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The Food Revolution

April 12th, 2010

Long time no see!!

I meant to keep up with my blog while I was in Colorado, but it turns out that when you’re sitting across a table from your main reason for being online, ya lose the need to BE online.  I barely touched my laptop the whole time but for checking email.  I’ll be posting pictures soon!

Last night I was lounging in bed watching my favorite shows that recorded on my DVR while we were gone.  I LOVE my DVR!  I had 2 episodes of Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution to watch and I love getting to watch episodes back to back like that.

I watched the first 2 episodes of this new program and had remained unsure of my interest in it.  I love the concept.  I mean, better, healthier, unprocessed lunches offered from schools.  That’s the most fantastic thing I’ve ever heard!  Our lunch programs in public schools is deplorable.  As Jamie learned this week, french fries are classified as vegetables in the school lunch line.  It’s disgusting in my opinion.  I wasn’t sure if I was terribly impressed with the show as a whole to begin with though.  It kept my attention enough that I kept recording it.

We’re up to episode 4 now and I’m hooked.  Jamie took the local radio DJ to the mortuary to see the XXXL caskets and talk disease.  Then he introduced him to all these kids whose lives have been touched by obesity in some way and the loss they’ve had to experience because of it and he turned that guy around.  You could see it dawning on him that he’d had no idea how bad it really is.

Anyway, I really love this show.  I truly hope that he really HAS begun a food revolution.  I believe that he has.  During one of his interviews during the show he talks about how he started cooking because he just wasn’t good at anything else… And it made him feel alive and it made him light up inside when he did it.  THAT is the reason I believe he could change the way America sees it’s food.  It will be fantastic!!

Go check out his site http://www.jamieoliver.com/ and see his show on ABC Fridays at 9pm EST.

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In Perfect Timing

April 12th, 2010

Dear El,

I found your blog right before your last group abundance meditation when I did a search for “meditation” on Google.  I participated at the time specified and really felt as though there were actually other people reaching out to me.  My problem is, I haven’t seen any trace of my intentions manifesting yet.

I’m sort of new to the whole conscious/intention manifestation way of life and I really don’t know for sure that I even did it right.  I wondered if maybe you had any advice you’d be willing to share.  I’d deeply appreciate any thoughts.  I can tell you about my ritual if that will help.  Just let me know.

Thanks!

Jane in Houston



Dear Jane,

Thanks for writing me :) I’m honored to share my thoughts with you.

It can be very hard to deal with our desires and intentions from a detached place, but detach we must.  When you preform a ritual or participate in a group meditation or simply visualize things that make you happy when lying in bed, you’re asking the Universe at large to bring to your immediate awareness the essence of that which is the feelings you are manufacturing at that moment.

In other words, as you lie in bed visualizing money fluttering down from the ceiling, you’re focused and requesting from the Universe that you’d like to feel however you’re feeling at that moment about money fluttering into your life.  This is why it’s important to analyze yourself and be aware of how you REALLY feel.  You may have blocks in your money vibe and when you THINK you’re asking to feel good, you’re really telling a different story inside because of previous programming.

If you have a block, it can be pretty easy to identify.  Sit down in a place where you can be undisturbed.  Take several deep breaths and center yourself.  Once you’re relaxed and ready, focus upon whatever it is you believe you may be blocked from.  I’ll keep using money as an example.

Maybe you imagine checks in the mail.  Maybe it’s the bills fluttering from the ceiling.  How do you feel?  Think about it… but not too much.  Feel it.  Are you scowling?  Is your mouth relaxed or have your lips begun to purse?  Your body is an amazing instrument.  Listen to it speak to you.  Feel for tension in your back.

How does your heart feel?  Your heart is your money center.  I don’t know what any other sites will say, but wherever my heart goes, money follows.  It’s also the 4th chakra and the 4th day of the week that corresponds with the 4th chakra is Thursday…. which is rules by Jupiter and all about the money.  Be aware of any tightening around your heart when you think about money.

It’s important to be self aware.  It is you that is creating your experience.  And you’re creating from your beliefs and feelings.  Being aware of them, good or “bad”, is of the utmost importance.  I really cannot stress this point enough.

Being that you said you’re new to this lifestyle, I’m going to assume you are suffering from a blockage and simply need to observe your own thoughts and feelings to resolve it.  When you’re blockage loosens up and the flow begins, and it will… it is your natural state of being… I’d like to share with you a piece of advice for after…

Whatever your ritual is, it is perfect.  There IS no right or wrong way.  The only purpose of any prayer, ritual, meditation, etc.. is to bring oneself into a state of diligent focus for the purpose of creation.  The more personal and meaningful it is to YOU, the more apt it is to work.  It is YOU that must feel it and create it within your experience.

And finally, faith.  Faith is what seals the deal.  When you have faith in someone, you believe, no matter how it appears at that moment, that the person in question will be victorious in whatever it is they’re involved in.  You don’t need to see it to believe it because you already believe that it IS that way.

When you send a request out into the Universe to be manifest in form, you must be sure that it already is.  Faith.  When I ask, I already know it’s been released from the other side and is being drawn to me as though magnetically.  The second I desire, my desire is already seeking me.  You must find that knowing within yourself.  Once you KNOW it, it can be no other way.  All that you desire will come to you in perfect timing.

Happy Manifesting!

El

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