The Raw Bombshell

The Importance of Home

I talk alot to my clients about the importance of having a comfortable and safe environment to be able to work on their personal transformation.  But what exactly do I mean? 

To work on yourself, to become the person you want to be takes a lot of dedication. You have to do the work as no-one can do it for you, people can only guide and mentor you to that place.  Often though, I have found people to be impatient and want instant results (and in honesty I'm no different wanting it all done yesterday), we all know this is unrealistic though.  So what to do? Get yourself into a good frame of mind.  This starts with with your external envrionment so take time out to look at your surroundings and seeing if they will work to support you to change.  Go on have a look at your home.  What do you see?  Is it a mess, disorganised, colour schemes outdated.  What on earth does this have to do with food and my diet?  Good question but I work in a holistic manner and what is reflected on the external for the world to see is a good representation of the internal state you are in.  Back to your home if it is disorganised and chaotic there is a pretty good chance that is how you are feeling and how you are going to approach change.  Believe me, change is going to be slow and haphazard if you are in a disorganised mess.  Again, I can personally vouch for this having worked hard to remove the chaos, to achieve my vision of a beautiful home. Now it has finally manifested itself I can tell you the peace that surrounds me is heaven and the chaos removed opens up so many more opportunities for me to be able to say yes to and to act upon them.  Dream stuff to me.  Lets get you there. 

Step 1: the 15 minute rule (I learnt this from Flylady when life really had got on top of me) which is you can do anything for 15 minutes.

Step 2: pick a spot that is going to be your sanctuary

Step 3: apply the 15 minute rule.  Clear out as much stuff as you can, donate, bin or recycle the waste, in 15 minutes - time yourself. 

Step 4: repeat until your area is clear - this does not all have to be done in one day!  Take your time and don't wear yourself out doing this. Think to yourself at all times how you are blessing yourself.

Step 5: when it is clean, tidy and a space that is truely yours apply the William Morris rule - only surround yourself with things that are beautiful, useful or both.

Once you have this area,it will start to fill your soul with a sense of peace and enable you to find your purpose to change yourself and your behaviours and attitude to life.  You can then start to apply this rule to the whole house slowly clearing away all the old you and making way for the new you.  Exciting. 

I really am writing this from my heart as today I have experienced overwhelming joy from sitting in my beautiful new living area which only got decorated this week and the colour (a deep sensual blue) truely inspires me to reach out and connect with my purpose and to expand my vision. 

To bring this round to food and transformation - when you make a purposeful decision to clear a space for you externally and you can see that change it works its magic by then making you question what you are stuffing into your body and how you can clear that old junk out of you by eating live raw food. 

Daisy Green Party Review

A wonderful night!  There is something magical when you come across passionate individuals who have a vision and see it come to life.  That is what it felt like last night, magical, when the vision Nicola had sprang to life with the launch of her ethical fashion magazine Daisy Green, an idea that came to her only 6 months ago.  Having a vision of where you want to be is at the core of my raw coaching model.  The work and the dedication shown last night was inspiring. 

The fashion show was fantastic with some stunning creations which really bought home the message   that you can be ethical without giving up the glamour!  I have to mention the Izzy Lane shetland sheep coats which she creates form the wool off sheep she rescues from slaughter, loves and cares for them whilst the sheep live out their natural lives in the Yorkshire Dales.  They are gorgeous, the coats that is not the sheep (well the sheep do look quite cute!!)

Unfortuantly, I didn't win anything in the raffle (money raised for Lisa, she spoke of her inspirtional story of courgage when she survived the London Bus bomb of 7th July, and how she is off to help landmine victims in Cambodia with the charity MAG), now why is that, am I just not manifesting hard enough holding the winning bounty or am I just plain unlucky??!!

Onto the buffet and yes, there was some food for me to eat as there was grapes with the cheese presented in hamper baskets which I thought looked great, it inspired my friend to perhaps incorporate that idea at her wedding, and watermelon wedges which looked beautiful on a bed of green leaves with parma ham draped over - you decide if that is raw and on your menu!  It has got me a thinking though, about putting together a recipe book of delectable creations that are raw and suitable for a buffet. Watch this space....

Of course my favourite part was the handbags at dawn moment when the magpie swop opened and all the ladies dived in to grab some new clothes (in return for donating some of our old clothes).  I walked away with some stunning dresses and, yippee, a pair of shoes (if you know me, you will know I have a weakness for shoes!)

Thank you Daisy Green for a wonderful evening.

Daisy Green Magazine Launch Party

Daisy Green - a new fresh women's magazine dedicated to all things ethical is launching today. 

I met the 2 lovely women, Nicola and Suzanna, founders of Daisy Green, at the Newcastle Green Gathering.  We got talking as you do, as I just loved the idea of their magazine.  Their mission is to have a magazine that is not filled with loads of adverts and expensive fashion but to have a magazine that is dedicated to sustainable living.  This manifests itself in style - recycling fashion, organic clothing, beauty - sourcing ethical products, living - a green eco way for example.    It is all done with out any preaching but instead concentrating on the beauty of it all.  This particularly resonates with me, as glamour and green can go hand in hand beautifully. And I'm very excited to say that I will be getting involved with Daisy Green writing about raw food and lifestyle in the living section. 

So, onto tonight it is Daisy Green's Launch party and I am so excited to be going.  There is going to be a catwalk show with vintage and thrifty fashions, a swap shop where we all take a bag of our clothes to swap for someone elses (I love this idea, I used to do this with a group of friends when the kids were little) and lots of girly chat about how to bring ethics into our life without losing our identity. 

I will report back on how it all went. 

I Want...

Today, as I was stood in the queue waiting to get some money out of the hole in the wall, drifting off, thinking about nothing in particular, as you do, when I overheard the conversation behind me. It was between a mother and her small boy of about 3 years old and the conversation proceeded along the lines of:

"mummy I want a lollipop"

"no darling, you cannot have one before lunch"

"but I want one"

"no, it will spoil your lunch"

"can we go to the paper shop and look at the lollipops"

"mmm… perhaps and then you could have it after lunch"

(see the pressure of toddlers!!!)

So, to the point to this ping-pong conversation; the child then said

"but I WANT it NOW"

And the mother replied "I want doesn’t get"

Why, is this significant for me to be telling you this conversation? I bring it up as I am sure as kids you used to hear this saying all the time, well I did and I don’t think I was particularly demanding (perhaps I should clarify with my parents!!!). It used to make me very annoyed as I desperately wanted whatever I was after, as in the scenario above, the child desperately wanted a lollipop.

Now, what I find interesting, is that after studying the power of manifestation and how your thoughts signal your intent to the universe and the universe delivers what you ask for; why do we as adults grow into statements of "I want?" For example "I want to be rich"; "I want to live in a big house"; "I want to find love"; "I want to eat good food but..." and so on. If we refer back to the conversation with the child what did the mother say? That’s right! "I want doesn’t get". So why do we continue with this way of thinking? As the above examples are all I want, therefore, it stands to reason that if I want doesn’t get you are not going to get the items you say you want. Am I clear on this? Back to giving your thoughts to the universe for the universe to manifest them, these statements of I want lead to the longing of wanting and not of receiving.

What can be done? Change the statements to one beginning with I am. It's that easy. So back to our examples "I am rich"; "I am living in a big house"; "I am in love". Sound kooky? It does but you have changed your thought process to accept the possibility of owning your dream, therefore, you have changed your intent to one of abundance and the universe loves abundance. With positive thoughts in place you send out a message of contentment, radiance and vision and it is that state that the magic happens and before you know it you are rich, in your big house and in love, eating great food. Try it!!

There is one slight catch (don't you just know it!!), you have to receive with gratitude.  You have to display gratitude and to be thankful to what you already posess both internally and externally. 

And to the kid, he walked to the paper shop with his mum, looked at the lollipops and said "I am having that green one, please" and you know what he got it.  And he said "Thank YOU".

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