RawJoy--the lifestyle that heals and supports your body, mind and spirit

Last month we had a lunar eclipse, a solar eclipse and the Spring Equinox....all events that accompany profound personal and global changes in energy and experience. I am going to share with you one of the changes in my life that has raised my vibration and altered my experience in the most positive ways.

For almost a year now, I have been learning about and implementing a wonderful lifestyle change. I am eating a raw, vegan diet. Now, honestly a year ago this would have been unthinkable for me. All raw foods? Are you nuts? But personal evolution being what it is, and setting intentions for what I want, being an amazing and powerful process.....here I am eating all raw, vegan foods every day.

The transtion from cooked or what we refer to as SAD (Standard American Diet) took time. It's still in process actually, since from time to time--although very infrequently these days--I still will have a bite of cooked foods. See, I set my intention to be the most radiant, healthiest, most alive and joyful ME I could possibly be, and I was quickly led to this lifestyle. Over the course of several months I ate a higher and higher percentage of raw foods: fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds. I learned about how to create delicious dishes that satisfied my palate and my stomach. I was having great fun with it.

Then I realized that I wasn't really losing much weight doing this and I found a website that promised fast weightloss using the principles of the raw food journey. It turned out that while I learned a lot of valuable information about manipulating my food for weight loss on this plan, it was not a good fit for me for a number of reasons. So I left and returned to my own unique evolving, joyful raw food lifestyle.

I have good friends who have chosen this lifestyle also, so we support each other, coach each other, and are making great progress: I've lost over 20 lbs to date and am losing more each week.

Besides weight loss, so many things are changing since I've begun this way of eating: all kinds of skin changes are taking place. Until I was 45 and my hormones began to change, my skin was beautiful, and then blemishes of all sizes and sorts started to appear. I was not happy about this. But eating raw foods, which the body is designed for and is able to use for healing and renewal, those changes amazingly, are reversing. Unatractive skin tags are falling off, pesky little moles disappearing, spider veins fading, skin glowing. And in addition, the achiness in my hips that came with my active lifestyle is gone, my shoulder impingement syndrome has healed and I am playing tennis again. The list of positive healing and changes is long and wonderful. If you do a bit of research you will find stories of healing and rejuvenation stemming from this lifestyle.

As time goes on, it has become easier and easier to eat in a way which I once thought impossible. It's now a pleasure to eat and not experience bloating, indigestion, fatigue, headaches, etc. I am eating like a queen, as my good friend is fond of saying, and I am loving it and feeling the abundance and joy of it on a daily basis. The emotional changes are profound too, steady, stable, and joyful is where I am the majority of the time. Focus and attention are improved....well, as I said, the list of positive changes is long and wonderful.

I learned most of what I know about the raw and living food lifestyle from Alissa Cohen's book, Living on Live Foods. You will find links to hers and other raw lifestyle sites on the Resources page of www.EveryDayJoy.com

I will be starting a separate blog called RawJoy to chronicle my raw journey, and am adding raw lifestyle coaching to my repetoire. I'm happy to share this wholesome,healing, joyful path with you!

Remember, "where your attention goes, the energy flows" so choose well where to place your emotional and mental attention to create your own Every Day Joy!! Focus on what you are wanting, what you desire, and the Universe will provide the "how" of it, just as it has for me in bringing me to this raw journey to health, radiance and even more Joy!

Warmly,
Jan