The Vegetarian Myth

Fascinating read. The Vegetarian Myth by Lierre Keith. I know many of you are vegetarians and I'm not trying to start a debate, that's for sure. But this is a good read for anyone. It's not necessarily a pro-meat, anti-vegetarian book. It's really just a good source for learning more about how food is produced and grown in our country, the economics of food and how our bodies digest and use different types of food. 

The woman who wrote the book was a vegetarian for 20 years and then started doing her own research.  She now eats meat, but is very careful about the quality and the source.

I love reading books like this. I think the more information we have the better in deciding not only what to eat for the body we have, but where to buy our food and who to support. All so important. And I'm just so grateful there are people out there willing to do the extensive research to educate the rest of us! If this topic is up your alley, I hope you pick up a copy. I think you'll enjoy it.

The Second Chakra

My yoga instructor is also an energy healer so she will often talk about our chakra system in class.  It's a new topic for me and I find it fascinating.  I guess all of our seven chakras, or you can also think of them as energy centers,  are opened or closed to varying degrees. They open like a flower, from the inside out, and we can apparently train them to open more or close more if needed. 

The biggest value I've gotten so far from this learning is the understanding that most of us are walking around with our second chakra (lower belly), way too open. And the consequence is that it makes us overly sensitive to other people's emotional states and energy because if the chakra is wide open, we walk around absorbing their energy, good and bad. Instead we could all benefit from closing this chakra a bit (tell it to close/visualize it closing) and giving ourselves more emotional boundaries and protection as we go through our day.  This is probably more complicated than I am making it sound, but honestly, I've been so impressed with the exercise of actively closing my second chakra, that I'm pretty much a believer. I honestly can feel a difference. Give it a try.  It might just help us all float through this holiday season with ease.