Nutrition... My opinion, but what's that matter?

Today, I'm unleashing the passion that stirs within me, a subject that I have always felt strongly about(well, over the past 20 years). I care so intensely for my friends & family, this is why I post & speak up on these matters.
You may not listen or even may be offended at what I say, just try to make room for the fact that I care about others, not money. I want to see people succeed in EVERY area of their lives! It's ALL connected: the mental to the physical, the spiritual to the tangible! Balance; I pray I attain it, you attain it, the whole freakin world learns & will eventually sustain it! If we really gave 2 cents about our future we would integrate nutrition into our educational system. Okay, here it goes...

It's not JUST about exercise, that lie we tell ourselves: "if I exercise I can eat whatever I want." Is just that, a lie. Nutrition is vital! Fast food, salty, & processed sweets will eventually kill you, toxins that break our bodies down on a deep cellular level. There is a reason God made apple trees & not Twinkie trees full of chemicals & processed crap -our bodies can not digest. Why do you think he made water & not Dr. Pepper? The more you educate yourself & learn the truth, the more likely chance you will stand up for yourself & take proper care of yourself. Doctors that tell you you are fine with your diet, who may push pain & depression meds need to be enlightened as well. We are this economy's paycheck. Wake up, when will you finally care enough to take care of the temple God has given you???? I love you. Here's some soul info...

Are nutrition and health related? Is healthy eating important? Of course!

Like a finely-tuned racing car, your body needs the right fuel (food) and regular maintenance (exercise, lifestyle and mental attitude) to achieve its true health potential. Nothing is more important than healthy eating!

Put in the wrong fuel or let it go without regular use and there's no way it can deliver its full power and performance. Without healthy eating, your body's engine will cough, splutter and eventually stall.

MAINTAINING A BALANCED DIET BY HEALTHY EATING CAN:
Give you vitality and energy for life.
Help you stay at a weight that's right for you.
Boost your immune system.
Improve sports performance.
Delay the effects of aging.
Keep you active and fit into old age.
Help beat tiredness and fatigue.
Protect teeth and keep gums healthy.
Enhance your ability to concentrate and possible alter mood.
Ward off serious illnesses like heart disease, certain cancers, mature-age onset diabetes, and gallbladder disease.

Sick souls

It saddens me some people are so unhappy that they attack others. Why do they  feel the need to take so much from someone that has nothing. Greed, it sickens me, people, politics, never finding satisfaction. Their pain, suffering, and anger is not blame worthy. They feed on destruction, sin brews within their hearts. They are  threatened by anyone seeking truth or filled with passion.

Dear........

I'm so done with angry people, I'm so done with lazy, I'm so done with those that are full of venom & gossip justifying their actions of hate towards others. If you lie within the bed of Satan, expect hell. I'm done, I will not look back, it's burned like a permanent tattoo within my mind of what & where I've come from. I'm so ready for this change, for this rain, to be made new.....to see the fullness of life! Your words cannot & will not hold me down or keep me back. I'm moving on, settling my debt, released from your death grip. I'm not sad nor mad, I will not satisfy you with harsh words or physical violence. Your speech is yours to keep, it has no power over me. Thank you for the time, thank you for the lessons learned through your bitter actions & gifts with strings. All I have left to say is: "goodbye, go back to where you came from or keep walking towards that door....you don't have far to go from where I see you standing." Let it go, let her go, no holding back anymore! 2015 is full of positive, inspiring, motivating, captivating moments that unfortunately you will never see. Not because I choose so, yet because you do. You will continue to sit there in your own misery, lying to yourself daily that anything different is wrong. Continue to slowly poison yourself and anyone that will listen or take pity upon you. As you devote yourself to depression, you are killing your soul with stains of pain. Focusing only on yourself, feeding the monster of destruction and screaming there is no other way! Look behind you already, so you may turn into the pillar of salt as if you were Lot's wife in the Bible. She knew what she was told not to do, but she did it anyway.
I no longer can sleep under your roof of condescending thoughts and accusations. I love you too much to let you walk over me and mold me to be just like you. I love you enough to do as you ask and leave. I love you.....yet understand that I will never be enough. I don't take it personal because you never took the time and saw the beauty or value of yourself. Projection isn't the answer; but listening to me is ridiculous? For the first time, in forever, as if before the evil that was stroked upon me as a wee child, I embrace peace that I can not describe. I can only pray that one day, your walls will decay, so you may feel the same. So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, adieu to you.

'30 Thoughts from a Christian Yogi' BOOK!

 

Very excited to offer this as I close out 2014. Will be available for purchase next week (or the week after) on-line if you want to give the gift of insight and beautiful yoga pictures this season. I will post the link as soon as it's available. Thank you for your support and love! Hapi holidays!

Be like water

Drama, in the dictionary is defined as any situation or series of events having vivd, emotional, conflicting, or striking interest or results. Do you have any hint of drama in your life?  
Unfortunately drama occurs, sometimes it can be avoided, other times it cannot. I was visiting with a friend the other day and I explained about someone in my life that caused constant drama, he then told me: "Be like water, Kara." He was quoting Bruce Lee. Sometimes no reaction is the best reaction. I'm so thankful for friends that remind you to keep the peace during the storms of life. I'm far from perfect, my human nature tends to unleash at times especially when something is close to my heart. I must choose to be water when others are attacking, cruel, or projecting their pain unto me. Jesus was water. He didn't over react, he didn't strike back with drama, he chose love. Be like water, let it flow.
How can you be the rock and water? I'll save that for another day……

Thanksgiving 2014

Everything happens the way it does, in and out of season for such a time as this, and God knows exactly how it will all play out. He knows our hearts, more than we do, more than we will ever understand.
Today I'm celebrating Thanksgiving with a sweet friend at the beach by helping with their annual feast for the homeless. I'm thankful for the opportunity and companionship.
As I stopped to get gas on the way out of town, I didn't have much money. I went in to pay the cashier and something in my heart spoke so clear and loudly I couldn't ignore what was being said. "Kara, give her $20." My first thought was; "that's all I have." My second thought was; "why is she working on Thanksgiving?" I honestly don't comprehend some of the things that God ask me to do at times, yet I'm not looking at the bigger picture, when he is. The extra money I had was in the car. I went to pump the gas and as I stood there, I questioned myself. I asked "am I really hearing God's voice right now or am I just feeling compassion towards this woman?" Either way, I was doubting by focusing on my own problems. Then as I was putting the cap back on to my gas tank the cashier came outside for a smoke break. I knew that was God's way of telling me: "YES! It's me- God!"
I reached into my car, grabbed the money, walked over to her and said "sometimes we don't understand why God tells us to do certain things. This isn't much, but Hapi Thanksgiving."
One of God's names is pronounced Jehovah Jirah, meaning "the God who provides." There are times we just need to accept the peace in not seeing the finished picture, learning to be content with just being a piece of the puzzle. In Genesis we find Abram who had no idea where he was going, all he knew was that God told him to "Go." He is speaking to you, trust him, and go or do whatever it is he's asking of you.
Perhaps, we can all be more compassionate and give to an organization in need like: the WaNgui project @ https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1962405483/the-wangui-project?ref=nav_search by donating $1-10 (today)! Imagine if 500 people gave $5 each, how we could impact the world! This is a great opportunity to help fight against female genital cutting. There are endless possibilities when it comes to giving. Give life, give love, give joy, give peace, give grace, give hope, give when you hurt the most, so that you can be the change that you want to see in the world.

3 days…..

3 days have passed, I am done with this fast

i will no longer be silent, nor shall i endorse your violence

3 days i wept, from the secrets you kept

now i see a new dawn, no longer being held captive by your wand

3 days i laid, not getting paid

i am slowly waking up, shedding off this God awful drinking cup

3 days i prayed, begging for the pain to be taken away

i've discovered life's view, it's nothing you said was true

3 days is all it took, to create this power hook

i will not die, from all your lies

3 days to come, you appear as scum

i am not afraid, nor shall i be swayed

3 days will pass, you will kiss my ass

i'm here right now and will take my bow

sometimes i cuss, sometimes i do yoga

People are disturbed not by things, but by the VIEW they take on them. ~ Epictetus(Greek Stoic Philosopher)

Worst day of my life….

The worst day of my life, you might imagine me stating a death or loss, perhaps the day my father died or the day I was in a horrible accident, totaled my car (looking at the car you'd think the person driving was dead). Yet, those days can not compare to the worst day of my life. This day was supposed to be a day of celebration, a day of love and union, but it was a day that left me completely grief stricken. October 2, 1999, it was the day I got married. Yes, you finally figured out why weddings absolutely disgust me and why I can't stand to attend them. My wedding day left such a wretched taste in my life that it literally made me sick to even think about going to one. They all just seemed so fake, full of lies, as if people were dressing up, painting a happy-face-mask on, disguising marriage as a beautiful life event. When in all reality, it was a pit full of venomous snakes. I had no idea at the young age of 23 what I was getting into. Looking back, I've discovered how I've learned the most valuable lessons a girl/woman could acquire. You know the drill, I save the best for last, you have to wait until the end for the dramatic life lesson. Don't skip through anything, trust me, you'll want all the gooey details. Shall I continue now?

Prince charming, was not so charming and had the temper of a hangry(hungry plus angry= hangry) two year old. He was cruel, abusive with his words and when things went bad, he saw red and forgot anything he said or did. I will leave it at that, because I am not one to lash out or for that matter take a lashing. I'll leave it with your imagination of how bad the fights got. This wasn't the first time for me, I grew up with harsh words and thought it was perfectly normal to be spoken to in such a way. Someone attempting to control you, that host so much anger in their heart, sucks- BIG time. Obviously, the pain inside them is too much to bear that they feel they have to project it unto you. I knew where their pain stemmed from so, I tolerated it. I allowed the 'putting me in my place' mentality to carry on for years.
When I finally decided to leave and start a new life (single-hood), people came out of the woods telling me things about him(where he went, what he did) confirming my decision was best that I left. The thing that baffles me is: WHY didn't they tell me when it was going on years prior? Why is it, when people find out or know something about your significant other, like what they are doing (that has the potential to ruin or heal the relationship) and STILL keep it to themselves or gossip to everyone else in town about it? My theory: if you're NOT speaking the truth (in love), you're not a true friend and you really don't care for the person. Truth is the best medicine, yet every one's truth is their own perceived reality. Basically, we are all screwed. LOL.
Seriously, he wasn't my prince charming because he was made to be prince charming for someone else. We never gelled, no matter what, we were mismatched from the get go. His talents and gifts were not compatible with mine. He's not the bad guy, I'm not either, we are just from two different countries when it comes to logic and the realities of our thinking. His world was developed from what he went through from birth until now, mine as well. I learned so much from our battle field, you read that right, it wasn't a training ground, their was blood shed.

What was attained? Compassion, though it may look obscured. Grace, to understand we all are flawed and need each other to embrace our variations. Hope, that somehow optimism will always far out weigh pessimism. And, most essential: LOVE. Love, the strongest, most powerfully positive emotion of regard and affection. It requires more than pleasure, it is full of devotion. How can this be, shouldn't I be bitter and walk around with a stench face? Certainly I could claim that I have the right to hate weddings and be bold enough to make it my life motto that weddings suck and love doesn't really exist. The fact is, love does exist. God is love, which is unconditional. Humans fail where he doesn't, we make it about survival and put limits on love. Weddings were not made to be some theatrical show, they are a symbol of marriage. Marriage, when two join as one, is a soul connection. I've determined that when a marriage is right, it's absolutely stunning and will take your breath away(in the best way). A commitment so deep its in your bones, part of your essence. Personally, it scares the shit out of me. I'm just being honest, its all I know, apologies to all you uptight, righteous folk reading my crazy ass blog. Here's something funny, I actually enjoy some weddings now. Shocker, lookout world!

Lastly, yet most vital, the four various birth control methods that didn't sustain during wedlock…..left me with the most beautiful, captivating fact that the worst day of my life led me to the most treasured, precious four gifts of my life. My cup is full, through the ups and downs, this journey has hosted me with the highest degree of intense joy anyone could ask for…..motherhood. I am blessed, and would choose to relive my worst day all over again to experience the four delights of my being. Sometimes suffering brings awareness of our greatest accomplishments. Watching them venture out and feel exuberance, seeing them get their happy on is pure, genuine bliss!

Be raw, be real, be love, be light, be peace, be hype, be free, just BE!
Signing off for now,
Prita

My Why....

My heart and life are full, I've never been so excited! What fuels me is helping to stir the passion in others and watching their lights turn on. Walking in my destiny, it's what I was meant to be.
Be love, be light, be peace, be hype, be free, just be!
-Prita