Vegan: Feeling and Spirit

April 2, 2013 § 1 Comment

Welcome! If you’re reading this, you are part of the conscious effort to bring about love here at Jenny L’voe, as well as locally and globally. We are beginning Week 2 of our Katarsis cleansing and this couldn’t be more exciting. This week we will be Rebel Evolving our food habits and transfiguring them into awesomeness. If you missed Week 1, no worries. Just go back to last Tuesday’s post Yoga: Movement and Repose.

Before we dive into it, as was stated on the post-Weekly endeavor, Rebel Evolve: Katarsis on veganism is all about cleansing the vital energy (feeling) to connect to the soul to connect to God. So…

You’re probably wondering, “What could I read about the vegan diet that’s new?”

You’ve probably heard about health benefits, weight benefits, scent benefits, and the like. And those are all great on the physical plane. But what about on other plane’s like the mind (mental and emotional)? Or on the spiritual plane (if you believe in that, and I do)?

What benefits have you then?

Well, in this seven week Rebel Evolve series, I promise that this will be the week that you remember. That you remember:

Yes, that is when I woke up.

In our materialist, physical-focused ultra consumed world–although that’s shifting–we are constantly focused on the material. Even in places that speak of consciousness, we are focused on material aspects of consciousness and not everything else that’s out there! Our diet is no different. We are looking at what will make us “look” a certain way and yet throw out emotions, mentality, and spirituality. Okay, the world is beginning to catch on to “mentality.”

So what if we viewed it from the bottom down view (Divine to human) and not human to human? What then?

Well. I’ll tell you. Here’s the good and short of it (make a graph of it if you’re a graphic designer and plaster it all over FB, Pinterest, Twitter, etc. As long as you give jennylvoe credit, I don’t care!):

Omnivore Diet = Dead = Omnivore Human = Dead

Vegetarian = Dead/Live = Vegetarian Human = Dead/Live

Vegan = Life = Vegan Human = Life

Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Hear me out. Before you go clicking onto something else, don’t judge me and just listen.

What I mean–and more importantly, what Jesus meant–by “dead” is asleep in every planes other than physical. You just can’t see or hear, unless you have complete and blind faith to do so. That is called belief. It all starts with belief.

The Omnivore Diet is Dead because you mainly eat dead things. With those dead things comes death, or death energy, as well as all of their issues along with it and some cholesterol for you. This diet causes you to not see or hear, which is dead which is sleeping. If you want to wake up progressively, start adding more life-giving foods. Remember: the consciousness of animals are alive, so when they die and you eat them, you are putting dead consciousness into your being.

Dead foods include but are not excluded too: beef, chicken, turkey, pork, duck, shrimp, fish, shark, clams, kangaroo, crocodile, et cetera.

Processed foods of every and all sorts are also dead. No matter how organic or delicious it may look, it is still dead if it is processed. Sorry, (she says to herself).

A Vegetarian Diet is a Dead/Live diet because more vegetarians eat a variety of vegetables and fruits. They are putting both dead foods and live foods into their bodies. These may include cheese, yogurt, eggs of all sorts, milk, whey, casein, lactose, and any other product or food (totally different) that is designated vegetarian. Foods that contain cholesterol are not vegetarian, as they contain cholesterol which is only a byproduct of the meat industry.

The Vegan Diet is Life because only living foods are eaten. Preferably one would eat a plant-based vegan diet. This includes a majority diet of vegetables, fruits, and water from nonplastic sources.

If you stayed with me till now, THANK YOU. Let us continue.

Plant-sourced food is live. Like animals, plants have consciousness. When you pick a plant, the consciousness stays with that item until days after. Greens have their life–that which we call vitamins, nutrients, aminos, omegas, etc. Its energy force–for up to three days. Yes. Any green. Fruits and veggies with a tough exterior can last longer. Some up to a week or two, others like root vegetables even longer.

So after reading the above, you can see how a local (preferably your backyard) plant-based diet is the most sustainable diet of all three. Sustainable meaning life giving meaning forever meaning for you meaning for me meaning for us meaning for our spirit meaning for God meaning consciousness. Doesn’t that sum it up nicely?

This weeks challenge is to add as many fruits and veggies to your diet as possible. Local plant-based grown plant-based organic foods are best. They are the most alive. Here’s a few ideas to get you started:

• Add a strawberry/banana smoothy with added flax seeds and hemp or oatmeal with raisins for breakfast
• Add a kale salad with grapes, apples, and soaked almonds with a vegan protein shake for lunch
• Add quinoa with very lightly steamed bell peppers, asparagus, and mushrooms for dinner

That’s a typical day for me. I’m also a huge fan of the Green Grasshopper–a wheat grass/barely shot mixed with light apple juice and a dash of lemon–for a great morning kick or afternoon jolt. If you’re wondering, “How do you get enough of this or that?” then

Mom, please stop reading my blog.

No, seriously. Follow a regimen or weekly vegan menu like that found on Lindsay’s amazing blogsite Happy Herbivore.

Yet here’s the goal:

To wake up. Which is to be fully alive. To be in consciousness. To be fully present. To see and hear. To having the full availability of your feelings (mind) and spirit (heart). Thus the goal is to know in that minute what your being needs in all planes, not just in the physical. And what effects the collective consciousness–all of truth combined–not just YOU right NOW. See what I did there?

If some greens can do that for you, then why not? Message me at jenny lvoe dot com for more assistiance. That’s French for “assistance.”

Muah,
Jenny

Yoga: Movement and Repose Jenny Update

Oh my goodness! I had crazy revelation last week opening me up to consciousness about my movement (how important it is to me and how I was slacking until recently), repose (what I could take out of my current diet to improve it: caffeine and sugar), and being present (sometimes we have to feel the emotions of the past for hours or a day or whatnot of funk to bring them from unconsciousness to consciousness and be capable of being more present = more awake = life = light). That’s from adding a few poses in the morning and at night and perhaps a few during the day on the grass, with it sticking between my toes. If you missed week 1, no worries. Add a few veggies and poses and you’ll be golden!

The Toxic Spill.

January 5, 2013 § Leave a Comment

So after you have done a liver cleanse through the method of your choosing and have made it through the long, and perhaps arduous, process that is transition into a plant-based vegan diet, where does that leave you? If you’ve begun the process because of a natural progression (over a four year period, in my case) or whatever the means and it has been a deeply internal decision, then you’re still probably detoxing.

This time, I can almost guarantee, it is much less on the physical plane and has gotten into your vital and mental bodies. Ask yourself, does junk keep coming up? Old memories? Triggers from past relationships? Flashes of pain? Etc.? Do you feel like you’re on a fast track to discovering you’ve been here all along? You’ve been loved unconditionally by yourself and the parts of you didn’t love were from, well, not you?

Sweet.

You’re doing it. You’re transcending. You’re becoming a human being as opposed to a human doing. You’re connecting your higher and lower states to what Sri Aurobindo and The Mother called the psychic being, that deep seeded internal part of you that is truly immortal and ever-present. For me, it’s the Jenn that is was and always will be. Awesome.

But shoot dang, how much does the detox suck? If you’ve chosen this place, a transcendent surrender to all that is was and always will be, it is the hardest process you will ever go through. A death/birth of sorts. You feel amazing! And the next day another process begins, synchronicity everywhere you turn as she shows you how to view life from Life Divine. Oy! And it’s hard! And beautiful all at the same time.

Maybe that’s just it. She’s showing you that it’s not (really really really not) black and white, hot and cold, life and death, good and evil. It is One. There is no paradox, no dichotomy, no double-bind in Truth. Truth Consciousness shows you the unity and strips away the either/or thinking and replaces it with the and/both transcendence.

Bask in it. Step back and enjoy the toxic spill, because you’re in it. You’re living it. There is no Nirvana except for the one that you yourself choose and allow yourself to see. Keep poopin’ it out. speaking it out. getting it out. Soak up the Truth, friend. And clean out the old. I’m here when you need me.

All the unconditional love I can muster,
Jenny

Food vs. Food Product.

December 16, 2011 § Leave a Comment

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I’m gonna be quite frank with you and let you in on a little secret. During this past year of diet/food changing habits, I’ve never really thought about why the food that I was putting into my body was so much better for me than what I was doing before. At the very strong chance of sounding dumb, I never thought it was so simple:

Food vs. food product.

Why hadn’t I thought of this before? It really comes down to how many food items I’m putting into my body daily, weekly, monthly that come, not only in a package, but with an ingredients list. Versus those that don’t.

When I became conscious of this fact a few weeks ago, my buying habits changed once again. Instead of buying veggie broth or pesto in a jar or hummus ready made, I began rethinking what I was buying and asked myself,

• How easy would it be to take this from a food product to a food?

• Would it be cost effective?

• Can I make it time-efficiently?

• Is there an alternative that is a food or foods rather than this food product?

• If none of the above, do I really need it?

When I started becoming more aware of the ingredients list, I made different choices of what I purchased and put inside of me. Not only did I begin to buy fewer food products when I asked myself this series of questions, but I decided to cut out some foods altogether and make my own from scratch–like homemade crackers! Mmmm!

It’s not an easy choice to make. I must admit, there’s a mentality that goes along with food products that come in boxes, jars, cartons, and so on. They’re marketed as “easy”; as something that will make cooking a breeze. I’ve had to break that perspective and say to myself, “Homemade is not more difficult than a box. It’s a lifestyle shift. And a good one at that.”

I want the food that I put into my body to allow me to live longer. And happier. I want to feel confident that I’m giving my family foods that will give them health when they are feeling sick, depressed, tired, or stressed. And that’s what food is to me.

Try it this week. Take 3 food products on your list and find recipes to turn them into foods. Ask yourself the above questions and start feeling better about what you’re putting inside of your beautiful body. Food vs. food product: it’s as simple as that.

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