and saw some real changes taking place and came face to face with the realisation that I went with my feelings and let go of the self talk that can often hold me back. I'd experienced results before but not at this level and I know the difference was me and how I approached it. The results were awesome, so feeling very proud and excited about how this movement is going to impact in other areas of my life and also how it's going to empower me to help others.

These techniques are really amazing and life changing!

I also learnt that in terms of manifesting my dreams, associating myself in my visualisations by living the dream and feeling the feelings I associate with it is going to speed up the process. And also the realisation that I was dissociated from some of the pictures I make in my head which in terms of the exercise we did, meant I wasn't experiencing the full impact of the experience. I was an onlooker and from quite a distance which of course gives a totally different experience. I've got to be in it!!

So decision time. I'm going to associate myself to my pictures and make sure there's much more detail in my visions of me being me in my future. The distance has been creating more distance - Law of Attraction again. Focus on distance and you receive more of it!

Warm Wishes,

Fayx

Day 1 - Master Practitioner in NLP

Day 1

I always know when I’m in the right place because of the people I meet and the synchronicities that I notice. It’s that Law of Attraction again.

Before I’d even completed the registration process today, at the Master in NLP course, I’d connected with someone I met at the Practitioner course who told me about a person he knew who worked at a local radio station. Wow! The Universe had delivered, so effortlessly again. I told the Universe I wanted a way of getting on local radio to talk about how I help people. Delivered! Watch this space for more information once I’ve taken some action by contacting the person.

So, it’s the end of day 1 and I feel tired. It’s been a busy few days. Organising to be away from home for 9 days and then settling into a new routine has caught up with me I think. On top of that there’s the process of body, mind and soul learning that I’ve experienced today. NLP really is a whole person approach to healing. There’s also the confusion I feel when I’m out of my comfort zone. Experience tells me that this is a fantastic thing though. Any feeling is a signal and keeping perspective, and managing any negative thoughts that could exaggerate it, is key for me.

Is coming out of your comfort zone keeping you from reaching your full potential?

What are the thoughts you are thinking, that keep you there?

Happiness is ours anytime we choose it. Fayxx

Evening Before The Main Event

So, you're wondering - what's the main event? 9 days training for my Master Practitioner in NLP, that's what.

It's been an amazing year. This time last October, I was doing the 7 day course with Richard Bandler, Michael Neill and Paul McKenna. I know, "life changing" can be an expression that's banded about, but it is important to say that it’s always relative and personal to the life that has changed. It was truly life changing for me, and I therefore anticipate and expect that 9 days of further training into the mechanics and techniques of NLP and Hypnosis is going to jet propel me forward into the life of my dreams. Scary – am I up to it, I ask? And exhilarating, because I know whatever happens, I’ll be okay!

David Wolfe

Doesn't time fly when you're living your best life! It's been a while since my last blog and lots to let you know about.

I'm going to start by sharing with you what I was doing in London on Friday and Saturday. In a nut shell I was doing the stuff that nurtures me - eating raw, learning, meeting new people and expanding my horizons.

Friday, I was lucky enough to visit two raw food restaurants. Vita Organic by day and Saf by night. I want to you know (those of you that aren't in on the secret of Raw Food), that it really is the future. This food is a mixture of pure bliss and nutrition you can't measure. And it felt so good to give my body that gift in a social setting this weekend. Have a look at the pics of me, my friend Jo and of course, the food!

Part of Saturday was spent nurturng my inner artist at the National Portrait Museum and then I spent the afternoon with David Wolfe, Raw Food Guru! Wow what a trip.

David was truly inspiring to me in lots of ways. The first being that he's worked with Tony Robbins, and it showed. He's obviously used Tony's principles of attaining happiness and success in his own life. His energy was awesome as well as his belief in what he has found to be true through eating raw and going for optimum health.

The highlight was spending some time talking with him about diabetes where I received some amazing insights into my healing.

He believes that diabetes in my case is viral and he asked me if it was in my pituitary gland or pancreas. This question in itself was a revelation to me, I'd never considered diabetes being anything other than a malfunction in the pancreas. But here I was being presented with a choice. After some kinesiology we discovered mine is in the pituitary. Learning this gave me such a rush of energy through my body that it felt that the angels had picked me up and spun me round. True resonance.

He went on to explore with me where this could have originated, and talked about my past issues with sinusitis from being aged 12, and the use of antibiotics to treat it. This brought us to nearly two years ago when, after a period of stress, I had a very bad flare up of the symptoms and became quite ill suffering from recurring headaches and infections. It was my mission to find a cure for this and overcoming diabetes had led me in that moment to David. That's how powerful an intention can be powered by the Law of Attraction.

I was blown away by the insights I gained from my conversation with him. He's recommended I start using a Terminator II zapper, which I'm going to find out more about and I'll keep you posted on that.

So to all you seekers, the answers are out there. This may or may not give me freedom and ultimate health, however it is the next step and I know that the process of taking the steps and learning about myself and the world can only bring me peace, harmony and love.

If you're new to raw food, haven't heard of David Wolfe or have more insights please share! The more we pass on what we've learnt the more we'll ensure positive change within ourselves and the world.

Love and light, Fayx

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Love is the only way...

Fayx

Friendly Disguise

I have a friend who plays a huge part in my life. They're always there, through "thick and thin" and "ups and downs", always with the same useful words of wisdom, always pushing me onwards.

Sometimes I don't see it that way though. I don't recognise what they do for me. I'm ungrateful and unaccepting of the gift of their friendship. I sometimes want to change them to be more like me. You see, they always think they know best. Always have lots of advice about the way to do things. For example, with the Raw/Living Food lifestyle I've chosen - they've had plenty to say about that.

I listen to my friend. That's what you do for your friends. It makes them feel good and I feel better if they're happy.

My friend's the complete opposite of me, where I'm fearless they are full of fear. Where I'm optimistic they are pessimistic. Where I'm open to new ideas, they are very fixed in their outlook.

I wish sometimes we weren't so close, as the intimacy of our friendship can sometimes be overwhelming - I worry that I'd miss them though.

Okay I'll come clean - my friend isn't a person. Between my life as it is now and the life I want is my friend, resistance.

I've just read an amazing book called "The War of Art" by Steven Pressfield. I read lots of books and can recommend many, but this book is in a league of it's own. Maybe, it's because of the huge impact it's had on me, maybe you'll find it does the same for you. Anyway, you can let me know.

It took me a while to read the signs that I needed to read this book but when I eventually started reading it, I knew straight away it was written by a man who had felt and experienced what I feel and have felt a lot of over the last year a half.

I had resistance before I realised that's what it was. Since I've stepped out of my comfort zone and have continued to do this in lots of different situations, my resistance has been in a spin. Trying to get me to stand still, to stop, to do what I've always done and has used numerous methods to achieve this.

You may be wondering why, if it trys to hold me back in my comfort zone, I would call it my friend. Well, firstly it wants the best for me - it just has a funny way of showing it! It can only know past experiences and therefore bases it's advice on what's happened before. We've all had friends like those haven't we!

From my own experience it was my identification with the voice of resistance that led to feelings of overwhelm and loss of control. To put this simply, I forgot that the voice of my resistance, and it can take different voices, - is not ME and therefore the voice of your resistance is not YOU.

I had forgotten as I suspect you have! So I'm reminding you and myself here and now, that the voice of resistance that is finding excuses and drama around not doing the things that will make you happy, is not YOU, it's your resistance.

What makes me feel enormous relief is that my resistance is my friend as it shows me contrast. Without contrast we would not manifest our dreams. We have to know what we don't want in order to decide and chose what we do want. So, it's not wrong to have a friend who points out the pessimistic view point and things that could go wrong, it's just information about what we don't want. The problem is that most people identify with the voice, believe what it's saying and allow themselves to be talked out of their desires, making themselves very unhappy in the process.

My advice is to make friends with your resistance. As in all relationships, friendships are places we go to learn and grow. Use your relationship with your resistance to grow and develop yourself, challenge, accept, and listen as you would to a friend. But at the end of the day, believe what you believe and act from that place of faith, trust and relief that once we choose what we don't want, the things we do want are available to us very easily.

An example of how this works in my life is that resistance has been building a brick wall between me and my writing projects for sometime. Each day they add a couple more rows of bricks and each day I sigh and get stuck into the other priorities in my life. Sometimes I can scale the wall and sit down on the otherside at my favourite spot and churn out my hearts murmurs. The energy it seems to take to do that varies but it is of no consequence when compared with the elation of the writing and achievement of my goal. The interesting thing is, and Steven refers to this too, is that you would think the wall would start to crumble after climbing it, however it doesn't, it does the opposite and gets stronger. Yet, it will never out match the self-belief and feeling that to write is what I'm being guided to do. The resistance helps me on my journey, teaching me how much I want to write, as well as tools for helping others express themselves in whatever way they desire.

So, go read the book, experiment with the concepts and believe in your desires. Accept that your resistance is showing you contrast, be strong and courageous and stand up for your desires, you're worth it!

My Son's drinking Green Smoothies

Hurrrah, hurrah! My son, Tom, 18 going on 208 (in terms of being the wisest soul I know - when it comes to other people) had his second green smoothie today.

After most of his life screwing up his nose at anything remotely "green" he's decided I look and feel so good there must be something in this green business! Whatever his reasons, or yours, he's doing it and that's all that matters, just DOING IT.

Whatever it is that you want to do and have been resisting DO something today that will be a baby step towards it. You'll feel relieved and so pleased, and the Universe will send you more positive reinforcement than you are able to imagine at the moment. Cos if you're not doing it for whatever reason then you're in fear.

Fear is an illusion! It doesn't exist, it's a figment borne of your sub-conscious beliefs which have manifested in your conscious mind. In short you've made it all up. There's nothing to be scared of or fear...treat yourself kindly as you would a child and say supportive, loving words and send nurturing feelings and support to yourself so you can make that small, tiny step - make the phone call, do the research, write down what it is you really want - Go On...and imagine I'm there with you, cheering you on...because you know what? I am, in spirit, I'm right by your side doing it with you!

Anyway, back to the smoothie Tom had today.

Green Magic Potion...for those mornings when you want your cells to sing and dance you all the way to work...

2 handfuls of spinach
half a mango
1 banana
2 spoonfuls of papaya flesh ( I just love the look of papaya's when you open them up - all those shiney black seeds - wow)
Add water to the consistency you want, less to eat as a pudding
Add some ice if you want more freshness

Put it all in your magic blending device and press GO!

Tip: when blending with greens, remember to put the runnier, softer fruits and water in first, it puts less pressure on your equipment!

Green Smoothies

Today, I want to share some amazing knowledge with you. As a powerful manifester I receive much guidance and gifts in the way of realisations, learning's and just knowing. The way I describe it, is a resonating with my soul! A vibration that says, "this is it"! One such realisation has come via a Russian woman called Victoria Boutenko.

Victoria has introduced me to the wonders of "green smoothies". There are many other fantastic people talking about the wonders of the green smoothie, however it's Victoria, in her book "Green for Life" and via her website at www.rawfamily.com that has provided the concrete evidence to negate the years of conditioned flannel I've been handed and digested.

Here is just a brief list of the benefits of green smoothies:

• unprecedented weightloss to optimum weight
• wrinkles lessen and disappear
• the green part of a smoothie is providing a nearly perfect match for our own DNA
• there is an abundance of protein in greens
• hair, teeth, nails, skin all benefit amazingly from the good stuff in the greens
• energy levels soar to new heights
• muscle tone is developed from drinking green smoothies

For those of you who know me through coaching or my playshops, you'll know I have been determindly searching for a cure for "diabetesing". "Diabetesing" is a term I am more comfortable with than the label, "Type 1 Diabetic" for various reasons that I won't expand on here. However just to say that I believe unconsciously we are the creators of everything we experience, even the diseases we manifest. A hard pill to swallow... and once you stop beating yourself up about it (my unique way of living up to recently), its enlightening and life changing.

I have met resistance and disbelief to my own belief and truth that it's possible to reverse and irradicate "diabetesing" from my body. However I have always believed that I can do it and therefore have searched and been given lots of information, knowledge and finally experienced the realisations necessary to inch closer and closer to it's achievement.

I started with the PH Miracle in June 2007 after experiencing Unleash the Power Within with Tony Robbins, where I said "I'm going to have to give up meat..." That weekend changed my life, took me out of a world I knew and plonked in one I had never believed existed. How grateful am I for the man who rang me while I was walking in the woods with my dog, Ben and sold me two tickets for UPW.

I am now starting a new beginning, a new leg of my search and that is embracing green smoothies and a new way of "eating" into my life. There is plenty of evidence out there from other people who have been "diabetesing" and who have had positive reinforcement and have healed their pancreas's and overcome the disease that is so damaging to mine and other people's wellbeing - physically, mentally, and spiritually.

I want to end by asking you to step outside of what you know and experience green smoothies for yourself. If you do nothing else to promote your wellbeing then do this. Have one drink a day and notice what you notice. Seek out the knowledge you personally need to make it happen, watch some people in action talking and making smoothies, read "Green for Life, listen to an audio of Victoria, whatever it is that speaks and whispers to you - DO IT - because there's a part of you waiting to be opened and accepted. Green smoothies and the power of greens will help support you to do it.

We have to make a conscious effort to step out of the conditioned responses and habits we have accumulated. This can be as hard as you want to make it. I've learnt to take myself by the hand and say, let's go on an adventure, a magical mystery tour, just for a few hours and see what we find. I can say I've never been disappointed, just empowered and incredibly grateful for the people who have come into my life, Tony Robbins, Victoria Boutenko, Dr Young, Richard Bandler, Michael Neill, Paul McKenna - it really is endless. Share what you learn and grow, grow, grow!

Please let me know the results of your own adventure and magical mystery tour. I want to get this moving in my local area and help as many people as possible lose excess weight, feel vitality and energy in their cells again. I want everyone to have the opportunity to live the life we all crave - one of freedom and love.

Spread the word and share your thoughts. If I can help you let me know how?

Reflections on Patterns

We must face our own ugliness. We often must become painfully aware of the unworkability of a pattern before we're willing to give it up. It often seems, in fact, that our lives get worse rather than better when we begin to work deeply on ourselves. Life doesn't actually get worse; it's just that we feel our own transgressions more because we're no longer anesthetized by unconsciousness.

—Excerpted from A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles ofA Course in Miracles

I subscribe through Oprah's site to A Course in Miracles, and receive a reflection every day. Today's reflection really resonated with what I have been experiencing recently.

What does it mean to you?

To me it was a wonderful message from the Universe which has enabled me to gain comfort and clarification with some of challenges that have come up in terms of managing the letting go of negative eating patterns. After a week of managing cravings for fruit and sugar, yesterday they dropped away as quickly as they had arrived, leaving me feeling free and more aware of my body, mind and soul.

So, when we're lost in the thoughts generated in our minds and feel we've lost direction, we can be assured that there is perfection in this and it will pass leaving us free and aware of having let go of something that wasn't serving us.

We are Creators

What a beautiful Sunday morning after the cleansing and nurturing rain last night. I'm using those words (cleansing and nurturing) as I don't particularly have any affection for rain but the beliefs underlying this keep me housebound, so I'm changing it!

Here's a green smoothie to changing as many of the limiting beliefs that hold you back as possible.

I've been creating this morning and in fact was creating till about 2 o'clock this morning before taking myself off to bed. Completed two Ladybugs, a red and gold one and a pink and purple one. Very cute, I just love them. Also started a painting made up of hearts. I really didn't know how it would turn out! Do we ever know how anything will turn out in life? As life tends to do, it's emerged into something with beauty, love and peace in it's colour, depths and feel - like life I suppose, it depends on how you look at it.

I found a wonderful site this morning called Wordle. Have a look at my masterpieces and make some of your own. Its a fantastic idea and works on so many levels. And of course, I love it because it's WORDS! Here's the link to mine:-

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Here's to the power of creation, breathe into your life, release your fear and enjoy every moment.

With Love.

Green Smoothies

Today's realisations! I get them everyday as I’m sure you do. Do you record yours? Well, it’s well worth it. I advocate journaling and have done it for a few years now, on and off. I notice that at times of challenge I turn to it or resist it, but either way I finally get to it and it has amazing results.

I love the written word and in terms of journaling I love how very simply it can reflect back to you what you need to know. You just need to read between the lines so to speak. Your journals also become a wonderful resource and sometimes I contemplate the "general public" one day reading mine…now that would be fun, I feel an editing marathon coming on.

Anyway, back to the realisations of today. Ever since I was labelled with Type 1 Diabetes, 9 years ago, I have been searching for a way of balancing my blood sugar and feeling well! I’ve tried lots of different ways but it was in June 2007, at an Unleash The Power Within weekend with Tony Robbins that I first heard about alkalising the body. It was at that event that I made the decision not to eat meat and am very proud to say that I haven’t eaten any since. Have I missed it? “No”.

I now know what it does to my body and some of the processes, hormones and chemicals used in its production. To be honest giving up meat was easy, what has been more difficult has been changing my lifestyle to embrace alkalising. There is quite a bit of history to this, as a lot has changed for me since June 07 and I’ve tried lots of different ideas and processes. In summary, I no longer have any processed foods, diary, most fruits, alcohol, wheat or yeast products and very little fish. I can safely say there is quite a lot I do miss but I mainly miss fresh and dried fruit, especially the tropical fruits! My decision not to have these foods is based primarily on how they effect me physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually and also the research I have done into how the foods are processed and whether they are acid or alkaline in terms of how my body uses them.

The last alcohol I had was about two months ago. I had a glass of red wine and although I enjoyed the taste, it was divine. I didn't enjoy the feeling it gave me after the third sip. In fact I couldn't drink it all and haven't been drawn to wanting any since. In order to know what a massive turn around this is for me you need to know that I was a whisky drinker and could drink for England. I sometimes have to pinch myself to see if I'm real, and check in the mirror to see who I am. Although that doesn't help because I don't look like I used to! Changing your lifestyle and the food you ingest can have an effect on your whole physical make-up. I've lost a stone and a half since last Christmas! I laugh now when I think my goal was to be 10 stone! I now weigh 9 stone! I can't remember ever being 9 stone!

I have been living on raw live foods and using Dr Young’s, PH Miracle - Diabetes plan, to manage my blood sugars. I have had amazing results in that I’ve more than halved my insulin intake (day and night), which is fantastic when you know that the insulin "diabetics" use is a chemical that is only similar to the bodies own and therefore is a toxin.

So there’s a little of the background to where I am now.

The realisation I had today was after watching and reading more about green smoothies on the web and in a magazine I receive called Get Fresh from the Fresh Network. Victoria Boutenko’s demo and interview on You Tube, gave me some food for thought! I’ve known about raw smoothies for a while but what I didn’t know was what led her to put raw greens into a smoothie. She talked about her family eating raw for 7 years and reaching a plateau. Some of the symptoms she described I realised I could relate to. In particular, for me, it is mainly around fluctuating energy levels. So, I started thinking maybe I’m eating the right food but I need to play around with how my body is processing it, and the realisation that maybe I’m putting too much pressure on my digestion, by expecting it to digest the raw food I’m eating without blending it.

After all, it's not "You are what you eat" it's "You are what you digest"

So, I set to work straight away producing a green smoothie. The challenge for me is that I don’t eat fruit or very little. By following the Ph Miracle for Diabetes I can have grapefruit, lemon and lime, all other fruits have considerable amounts of sugar and therefore are detrimental to my blood sugar. I can tell you green smoothies would be a whole lot more palatable with an apple!

Anyway, I had mine with kale, water, half an avocado and the juice from a carrot and three very small beets for some sweetness. I tried it without the sweetness from the carrot and beets but it was just too bitter. After a good whizz in the blender I was pleasantly surprised, it looked a lovely pinky purple (my favourite) colour and tasted creamy, due to the avocado.

In terms of my blood sugars, they’ve been spot on all day and I’ve felt full. I had the smoothie as my lunch and for supper. The other indicators for me in terms of functioning, as I have become so sensitive to food and its effect on me since detoxing from acidic foods, have been that my concentration and clarity of thinking and focus has been spot on too. So it’s a thumbs up for the green smoothie.

If there’s one thing you can do to alkalise your body it’s this. Introduce a green smoothie to you and your families life and start the process of unlocking the potential for joy and happiness, literally straight from your cells. The chlorophyll from the greens is pure sunshine.

Please get in touch if you too have been given the label of "diabetic", I'd love to hear from you and share what I know and maybe pick up tips from you.

More realisations soon!

There's Always a First Time - Spinning

I went spinning today for the first time, oh what a joy, to do something that you’ve been putting off, something you’ve craved to do but found many excuses to avoid.

Here are just some of the stories my mind generated:- "I’m not fit enough, I don’t like bike’s that much, they’ll be better than me, what if I fall off (a friend told me the first time she tried it she fell off the bike, so I had evidence for that one), what if I run out of energy and have to stop – I’ll look really stupid".

I noticed this morning the mind kicking in with it’s fears, "you’ve got loads to do, you haven’t really got time for spinning have you? you can go another day, get the work done that needs doing". And for a minute I forgot and started listening until I remembered, I’m not my mind and the reasons I wanted to go spinning in the first place were: to improve my fitness, to meet new people, to have fun and exercise, to learn something new, to be healthy and vibrant and have energy to reach my dreams.

Everything we achieve in our lives has to start somewhere. I talk about baby steps, what's the first baby step you can take in reaching your goal? And after that, okay, now take another.

The baby steps I took to make it happen were:- find out when the classes are, ask different people what their experience of spinning is, book the class, the day before - organise clothes, bag, etc and anything that could stop me from going, notice how I’m feeling about going and focus on the why’s and how I’ll feel after I’ve achieved the first class. Holding a vision of myself, smiling, joyful and happy with sweat running down my face, saying “Yes I did it”.

These steps can work with any fear. The key I have found is not making the fear and the mind that’s generating them wrong. If you do that’s where the conflict with yourself heightens, and it becomes very difficult to do what you want to do. It's where many people get stuck. What works for me and other people I’ve worked with is seeing the entity that’s creating your negative thoughts as your friend. Rather than resisting take it by the hand recognising that it wants the best for you and is trying to protect you. Be encouraging and loving with it while explaining that you are always safe and explain the why's?. Immediately you’ll find this kindness will take away the edges of the fear and resistance from your mind. It will open to listening. If you continue this practise you’ll find the mind will give you thoughts that can support you with ideas and inspirations of how best to look after yourself.

In acknowledging the fear and working with it kindly, you’re looking after YOU!

In terms of the spinning it's definitely something I'll do again! The bits I'm celebrating are meeting new people who were full of advice, guidance and encouragment for a newcomer, and the feeling of accomplishment after.

A Magic Day

This is a magic day. I started this blog some time ago and have been struggling with my resistance to use it to connect with you all, which I liken to a traffic light going from green to red! One minute I’m ready to go and the next, it’s slow down and stop! No more of that! Today I truly accept who I am, what I believe and herewith decide to share it with whoever is drawn to reading it.

After a life time of “people pleasing” that really is an accomplishment!

I haven’t decided whether this is going to be a daily, weekly or monthly blog. I’m being kind to myself and therefore leaving my self-expression and creativity open to the flow. My inspiration to really connect has come from other blogs I’ve read, where people have been really honest about their experiences. So I say, thank you, to those people, particularly Karen Knowler and her work that continues to inspire me in terms of her approach to life and commitment to being uniquely her.

So there you have it my declaration!

In terms of my life over the last year and a half, there have been lots of changes! So I anticipate the blog will cover topics such as:-

How I lost a stone and a half by alkalising my body?

How I continue to discover how to create balance in my life?

How believing I can cure diabetesing affects my life?

Discovering who I really am?

How I’ve come to know what loving myself is all about?

How I learned that independence doesn’t serve me?

And that’s just for starters! I would love to hear from you on any topic that’s challenging you or successes you want to share.

Remembering to celebrate is something I believe we’ve forgotten how to do. So here’s to celebrating this new beginning and to the creation of something amazing.

Time

One of the big challenges for us all is time!

Often when I talk about coaching and how it can help people, I hear how difficult it is for people to gain the the right mind set in order to stay aware of their time.

It's my belief that how we view time, is where we need to make the shift.

Try holding this thought in your mind for a day and notice the difference:

"if your time was your allie rather than your enemy how would you treat it?"

Paradigms

Our paradigms, correct or incorrect, are the sources of our attitudes and behaviours, and ultimately our relationships with others.

Stephen R. Covey "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People"

Myths

In the "Power of Now", my favourite book at the moment, Eckhart Tolle talks about three myths.


Myth 1 - Humanity has reached the pinnacle of its development.

Myth 2 - We are completely separate from each other, nature, and the Cosmos

Myth 3 - The physical world is all there is.


Just to clarify myths are fictious and unproven in other words are stories we hold as true. We have been told these stories for all our lives so we believe them and sometimes see no reason to challenge them.

Take five minutes and imagine that the three statements written above are totally untrue.

How does this impact on your view of the world and the people in it including yourself?
What beliefs and certainties do you want to change?
What could you imagine doing now that was impossible before?

In agreement with Eckhart Tolle's view I believe humanity has not reached the pinnacle of its development, that we are connected with all life, rather than separate and that consciousness has both physical and nonphysical dimensions of reality.

Success and Happiness

To be without some of the things you want
is an indispensable part of happiness.

Success is getting what you want;
happiness is wanting what you get.

Anon

Feeling Angry?

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else - you are the one who gets burned.

The Buddha