How Would Love Respond?- Part 3

Continuing on from my last blog post, here are 5 more points that I took away from Kurek Ashley’s book, “How Would Love Repond?”….Feel free to comment and share your thoughts.

6. The more you develop yourself as a person, the more personally developed you become. Evolvement is our life’s quest. If we are not evolving, we are dissolving.  Evolvement is not a destination; it is a continual process- our life’s quest.

7. The 3 P’s of Power – Perception, Perturbation and Procession. How we choose to see something depends on how we look at it.  It is our perception that makes an event appear good or bad.   An event might appear bad on the day it happened, but could appear good much later, when seen from a different perspective.  It’s still the same event.

Pushing through the challenges that appear to block your path of achieving your dreams and goals is the experience of perturbation.  Perturbation forces you to expand and reinvent yourself.  Moving toward our fear is where the real growth happens.  It’s where the real appreciation happens.

When you do positive amazing things for yourself and others, the more positive amazing things come back to you.  It’s not about the goal, it’s about the growth.  The ripple effect is like when you throw pebbles into a pond.  The ripples go all the way to the shore and then it reverses back.  The energy comes back bigger and better – it evolves.  Positive or negative, it will come back to you – you make the choice.

8. Plant positive seeds and pull negative weeds. Consciously put positive thoughts in, and weed out the negative ones.  Awareness is very important to hear these thoughts in our own heads.  When weeding out the negative ones, do it in a kind and empowering way.  If you don’t, it’s still negative and disempowering.  Be kind to yourself.

9. Live in the Light! Whose responsibility is it to make sure you are empowered? It’s not your partner’s job, nor your parents; it’s not your boss’s job, nor the government’s!

It’s your job!  We are responsible for ourselves, and to make sure we are empowered.  From a physical point of view, if we want our bodies full of power then eating healthy and avoiding junk makes more sense.  You are what you eat, so make it healthy, empowering food.  Ill health in your body, relationships, business, etc. can wipe out goals and dreams with the destructive energy from negativity.  Be proactive, not reactive.  That is taking responsibility.  We can’t change others, but we can take responsibility to not let others disempower us.  Responding in an empowering way gains power, which makes you powerful = personal power.

10. Ten guaranteed ways to be and stay happy. This one is a bonus, as it is broken into 10 parts.  There are a lot more than 10 things, let alone 20 gems that are in this book.  I made my choice to apply them to my life, how about you?  Here is a summary:

1. Physiology – change the way you carry your body and you will change how you feel – instantly.   Stand taller, sit straighter, breathe deeper, smile.
2. Choose what you focus on – whatever the situation, focus on the positive side, you will feel great about it.  Focus on the negative side, you will feel bad about it.  The choice is yours.  To change the result, change what you focus on.  Every situation has both sides – if you say no, you’re not looking hard enough.
3. Utilise the Law of Relativity – don’t get caught in the comparison trap.  Make comparisons with things that make you feel empowered, not disempowered.
4. Stop telling disempowering stories – if it doesn’t serve you don’t say it.  Stay out of the “drama glue”.  Turn the negative stories off, replay the positive ones.
5. Live with CDI – Consistent Daily Improvement.  If you commit to improving your quality of life by just 1% every day, then at the end of the year your life will be 365% improved!  We tend to underestimate what we can do in a year, 5 years or 10 years; yet we tend to overestimate what we can do in a day, week or month.  Reverse this and watch the results.
6. Let go of your judgment, and have fewer rules – Judgment is the need to be right.  If you let go of that need, your life becomes easier and happier.  Conflicts usually stem from rules conflicts.  Choose your battles wisely and save your energy for things that will be life giving, not life taking.  Ask yourself, “Is it more important to be right or kind?”
7. Be full of peace and free of stress – Stress in the body causes dis-ease.  Dis-ease of the mind creates disease of the physical body.  Stress is the result of having stressful thoughts.  Therefore, when you’re at peace, your mind is at ease.  The choice is ours to make.
8. Be empowering about everything.  Let your light shine, it is contagious.
9. Practice forgiveness on a regular basis – just because you feel someone has wronged you doesn’t mean you need to be the judge, jury and executioner.  Anger, jealousy, hate and envy all stem from the ego.  When you forgive, you begin to heal.  You reap what you sow, and the people will get what they deserve.  It is important to trust this. If you don’t forgive, you don’t heal.  Dis-ease leads to disease.  Forgiveness is not about anyone else, it is for you.
10. Be grateful – Gratitude is empowering.  Being empowering attracts empowerment.  Count your blessings, so that they can continue to be added to.

Have a most outstanding day!

Chiropam

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Superfoods – Pumpkin

Pumpkins

Pumpkin is so versatile, and depending what region of the world you come from will determine which form it is used.  When I grew up in Michigan in the United States, the pumpkin I remember eating was in pumpkin pie.  We carved pumpkins for Halloween and actually threw out the flesh!  As an adult living in Australia, I realised how much of a waste that was.  Luckily, my mother roasted the pumpkin seeds and we had those after the Halloween pumpkin jack-o-lantern was carved. At least then we received the health benefits from the pumpkin seeds.  Our family ate pumpkin pie traditionally at Thanksgiving and on Christmas.

I remember when I first moved to Australia, pumpkin was eaten as a savoury vegetable, namely in pumpkin soup.  It was also a favourite roasted vegetable that accompanied various meat roasts.  There were also pumpkin muffins, pumpkin scones and pumpkin bread, that I hadn’t been exposed to before.  In Australia today, pumpkin is thriving in various recipes and I am happy to say that I enjoy the wide variety that pumpkin has to offer.  I still enjoy pumpkin pie too!

Pumpkin flesh contains vitamins C and E, magnesium, potassium and a staggering quantity and variety of carotenoids, being one of the most abundant natural sources of these amazing phytonutrients. There are numerous types of pumpkin in all shapes and sizes with many similar nutritional values.  Although pumpkin is a squash that’s best between late summer and autumn, canned or tin pumpkin is readily available year-round in the United States.  However, here in Australia we tend to puree our own from fresh pumpkin all year round. Pumpkin is also high in fibre with a one-half cup serving providing approximately 5 grams.

Powerful antioxidants known as carotenoids give pumpkin its superfood status. These compounds have the ability to ward off heart disease and cancer as well as certain eye-related diseases.

Pumpkin is packed with various nutrients and carotenoids, particularly alpha and beta carotene. Carotenoids are orange, yellow, and red colored, fat-soluble compounds occurring in a variety of plants.  Carotenoids represent one of the most widespread groups of naturally occurring pigments. These compounds are largely responsible for the red, yellow, and orange color of fruits and vegetables, and are also found in many dark green vegetables. Carotenoids help to protect you from free radicals, enhance cell-to-cell communication, and modulate your immune response. They also protect your skin and eyes from damage caused by ultra violet light.

Pumpkin is the highest source of alpha carotene, which may be even more powerful than beta carotene.  Pumpkin contains 400 percent of the recommended daily allowance of alpha carotene, along with close to 300 percent of beta carotene, and only 83 calories in a cup!
Alpha carotene and beta carotene have been tied with multiple health-promoting and disease-fighting benefits such as:
•    Reduces inflammatory arthritis
•    Decreases the risk of various cancers (breast, lung and colon)
•    Lowers the rate of heart disease

Canned or tin pumpkin puree, which is not the same as the canned pie filling, is cooked down in order to reduce the water content that is still present in a fresh pumpkin. Because of this condensation, canned pumpkin is actually more nutritious than fresh pumpkin!

In fact, it’s not just the inner meat of a pumpkin that’s virtuous but its seeds are super nutritious too and contain a wealth of health-promoting properties. Like melons, cucumber, and squash, pumpkins belong to the gourd family. They were much celebrated by Native American Indians who made use of their flesh and seeds for culinary and medicinal purposes.

Pumpkin seeds are a superfood that the American Native tribes prized for its culinary and medicinal value.

High in fiber and protein, these seeds are also a rich source of minerals including magnesium, manganese, iron, and zinc. Pumpkin seeds are believed to be beneficial for things like prostrate health, bones strength, and arthritis. Pumpkin seeds also contain compounds called phytosterols, which are believed to reduce levels of harmful cholesterol and also improve the body’s immune system.

Pumpkin seeds can now be readily found.  They are sold, raw, roasted, shelled, and unshelled. Pumpkin seeds are also known as pepitas, and they are dark green and flat with a chewy texture and rich nutty flavour. These seeds are dense in minerals, with just a quarter of a cup providing approximately half the daily recommended dose for magnesium and iron, in addition to high doses of zinc, phosphorous, potassium, selenium, manganese and copper. They also contain the amino acid tryptophan known for anti-depressant qualities, and essential fatty acids. These essential fatty acids assist in improving mental function and aiding memory.

The dark green oil produced from pumpkin seeds has been used throughout history in India, Europe and America to fight parasites, aid the digestive tract and help with prostate and reproductive disorders. It has also been recommended for pregnant and lactating women because of its high content of essential fatty acids.

The essential fatty acids in pumpkin seeds are also necessary for prostate health, and zinc (which pumpkin seeds are especially high in) is great for the reproductive systems and has been shown to reduce prostate size, and have been found to help prevent against prostate gland enlargement.

So don’t delay – there are many ways to get the health benefits of pumpkin.  Here’s a recipe link for a good variety of ideas.

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