by natalia | Feb 10, 2021 | Health Foods
Debunking typical raw food myths
Myth #1: To benefit from the raw food diet, I need to eat only raw vegan foods
Unlike many raw food books, The Raw Food Detox Diet allows and even emphasizes the inclusion of some cooked food in the diet (recommending different percentages of cooked food for each raw food transition level, as described in part II of this book).
When you begin to eat raw food, it’s healthy to keep some cooked food in the diet to prevent an overly intense detoxification response, to promote gastronomical pleasure and emotional satisfaction, and to take into account personal circumstance. Too often, raw food books adhere to the misguided goal of becoming a 100 percent raw foodist. In fact, that kind of diet is not for everyone, much less for those of you who are just starting out.
Similarly, you will also find mention of nonvegan foods in this book. Not everyone is successful as a vegan or desires to become one. As you read, you will learn why becoming vegetarian or vegan does not guarantee health and weight-loss success.
Over the years of working with my clients, it has been clear to me that this is a place for some natural, cleanly prepared animal products within a highly raw, plant-based diet. Many of you may be committed vegans and vegetarians. You will easily adapt the detox diet to your philosophy. But for those of you who do not wish to give up every last morsel of “flesh” foods, you will learn that it is unnecessary to do so.
Now that you know that you can still eat some cooked or flesh foods on this diet, you have one less excuse for not detoxing!
Extract from Raw Food Detox Diet by Natalia Rose
by natalia | Feb 9, 2021 | Recipes
THE VERSATILE CAULIFLOWER
Cauliflower should always be high up on your detox grocery list, as this cruciferous vegetable will bring heartiness and versatility to your cooking. Cauliflower is so versatile that is can be converted into a variation of “rice” and can even be used as a base for flatbreads or pizza crusts, which are a great alternative to grains.
I partnered with a wonderfully innovative chef, Doris Choi, to create The Fresh Energy Cookbook in 2012, as well as an innovative cooking school and a number of other projects. This was such an exciting time for me, as Doris provided the recipe genius and innovation to create hundreds of recipes using the dietary principles that I have taught over the past two decades.
CREATING THE CAULIFLOWER PIZZA CRUST
One of Doris’ great innovations was the cauliflower pizza crust, which has become such a popular, healthy alternative to a grain-based pizza crust. This pizza crust recipe first appeared in the pages of The Fresh Energy Cookbook. This is one of the most gratifying recipes in my repertoire. My clients get so excited when they discover they can actually have pizza on the detox diet.
Some people find it very difficult to digest cruciferous vegetables such as cauliflower raw, and consuming too much may produce gas and bloating. This is easily remedied by breaking down the cellulose by blanching, steaming, or roasting such vegetables before consuming.
RECIPE: THE CAULIFLOWER PIZZA CRUST
4 cups cauliflower “rice”*, steamed and excess moisture removed using a cheesecloth
½ cup goat cheese or goat feta cheese
1 egg, lightly beaten
1 teaspoon dried oregano or za’atar
Pinch of paprika (optional)
Preheat the oven to 400ºF and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
Combine all the ingredients in a large bowl and transfer the mixture to the baking sheet.
Shape the mixture into a flat circle, keeping it ⅓-inch thick.
Bake for 25-30 minutes until the “dough” feels firm.
Makes 1 large pizza crust
Recipe from The Fresh Energy Cookbook
in loving service,
Natalia
by natalia | Feb 8, 2021 | Health & Wellness, Muscle Development
As discussed in Bionic Muscles, Part 1, we need to develop our opposing muscles. Now I discuss how to attain those supple opposing muscles!
Supple Muscles
As you develop your clean-celled musculature, make a point of keeping your muscles very, very supple. You don’t want armor, you want strength and true strength is primal fire flowing through your physical form – the primal fire (Qi, life force, force from the Source, as you like) is the big boss.
Your muscles should be developed as part of your body’s endeavor to express each of its systems as the primal fire would have it done. In this light, your lungs are a servant of the primal fire; your kidneys are a servant of the primal fire, as are your bones and muscles. When we invert that truth, we have big problems! Put the primal fire’s requirements first (which are, namely, to conduct, move, express, expand, and experience) and you’ll know how to support your body’s systems on behalf of the primal fire that depends on them. You’ll be living life in your body right side up, instead of upside down.
So, by all means, increase the fortitude of your muscles. But do it by consciously complimenting development with malleability. Note bene: flow is the cousin of malleability; flexibility serves these cousins — flexibility is a tool to increase flow and malleability, not the other way around.
Methods for Attaining Supple Muscles
There are several excellent, easy, free practices you can do daily to make sure you are optimizing your malleability as you train. Daily massage is an obvious first stop (self-massage more than suffices and can be done whenever it suits you). Intuitive dance and intuitive yoga for even a few minutes is a great way to ensure fluidity!
But, this is one area where visualization is highly effective! Take some time once or twice a day to visualize all the condensation of energy, all the stagnation, emotional residue, and mental tension leaving your muscle tissue.
If we want to become living embodiments of the primal fire (which we do, believe me), we have to live the primal fire lifestyle and think like primal fire thinks. We can’t let anti-primal fire stuff set in – not in our organs, not in our connective tissue, our joints, our hearts, our minds nor our muscles. Best of all, you can expect your muscles to be stronger. So, lift your weights, sculpt your yoga muscles, run, cycle, climb, row, whatever suits you best – but remember, for all the development you do, you need to clear, clear, clear stagnation from that muscle tissue.
Malleability is Strength
If you’ve read the Socrates book series by Dan Millman (one of my all-time favorite set of books — I cannot recommend it highly enough), you may remember that the main character, Socrates, explains that our bodies should be so malleable that we should be able to be massaged right to the bone! That’s a good image to keep in mind — to strive for. With muscles, increase and malleability = strength. Those are the complementary forces for bionic muscles.
I love my bionic muscles. They make me feel almost other-worldly, like I’ve got a secret in them, like they can do things that I’m not even fully aware of yet. Ah the ever-unfolding mysteries of the inspired, syntropic, ecstatic life!
-in loving service,
Natalia
by natalia | Feb 7, 2021 | Health & Wellness, Muscle Development
Life Balance
Balance is the quest to bring together forces that both oppose and complement one another. In our world of form, we live in and among countless opposing factors – the yin/yang forces you’re familiar with: light/dark, contracting/expanding, levity/gravity, inward/outward, male/female, and so on.
When these forces are not balanced (complemented by their polarity-partner, where they can triumph in balanced unity), stagnation and the decay cycle set in. Over-polarization of one of the forces undermines life.
So we must be vigilant not to over-polarize toward one force, forsaking its counterbalancing mate. This much you know. Moving along…
When the counter balancing mates are used consciously, something amazing happens: we can actually grow dynamically and exponentially when we stretch one force along with its complementary force equally! For example, if you take a long stride with your right leg and then an equally long stride with your left leg, what happens? Well, you get farther, your limbs realize a greater potential than when you were taking smaller steps and, from there, you can continue to challenge yourself and reach greater potential! Again, you know this…
But now, I want to invite you to look at how this applies to muscle development in the fitness category.
Balance in Opposing Muscles
Good exercise physiologists and trainers will guide their clients to “opposing muscle development” which creates a supportive network for the musculature, preventing injury and many other problems. Opposing muscle development is what is what is done when one strengthens the abdominals along with the lower back, the hamstrings with the quadriceps, the biceps with the triceps – you get the idea.
But there is an aspect to muscular development that is still missing and because it is missing, fitness enthusiasts are actually fast tracking their own decay by the very way they are aiming to strengthen themselves and attempt to increase their longevity.
The missing element is applying the complementary, counter-polarity-partner of absolute malleability with muscular increase/development. Muscles must only be increased with absolute malleability, which requires an absence of obstruction in the muscle tissue. When you combine development/increase with absolute malleability (which at the outset may sound like a totally incompatible concept) you will have a truly enviable muscular system both cosmetically and mechanically. I like to call it a bionic muscular system (even though “bionic” connotes something artificial, I still like the ring of it and the image of a dynamically powerful muscle it conjures up for me).
A life-generating musculature has nothing in common with the traditional, modern muscle building approach which breeds stagnation with every lift and crunch and is rather a menace to the conductivity and flow in your body which give you your youth juice.
Granted, most body builders and gym-goers are consuming highly toxic shakes, bars and meals designed to encourage muscle development, so they are already doomed as these ingredients will destroy healthy tissue and are the harbingers of rapid aging. But for you, who are not mismatching strength training with toxicity, you could be getting so much more bionic power circulating in your body!
More on how to attain those supple muscles tomorrow!
-in loving service,
Natalia
Tomorrow: Bionic Muscles, Installment 2
by natalia | Feb 6, 2021 | Deep Tissue Cleansing, Health & Wellness
French Kiss
If you think you’re sexy…but you don’t use a tongue scraper, I hate to break it to you, but it may be that you’re not as sexy as you think. The mouth is a major eliminative orifice. Researchers in the Netherlands discovered that a 10 second French kiss can spread 80 million bacteria between mouths.
Making its Way into the Mouth
But hang on, and let’s go a level deeper because those germs are just the effect of pathogens developing among the waste that’s being excreted from deep in the body into the mouth (we always want to get to original cause, not get stuck on the symptom). What you need to know (and you’ll never hear this in a toothpaste commercial) is that intestinal waste moves through the tissues (even through the tiny channels that link the gums and intestines to other organs in the body) and it makes its way into the mouth (that’s why some people’s mouths actually smell like poo). Gross, sorry!
Never forget that your organism is a dynamic interconnected network that is nothing, if not porous, and pouring substances from system to system constantly.
I wouldn’t focus on the germs, that’s the superficial end effect – the tail wagging the dog. I would rather consider the way the body excretes its waste — through all its eliminative organs. Not so sexy to contemplate at first glance, but very sexy when you understand how it works and get a handle on real hygiene and what that means to you (and the one you play kissy-face with).
Add Tongue Scraping to your Deep Tissue Cleansing Routine
The stronger the fortitude of your organs, the more efficient the eliminative process is. So, when you are in the throes of deep tissue cleansing and beyond, you will want to be even more on top of your scrub-a-dub-dub routine. And always, always, always clean your mouth after exercise. For goodness sake, your body is sweating and expunging which means eliminative orifices are activated ever the more!
Tongue scraping is done before and/or after brushing — it should be done several times a day. In fact, brushing should be done 4-5 times a day, not 2-3 (always with a soft tooth brush) and taking care not to ram the gums as excessive brushing done improperly can recess the gums. And, of course always use fluoride free, natural toothpaste. Let’s not destroy brain cells when we brush.
Clean Sink, Clean House
Many years ago, I read somewhere that a clean kitchen sink was the mark of a clean house. From that day forward, I have kept an immaculate kitchen sink (and strive for order at home throughout as our spaces greatly influence our life experience). But here’s what I’m getting at…your mouth is like your kitchen sink. It should always be clean and there’s really nothing like a proper metal tongue scraper to ensure that’s the case.
Tongue Scraping Guidelines
Don’t be overzealous with your new tongue scraper in the early days as you can scratch your palate which isn’t nice (heals quickly though). But over time, you’ll find just the right pressure and rhythm for the unique make-up of your mouth. I haven’t been to the dentist in over 13 years. I never get so much as a sensitivity in my mouth simply because the insides of my body are clean and I am fastidious (but never harsh) with my brushing and tongue scraping routine. They should be used in tandem multiple times daily. I know dentists and dental hygienists might get annoyed with me for saying so, but this combo far exceeds the benefits of brushing and flossing by comparison.
Enjoy the sensation! Kiss, kiss.
In loving service,
Natalia
by natalia | Feb 5, 2021 | Awaken and Release, Beauty
Female Pattern Baldness
It used to be that only men faced the strong likelihood of baldness as they aged. But today, one of the biggest concerns among women is losing their hair. Female pattern baldness is practically a household term now. Give it a generation or two and, like practically everything else, female pattern baldness will be relegated to some kind of unfortunate genetic lottery just like male pattern baldness, rather than by its original cause: the systematic ravaging of the bloodstream with toxins. Make no mistake, this rapidly growing symptom is a clear indication of how toxic womankind has become.
Early Indications of Toxicity in Women
One of the earliest indications of toxicity in women presents in the form of bladder issues. The bladder-kidney meridian is extremely sensitive to acidity and will let you know the moment your pH starts to dip (the beginning of all problems to come). To be clear, this means that those bladder infections are telling you that you’re now on the highway to rapidly de-spiraling health.
The next major indication for women comes with their cycles. ‘Aunt Flo’ should have a brief, non-eventful visit – arriving without fanfare, causing minimal inconvenience and leaving you feeling refreshed. If that is not the case, you have accumulated too much waste and toxicity and it’s time to glean ‘Aunt Flo’s’ keen insights before more unpleasant symptoms present.
By the time a woman has suppressed these symptoms for a couple of decades, her glands can no longer be expected to function normally. Hormones cannot be expected to secrete as designed. In addition, the accumulation in the intestine (which has now permeated deep into the body through the porous tissues and interconnecting channels) is housing all manner of entropic material, including heavy metals, machine oils and radiation, which are rapidly reproducing pathogens and decaying the entire system.
Meanwhile, the outward quest for beauty continues while the inner being is ravaged (and the damaging lifestyle is continued). Symptoms worsen, suppression increases, appearance suffers, application of toxic cosmetic products and procedures increase. The puff increases, the pathogens proliferate, the toxicity deepens, the decay accelerates. That is the inglorious cycle.
Awaken and Release the Cause of this Toxicity
But, of course, it doesn’t have to be that way. In order for a life-generating cycle to ensue instead, the original cause must be nipped from the very start: the saturation of acidic, toxic accumulation must be addressed. That is where the healing must be directed. Any other starting point will fail. The waste must be removed. And then: the decay will slow, the toxicity will depart, the pathogens will die off, the puff will decrease and the procedures and products will become not only unnecessary but perceived to be the major contributing cause of decay and disease that they are.
Hair and nails are like the leaves on a tree. If you have a healthy tree with a robust, well-nourished root system and loads of life force conducting in an unobstructed rush up through the branches, you will see lush leaves, fruits and flowers blossoming forth. But, if the opposite is true and the roots are weak and hardly any life force rises through the branches, you will find lackluster leaves with high entropy fruits and flowers (if any) gasping from a dying tree.
Female pattern baldness is only in its early stages in our culture. I predict that it will among the very fastest growing symptoms for women in the near term. The answer is not going to be a toxic re-growth pill, chemical creams or playing more hormone roulette. Those approaches will result in even more unbearable symptoms like even greater infertility and auto-immune diseases the likes of which we have not yet ‘er seen (nor ever want to see!).
The solution has always been there. Awaken & release the waste from your cells, tissues and organs and you will the process reveals you very own abundance of lush leaves, fruits and flowers. Your hair is your crown — don’t let a misguided lifestyle steal your crown from you, Princess!
– in loving service,
Natalia
by natalia | Feb 4, 2021 | Personal Development
There’s a story I heard many years ago that stuck with me forever — a sad tale with layers of priceless insights…
Metamorphosis
Once upon a time there were three very sensitive little kids, around 8-10 years old. They stared in wide-eyed-wonder as they observed the mesmerizing metamorphosis of cocooned caterpillars emerging into beautiful, richly colored, winged butterflies. They loved these caterpillars-come-butterflies but they were also deeply disturbed by what they perceived to be unnecessarily hard work the butterflies had to endure in order to emerge from the cocoons.
One day, they had an idea: if only they could cut away the cocoon just before the transition, the butterflies would not have to struggle! So, the kids found a tiny little pair of nail scissors and, at what they deemed to be just the right moment, they carefully cut away the cocoons of the butterflies, confident that their butterfly friends would thank them for it.
As you may have guessed, it did not turn out at all the way the children had anticipated. While the butterflies were indeed fully-formed, they could not fly. The children fell into piles of tears, realizing that their attempt to assist the butterfly babies actually resulted in forever handicapping them.
The Essence of Metamorphosis
Metamorphosis literally means, “to change form” –with a connotation to a higher, transcendent form. Like a baby ready to birth or a butterfly ready to emerge from its cocoon, there is no escaping the reality of the authentic journey, and there is not usually even a conscious awareness that a transcendent change of form is at hand. In many ways, if we knew wings were waiting on the other side of a painful journey, the passage would be far easier. No such luck. It’s as if the very absence of knowing is what earns us our “wings.” It is the commitment to doing what is right despite how hard it might be, to following our deepest knowing even in the face of absolute fear, that these miraculous transformations are won.
The baby and the butterfly do, however, offer us a set of fail-proof tips for dark, difficult, intimidating metamorphosis moments: they demonstrate perfect presence, intuition and instinct. Achieving that perfect posture requires putting all projection and apprehension aside so that natural, real intuition and instinct can guide the passage.
There is a confidence we gain when we have to persevere through the dark tunnels that link our transformations. Our beautiful lives are filled with these opportunities. However, typically, we tend to just take one look at these challenges/opportunities and see nothing but pain, making a bee-line for the path of least resistance (if we can find one). When we choose instead to undertake our challenges armed with our fullest truth, something else happens, we evolve!
Evolution and syntropy are very similar concepts. Syntropy (more popularly known as “neg-entropy,” the opposite of entropy) means to rise to higher, more rarified orders from lesser, more chaotic arrangements. Syntropy promises unlimited rising to higher forms of life – a kind of gateway to immortality in effect. We can live the syntropic life if we can be really present in the most challenging of times and have the presence of mind to hear and follow our intuition and instinct over our knee-jerk fears.
I don’t know what your unique challenges are, but I do know that in them you’ll find your greatest opportunities for metamorphosis. Difficult? Indeed, sometimes more than you think you can bear. But, there is a way through if you maintain the presence of mind and intimacy with your essence such that intuition and instinct can be your steady compass. It is through seizing these moments that we can swing up the syntropic spiral, coming into closer sync with our immortality. For those of you who find immortality too far-fetched, imagine, at least that you will rise out of your perceived land-bound limitations, taking wing with new life.
In loving service,
Natalia
by natalia | Feb 3, 2021 | Beauty, Health & Wellness
Thoughts on Beauty
If you ever think beauty is expensive, remember this:
Beauty is receiving light from the sun into your skin, eyes and sacred brain.
Beauty is a long, hot bath with natural, alkaline soap.
Beauty is giving yourself a generous foot massage in that bath.
Beauty is electrons conducting/kissing life force within you and in your environment.
Beauty is clean blood and tissues.
Beauty is loving touch.
Beauty is inclusivity.
Beauty is respecting and revering life in all its countless forms.
Beauty is discerning true beauty from illusions of beauty and knowing which to emulate.
Beauty is allowing yourself to truly feel everything that moves through you.
Beauty is putting your mind on the most exquisite thoughts you can muster up.
Beauty is surrendering to a long night’s sleep at 9:30pm.
Beauty is being a life-generating force for all life affected by your field.
Beauty is simple and clean. Beauty is biting into a tomato that you grew!
Beauty is the care we take to balance and support life’s interconnectivity at every level.
Beauty is when the sap from the heart of our being surges with love.
And of course, I could go on and on as that which is expresses true beauty is infinite as life itself.
However, what’s expensive, beauty is not…
Beauty is not being served Foie Gras with Truffles in St. Tropez in July.
Beauty is not drinking French champagne, donned in haute-couture.
Beauty is not stilettos on the red carpet.
Beauty is not self-importance.
Beauty is not segregation and exclusivity.
Beauty is not cocktails and perfume.
Beauty is not spraying on formaldehyde sun-screen on the beach in St. Barts.
Beauty is not weakening the integrity of your teeth with chemical whitening agents.
Beauty is not believing you are less beautiful because your face shows signs of life and experience. And on and on…
But then, perhaps beauty is all of these things because when you pay the real price for this latter category, which is far more than the sticker price, you thirst only for real beauty — and that can be a beautiful (albeit painful) journey. I’ve been around enough to know and share that the simple, life-generating path is the sweetest place to be.
Of course, the emotional, energetic, physical and financial freedom it takes to create such a world of true beauty for yourself is, shall we say, “priceless?” Be the beauties that you are and don’t fall for any imitations.
-Natalia
by natalia | Feb 2, 2021 | Authenticity, Personal Development
Authenticity
There is only one thing that life asks absolutely of you — to express your authentic nature, fully — not to embody some cockamamie ideology you’ve been told to put on like a uniform.
Consider today shedding anything that rings of doing what you’re “supposed” to do because that’s what’s expected of you. By whom? Who said so? Who dictates to you what you should or should not be or do if you are following a path of honor? And, I can assure you that if you are following a path of honor and truth, your authentic expression will always trump the alternative by a million miles!
Anything that infringes upon your ability to be yourself is a nail in your coffin, decay in your being, certain death. Calcification comes from that crunched up place. That place of doing what you’re told and toeing the line.
True Human Life Experience
Only by removing the death imprint and all the repression and suppression from ourselves will we know what the true human life experience should feel like, look like and how far it should extend (in perfect bliss).
So where are you permitting suppression/repression? Where are you stifled? How is your conductivity today? How centripetal are you? Is it an entropic day or a syntropic day? It’s all in your power to re-direct anti-energetic spin to life-generating spin, to heal, to embody the life force!
Overcoming is not easy but the alternative is no place to be. Those who triumph do so because they never let go of the beautiful vision of true life even while they are surrounded by imitations of life.
Perfect vital vision. Application of concentrated focus. Consistent implementation of all that supports that vision. That’s it. You’ve got this!
In loving service,
Natalia
by natalia | Feb 1, 2021 | Detoxing from the Matrix
Pray for Release from the Matrix
Feel free to use the below prayer, my Friends. We can be freed of the matrix. It’s voluntary. We were always able, like Dorothy, to go ‘home,’ but the understanding of what kept us from ‘home’ is now becoming unbelievably clear – at least for me – and I want to share it with everyone so we can all live free – released from the ensnaring matrix-grip.
The Release Prayer
“Pure Power of Light, wash my mind so that it sings without interference. Remove the artificial matrix overlaying my true design, my powerful God-mind.
Elevate that artificial web so that it comes up, off and out of me, that trap around my essence, my body and my entire field, so it no longer oppresses me. It has prevented my life from being true. It was a moving, walking embedded cage. A man-trap, a woman-trap, a child-trap, a baby-trap. For as soon as we entered this realm/dimension, this matrix web was cast upon us, pinning us down, locking us in.
And so we were made to grow with it, to merge with it. It was artificially embedded in our authentic truth, corroding, rotting as artificial things do, decaying and causing the body, energy & mind to decay with it.
And with this artificial web fastened into the flesh and mind, both became subject to its strangulation. Forced to grow together with this metal-mesh insinuated into every cell, the bloodstream, the organs, bones and brain.
Pure Power of Light, please gently but thoroughly remove this matrix-metal-cage from every iota of my being. May I regenerate naturally and swiftly as a result of it having been removed from me.
No more shall programs and codes that ran through this false current system light up my neural network. No more shall I be subject to the reactions and fears of that evil artifice which was imposed upon me without my consent.
Thank you. I can see it leaving. I can feel the gentle way you are lifting and removing it from me, like scales from the eyes of my mind. There is no more fear. There is only connection now with the One Life & I can sense the life of magic that has been awaiting me.
I am back. I am restored to my unimpeded magical truth. Life begins here. Thank you. A million times, thank you!”
-in Loving service,
Natalia
