Dulse--Sea Vegetable

I've been mad about sea vegetables.  Make sure you check Sea Vegetables out if you are planning on a vegan diet.  They are full of minerals that the body needs.  You can also use sea vegetables such as kombu to add flavor to vegan soups and bean dishes.

Abundance and the Law of Giving: Day 9

This is Chopra's centering thought  and the mantra for today:
1. "Today, and everyday, I give that which I want to receive."
2. Om Vardhanam Namah=I nourish the universe, and the universe nourishes me.

The meditation was hard for me today.  I became afraid because I thought I was flying out of my body.  I opened my eyes.  I sunk immediately back in my chair in front of my computer with my earbugs tucked.  I needed confirmation of my location because for a moment I did not know where I was.  I heard a voice say, "Do not be afraid.  You are loved."  My heart was racing--beating extremely fast.  I felt like my mind was going to be blown.  I kept hearing the voice, "do not be afraid. you are love." Calm came over me.

 I lost the mantra because I felt like I was fighting to stay in my body this meditation. 
My focus came upon my breath.  The inhalation and exhalation of each breath is what held me together.  I finally got the mantra back and the bell rang. 

Interesting, my life is starting to connect with the meditations.  At the car rental place, the customer service rep wanted to tell me about my insurance companies coverage. I cut him short because I knew all that, and it was not necessary.  He said, "I'm just trying to tell you your coverage." Then I stopped myself.
I apologized.  I told him I was sorry for cutting him off and being rude.  I told him I know that he wants to tell me my coverage.  It made him smile, and he told me about my insurance coverage.  The next thing  I knew I was driving off in a rental.  I don't know what came over me and why I said that.
The gift that I can offer, or I did offer to someone I met today was an apology.

Abundance and the Law of Pure Potientiality: Day 8

Chopra's  centering thought for today and meditation mantra:
1. Through the Law of Pure Potentiality, I can create anything, anytime, anywhere.
2. Om Bhavam Namah (Sankrit)=I am absolute existence. I am a field of all possibilities (English).
 

This is what happened in meditation today

 

I was in tune with the mediation today.  I went for a walk and communed with nature.  I also focused on my root chakra and releasing blocked energy.  Speaking of blocked energy, the Beet Juice worked.  I eliminated that backed waste from the junk food in the wee hours of the morning.  I feel so much lighter.  

While I was walking, I kept telling myself not to judge my life situation or anyone Else's.  Now, this all occurred before I actually read the email Chopra sent and did the meditation. 
When I read the email. I was in shock.  I thought, "there is something to this meditation stuff.  I actually see it working in my life." 

During the Chopra's guided mediation, I slipped quicker than I ever had in to a calm state of mind.  I found longer periods where I was without chatter and without chanting the mantra in my minds ear. 

 

A few times, I felt afraid or rather overwhelmed.  But, I did not lose the focus or the meditation; I kept my eyes closed and stayed in the space while I breathed and chanted, "Om Bhavam Namah." As I was chanting, I felt a presence around me-- when I felt overwhelmed.  it said, "You are a loved child; do not be afraid."  I could feel as though something was touching my chin, yet nothing was touching my chin.  I felt the need to raise my head an breath deeply. I could feel light coming towards me from the left side.  Then the bell rang, and I came back to presence of my body and released the mantra. 

 

Spontaneous Fullfillment of Desires: Day 7

Chopra's messages for today are:
1. I use my conscious intention to manifest my dreams.
2. Sat, Chit, Ananda(Sanskrit) =Existence, Consciousness, Bliss (English).

A reflection the the week:  I have notice that I feel more peaceful and am in greater flow.  That sounds so hippie-dippie.  Now, I tell myself, "Don't judge it!"

I made a red beet and cucumber juice.  My body is backed up it needs to be un-stuffed.  The best way  I know how to detox is to drink fresh juiced red beets.  If you want a detox or an inside your body type of  cleaning drink the beet juice mixed with cucumber.  Cucumber is cooling and soothing and will help the waste removal easier on your body. 


I have not had beets in a while.  To tell the truth, I don't really like them.  I do however enjoy the earth taste that I get from them.   It is the taste of dirt, but not dry, harsh, barren dirt.  It is the taste of fertility.  Beets taste of the health and abundance of  the earth.  I can taste the life giving nutrients or the life force of the beets when I drink their juice. 

Usually when I buy beets to juice, I let them sit in the refrigerator, and forget about them.  I get lazy to juice.  It only takes a few minutes.  I decided today that when I buy the beets for juice, I  will juice them and drink the beets the day I purchase them. 

Yesterday after work, I got down with some vegan junk food.  Rice, Black Beans, Corn tortillas, Pico de Gallo, different types of salsas, Guacamole and Chips.  What I did not finish, I threw away because I did not want to eat that food today and if it were here I'd eat it.  I wanted to be raw today to cleanse myself. 

Now to meditation:
I found it easier to write about Beets than it was to write about meditation.  It is gettting easier to calm myself.  I just cannot write about it today. 

Seeds of Success: Day 6

Chopra sent the following information for our contemplation this morning:
1. Everything I desire is within me.
2. Ram . . . Ram . . . Ram (Sanskrit)= Everything I desire is within me (English).
 

It is 4:34pm on a late Saturday afternoon. I've been home for about 40 minuets. I wanted to do the meditation the first thing when I got home today.  Saturday is my favorite day of the week because it is my work day.  It is the day when I get to do what I want.  I get to talk about writing.  I get to help people with their writing.  I get be with others.  I love being with my students. 

Class ended early, it is the first time all semester that I let them go early in the later half of the day.  Usually, I make them grind it out--write. 

But, Everything is done.  Only the dire-hards and those who are trying to catch up stayed with me today.  Those whose work was complete were free to leave, and go work on the 2nd draft of their persuasive essay.  

Now back to Meditation
I am doing the meditation now because this morning I had to leave early to get to work.
I freaked out a little bit on this one.  I wonder why "Everything I desire is within me." blows my mind. 
After each meditation, Chopra has you answer a few questions.  i find it is best to do it right after the mediation is down, so you have the experience fresh in you remind.  It is more immediate than if you wait five minutes while you take a bathroom break.  I discovered somethings about myself.  What am I holding back from the world?  Share your natural gifts.   

I like the idea that success is being the answer to some one's prayer.  In other words, touch another person's life in a positive way--use your powers for good.  Communicate
 

The Field of All Possibilities: Day 5

This mornings centering thought and mantra from Chopra:
1. Today, I embrace my potential to be, do, and have whatever I can dream.
2. Sat, Chit, Ananda (Sanskrit)=Existence, Consciousness, Bliss (English).

Started the morning off a little early.  Instead of turning the TV on, I turned the computer on.  Is the computer becoming the new TV?  new thing taking my attention away from writing. 


What do I do when I'm there?  There on the computer. 

I check the all my email accounts.  Hit the facebook.  Go to Youtube; take care of the comments.  I sit at my computer writing to my imaginary friend on the internet about my day, what I ate, how I maintained a vegan lifestyle, and meditation. 

I should be reading serious books about composition and writing articles.  I should be asking the hard questions about learning?  Whatever those questions are?  I should be thinking of new ways to incorporate collaborative learning into my practices. 

But instead, I am going over the chords to Randy Travis's "Forever, & Ever, Amen."  I look forward to playing my guitar.  I want to watch Marty throw down some tasty licks. 


Attention Reader this is a New thought.  I am transitioning to a new thought

I did the Chopra guided meditation.  It was pretty good.   Practicing these last five days has made me look forward to do the meditation.  I will meditate tonight before I go to bed. 

I'm really enjoying bedtime.  Before I turned the TV off, I used to set the TV timer to shut off while I dozed off to it.  That is pretty sad.  If that is not addicted I don't know what is?  I am consciously choosing to live my life instead of watching others live theirs.  I am consciously choosing deprogram and reprogram my mind. 

Primacy of Consciousness

Trip off this I found this video on consciousness.  Remember Pure Consciousness is the theme of the day.  The synchronicity moment of this whole thing is that Peter Russell begins with a quotation from Thomas Kuhn's text, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.  This is a part of the reading list for grad school.  I did not read it.  One of my instructors asked me about Kuhn's text, and I told him I didn't read it because of the red words.  In my mind, it looked hard.  Who knew that it was about consciousness? 

Now the same text pops up in a video during a 21 day Meditation Challenge on the day dedicated to Pure Consciousness.  The universe is telling me I need to get down with Thomas Kuhn's text, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.

 

Pure Consciousness: Day 4

Chopra sent the following information to aid us in our meditation today:
Our centering thought for today is:
1. From this moment forward, I invite unlimited abundance into my life.
2. Aham Brahmasmi (Sanskrit) = The core of my being is the ultimate reality, the root and ground of the universe, the source of all that exists (English).

I cannot believe that I am sticking with thee meditation.  Each day it gets easier to go into the silence, and I've only been practicing 4 days.

During the guided meditation, I felt a surge of energy from my root chakra.  As you know, I am actively working to strengthen all of my charkras especially thee root.  The root chakra is the seat of creativity.  It is also sexual energy, which I have not used in 7 years.  I know I need strength here if I wish to write.  I ask the universe to allow a channel to open, so that an abundance of thoughts can flow through me in the form of words.  
 
I've been asking myself, "Where do I live?"  I've been living in scarcity.  I am coming to understand that is a mind set.  I can live in the space of abundance by first recognizing it around me.  I am blessed to have the life that  have.  When I think about, everything is easy for me.  I have shelter, food, and a vehicle.  I am surrounded by my family.  I am a loved child.  I sleep at night in the safety of my family's arms.  I just coming to realize that.  I've spent most of  my life trying to get away from them.  Blaming them for my problems.  No--it is my family that holds me up.  It is my family that gives me strength to walk each day.  This is abundance.  I am grateful

Kundalini Meditation

I wrote this on November 5, 2012.

Just did a guide Kundalini Meditation, I feel very clam.  My legs, hands, and arms feel relaxed.  My neck feels tight,which is my communication chakra.  My heart chakra feels heavy.  I have pain there, but that makes sense because I know that my heart chakra is very weak. 

At the part of meditation where it has the meditator imagine (or realize the energy) the heat rising from the root chakra filling the whole body, I actually felt heat rising in my body.  The top of my lip began to sweat a little bit.

Images:  I saw a snake.  I saw a snake wit its fangs and black eyes.  Its mouth was open, but it was  hissing at me.  It just was.  I did not fear the Snake, or wish it away. 

I get the message--and it is heavy magic.  It is transmutation. 

I also thought about how I have not used my creative energy since I moved to Stockton.  I thought about how I want to act.  I want to perform.  I thought about how I've given up on that. 

I thought about how I want to be in a loving relationship with a man.  I wish that this time of loneliness was over.  I also accept it if being alone is my path. 

Mind, Matter, Spirit: Day 3

The focusing words that Chopra sent this morning are:

1. "Today, I focus on what I want to attract into my life."
2. Sat, Chit, Ananda (Sanskrit) = Existence, Consciousness, Bliss

This meditation should be easy for me because I know what I want to attract in my life. 
1.  A loving partnership with a funny man.
2.  A home with a vegetable garden and fruit trees.
3.  A tenure track teaching position at a community college near my mother.

I did Chopra's guided meditation at 10:00 am this morning.  My mind raced all over the place.  I've been doing additional meditations during the day for this challenge.   10 minutes is not enough time for me.  I just get my body settled down.   

Is it that easy to just ask and you shall receive?  I wish to attract these three situations into my life.  I am putting it out into the ethers, which is the Internet to me.  Normally, I write in my journal, my book that I hold my thoughts in.  I was thinking what if the journal, which is for my eyes only, keeps my wishes and does not release them into the universe. 

If I truly believe in vibration, then the Internet is a vibration.  It is a suppository for the human mind, for our ideas.  The Internet is a means or a mode of connecting to each other.  It is a means of sending messages; therefore, I am sending a message to the universe through the Internet. 

I want to return to this idea of vibration.  While driving south on the 99 freeway, I came to an interchange where the 99 meets the 120.  From the first time I encountered this interchange, I felt queasy as I drove through this spot as if I would pass out.  This one particular day, it occurred to me that I was driving through a highly charged vibrational zone.  I can feel vibration. 

Follow me.  I hear music.  I feel music.  When I play my guitar, I feel the vibration emanating from the guitars body following into mine.  I cannot see this vibration, but I know it exist because I can feel it.  Each note on the guitar as a different vibrational pattern.  Why cannot places and people have different vibrational patterns? 

Source of Abundance: Day 2

Here are the two ideas that Chopra sent this morning:
I create my personal abundance from an infinite source.

Aham Brahmasmi (Sanskrit).  The core of my being is the ultimate reality, the root and ground of the universe, the source of all that exists (English).

I did the guided meditation with Chopra this morning at 8:30.  I do feel relaxed.  I'm still on the coffee.  I'm not going to stress about it.  I am doing a lot of work with my mind the next 21 days:  breaking the addiction of television and focusing the mind. 


It is 2:51pm, and surprisingly, I feel good.  The sun felt great on my body as I walked the path next to the Calabasas river.  In my mind's ear, "Hey Good Looking" by Hank Williams played.  I thought, "Wouldn't it be nice to play that song." 

As I came to the crossing for the river, the older woman who always wears shades and sun-visor appeared.  I've never seen her on that side of the crossing; she normally walks by the freeway over pass.  We talked.  She was happy to see me.  Then, and man with a handlebar mustache road up on his bike and said, "Hey Good Looking." to the older woman. 

I replied, "And you're suppose to say 'what you got cooking.'"  The three of us laughed.  Is that a coincidence that this man spoke the words of the song I was hearing in my mind.  

Music was the meditation for most of the day.  When I start thinking to hard about playing my guitar, I lose it.   When I just play and feel the vibration of my guitar's body against mine that is when I find the rhythm.  Breath has a lot to do with playing. 

Just an observation. 

Behold the Abdudance that Surrounds: Day 1

Today is the first day of the Chopra 21 day meditation challenge.  I checked my email to see the information that he has for all of those who are participating.   He gave us two thoughts for the day:
1.  "Today, I behold all the abundance that surrounds me."
2.  The mantra:  So Hum (Sanskrit); I am (English).

I've been up for about an hour.  I reminded myself of the plan,which is no booze, no TV, and no coffee.  I will eat a high raw vegan diet on this meditation challenge.  So far, I made myself some coffee.  I haven't drank it yet, but I plan to indulge. I am reminding myself that it is a practice not perfection.  The goal is to be free of the chemicals.  right now, this is my "I am"

After I meditate, I will come back and let you know how it is going.    

It's 11:59 am.  I made it through the morning without the television.  I played on the computer and practiced my music. When I looked at my email, a youtuber sent me a message about caffeine and artificial stimulants.  That must be a sign from the heavens above that it is time to let the drugs go.  yes, caffeine is a drug if you did not know that.   

It's 1:38pm, and I got the first meditation in.  I don't know how long it was because I did not time, but I hazard a guess at about 15 minutes.  My mind was racing.  I brought my attention back to my breathing--the up and down movements of my tummy. 

I had a slight sexual fantasy, but I guess that is good.  My root chakra is weak, so it must have gotten activated whilst I was meditating. 

Meditation Challenge.

Monday, November 5, 2012  three things are happening:

1.  Commitment to meditation with the 21 day Deepak Chopra Challenge.  I will share all the emails and information I learn.
2. Giving up the white wine.  It is the last alcohol that I've been drinking, and it is foggying me up.  when I drink, I am useless.
3.  Commitment to writing.  I am afraid to write, so I have to write.

Which means--I will be back blogging here.  I think it is time for some real honesty.  It is time for me to be honest with myself if I want to change my life and move to the next level.  I had a chakra reading and all of my chakras are weak except for my crown.  so at least I know that I have strong connection with the universe/God/the force--whatever you want to call it. 

I'm not sure if anyone reads this blog, which is probably why I will post here.  Get it out!

Life is a Basket of Cherries

I know you have heard the cliche, "Life is a bowl of cherries."  Well I'm here to tell you "Life is a basket of cherries."  You can carry more in a basket than in a bowl.

You want a super food?  Eat Cherries. 
They have a higher concentration of antioxindants and vitamin than blueberries.

You want to stay young?  Eat Cherries.  They help slow down the aging process.  Researchers haves hown thaat cherries contain melatonin, which is the key antioxindant that slows the aging process and regulates sleep.