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Thanks for the recipes over the holidays,
I thought you may be able to answer a question for me.
I haven't been able to figure out if the stabilized rice bran I use in my recipe would be considered raw. They claim 'low temperature' stabilization but never disclose the temp, hmmm. It 'feels' raw to me.
What do you think?
Thanks,
Sam

raw drink with Gozo:)Thanks for your comment. I am sorry that it took me so long to reply but I thought that such a thoughtful question deserved an equally as thoughtful answer. So I have taken my time to think about it carefully and I have had a few major thought changes whilst contemplating.
I have often asked myself the question “who am i?” and I have had problems answering it. I have fought anorexia for the past 10 years (6 years recovery, one relapse in 2007), and often my sense of self has been challenged, wrong or confusing.
Also, like most people, my life has had many changes (I have lived in 5 countries and a boat over the past 6 years.), also i now have very little contact (and extremely bad communication) with my family. this has affect my sense of self as well but not necessarily in a bad way.
In the past myself image was defiantly made up of what i think other people thought of me, or more importantly how I wanted them to think of me. it has been good to reflect who I am who I see myself to be.
Without sounding too boastful, I am a person with an immense power. All my life I have been able to achieve anything that I put my mind to. I excelled in everything and achieved all kinds of amazing things, not necessarily because I wanted to for me, but because I wanted to prove myself to somebody or to make somebody else happy.
I think one of the main reasons why I haven’t achieved 100% raw is because I am not proving anything to anything to anyone, except myself. I should be the most important person of all, but that leads me back to the question… who am i?
So, who am i?
I am a happy, free – spirit who I is always supported by the universe. I am young and full of possibility. I am the partner of a wonderful man who I love very dearly. I am a vegan. I am free of the responsibility of proving anything to anyone; my only responsibility is to myself and the environment I live in.
I am currently working as a language teacher but I would like to find a career concentrated on raw foods.
Thanks again for your support June.
It is much appreciated
With much love,
Cindy
thanks for all your wonderful suggestions. this morning i had a mint and lemon tea to start the day and i followed it by a big spinach, cocoa, pineapple (and everything!!) super shake in the morning. i drank it slowly at work and it really hit my cravings. for lunch i am going to have some sushi wraps.
the breathing excercises have really helped. but i still feel like there is somthing missing that is stopping me from achieving my goal. everyday i have a small slip up and i dont know why. it's like my energy is scattered.
i have been reflecting and i think a lot to do with my life in general and that it is someting i should change. i have always been a person who is good at everything and could do anything if she applied herself. i was top of my class, played sports, music, art, languages, mathamatics (the classic over achiever)
i moved oversease 5 years ago and my life has been full of wonderfull people and experiances, challeneges and lessons.
looking at my current situation i just feel like my energy is completely scattered in all directions and it is preventing me from achiving my goals.
i am in a wonderful relationship with my meat eating partner, i work full time as a teacher, i am finishing a thesis, but i also want to start a raw food business, my partner and i want to move to australia ... i feel like my life and my energy is not focussed enought for me
my goals are:
be happy
have a family
be raw
finish my thesis
be my ideal weight (a few kilos less than i am currently)
own my own business
travel more
get married
be 100% raw
paint more
read more
learn more
write books
have a fantastically fufilling job that i love
and then there are all the crazy dreams that i have of being famous, and running aid projects in africa (which i actually believe will happen)
i just have sooooooooo many aspirations i dont know where to start!!
plus dealing with all the other little stresses of life that natually come long the way ...
i am happy, i am always happy and positive but it is it is really hard for me to order them in the one that are most important to me right now. they ar e all very important for different reasons.
1st passion: open a raw business
1st sensible: finish my thesis and focus on my relationship .. move to australia
i dont know if my realtionship is holding me back. sometimes i feel like it is and sometimes i feel like i am crazy to have ever thought that. i no longer want
to be alone. i dont have a close relationship with my family and my partner is the only family i have. ... it just so happens that my partner is the most wonderful, understanding, considerate person that i have ever met that loves me more than anybody i have ever know. ... i also love him very dearly .. so i think i am riding a good wave with this one!!!
the truth is my realtionship is not holding me back. its the only thing that is keeping me going! and i love my partner sooooooo much for that.
the problem is we are both currently working jobs that we dont realy like to get enough money to move to a place with more opportunity for us both. a both get a little stressed sometimes and forget to enjoy just being together. however lifes challenges are not suposed to be all easy and i know when i look at him that he is the right person and if we work at things together everything will be fine ... he is even started to take an interest in raw foods (he joined GI2MR yesterday eehehhe)
so after that huge rant ... my conclussion is that i just need to focus my power and energy and i know that i can achieve whatever i want ...
do you have any tips for focussing energy through out my 7 day challenge??
thanks so much for your offer of help. i think i have been doing ok, but i still havent been able to get to 100% everyday.
today i ate some cooked rice that was in a vegan sushi. this could have been easily avoided if i had prepared for my next meal. but i arrived home, hungry, detox symptoms (also from no caffiene or cigarettes) and the sushi was there int the fridge ... so i ate some :| ... but to be honest eating the rice took away my headache ... so i dont know if it was a good thing or a bad thing.
here is what i ate today:
breakfast 6am: watermelon juice with clorophil a few dates and a few nuts
mid morning 9am: i realised this is definatly a time where i need have a snack prepared i will bring some frit for tomorrow!!
1pm: 3 raw sushi rolls with salad
3pm: some more dates and nuts
6pm: sushi roll with rice :(
am i doing something wrong that is stopping me from feeling good.
if you tell me what to do i am happy to follow your instructions and journal everyday.
i think this just might be the little push i need.
your food looks gorgeous,
and Im loving your videos too,
encouraging people to think.nice 1.
something people dont do enough of
if any!
Going to school stops most people thinking
teaching people to accept the 'truth'
instead of working it out forthemselves.
A bit like the church!
1love 1aim 1destiny
chris
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