Not a malnourished yogi

Not a malnourished yogi

Life is long and filled with the illusion of time and space.

I want to merge the spiritual ideas in my message with the reasons I have for writing a cookbook.

It is important to authentically enjoy experimenting with food, and to always source ingredients from producers who consider ethical production practices… because? Putting in the extra effort generates a positive, cleaner, and more energetic feeling in the mind and body. The feeling alone makes you more capable of experimenting creatively and able to generate results in life. A life, I would like to remind you, you have complete control over and are ultimately solely responsible for living, imagining, and creatively manifesting into existence each and every day for yourself and others. Eating raw and alive foods, that contain ingredients from ethical sources is just a necessary thing if one expects to enjoy a mind and body that can be thought of as optimal. But it starts with understand that there is an intelligence in the body that transforms food into energy and produces your body from it.

An intelligence in the body?.. think about it… you don’t do anything more then swallow food… how that food is turned into energy is an act of nature. Your Body is Nature! You live inside and are soully connected to your body which is from nature… so when I say you, do you see the saparation that exist between you and your body? — There is an intelligence in your body that is beyond you and beyond your mind. But you decide what goes into your body, and this is important to see because it means you are taking responsibility for what enters your natural body before the natural intelligence of your body can go to work. Knowing what is in the food you put in your body is the responsibility of your mind, and you are responsible for informing the mind and only then can you be sure your action are inline with what is best for your body.

Trinity — You, Your Body, and Your Mind.

…Do restaurants tell you what quality of ingredience they use in their food?
No course not.

why does that matter you ask…. doesn’t state regulations protect the consumer from letting a restaurant do something unethical, like use poor ingredient? — Maybe… sometimes… kinda… if one wants to believe those employees at the establishment sincerely care about you, the customer… I know I know… but what do you expect from me, I can’t always go our to the most expensive restaurants in town. and sometimes I like the milkshakes from Wendie’s. — I know what you mean and the whole conversation breaks down into a few simple truths. — prepare and eat MOST of your own food so when you eat out for any reason your body can handle any acceptions of quality without an issue because it’s not the norm and handing the high volumes of sugar in a milkshake isn’t a problem because you’re body isn’t overwhelmed digesting unhealthy things on a regular basis.

The production of food put out by companies that use unethical sources and means of production, often have trace toxins in the product, which make there way into the body. These toxins are what drain your energy because your organs have to work harder to clean the body out… as well, the toxins cause the mind to become less clear because whatever goes into the body flow through the blood and makes contact with every system in the body in some way. Today, more then ever, the processes your foods goes through is important to be aware of if you hope to live an optimal life. Having an awareness that tracks the process all the way from seed to sale is really what it takes. Knowing the process your food goes through before allowing it into your belly is valuable information that you should take the time to learn. Because only letting your human system come in contact with high-quality food experiences will generate short-term as well as the long-term benefits for your human life.

Vegetables, fruits, and grains are the staples in my diet. The amounts of which I consume simply change with the seasons. For example more root vegetables in the winter and more fruits in the summer. Like our preferences in the moment, the seasons overlap, so change and variation is just part of the flow. The routine I have in the kitchen is a combination of picking out ingredients from the farmers market that I know how to handle and can prepare quickly, but I also want what I create to last and be consumable over a few days. All while still enjoying different flavors and a full belly. Flavor is easy when the ingredients are freshly picked, and the need to feel/be satisfied is easier because you’re not only full in the feeling of the belly, but vitalized by high-quality ingredients.

Choosing to nourish yourself second to, satisfying your hunger, really goes a long way when your life is more about having the energy to keep you doing what you love and less about, taking snack breaks and having three meals a day. Life for optimal experience focused person is about trying the worlds best and doing the most extraordinary. So the food routine is just an enabler for me to spend as little time in the kitchen as possible while not compromising any basic principle, eat food closest to its natural source as possible. More specifically, try and eat food that’s picked recently and don’t over cook the food because heat breaks down the nutrients.

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The mundane experience of beer & cocktails every night, or eating at the convient local breakfast spot is just not on my radar anymore. Eating out at a regular local establishments that don’t provide transparency about their food products by at least hang information on the walls or something… should be avoided completely. … Why? Because they are after your money, and don’t care about their communities long-term health…. and they don’t have to, so… YOU DO… and if you care and show it in your purchases then the restaurants will changes because you are saying no to being uninformed.

So!!! Get inside your own head and say NO to the convenient, not nourishing options.

Being Ethical is not Required… So People Burn Down Forest so they can manufacture and sell Cheetoes

It’s not ethical to burn down trees and pollute the environment, so we can have more farmland and sell more canola oil. The creation of that product should be stopped regardless of the territory it’s farmed on or the fact that someone “owns” it and can do whatever they want because their name is on some document.

A person who just looks at a map, buys land, and then does whatever they want on it, is just playing business man and it’s completely acceptable by regulation and law for them to do so. Thanks to the permission of corporate law and the power of the military, that person(s) who contemplated over a map about how to turn land into something else and finically profit off of it doesn’t give a fuck about the externalities that come from their need to satisfy demand, increase share holders dividends and constantly expand the business into new markets. … And that’s when we would say, it’s up to the customer and how they spend their dollar to determine if what the producer is doing is ethical or not… then everything becomes about making the customer more aware. Activist to the rescue!

Optimal Experience Junkies buy the expensive shit because you know it’s expensive because the company of people selling it won’t make unethical exceptions in the production process. Keeping each finished product at its most optimal nutritional value and pure to the source as possible.

Higher quality processing and ingredients equal, the feeling of being full longer and consequently you eat less often, and spending less overall. But some of us just love to eat!!! — I’m one of them and my solution is more honey, fruit, nuts, and more smoothies.

Loving life is about loving the energy you take in and put out, so food most defiantly falls into that category. But your perspective and behavior toward food is most important to regulate and be aware of. Much of it depends on your circumstances at the moment. A yogi keeps simple routine habits with food. So someone looking to keep the amount of time spent with food to a minimum, but not willing to compromise on quality, can most certainly learn from a yogi’s diet.

For starters… when you think about Gandhi… you see a weak as cripple sitting in the middle of the street taking on the whole world. One would wonder why does someone so powerful look so weak. The truth is because he doesn’t care about his body, his mind is beyond his appearance and the physical ability of his body. This goes for many of the other spiritual leaders out there… just think about it, even Buddha is something of a mystery being super fat and all… the real Buddha wasn’t actually “fat.”

So then why do “I” care about my body so much… one might ask?

Because chronic pain got in the way of my active lifestyle! It stopped my lifestyle in its tracks when I was only 21 years old.

Fuck that. The toxins in conventional foods and tap water will not be allowed to debilitate my body and force me to depend on the main stream medical system to feel good. Instead, I learned to see the system clearly and started making choices that put me more and more in control of my life every single day.

I started practicing yoga so I could live the life I wanted to. AND YOGA is not just stretching everyday. Yoga means “to Link up,” so one could say link up the mind with the body, or the body with the higher self, a place where you can gather insight from the pool of infinite wisdom that lives inside all conscious beings. Going to this place regularly by meditating or keeping a yoga practice helps the mind and body to link up and work together in unimaginable ways. It’s a daily practice specifically used to keep one’s self in control of their life.

My body and I love to be strong and instantly ready to concur the moment. We love to move in extraordinary ways and enjoy sensations that come from being in top physical health. Food not only energies you, but changes you over time. But be aware and choose to have a diet that supports the bodies changes over time in not only a physical way but in a karmic way as well.

Nikola Tesla’s — Most Suppressed Quote

“Only the existence of a field of force can account for the motions of the bodies as observed, and it’s assumptions dispenses with space curvature. All literature on this subject is futile and destined to oblivion. So are all attempts to explain the working of the universe without recognizing the existence of the ether and the indispensable function it plays in the phenomena.

My second discovery was of a physical truth of the greatest importance. As I have searched the entire scientific records in more than a half dozen languages for a long time without finding the least anticipation, I consider myself the original discoverer of this truth, which can be expressed by the statement: There is no energy in matter other then that received from the environment.”

Today, I’m still on my journey and enjoy leading workshops and classes for the sake of experimenting and challenging my own abilities. But I also think it’s important to share the practice regardless of how experienced you are. Enlightenment has a perspective and a range of being just like any other state.

Yoga information and Knowledge from the Source

When I started to realize how effective yoga and meditation are at taking control over one life I instantly set myself on a mission to find the best source of information possible so I could be sure I’m taking in the most high-quality information possible and set myself up for experiencing the most authentic life journey possible. A Journey that has first considered the need to filter out the trendy diluted content first, so my energy can be focused on the internal educator and feel at peace in the mind while accepting what comes in as truth.

In doing so I discovered many books and sat with remarkable individuals. Three Book that took me by surprise and affected my awareness greatly are listed below.

And here are some videos of individuals who stand out to me as prominent figures who have devoted their lives to sharing and takings about the True Nature of Reality.

Sadhguru at TED

BOOKS

Letters from the Yoga Masters By. Marion Mugs McConnell

Teachings Revealed through Correspondence from Paramhansa Yogananda, Ramana Maharshi, Swami Sivananda, and Others

Chapter 01: Hari and the Yoga Masters

- Paramhansa Yogananda

- Swami Sivananda Saraswati of Rashikesh

- Sir Raman Maharshi

Chapter 02: The Eight Limbs of Yoga

- Ahimsa

- Understanding Brahmacharya

- Hari and Brahmacharya

Chapter 03: Asana

- Asana on the Beach in Latvia

- Chandra Namaskar

Chapter 04: Pranayama

- Exhale from the Lower Lungs

- Controlled Lower Abdomen

- Kumbhak Pranayama with Bhavana

- Sahita Kumbhaka

- The Bandhas

- Pranayama Techniques, 22 techniques

Chapter 05: Mudras and Bandhas

- Maha Mudra

- Maha Bandha

- Maha Vedha

- Khechari Mudra

- Amritpan Khechari

- Viparitakarani Mudra

- Vajroli Mudra

- Shakrichalani Mudra

- Order of Practice: Abhyasa Krama

- Yoni or Shanmukhi Mudra

- Shambhavi Mudra

- Mudras in Pranatasana

Cahpter 06: Pratyahara and Dharana

- The Chakras as Transmitters of Energy

- Pratyahara

- Dharana

Chapter 07: Dhyana

- Bandha Traya with Siddhasana for Meditation

- Sivoham Meditation

- Upanishad Mantra Meditation

- Meditation for Healing the Sick

- Chakra Meditation

- Shunya Dhyana

- Shambhavi Mudra Meditation

- Meditation on the Mantra Hrim

- Meditation on Nad

- Vedic Trinity Meditation

- Meditation Using Drishtis

- Japa and Ajapa Meditation

- Meditation on the Guru of the Ishta Devata

- Samyama

- Atma Vichara Meditation

- Paramhansa Yoganada on Meditation

Chapter 08: Kundalini Awakening and Samadhi

Chapter 09: Delicious Stories

- Jesus As a Yogi

- Spiritual Beginnings

- Ashram Life

- About a Guru

- Astral Beings for the Good of All

- The Lady and Lord Krishna

- Ambubachi

- Swara Yoga

- The Seven Lokas-Life after Death

Happiness and The Art of Being by Michael James

An introduction to the philosophy and practice of the spiritual teaching of Bhagavan Sri Ramana

1. What is Happiness?

2. Who am I?

3. The Nature of Our Mind

4. The Nature of Reality

5. What is True Knowledge?

6. True Knowledge and False Knowledge

7. The Illusion of Time and Space

8. The Science of Consciousness

9. Self-Investigation and Self-Surrender

10. The Practice of the Art of Being

The Farther Reaches of Human Nature by A.H.Maslow

Part I. Heath and Pathology

1. Toward a Humanistic Biology

2. Neurosis as a Failure of Personal Growth

3. Self-Actualizing and Beyond

Part II. Creativeness

4. The Creative Attitude

5. A Holistic approach to Creativity

6. Emotional Blocks to Creativity

7. The Need for Creative People

Part III. Values

8. Fusions of Facts and Values

9. Notes on Being-Psychology

10. Comments from a Symposium on Human Values

Part IV. Education

11. Knower and Known

12. Education and Peak Experiences

13. Goals and Implication of Humanistic Education

Part V. Society

14. Synergy in the Society and in the Individual

15. Questions for the Normative Social Psychologist

16. Synanon and Eupsychia

17. On Eupsychian Management

18. On Low Grumbles, High Grumbles, and Meta Grumbles

Part VI. Being Cognition

19. Notes on Innocent Cognition

20. Further Notes on Cognition

Part VII. Transcendence and the Psychology of Being

21. Various Meaning of Transcendence

22. Theory Z

Part VIII. Metamotivation

23. A theory of Metamotivation: The Biological Rooting of the Value-Life