Greeno Mojito Smoothie

http://www.coolhunting.com/food-drink/greeno-mojito.php

A delicious mocktail loaded with lime, mint, honey and healthful benefits

by Josh Rubin in Food-Drink on 28 March 2011 

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What we affectionately call a "weekend smoothie," the Greeno Mojito is best for when you have a little more time to put into a detoxifying drink. We upped the healthful benefits of ours using the metabolism-revvingRevive shake packet from Eleven Eleven Wellness Center, whose Janice Lipman recently stopped by to share her recipe.
The combination of lime, mint and honey is a tasteful balance of tang and sweetness. Avocado adds to the distinct flavor with a rich texture that gives the smoothie a thicker, more substantial consistency without resorting to dairy. To make your own Greeno Mojito Smoothie, see the full list of ingredients and instructions below.
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1 packet Revive shake powder (optional)
1/4 avocado
3-4 ice cubes
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/4 cup fresh mint leaves
Juice of one lime
1/2 cup almond milk
1/2 cup coconut water
Sweeten to taste with raw honey, and blend

Lunar Effects

http://www.vedicastrologyblog.com/

Are Lunar Cycle Effects Yogi Myth or Yogi Science?

"Ultimately, the body's connection with the lunar cycle is also not something to understand but rather something to experience. The moon's forces change the tides of entire oceans. Since the human body is 80 percent water, we can assume the moon's forces are also pulling on us. The result of that pull can be a full range of emotions. Science has not found a predominant trend of one emotion across all human beings, but that doesn't stop a large number of people from experiencing their own, personal change due to the lunar cycle.

Therein lies the answer to the question of how lunar cycles affect you -- it's all about your personal experience. For the next few months, consider keeping a journal of how you feel during the full moon or the new moon. You may notice a trend such as feeling overwhelmed, restless or even energized during the full moon. The new moon can bring about feelings of excitement, hope, anxiety and more. Your reaction may not correlate with a large enough percentage of people to be considered a scientific truth, but it may correlate month-to-month in your body, making it true for you.

Yogis believe the full moon is an excellent time to shed items you no longer need. Clean out your closet, your email box, your car or your to-do list. Make space in your life for something new to come in. Many women may even note this is a time their bodies are naturally prone to menstruation (in the absence of birth control which controls the body's clock), which is a biological act of shedding a layer.

On the new moon, yogis believe there is a great opportunity to set new goals. Spend time meditating -- or simply thinking about -- what you would like to accomplish throughout the month. If nothing else, the lunar cycle gives you an opportunity to come into rhythm with the universe.

Isn't this the ultimate goal of yoga, anyway? To yoke in the forces of the universe and feel them in your own body and soul? Even if you have never believed in the theories of lunar cycles in the past, give yourself a chance to flow with the rhythm of the moon, and you may find answers to questions about your own psychological and physical rhythms."


Lunar Power: Get Your New & Full Moon Boost On!
By The AstroTwins on September 13, 2011

http://crazysexylife.com/2011/lunar-power-get-your-new-full-moon-boost-on/

The AstroTwins at http://www.astrostyle.com/.

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FULL MOON:

The full moon is a great time to release stale energy that is no longer serving you and as we release, we make space for new opportunities to open up for us. “If you set intentions, the full Moon is a time when you begin to make out the path, and can take an exhilarating step forward. It is both a culmination and a time to act on something you've imagined. In the act of doing, you have brought an idea into reality, and made magic.” In yoga, our mats serve as a mirror to us, reflecting back our fears. Whether its fear of letting go, fear of moving forward, fear of not being enough, or whatever, we recognize it through our yoga practice. When we are in a tough pose, or an easy pose, we can take a peek into our mind & notice how we handle the situation. If it is an unhealthy pattern that we discover we can learn to breath through it and handle the situation with grace & compassion. The good news is, that the mirror goes both ways and as we practice this on our mats, it automatically reflects back into our lives. So for tonight, see if you can practice letting go, you have nothing to lose, & see where it takes you.

The Daily Love

Peace for the Past - by Mena Suvari on September 12, 2011

http://thedailylove.com/peace-for-the-past/

Mindful Smack: Assumptions - by Elena Brower on September 13, 2011

http://thedailylove.com/mindful-smack-assumptions/

"We humans have a tendency to make assumptions without verifying, then wondering why it feels like we cannot move forward. So even if something really seems to be a certain way – whether it’s horrific or perfect – make no assumptions. Make no assumptions about other people. Have no opinion until you make sure it’s true. Ask, verify, find out before you speculate or assume anyone or anything to be a certain way."

Emotional Freedom Technique

EFT is a form of psychological acupressure, based on the same energy meridians used in traditional acupuncture to treat physical and emotional ailments for over five thousand years, but without the invasiveness of needles. Instead, simple tapping with the fingertips is used to input kinetic energy onto specific meridians on the head and chest while you think about your specific problem - whether it is a traumatic event, an addiction, pain, etc. -- and voice positive affirmations.


This combination of tapping the energy meridians and voicing positive affirmation works to clear the "short-circuit" - the emotional block -- from your body's bioenergy system, thus restoring your mind and body's balance, which is essential for optimal health and the healing of physical disease.

http://eft.mercola.com/

BURNING MAN





Scott London's Amazing Burning Man Photo Galleries
http://www.scottlondon.com/photo/burningman2011/thumbnails.html
http://www.scottlondon.com/index.html

Burning Man: The prophecy of Shambhala
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2011/09/burning_man_at_25_years.html



"Playa Time: Dust to Dust" - Burning Man 2011 Time Lapse




I loved the Temple...

At the edge of death at Burning Man



Dear Temple of Transition from Ian MacKenzie on Vimeo.
http://matadornetwork.com/bnt/dear-temple-of-transition-vid/


So EXCITED for Burning Man - Yes......my 1st burn!!!


http://vimeo.com/26697674

Love & Poetry

The more I think about It, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

~ Vincent Van Gogh




‎A Potted Plant

I pull a sun from my coin purse each day.

... And at night I let my pet, the moon
run freely in the sky meadow.

If I whistled,
she would turn her head and look at me.

If I then waved my arms,
she would come back wagging a marvelous tail
of stars.

There are always a few men like me
in this world

Who are house-sitting for God.
We share God's royal duties:

I water each day a favorite potted plant
of God--
this earth.

Ask the Friend for love.
Ask Him again.

For I have learned that every heart will get
what it prays for
Most.

~ Hafez
















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under all silences

being to timelessness as it's to time,
love did no more begin than love will end;
where nothing is to breathe to stroll to swim
love is the air the ocean and the land

(do lovers suffer?all divinities
proudly descending put on deathful flesh:
are lovers glad?only their smallest joy's
a universe emerging from a wish)

love is the voice under all silences,
the hope which has no opposite in fear;
the strength so strong mere force is feebleness:
the truth more first than sun more last than star

-do lovers love?why then to heaven with hell.
Whatever sages say and fools,all's well

~ E.E. Cummings

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love is

love is more thicker than forget
more thinner than recall
more seldom than a wave is wet
more frequent than to fall

it is most mad and moonly
and less it shall unbe
than all the sea which only
is deeper than the sea

love is less always than to win
less never than alive
less bigger than the least begin
less littler than forgive

it is most sane and sunly
and more it cannot die
than all the sky which only
is higher than the sky

~ E. E. Cummings

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live by love

Trust your heart if the seas catch fire,
live by love though the stars walk backward.

~ E. E. Cummings

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love are

the great advantage of being alive
(instead of undying)is not so much
that mind no more can disprove than prove
what heart may feel and soul may touch
—the great(my darling)happens to be
that love are in we,that love are in we

and here is a secret they never will share
for whom create is less than have
or one times one than when times where—
that we are in love,that we are in love:
with us they've nothing times nothing to do
(for love are in we am in i are in you)

this world (as timorous itsters all
to call their cowardice quite agree)
shall never discover our touch and feel
—for love are in we are in love are in we;
for you are and i am and we are(above
and under all possible worlds)in love

a billion brains may coax undeath
from fancied fact and spaceful time—
no heart can leap,no soul can breathe
but by the sizeless truth of a dream
whose sleep is the sky and the earth and the sea.
For love are in you am in i are in we

~ E.E. Cummings

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thank you

i thank You God for most this amazing

day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky;and for everything
wich is natural which is infinite which is yes

(i who have died am alive again today,
and this is the sun's birthday;this is the birth
day of life and love and wings:and of the gay
great happening illimitably earth)

how should tasting touching hearing seeing
breathing any-lifted from the no
of all nothing-human merely being
doubt unimaginable You?

(now the ears of my ears awake and
now the eyes of my eyes are opened)

~ E. E. Cummings

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the secrets of living

may my heart always be open to little
birds who are the secrets of living
whatever they sing is better than to know
and if men should not hear them men are old

may my mind stroll about hungry
and fearless and thirsty and supple
and even if it's sunday may i be wrong
for whenever men are right they are not young

and may myself do nothing usefully
and love yourself so more than truly
there's never been quite such a fool who could fail
pulling all the sky over him with one smile

~ E. E. Cummings

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i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go,my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing,my darling)
i fear no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want
no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you
here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart
i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)

~ E. E. Cummings

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