Following the gift of a one week cleanse, the shifts in body and mind and spirit are beginning to take root. It is manageable…
It is manageable for me, and it is a part of me, to incorporate shifts in the types of foods that I choose to eat, shifts in the way that these foods are prepared and shifts in the patterns of eating. It is part of me now because I have committed myself to this process, and along the way have found joy in what I am doing.
This is not always the way in life. There are things that we would like to do, would like to commit to, but cannot seem to actually incorporate. You may be feeling that way in reading about any type of detox plan, or any type of program that limits your eating, and asks more of you than you are right now. It may be overwhelming just reading the list of ingredients for the kitchadi for the cleanse (see recipes), and you have not even started to put the plan into action! I do know this feeling.
Years ago that was real for me when I began to shift my eating from a Western style diet. Now it is old hat! But ask me to start a vegetable garden again this year, and I am stopped in my tracks. I can find a number of other jobs or tasks or activities that are more demanding of my time and energy. Not more worthy, but more demanding. Yet I want the results of a vegetable garden! I can connect with Mother Earth through cooking wholefoods in the kitchen, through shopping without plastic, through hanging laundry on the line, why am I not pulled into this gardening easily?!
No need to analyse it any further. I have found the source of the problem, and I am still wanting the results. So I am going to put an action plan in place, look for support carefully and nurture myself through this challenge. So the process at this time is:
This is not always the way in life. There are things that we would like to do, would like to commit to, but cannot seem to actually incorporate. You may be feeling that way in reading about any type of detox plan, or any type of program that limits your eating, and asks more of you than you are right now. It may be overwhelming just reading the list of ingredients for the kitchadi for the cleanse (see recipes), and you have not even started to put the plan into action! I do know this feeling.
Years ago that was real for me when I began to shift my eating from a Western style diet. Now it is old hat! But ask me to start a vegetable garden again this year, and I am stopped in my tracks. I can find a number of other jobs or tasks or activities that are more demanding of my time and energy. Not more worthy, but more demanding. Yet I want the results of a vegetable garden! I can connect with Mother Earth through cooking wholefoods in the kitchen, through shopping without plastic, through hanging laundry on the line, why am I not pulled into this gardening easily?!
No need to analyse it any further. I have found the source of the problem, and I am still wanting the results. So I am going to put an action plan in place, look for support carefully and nurture myself through this challenge. So the process at this time is:
- truthfully acknowledge emotions and behaviors
- use insight and awareness to look at the situation from many different angles
- ACTION! which is where I am at now.
Updates of the action plan will be posted in the coming days and weeks. Replace the garden situation with your own situation and let us know how you are moving through life!
Namaste,
Sydney