“The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.” ~Siddartha Guatama Buddha
May is Celiac Disease Awareness Month
May is Celiac Disease Awareness Month and I’m ready to party. The gluten free life has been life changing for me. I see the lifestyle as one of health and wellness, not deprivation. So I have a few things planned for this month.
May 5th — Gluten Free Progressive Dinner with Shirley Braden of Gluten Free Easily, Anne-Marie Bacon of My Sweet Marie and Carrie Niesen of Gluten Free Fabulous joining me. We will be moving from blog to blog for each course. This is going to be fun! Did I mention this is also Cinco de Mayo? My eBook The Gluten Free Good Life will be marked down to 99 cents on May 5th only in the Kindle Store.
May 12th — 10 Alternatives to Gluten Free Bread
May 15th — Gluten Free by Choice Given the choice between sickness and health, wouldn’t you choose health?
May 19th — 10 Reasons to Enjoy Gluten Free Life
May 26th — The Celiac Disease Awareness Campaign
May 31st — Celiac Disease Awareness Month Wrap-Up
It’s a busy month here at Espirational, but don’t worry we will still have espirational quotes and videos during the month. Healthy Living A to Z will also continue as usual.
TED Talk by Dr. Dean Ornish
Thought for Today
“Life is a risk; adventure is radical innovation;
creation comes about day after day,
it is something absolutely new and unforeseeable”. — Raimon Panikkar
[Source: http://raimon-panikkar.org/%5D
Making Home a Sacred Space
It is important to create a sacred space to retreat and recover from the world. For me that is our home. These are a few ways to make home sacred space.
1) Allow only people, thoughts, ideas, images, etc. into our homes through media that we would let in the front door. You would be surprised what can slip in on the computer.
2) Begin the day in peace. Create time to stretch, listen to the early morning silence, pray, read spiritual writings, and eat a nutritious light meal.
3) Set an atmosphere of peace and balance using color, positioning of furniture, lighting, music, keeping clutter to a minimum, etc. Spiritual practices such as prayer, scripture, affirmations or burning sage may also be used.
4) What we put in our bodies matter. Home is a good place to focus on nutritious whole foods.
5) Make time for family sit down meals. This is not just about food. This is about connecting and communicating. Close family connections don’t just happen, they take work.
How do you make your home a sacred space to retreat from the world?
Thought for Today
Thought for Today
“For the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth – that Love is the ultimate and highest goal to which man can aspire. Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.”― Viktor E. Frankl [Source: Man’s Search for Meaning]
Healthy Living A to Z: I is for Inner Guidance
Inner guidance, also known as inner wisdom, or intuition helps us learn the ways of Spirit, but it also helps us make good decisions and protects us from harm. But we must listen. Learning to listen, and interpret information received is not always easy. We may ignore this gentle nudging expecting the booming audible voice of God, thunder and lightening or even the physical manifestation of angels.
I experience a vague feeling that something isn’t right. It has taken years to learn if something doesn’t “feel right” I don’t do it. Sometimes messages are more direct, but may not be as they seem. Once I sensed a building was going to collapse. The building stood but the church meeting there fell apart.
Not listening to inner guidance can have lasting consequences. I was very angry when a healer told me a major negative event in my life could have been prevented by listening to inner guidance. But he was right. When this happens bitterness or anger do no good. We must accept the consequences, learn the lessons and start listening.
Learning to listen and interpret inner guidance takes time, patience and openness to Spirit. But remember, help is only a prayer away.
Thought for Today
“Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.” — Tenzin Gyatso,” 14th Dalai Lama, as quoted in Words Of Wisdom: Selected Quotes by His Holiness the Dalai Lama (2001) edited by Margaret Gee, p. 71
Thought for Today
“If we wish to know how we stand with God, let us examine ourselves and how we feel toward our neighbor. This companionship that we are seeking with God is found in the friendliness we show our brother.” — A Search for God Book 1[Compiled by the study groups of the Association for Research and Enlightenment]
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