The Brain Washing of America: Food- We Are Asleep (In Response to a Recent NY Daily News Article)

This morning my husband sent me a link to this article over at The Daily News: Park Slope Food Coop And The Holy Kale  and it really annoyed me. Not only is the article poorly sourced, and clearly one-sided in its opinion, but in reading the comments, I find it amazing that people have such a need to attack those who choose healthy over unhealthy.

In the article, as evidence of the co-ops 'elitist' clientele (read: eating healthy means your an elitist and I'll get to this in a minute) the writer cites a 4 year old having a melt down because his parents won't buy him papaya spears. Here's the thing: go into any grocery store and you'll find at least one 4 year old having a melt down because his or her parent won't get them something but usually it's Oreos, a candy bar or a bag of chips. How wonderful that these parents have made papaya spears more attractive and that dried papaya is the object of the child's desire rather than something with empty calories.

50 Ways to Live Life Conscious: 8 Tools and 42 Concepts to Help You Wake-Up and Live

"Life is a journey. Spiritual evolution is a spiral. Living a conscious life puts you in the driver’s seat of your own magnificently spiraling journey." Christine Agro We've been asleep at the wheel of our lives and the time is now to wake-up and start steering! In this inspirational book, metaphysical expert Christine Agro shares 8 simple yet powerful tools, life changing insight into why we are here and how our lives work, as well as 42 concepts that encourage and support conscious living.

Huff A Little Less

Today I was at Adams Fairacre Farms, a local market, picking up a few things I needed. When I got to the check out, I swiped my card. Have you ever noticed all of the swipe machines are just slightly different? So I asked the cashier, 'do I press cancel or enter for credit'. The woman let out an audible and slightly perturbed 'huff' and said, 'you press the 'credit' button.'

Motivate Your Self-Worth - 12 Week Tele-course

Our self-worth is a factor in every relationship we have and since every interaction we have constitutes a relationship, our self-worth is key in living the life we desire.

We have a relationship with our selves. We have a relationship with family, with friends, with loved ones, with co-workers, with our boss. We have a relationship with money, with love and with time.

Every interaction forms a relationship and our self-worth will impact whether these relationships are good, bad, challenging, easy, health or unhealthy.

Self-worth becomes one of the 'buzz' words that can mean very little. You may be thinking 'but I like myself' so why do I struggle with some of my relationships. Because self-worth is not just about liking your self, self-worth is about valuing yourself, it's about trusting yourself, it's about honoring yourself, it's about believing in your self.

In this powerful 12 week course we will delve deep into our self-worth to release, heal, honor, embrace, and ignite our self-worth.

You will do the work. You will gain insight and learn tools to help you improve your self-worth.

In addition to class time, please plan on investing an hour a day to practice.  You will also need a hands-free headset.

This course is taught via tele-conference.

There are no pre-requirements for this course.

This course is broken into two six weeks sessions.

Wednesday October 3 - November 7th  8pm - 9pm ET

Wednesday November 28 - January 3rd 8pm - 9pm ET

Fee $600

REGISTRATION CLOSES SEPTEMBER 28th

One payment of $600

Auto-payment plan: Two payments of $300 

 

Live Your Life – Sometimes Easy To Say, But Not To Do

As women we can be confronted with many blocks to living a fully empowered life and please remember I’m not just talking about women in North America. This is women around the world. Laws, religion, culture, society and family all offer blocks for women to live their own life. I call these blocks ‘symptoms of our dis-empowerment’. They are the situations, experiences and beliefs that keep us from truly living our life.

Take a woman living in India - her culture, her family even her religion may say her role, her purpose is to marry. Take a woman living in Jerusalem -her society, her religion tells her she must sit at the back of the bus. Take a woman living in Egypt -her society and laws tell her she cannot vote. Take a woman living in Saudi Arabia - her society and laws say she cannot drive.

Yet in each of these countries woman are claiming their right to live their lives. How do I define ‘right’? I define it as our ability to see within ourselves and within others innate personal value. The ability to not buy into a notion of less, lacking or limit based on gender, race, religion or sexual orientation. To see that laws, rules, guidelines and acceptable mores are subjective based on the influence of those who ultimately benefit by what is established and followed as the truth.

Are Relationships Meant to Be Forever?

We see celebrities in and out of relationships and we are fascinated with the activity. The news of new romance, lavish weddings and crash and burn splits grace the cover of almost every magazine that faces us at the check-out stand.

But are relationships meant to be forever?

Take the recent split of Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony.  In J-Lo’s upcoming Vanity Fair interview she said “Sometimes it doesn’t work—and that’s sad. But I remain an eternal optimist about love. I believe in love…”

Should we see relationships as failures when they end?

From a metaphysical perspective our intimate relationships are the number one place that we work on our life lessons, and our life lessons contain the how, why and what of what we are here to do. If we want to be empowered, we may unconsciously manifest a relationship in which we need to fight to be heard, or to be seen.  If we want to value ourselves, we may unconsciously manifest a relationship where cheating or some form of diminishment is involved so that we can get to a place where we stand up for ourselves.