Archive for January, 2012

Are You Nourishing With Your Vitamin BE’s?

In the social mirror, it is often stated that to be healthy you have to properly nourish you body with vitamins in order to be strong and healthy. Well, the message for today is what are you doing to nourish your mental capacity to keep it strong and healthy? Do you think that there is any connection between your physical body and your mental acuity?

All too often in the social mirror (society), our physical health is always separated from our mental health as well as our spiritual health. Just know that they are all interconnected and work off of an interdependent paradigm. This is done on purpose because where there is division, there is weakness. A strong person operating with bullet proof glass around them, has all there faculties together and operating as one.

With today’s message, I am going to give you a few keys to nourishing your mental, physical, and spiritual self by focusing on what exactly you are doing with your self and how you are BEing. Are you nourishing all three with your vitamin BE’s? If not, here are a few suggestions to nourish your mental, physical, and spiritual self with a few simple but powerful principles of thought and action.

1. BE Yourself — be who you are and bring your uniqueness out into the world despite the narrow viewpoints of mindless others.

2. BE Your Best — be the best person that you could possibly be and you will always be happy with yourself and your efforts.

3. BE Positive — be a pool of positive energy and achieve more than you have ever imagined.

4. BE Learning — be in a mode of learning because life is nothing but a schoolroom.

5. BE Teaching — be a teacher in life in what you have learned to bring success to you, teach it to others to help them.

6. BE Proactive — be assertive and go after the things and ideas that you want to incorporate into your life. Don’t sit back and wait for things to happen for it will be a matter of time when everything passes you by and leave you wondering what and the world happened.

7. BE Giving and Receiving — the universe acts in dynamic exchange. If there is something that you want, give it and then you will have it.

There you go, 7 principles of thought and action that will nourish you mind, body, and spirit. When strong and nourished, you have the strength to travel on your journey of success that you are creating for yourself.

Nature’s Fruits Hold the Secrets of Health

Researchers studying the ancient medicines of the Amazon Rain Forest have discovered a variety of health promoting fruits from nature. These fruits have been used by native cultures to improve health for centuries. And some provide a completely balanced diet all by themselves. The indigenous peoples do not exhibit the physical decline and chronic illnesses that modern cultures have to contend with as the population ages.

Studies show that combinations of fruits can help the body restore and maintain normal health without the potential side effects so common with drugs. Among the reported benefits of eating a variety of fruits are:

- Greater energy/stamina
- Immune system support
- Improved digestion
- Anti-aging
- Improves mood/better sleep
- Skin health
- Eye health
- Anti-inflammatory

A healthy diet should consist of three to five servings of fresh fruit a day. Especially brightly colored fruits. Eating a combination of brightly colored fruits can contribute very significantly to maintaining personal health. Most experts agree that it is best to consume a full color spectrum variety of fruits.

Yes, we all know we should eat more fruits and vegetables. But lives are busy. Quick meals are often necessary. Fresh fruit is expensive in some areas. We only have a few boring fruits to chose from. Parents don’t enforce healthy eating habits on their children or themselves. No wonder obesity is epidemic and that even children are now affected with many of the chronic diseases once reserved for older people.

Faculty members in the Harvard School of Public Health feel the current government recommendations still fall short. They believe that if anything has been proven in nutrition research, it’s that eating lots of fruits and vegetables reduces the risk of heart disease, some types of cancer, and other chronic diseases.

The popular Acai Berry that grows in the Amazon Jungle far from roads or polluting industry without pesticides or fertilizer is one of the new “superfoods” we have been hearing about. It is crammed full of antioxidants and phytonutrients that our bodies need. Adding Acai to your diet can certainly help but don’t stop there, continue to find food that will benefit your body naturally and allow it to heal itself so it can fight off the aging process.