Your Best Medicine
As an herbalist student of Rosemary Gladstar, I have great respect for her healing ways. This quote could not be nearer or dearer to my heart. Truly, the way we live our lives, every day, IS the best medicine we can give ourselves.
We have a powerful choice, every day, in the food we feed our body, mind, and soul with.
Whole foods feed our bodies; feed our cells for vibrant health and healing.
Whole, positive thoughts (our own and those we invite into our lives) feed our minds for happy living.
Whole, deep spirited energy feed our souls for compassionate living and loving from our hearts.
I hope 2016 is your best medicine year yet!
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Longevity Recipe
From NY Times Article: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/28/magazine/the-island-where-people-forget-to-die.html?_r=0
Photo by Andrea Frazzetta
The Greek man above has an amazing story of health, healing, longevity, and defying medical hexing. To read his incredible story of being diagnosed by US doctors with cancer and given 9 months to live and his story of unintended healing success, click this LINK.
Longevity Recipe
Ingredients:
Human with desire for vibrant health
Real food: http://www.paulayoumellrn.com/whole-food-feeding-your-cells/
Garden and/or connection with amazing local farmers
Vibrant lifestyle habits in mind, body, & spirit
Update 2/28/21 Connection to a loving community
It is really this simple: feed the body real food; real food for body, mind, and spirit.
In a recent conversation with a client a comment was made to me when speaking about healing:
"People do not want to believe that food is the problem."
To which I replied:
"Food, real food, is not the problem. The problem is factory made food products brought to you by Nabisco, Kellogg, Post, Betty Crocker, Pepsico, Tyson, Kraft, Nestle... on and on the list of food product manufacturers goes.
Real food feeds body cells for vibrantly healthy regeneration. Food products detract from body cell health, depleting nutritional stores, and degenerating body cells contributing to degenerative diseases. (Degenerative diseases are a body composed of degenerative body cells.)
As a culture we observe the world and look to emulate those countries with a better health and longer longevity:
The French Paradox
The Okinawan diet
Mediterranean diet
Importing their culture's specific foods is not the answer. Cultures who stick to their traditional diets: food grown locally & naturally and then prepared through time honored home cooking methods are the cultures who thrive with vibrant health. No importation of foreign foods needed. Simply grow food, team up with neighbors to share the different foods you have grown and raise, and befriend local farmers who grow real food in time honored and sustainable ways... keep those farmers farming through purchasing their food and supporting their work in this world. Your health will soar, local food economy will soar, life will be vibrantly good. http://www.gardenshare.org/
Reverse these time honored practices and instead eat processed, packaged, factory made food products and your body cells suffer. To digest and get rid of these products (detox, methylate) your body must rob nutrients from your cells. Keep robbing from your cells and the cells degenerate further and further and degenerative diseases are now the norm.
Cultures who have always eaten their locally available and traditional foods create pregnancies with healthy babies who are developing with a firm foundation of healthy body cells. Feed those newborn infants (and their breastfeeding moms) real food and the baby's bodies develop with cellular health intact. Continue this good food, real food trend through the childhood and teen years and you grow up young adults with their cellular health intact. A lifetime of real food, whole food eating and you have a natural prescription, a recipe, for vibrant health and longevity.
The same feeding process for embryos, infants, teens, and all humans in general with processed, packaged food products and the reverse happens: cells degenerate and degenerative diseases are the norm.
Take a peak at the current US population... As a whole, We are NOT vibrantly healthy people.
Junk Vs. Real... Vibrant Vs. Degenerative Body Cells
Bottom Line: Eat Real Food, Eat Whole Food and THRIVE for the Long Haul of Life!
Whole Health Lifestyle Choices create vibrant health & longevity, click to learn more.
To learn more about using herbs to contribute to cellular health and longevity Join my Herbs For Natural Health online course.
This is a no sweat, straight forward class on making simple herbal medicines and 3-5 herbs that enhance each specific body system for your vibrant health.
I look forward to sharing this time honored, wise woman wisdom with you, Paula
Divine Weight Loss Tip #5
This is a biggy. This tip* has the power to heal every cell in your body, balance your hormones, balance your blood sugar, and create a body weight that is optimal for you.
Tip #5
Whole foods.
I know, I say this over and over, like a broken record. But this tip comes from deep inside my heart and soul. (From deep inside every one of my healthy 'lil body cells... if you have attended one of my Whole Food Healing workshops, you know how I encourage you to feed your body cells with 100% whole foods.
Whole foods feed each and every body cell with the right balance of nutrients needed to support your body in every one of its daily functions. A lifetime of whole food eating fortifies the body for longevity (life-gevity) that is vibrant and happy. Living a long life is good; living a long life of vibrant health is awesome!
The nutrients, nourishment, from whole foods penetrate right down to the microscopic organelles in each and every body cell. This process keeps your cellular health fueled and lubed for optimum health.
This diagram displays the microscopic organelles that exist inside your body cells. These precious, little powerhouses are the building blocks of each and every cell. Your cells are in turn, the building blocks of you tissues; tissues compose organs; organs compose organ systems; organ systems compose YOU. You want all of this healthy, correct?
I am someone who prefers to focus on the positive. I also believe education helps people to be informed and understand the consequences of actions. Education allows the option of informed decision making. Eating refined foods is like throwing Kool Aid into your car's gas tank. Kool Aid is going to gunk things up and ruin your car's engine. Refined food does this to your body cells; refined food is gunk to your cells.
On a vanity level: we are aware that certain substances, like cigarettes and alcohol, age the body. This is because both substances add toxins to your body cells, clogging up the mechanisms of metabolic activity (the life activity of your cells), and accelerates the aging of your cells. This is why smokers get premature wrinkles. Refined food also clogs body cells, slows metabolic processes down, ages the body, and contributes to adipose accumulation (body fat).
I dare you, double dare, to eat nothing but 100% whole foods for 2 weeks. You will feel remarkably well. I bet you won't ever want to go back to processed, packaged, refined foods.
Two weeks will fly by. Try it, you just might like it.
After two weeks, if you need convincing, go on a 2 day, refined-junk food, product binge. Then tell me how you feel... I am thinking: food hangovers!
Love your body with whole foods. Your body will love you right back.
PS For more information, the details, on whole foods, click one of the blue links above. The links will take you to an article, defining whole foods, that I wrote for Healing the Body Canada magazine.
*Benefits You Gain From Whole Food Eating
high, even keel energy all day
body weight balances to normal for you
sleep better
move better
age slower... think wrinkle and degenerative disease prevention!
happy moods, peaceful feelings that create
healthier relationships with loved ones
look & feel awesome / younger
swap cravings to whole foods
better immune activity meaning less colds, flu, etc.
better digestive tract function and gut microbial health
heal your divine body of ill health symptoms
Do these things speak to you, tantalize your senses, and urge you to make healing changes in your eating habits?
Everything In Life Is A Choice
In supporting people through the lifestyle changes necessary to:
- re-balance body weight
- heal symptoms of ill health and disease
- prevent further symptoms of degenerative disease
- create juicy, vibrant health...
I always tell them that everything in life is a choice.
We all struggle with stuff we would rather say goodbye to:
- sugar addictions
- junk food over-indulgence
- coffee by the pot or two or three...
- chocolate hidden in every corner of the house
- cigarettes
- alcohol
- lack of movement
- ice cream hidden in the basement freezer so no one else eats any
- less than loving actions with those we love... (including ourselves!)
It is all just a choice. We can make up our minds to either continue the choice that is not serving our vibrant, juicy health OR we can chose differently. We can chose to create wellness in our every action, thought, and deed.
The first step, towards overcoming any challenge is to acknowledge that we have a challenge.
Not every challenge can be handled by a "professional", an expert in the field of our particular problem. When we are talking about the challenges of our own mind - body - soul, we need to grab hold of our life - our own problems, and take charge for our self and of our self. We are our own best expert!
Seriously, who knows you better than you? Be the YOU expert. Step up to the plate and make the choice to make YOU happy and well.