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![]() At Swasti Eco Cottages, their organic, plant-based restaurant has all kinds of vegan yumminess. I discovered this vegan gluten free pizza with gorgeous blue edible flowers!! A unique beauty and total deliciousness! Roasted greens, peppers, onions & tomato sauce on a thin, crispy, flavorful buckwheat crust. With comfy floor cushions, colorful art decor and design, the whole restaurant is nestled in lush, jungly gardens inside this eco resort. A quiet retreat tucked away from the busy city of Ubud. There's quite an extensive menu that includes nonveg and veg, with a lot of vegan and gluten free items clearly marked. They're also great about substitutions for the build-it-yourself types, like me. I don't remember exactly but I'm pretty sure I built this pizza. For dessert, the standard Ubud vegan lineup-raw vegans cakes and small treats.
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What are cravings? Are they good or bad? Some cravings are rooted in old, unhealthy emotional attachments in the body. Other cravings give helpful clues about what your body and being need for better health and forward movement. How do we know which is which?
This cow with a numbered label attached to its body is eerily reminiscent of Jews being stamped with a number in concentration camps. This is also much like how black people were treated in slavery. These races were not seen as human. They were seen as lower level vermin. Another species that were certainly of lower value and importance than the white supremacy. Not considered worthy of humane treatment. Expendable. Do we not see that this is EXACTLY how we view and treat animals? We think of them as lower, less important, that their lives have much less worth than ours, and we are entitled to treat them however we want, and exploit them for our own benefit. Because we are, of course, a superior race.
It is difficult to be eating the flesh of a murdered animal and claim to not be racist. The very beliefs that produce racism are the same that permit and justify abuse and production of animal products. Consuming animal products requires continuously making a choice to value your life above another living creature's. That justification worked when we lived in the jungle and had to compete to fend for our survival, but that is now no loner the case. We discriminate against animals because they don't speak our language and they don't look or behave exactly as we do. It's the same thing we still do to other humans. We think they're different because they look different, communicate differently, need different things. But they are living, breathing creatures on this planet who feel pain and suffer, who innocently exist on this planet and deserve the same care and respect as any other living being would want. They just want to play, love and have freedom to enjoy their lives, the same as we do. What if we needed to become gluten free to be glutton free? We became so gluttonous that we stuffed ourselves to the brim and no longer could process any more. Maybe as a reaction our bodies decided we needed to end our glutton ways by rejecting the most gluttonous culprit--Gluten-filled, BREADY SUBSTANCES.
We are always just repeating the first recipes that were ever originated. Someone invented pasta, pizza, falafel, pad thai, all these incredible, unique and delicious things. Why can no one do this now? Why are there NO new epic dishes being created? Why are the best chefs only still making the same dishes with small twists and variations? Ooh, truffle oil drizzle, cardamom-flavor, another exotic creature that sounds interesting. But nothing they create is ever craved by you again later, it just doesn't hit that spot of comfort. Is it that we don't have the social communities anymore that created long, strong traditions around certain foods? Or is it because our need for food in general is slowly dying out as our bodies become lighter, and the only relationship we have to food now is holding onto the memories we made in the past?
For me, food was a major source of addictive behavior. You don't crave the food itself, but the pleasure you get from disconnecting from your life experience at the moment. Same goes with any addiction. It's never the thing itself, but how you relate to it, your dependency on it. Food was my comfort and escape. When there are feelings I don’t want to feel and things I want to avoid doing. Food was my go-to distraction to avoid the things I'm afraid of. I think mannnny of us can relate to this one. But food used to be so sweet and innocent..how did it become our enemy??
With the TV all the programs have been chosen for me, I have no participation in this process at all, only to choose a program from the limited options in the beginning, and then lay back and submit to mindless entertainment. It's a completely passive activity that allows you to numb out of life. The program options are usually of that nature, a lower vibration numbing entertainment that leaves me feeling out of my mind and out of my power. It's a great distraction for a once in a while thing, but it can quickly turn into an addictive pattern because it feels good to numb out your mind, feelings and emotions, which at times can be quite exhausting and painful. And giving up your power means giving up your responsibility which can feel freeing to remove the weight of the mind that contemplates what you need to do in your life, and then judges whether or not you're doing it right or good enough. It kills your creativity, inspiration and passion though as your sense of self and active participation in life are taken away.
Why do we all crave deep fried food for comfort? Or something sweet? Or bready? It occurred to me it’s the same reason why anything became anything! In the very beginning, when we first started developing our relationship with food, our minds associated each food with whatever emotional state we had at the time. Because it was undoubtedly a very strong mood and energy boost in the very early days when we had never even tasted food before, the first bites would have been INCREDIBLY pleasurable and produced major serotonin release, total ecstasy. And as it was the first few interactions with food, I'd imagine these humans were in a dire state of hunger and fear that they may not find something to keep them alive, so the immense contrast coming from a very dangerous, fearful emotional state going to total bliss and sweet joy, would then leave quite an imprint on the brain. This food = my salvation. This food = total happiness. And we wonder why our attachment to food is so strong.
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MICHAELA CLARA I'm here to share what I've learned through my journey of self exploration-traveling around the outer world and within the inner world-learning about how to live a healthy life, in alignment with the body, heart and soul. Every day I'm discovering how to live more in health, connection and truth. Through joy, passion & self love, creating the life I want, and sharing this love with others. Join me for the ride! Read More |