Today is day 30! My eating habits have morphed over the last month to what I’m calling a cross between Paleo/Primal. Call it what you want mortgage loans, basically I’m eating natural stuff. I feel good and my diet still needs tweaking…learning what my body likes or doesn’t like. I’m loving what I’m eating and certainly plan to continue to eat this way…but with the occasional treat for myself of wine or dessert from time to time. Like last night, it was such a good feeling to have a treat like that and not feel guilty because I’ve done so well this month eating the way I chose to.
I’m currently reading “Good Calories, Bad Calories” by Gary Taubes. Holy crap people, EDUCATE YOURSELF!! I never realized how much unnecessary horrible stuff I would load my body with thinking it was healthy. And it’s unbelievable the lies we’ve been fed.
How amazing that I would find in my inbox today the following passage from Eknath Easwaran’s “Words to Live By”: discover card
“When the heart grieves over what it has lost, the spirit rejoices over what it has found.
– Sufi proverb
During the early stages of the spiritual journey, we can feel a certain deprivation when we have to keep saying no to the senses as they clamor for things that will only add to the burden of the journey later on. “Don’t eat this. Don’t drink that. Don’t smoke this. Don’t watch that.” This is what you hear from your spiritual teacher. There is no rapture; there is no ecstasy; only “keep plugging along.” bad credit loans
This discriminating restraint of the senses is not asceticism. Its purpose is not to subjugate the body. We need to train the senses to be faithful allies on our journey for two compelling reasons: first, the body is our vehicle, and we need to keep it healthy, strong, and resilient so that it can carry us steadily and safely to the summit of consciousness; second, training the senses strengthens the will day by day, enabling us gradually to gain control over the fierce passions that rage beneath the surface of consciousness. Without a trained will it is not possible to move up out of the Valley of the Shadow of Death which is our physical world. Untrained debt, the will becomes self-will, our worst enemy; but trained, the will can become our most powerful ally.”
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Theodore and Carrie Major gave birth to Thomas Major, on April 15, 1981 in Beaufort, South Carolina at Beaufort Memorial Center. He attended Beaufort High School of Beaufort, South Carolina but received his GED and ASE Certification from Earl C Clements located in Morganfield, Kentucky. His love for music was present at a very early age. He recalls sitting on the floor at home listening to Marvin Sease, Marvin Gaye, and Sam Cook thinking to himself," I’m going to be a Legendary too". Being raised in a family of 8 Thomas quickly learned how to cope with life struggles and obstacles. At the age of 14 Thomas grouped himself with a crowd that taught him the game and the survival of street life. He was such a promiscuous teenager that he wanted his hands in everything that would make money fast. Waiting around for a hand out just wasn’t an option. When the movie ‘New Jack City’ premiered Thomas adopted the name Young Nino, as his own. It was the perfect stage name for his personality and everything he stood for. His greatest influence was his grandfather Willie Capers, who told him “WHATEVER YOU DO,DO IT WELL”.
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I’m currently reading “Good Calories, Bad Calories” by Gary Taubes. Holy crap people, EDUCATE YOURSELF!! I never realized how much unnecessary horrible stuff I would load my body with thinking it was healthy. And it’s unbelievable the lies we’ve been fed.
How amazing that I would find in my inbox today the following passage from Eknath Easwaran’s “Words to Live By”: discover card
“When the heart grieves over what it has lost, the spirit rejoices over what it has found.
– Sufi proverb
During the early stages of the spiritual journey, we can feel a certain deprivation when we have to keep saying no to the senses as they clamor for things that will only add to the burden of the journey later on. “Don’t eat this. Don’t drink that. Don’t smoke this. Don’t watch that.” This is what you hear from your spiritual teacher. There is no rapture; there is no ecstasy; only “keep plugging along.” bad credit loans
This discriminating restraint of the senses is not asceticism. Its purpose is not to subjugate the body. We need to train the senses to be faithful allies on our journey for two compelling reasons: first, the body is our vehicle, and we need to keep it healthy, strong, and resilient so that it can carry us steadily and safely to the summit of consciousness; second, training the senses strengthens the will day by day, enabling us gradually to gain control over the fierce passions that rage beneath the surface of consciousness. Without a trained will it is not possible to move up out of the Valley of the Shadow of Death which is our physical world. Untrained debt, the will becomes self-will, our worst enemy; but trained, the will can become our most powerful ally.”