Category Archives: Prepared

Feb12

Activate Your Blue Chakra

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Activate Your Blue Chakra

Activate Your Blue Energy

Hear

Body: Listen to the ‘Sol’ note (do, re, me, fa, sol, la, ti, do) with a tuning fork or online tuner (here’s one).

Mind: Listen intently to the sounds in a busy area until you hear one that sounds “blue” to you.

Spirit: Listen to music in which the violin (or fiddle!) is the predominant instrument.

Touch

Body: Touch the fabrics at a craft store with your eyes closed. Try to sense the blue fabrics before looking at them.

Mind: Imagine the feel of blue. Is it smooth or coarse? Does it tickle or hug or something else? What does blue feel like?

Spirit: Play outside with a bouncy ball on a clear blue day!
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Taste

Body: Lovingly prepare a blue food such as blueberry pie. Relish its taste as it fills you.

Mind: Imagine tasting anything blue – well, maybe not your Blue Heeler, but you get the idea. What does it taste like?

Spirit: Catch a snowflake on your tongue on a crisp winter day. Read the rest of this entry →

Feb9

10 Proven Ways to Create a Healthy Meal Plan

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10 Proven Ways to Create a Healthy Meal Plan

responsible meal planningWhat’s for dinner?

Many Americans struggle with this question daily and end up going to the grocery store or the drive-thru at 5:00 P.M. to pick up something quick.

What’s the solution?

A healthy MEAL PLAN!!

A recent survey stated that 75% of American adults know they need to change the way they prepare their foods. But only half actually improve their eating habits.

Here are the 3 reasons why:

  • Don’t want to change the way the food is prepared.
  • Don’t want to change the way the food tastes.
  • Don’t know how to make proper substitutions.

Planning healthy meals doesn’t have to be difficult. It just takes a little time and creativity. With that in mind. . .

Here are 10 ideas for putting together a healthy meal plan: Read the rest of this entry →

Feb8

Spiritual Meal Preparation

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Spiritual Meal Preparation

healthy meal prepWith so many recipes available to us on the Internet, sometimes I forget that it is not the recipe that is important to meal-time, but the love that goes into preparing that meal.

My family can tell when I “throw something together!” Not by the taste of the recipe, but by the way I present it to them. The presentation is a direct result of how much love, or how much of myself, I put into the food. When I carefully measure, blend and stir, somehow the energy of the food is different and better than when I am not so careful.

How do you stir the pot?

How do you prepare the food for yourself and your family? Many times, I feel the heat at meal time to throw something together quickly and with the least possible trouble. However, with just a bit more concentration, I could infuse love and goodness into my family’s food.

It is important to treasure the moments you spend preparing a meal for yourself or loved ones. Make meal preparation enjoyable by planning what you will eat beforehand so that you can make the most of meal prep time.

Here are some mindful ways for you to make your meal preparation and family meal times more meaningful from start to finish:

bulletTake time to inspect fresh produce and meat. Is it ripe and beautiful? Is the meat truly fresh, or is it enhanced with color?  Choose fresh foods with care.

bulletWhen preparing a meal, handle foods with love. Think about the nutritious qualities of each food and how it will benefit you.

bulletAs you chop and slice, try to make the pieces of equal sizes so they are pleasing to the eye and easy to chew.

bulletAs you mix and cook, stir the foods carefully. Think about how much you love the ones who will eat this food (even if it is only for you!).

bulletStir the food in your pot clock-wise for better health and a happier family dinner time.

bulletMake eating time special. Play soft music, mention the nutritive values of the foods you’ve prepared, and be grateful from the inside out – you’ve spent quality time with your food!

Taking time to think about what you are preparing has the added benefit of priming your subconscious mind to believe that you are taking care of your body. Over time, you will begin choosing healthier foods naturally.

Feb1

Allspice

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Allspice

Allspice Summary

allspice Allspice empowers you to effectively plan your actions and create the life of your dreams.  Whole allspice increases intuitive awareness and helps you recreate life to YOUR specifications.

Allspice ignites your sense of smell. Follow the sultry, strong aroma of allspice to a hot, humid, languid day where you sense that you have all the time in the world to think and plan. There is no hurry, no rush, no ‘wasted time’ when you realize that everything you experience and learn today will feed you for the rest of your life.

Here in the United States, we tend to associate allspice with desserts. You know too many desserts interfere with your healthy eating plans! Fortunately, our Caribbean neighbors have much healthier uses and recipes for allspice. You really must try Caribbean Pasta with Shrimp (recipe below) to see what I mean.


The rich scent of allspice allows you to slow down and plan your finances responsibly, without the stress financial concerns can cause. Planning and the actions that follow solve business or financial ills with great reliability, and having the rich scent of allspice nearby de-stresses your mind and makes financial planning easier.

Allspice emits heat, both in its flavor and its oil, reminding us to moderate our financial desires just as we moderate our use of allspice. Money is not a thing, but an idea. The sooner you understand that money is a flow of giving and receiving, the sooner you will be able to trust that money will flow in to your life as you let go of financial worries.

Allspice reminds you to give your spirit the space it needs to create great things for you, just as you create great things for others. Whether you create fabulous paintings or a happy home for your loved ones, allspice helps you to create from the heart.

Get creative with allspice! Whole allspice, sometimes called dried allspice berries, can be used to create a hanging sachet where its aroma will waft through the room on a breeze. Or, you could create a pendulum for intuitive work by stringing whole allspice and some earthy colored beads – perhaps weighted with a stone you found outside.

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Description of Whole Allspice


Looks like an earthy ball, and has a brown with black dimpled shell surrounding a darker seed.

Smells like spiced cider and the roaring fire that complements cider drinking.

Tastes rather hot and a bit like black licorice, but more subtle than anise. Allspice received its rather generic name because it tastes like the perfect mixture or cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves.

Feels hard and a bit rough on its tough outer shell, but the inside bits are softer and disintegrate in your mouth or with a good squeeze. Read the rest of this entry →

Jan29

Is Your Schedule Making You Crazy?

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Is Your Schedule Making You Crazy?

prepared scheduleI used to feel crazy all of the time.  I would schedule myself down to the minute.  Much to my frustration, my rigid schedules broke apart day in and day out! Most of the time, motherhood will not conform to even a seemingly perfect schedule.

If I spent time with my children when I was scheduled to be working, I would beat myself up for not sticking to “The Schedule.”  Plus, time with my children was scheduled for later in the day, which meant that I couldn’t possibly make up the work I’d missed!

When I spent the scheduled time with my boys, I resented it and thought about work.  The next day when I worked, I felt guilty for resenting the time spent with my children.  I felt further and further behind, and less and less of a good mother.  Yucky stuff.

Time as Bubbles

One thing that works for me is to think of time as ‘bubbles’ instead of a line, and then I choose my time bubbles carefully.  For example, some of my bubbles are: Read the rest of this entry →

Jan23

Prepared

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Prepared

When you are Prepared,

preparedYou use forethought to prepare and plan a course of action that will further your goals,

You have discovered an organization system that works for you and you USE it,

You are flexible, mentally and physically.

Use Your Senses To Enhance Your Virtue

Touch

Gems and Crystals

Tanzanite and Rhodochrosite help you to prepare for everything from a test to a new baby.

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Tanzanite
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Rhodochrosite

Fabrics and Clothing

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Smell & Taste

Inhale aromatic cedar oil or sit under a fragrant cedar tree. What do the grand cedars want you to know? Write it down or draw a picture while listening.

Drink some chamomile tea and contemplate what you want to create in your life.

Wear a beautiful perfume containing ylang ylang.

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Allspice

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Cedar

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Roman Chamomile

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Cypress

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Juniper Berries

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Ylang Ylang

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See

Vision Exercise: Doodle a cedar forest using a blue pen or only blue hues.

Focus on symbols and images that help you become better prepared or reinforce your ready state. Here’s a Prepared Virtue Symbol:

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Hear

Listening Exercise: Listen to music in which the violin (or fiddle!) is the predominant instrument.

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Use Your Body, Mind, & Spirit Too

Plan to Solve Problems: How to Get What You Want

An ebook by Gloria Steinham: Create A Life Plan

More pages about being Prepared