All Jacked Up: A Documentary the Food Corporations Hope You Never Watch

‘All Jacked Up’ is the ‘Super Size Me’ of 2008. It is a mind-boggling documentary underlining the catastrophic consequences of processed foods, junk foods and sodas on teenagers

After watching this must-see film, you’ll know the whole story on the manipulative food corporations and the meat industry. It’s a great movie to watch with your children, whom will be totally spooked by what they’ve just learned. After the movie, your kids will immediately make some changes to their diet. You won’t need to say a word and feel like you are nagging. The movie will do it for you!

Want a sneak peak?

Click here to see a 2-minute clip.

Want more info?

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(and order the movie directly from the studio if you want).

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Like they say, ‘Knowledge is power’. So take the time to investigate. My tip for you today is to continue your education regarding health and vitality. Be smart, well-informed and prepared to make healthy decisions for yourself and your family, decisions that will make a huge difference in your life. This should be a life-long priority. Don't you think? Just imagine if every week you learned something new…

Until next week,
Lots of Fun, Joy and Peace for you!


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My Super Tasty & Healthy Hot Chocolate

Yes, chocolate is healthy! I am not talking about the chocolate bars full of sugar and partially hydrogenated oils but about pure raw cacao full of minerals and antioxidants. This hot chocolate also contains healthy plant-based proteins, healthy fats, natural sweeteners and a great source of fiber. Plus: It doesn’t include mucus-forming dairy and energy-robbing refined sugar. Enjoy without guilt!

3 tablespoons of raw organic cacao powder

3 Medjool dates, pitted
2 tablespoons raw hemps seeds
1 tablespoon raw organic coconut oil
1 teaspoon raw agave nectar
8 oz boiling water

Let the boiling water cool a bit in order to keep intact the integrity of the nutrients. Then, in your high-speed blender (I love Vita-Mix), place all ingredients and blend until smooth.

Don’t know where to find raw organic ingredients? Don’t have a Vita-Mix yet? Here’s the link to Sunfood, a great online store of raw foods, superfoods, books, appliances…



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A New Earth by Tolle: A Must Read

A few years ago, I read Eckhart Tolle’s big hit ‘The Power of Now’ and was really impressed. I thought: “This is the way I want to live my life.” I also realized pretty fast that it requires serious dedication and effort to break free from habits and mental conditioning that all make us repeat the old same patterns and prevent us to really live in the moment. That is why I seriously committed to my meditation practice, which definitely makes me more aware of the present moment.

Tolle has a new book called ‘A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose’ and Oprah is raving about it. She even made it her new book club pick this month and she will be teaching the content of the book in a free 10-week web event in collaboration with Tolle himself starting March 3rd.

I bought the book and my reaction while reading the first chapter was: “Oprah rocks!” She really does. The content of this book is so necessary not only, in a more personal view, to break our old habits and conditioning but also, in a more global view, to break the direction we are actually going as a species.

Here’s what Carrie, one of the Oprah’s Book Club readers, said on Oprah’s website about her impression, "This explains everything that baffles me about the world, from wars to relationship struggles to bad parenting to addictions and compulsive behaviors, and so on." Powerful, isn’t?

This book will change your view of life, your view of the world. It is truly a must read!

To make it easy on you, here is the direct link to order A New Earth from Amazon:





Then, you can reserve your seat for the exclusive online class with Oprah and Eckhart Tolle at www.oprah.com.

Until next week,
Lots of Fun, Joy and Peace for you!


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Back from my 10-day Silent Meditation Retreat

I want to share about my experience at the Vipassana Meditation Center but I have been wondering what exactly I can share that will best translate what I experienced during my 10 days of retreat and am still experiencing now. I feel there are no words (or maybe it is my perfectionist side that stops me!) I feel I have a responsibility to make sure you understand the impact of this 10-day silent meditation retreat so you will be inspired to embark on such a path for yourself …

Something happened Sunday evening that made me understand the benefit of such an experience: meditating 10 days, 10 hours a day, in silence, alone with myself and this very special technique called Vipassana, a practice discovered by Buddha to achieve enlightenment more than 2600 years ago. What happened made me realized how my awareness had become so acute and how sensitive I had also become. I realized that my practice had made me so much more conscious of the present moment, not in a nonspecific way but rather in a very detailed way.

While kissing my hubby, I suddenly felt pain on my upper lip, like it was on fire, after feeling one of my husband’s two-day beard hairs entering my skin (I am not joking!). The experience was so vivid. I am very serious. I felt one specific hair entering my skin like it was a needle. Then, the moment right after, what was an unintentional (I think) touch on my thigh felt like bliss, the kind of bliss we feel when we are discovering touch with our first boyfriend as a teenager. I felt a tingle all over my body.

That is the result of practicing Vipassana. Becoming aware, conscious of each single moment, one after one, and ultimately making the most of them. In order to make the most of each moment, it is so crucial to be conscious of that moment. Make sense?

The course taught me the importance of equanimity in front of whatever is in front of me: pain or bliss. While sitting 10 hours a day in meditation, I sometimes experienced a subtle flow through my body. At other times, I felt painful blocks. Through a 75-minute discourse during the evening, I learned intellectually that everything (really EVERYTHING) is impermanent. Through my practice (my 10-hour sitting), I learned it viscerally. Everything being impermanent anyway, the idea of keeping serenity under any circumstance makes total sense. I know! Easier said than done. That’s why I commit myself to practicing on a daily basis.

At this point, I will let you do your own research and reading. I really recommend you take the time to do this. A good first step is to go on the international website of Vipassana at http://www.dhamma.org. You can also go to http://www.pariyatti.com, a nonprofit resource for books and other materials about Vipassana meditation. Through your reading, remember that the beauty of this gift is the visceral experience of the truth, the law of nature, the impermanence of things. My advice to you is not only read about the experience but experience it yourself.

By the way, this invaluable teaching is FREE. Yes, free! To maintain the integrity of Buddha, who believed that everyone should be able to have access to the technique to understand the origin of suffering and to learn a path leading to the cessation of suffering.

Until next week,
Lots of Fun, Joy and Peace for you!

Cathy

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