Graham: Evita was my guest on The Brilliance Within earlier this year. Click here if you’d like to listen to the show we did on Awakening to Love, Joy and Harmony: http://tinyurl.com/nzs6r48. Evita practices what she writes on below. What she offers here strikes me as a wonderful model for healthy, higher-conscious living.
By Evita Ochel, not dated, http://www.healthytarian.com/
The Healthytarian lifestyle combines mindful and heart-centered living, with whole, natural, organic, plant-based nutrition, with an emphasis on local, raw and the acid-alkaline balance. Its aim is to provide a foundation for life that is based on holistic practices for optimal health and longevity. Its mission includes incorporating the healthiest habits that are based on the highest degree of compassion, love, peace and sustainability.
Fresh Thinking:
The brain, the mind and the process of thinking have been topics of great interest for humanity, perhaps since time began. It appears the time is ripe for humanity to understand the immense power of the mind and our thoughts.
We are starting to utilize the potential of the creative force that these elements hold for us when coupled with consciousness, in how they create what we call our reality.
“We cannot solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them.” Albert Einstein
Through our thoughts we create the problems and the solutions. We create what we want and do not want; the pleasure and the pain. It is not until we grasp the origin of our thoughts and observe them consciously, rather than letting them reign unconsciously that we start to turn things around for our personal lives and our collective reality. Old and limiting thoughts are shed, and newly inspired, fresh, conscious thoughts are birthed. Through this process we begin to empower ourselves and understand the depths of the creative life force. We become co-creators of our personal health, and the health of our planet.
“We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.” Buddha
Healthytarian Fresh Thinking Means:
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Moving out of ignorance, and into wisdom.
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Releasing stale, outdated or limiting thought patterns! What we knew in the different fields of psychology, nutrition, astronomy or any field of science even only a few years ago has been consistently evolving, let alone what we knew decades ago. Holding on tightly to old thought patterns only hurts us in the long run.
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Challenging old beliefs. Whether it is about the self, others, society, products, practices, or any part of life on planet Earth and beyond, Healthytarians engage in active introspection for personal growth and empowerment.
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Staying fluid and flexible to new ideas and thought paradigms.
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Questioning…everything!
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Being accountable for one’s own decisions and choices. It is up to us to research, learn and grow in awareness about anything we buy, eat, participate in, support, etc.
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Non-attachment to any specific belief, thought or paradigm. We are dynamic beings who are constantly changing and evolving. Attachment to, and self-identification through some thought, belief, person, practice or other is a major source of human suffering.
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Being more accepting of, rather than resistant to, new ways of thinking and living.
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Consciously examining one’s thought patterns.
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Releasing negative thought patterns.
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Seeking, rather than settling.
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Acknowledging the power of our thoughts on our mental, emotional, physical and spiritual health.
The Healthytarian Mind Promotes:
Gathering New Information
Expansion of the Self
Intuitive Discernment
Accountability
Healthytarians take accountability for all of their thoughts, words and actions, releasing the duality states of victims and villains. This empowers a conscious approach as to what we allow to enter our mind and life, as well as what words we share with the self, others and how we choose to act.
Smart Eating:
Although we know we are more than our physical bodies, while we are here enjoying physical life we respect that to have the best experience we need to take care of our bodies accordingly.
A healthytarian knows that next to one’s thoughts, nutrition is the next most important thing to keep an optimally healthy body and mind, while preventing disease.
A healthytarian aims to nourish their body with the best food, habits and activities. Although one’s food choices today have become a trivial and controversial topic, greatly governed by corporate agendas, healthytarian nourishment is governed by blending the best of nature with the highest degree of spiritual evolution.
“Let food be thy medicine, and medicine be thy food.” Hippocrates
Healthytarian Smart Eating Means:
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Natural: Food is consumed in its most natural form.
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Wholesome: Food is consumed in the most whole, and least processed form.
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Nutrient-dense: Food is rich in vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, phytonutrients, as well as based on healthy carbohydrates, fats and proteins. The body’s resources are not wasted on empty calorie foods.
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Plant-based: Food consumed is mainly, or solely from plants, which provide the richest sources of nutrients, and life energy. Plant foods take into consideration compassionate and sustainable choices.
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Organic: Food that is grown as naturally as possible, without the use of added pesticides, herbicides, synthetic fertilizers and other chemicals is consumed as much as possible.
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Raw: Living food is consumed as much as possible. This means food which comes in its most natural form and has not been subjected to high heat (such as frying, grilling or baking) is the richest and healthiest, not only in nutrients, but also life energy (Chi). These foods are energizing, rather than energy depleting like processed foods.
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Local: Food consumed is eaten from local sources as much as possible. Local foods are the freshest being picked at their peak ripeness, least tampered with to maintain long shelf life, and most sustainable choices avoiding long distance transport, while supporting the local economy.
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Acid-Alkaline Balanced: Foods consumed break down to produce products of digestion that are either acidic or alkaline. For optimal health an acid-alkaline balance must be maintained. To do this 60-80% of the daily food should be alkaline-forming, while 20-40% should be acid-forming.
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Non-GMO: Food consumed is in its most natural state from all aspects, including its genetic make-up.
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Rich in Variety: Food is eaten from a wide variety of natural, plant-foods daily (vegetables, fruits, nuts, seeds, grains, sea vegetables, sprouts and fungi), or as much as possible.
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Smaller in Portions: Food amounts consumed are done with mindfulness to not overfill and stress the digestive system, making our bodies sluggish, or leading them away from their optimal weight.
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Easy: No counting of calories, nutrients or food groups is needed when food is consumed according to the above characteristics.
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Delicious: Foods are eaten in their natural, fresh, living forms on their own or mixed together in creative ways to bring out the richest and most delicious flavor combinations!
The Healthytarian Body Includes:
Physical Activity
Sun
Water
Fresh Air
Sleep
Personal Care
Mindful Living:
Healthytarians place great emphasis on conscious awareness as to how they live because they recognize the connection between a healthy mind, body and spirit, and a healthy human race and planet. As long as we continue to choose the unconscious path of thought, word and action, we forsake true happiness, freedom and inner peace, subjecting ourselves to unnecessary suffering along the way.
A healthytarian knows the value of being mindfully aware when it comes to the thoughts, words and actions they choose daily. A healthytarian aims to nourish their spirit with regular consciousness expanding and stillness promoting practices.
“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” Victor Frankl
Healthytarian Mindful Living Means:
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Being aware of our thoughts, words and actions as much as possible at any given time, and how those may impact us, our health, others, and living species.
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Living with present moment awareness as much as possible at any given time.
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Honoring our spiritual nature.
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Investing in quality relationships.
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Investing in spiritually enriching practices, like meditation.
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Being aware of our impact on other life forms.
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Taking into consideration the impact of our daily actions on our environment and planet.
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Being aware of what we choose and support as entertainment.
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Choosing compassion, over competition.
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Choosing unity and oneness, over separation and division.
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Respecting our body’s natural healing ability and working with it, rather than against it through harmful physical or chemical means.
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Living in reverence as one of Earth’s species.
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Living in harmony with all life.
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Being the change we wish to see.