Couscous & Fresh Vegetables with Samosas

Last night I wanted something fresh, nutritious, filling and festive for dinner. So I created a new recipe to satisfy all my desires. It's couscous with red and yellow peppers cooked in lots of healing spices then topped with fresh chopped tomato and avacado. I added a bit of decadence with the organic veggie samosas. So easy to make. For added elegance, I served it on the pretty new plates my sister gave me. READ MORE FOR RECIPE

How to Protect Yourself From Con Men on Dating Sites

How to avoid con men on dating sites. What to look for, warning signs that you’ve been targeted, and how to protect yourself to stop it from ever happening. Also, what to do when guys send unsolicited X-Rated photos of their private parts.

4 Tips to Recognize Con Men on Dating Sites

Con men create stories that match your lifestyle. They find out all about you then create a complementary story and persona that would attract you and keep you coming back. They often have one or 2 adult kids off in university, they own a prosperous business, have nice homes, expensive cars, travel to exotic lands on business trips and all the trappings of wealth.  They dress for success. Their cons are longer than ever before, depending on how much time it takes to win your trust. It could be a few months to a few years.

How Color can Ground You, Increase Self-Esteem and Creativity

 Color can increase your energy. In this post I'm going to briefly explain how color works and how you can use it to remove creative blocks, feel more grounded and develop a stronger sense of  intuition.

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How to Increase Your Energy & Decrease Fatigue Using Color

Toni is a healthy woman in her 40’s who is constantly exhausted. She wants to know how to have more energy so she can do the fun things in life that she doesn’t do anymore because of always being tired. Exhaustion is rapidly becoming a growing complaint among women of all ages.

How Organizing Your Closet Can Bring Balance to Your Whole Life

To bring your life back into balance you need to know where it’s out of balance. To set up a personal balance meter for yourself, list the different areas of your life, such as work, family, playtime, rest, and whatever categories resonate with your lifestyle. Then figure out how much time you spend in each category. Determine which areas of your life are demanding more of your emotional, mental and physical energy, and which areas are not getting enough attention. Read More . . . 

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How To Get Over Your Ex without Keying His Car

Many people mistakenly think it’s necessary to detach from ex boyfriends after a difficult break-up. Or to detach from friends after they’ve abandoned you. We can’t go around detaching from everyone who walks out of our life. The world would be a very lonely place indeed. Read More . . .

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Accepting the Unacceptable

Accepting the Unacceptable is an absolutely daunting task for most of us. But it’s necessary if we are to pick up the pieces and move on after devastating break-ups. They say time heals all wounds . . . . but does it really? Read More . . .

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Stuffed Zucchine with Tomato Almond Nut Pate

Stuffed Zucchini

This is a very refreshing recipe that is great all year long. Fun and easy on the barbeque or cooked in the oven. Very filling and fulfilling, you won't need a side dish when you serve it. 

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How to Make Happiness Last

Have You Made The Decision 

To Be Happy?

Lasting happiness is a choice. It's YOUR choice. It may seem like lots of things stand in the way of having a life where happiness reins, but it's not true. Stress is the biggest obstacle. It plays a huge role in our moods and emotional state. Read More to learn simple ways to lasting happiness. Read More . . . 

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6 Tips to EASY Weight Loss

1. Live as if you are already your ideal weight. Feel how good it feels to be exactly how you want to look right now. Love yourself exactly as you are.

2. Forget about the scale. In Ayurveda we aim for Excellent health, not weight. Weight loss or gain is a by-product of perfect health.

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Nancy's Morning Tips to Easy Weight Loss

1. Set your emotional tone before getting out of bed.

2. Drink warm water to start metabolism and cleanse.

3. Move. Do 20-30 minutes of exercise. Walk, swim, bike, yoga, run up and down the stairs.




I'd love to hear your weight loss tips. Please us the comment section to post your suggestions.

Ginger Lemon Tea Infusion

So simple to make with benefits that last all day. I drink this tea every morning and never have a cold. It's not really a tea, it's an infusion of fresh lemon juice and ginger root.

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Natural Homemade Banana Ice Cream

An Ayurvedic diet does not usually contain frozen foods, but this is a healthy alternative to the chemicalized frozen dairy products sold in supermakrets. So, if you are going to eat ice cream or serve it to your family, make a conscious choice to serve them natural energy and well-being.
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Traveling

I love France. It is so beautiful and there are great photo opportunities there. Ahhh ...... I am such a romantic.

The world is a trip and our life is just the journey through time space and emotions.

Spicy Warm Apples

Ahhhhh.....Nothing like a warm dish of spicy apples and cinnamon on a cool Fall day.
This is a great recipe for warming the heart, comforting the spirit and nourishing the mind. Simple, easy and delicious. 

Creamed Pear Delight

 

Creamed Pear Delight

Yummy, yummy, yum. Read more for complete recipe.

Medicinal Wine

This is a recipe for an ancient ayurveda medicinal wine. It has low to no alcohol content and is great for getting your digestive fires heated up so you can digest your foods better while assimilating the most from the nutrient content. 

What You Say May Be Killing You - Literally

Internal Factors That Affect Your Health

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Internal factors are reactions that you create inside yourself in response to the world. Even though they happen inside you, it's best to think about them as behaviors because they are actions that you choose. By choosing how to perceive yourself, you can either behave your way to success or

When our lives are weeping the flowering of our heart's intentions,
the only thing that matters is to find ways to blossom.

This blog is dedicated the the flowering of my heart's intentions.
May you too be blessed with the tears and laughter of a life fully lived and love fully realized, given and expressed.

Journey Ahead

I am here on earth to live the fullest expression of my authentic self. Thus, I need to figure out what that means and what it is for me. Hmmmm.... I think me gots a wee journey ahead.

The Quagmire

When we understand that we come into life bringing eternity with us, all we've ever gone through and the behaviors we learned over lifetimes, we can then realize that the way our children turn out is not fully our responsibility. And, the way we turned out is not the responsibility of our parents. If we did our best in raising our children, then the guild in being a 'bad parent' can be dropped.

Exploits of a Would-Be Cake Decorator

     Last November I gave my daughter a cake decorating class for her birthday. For six months we have been eagerly waiting to learn the magic of turning an ordinary cake into a scrumpdili-icious mouthwatering masterpiece of gourmet art. On Wednesday night we finally got our chance.

     I thought it was going to be an easy class. The kind where we basically squeeze icing through pre-made tips to form flowers, letters, dots and squiggles. Then voila! Everyone is oohing and ahhing at our beautifully crafted decadent delights as we blush and say, "Shucks, it was nothing."
    
 Yeah, well that sure didn't happen. 


THIS HAPPENED . . . 

     That's my homework. The cake I'm supposed to take to class next week to decorate with pretty pink rose buds and dainty green foliage. NOT.

     I even treated myself to the expensive 8" x 3" round Wilton cake pan so that my cake would turn out perfect, just like my teacher's.   I've been baking cakes for neigh on 45 years and this one was straight from the Betty Crocker box. So what happened?

     I'll tell you what happened. This cake reflects my creative state of being at the moment - ALL OVER THE PLACE. There's just no hiding the truth, especially when it's flopped on a plate staring back at me. 

     So I decided to eat it for dinner, bake another one for class and use this crumbly mess as a message. Yep, time to make some clear goals with an action plan to back them up. 

     Stay tuned for  part 2 of The Exploits of a Would-Be Cake Decorator - layering with filling. It already sounds like a lick-it-off-the-body-and-floor yummy catastrophe waiting to happen. I'm in!!!

Hearts in Harmony

Valentine’s Day brings stress. Regardless of our relationships status, on February 14th every year our biological chemistry moves into the danger zone. Why? Because it’s one day of the year that is all about love . . . . and loneliness. Relationships and loneliness cause people intense anguish and mental suffering.

Art Makes YOU Beautiful: I know the secret....

A painting REFLECTS YOU and your energy.

How does this make YOU beautiful?

Simple. Every time you look at a painting you see an aspect of yourself. If you choose art that was created by a person with a beautiful spirit, her energy is embedded in the paints she uses, the canvas, the image and even the sweep of the brush. The painting that is born of her deep inner beauty radiates that energy into your home and seeps into your spirit. This allows you to connect to the Higher Source Inner Beauty from which all heart-centered artists channel and create, and thus raise your own vibrational level. And as you know, outer beauty is merely a physical display of the beautiful Being you are inside. We don't always show this side of ourselves to others because of the walls we put up to counter the conflict and chaos we meet with every day of our lives in the outside world.

You can enhance your external beauty merely by being surrounded in beautiful artwork.

Art Uplifts your Spirit, Feeds your Soul and Magnifies your Natural Beauty while Adorning your Walls.
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Abbey of the Glen

She's a mystical earth spirit who makes her home in the meadows of our imaginations and the hearts of our yearning. The woman with ethereal beauty and a practical mind - Faerie Tale marries Mother Earth.

She leaves a dash of magic everywhere she goes and lights up the forest of confusion, doubt and darkness with the love that genuinely radiates from her heart. She lives inside each and everyone of us.

What message is she bringing you today?

Worthy Priciples to Live By:

Principle #3: Before you say anything to anyone, ask yourself;

1. Is it true?

2. Is it kind?

3. Is it necessary?

Worthy Principles to Live By #2:

Principle #2:

Never miss an opportunity to compliment someone or say something encouraging to someone. There are always many positive qualities to be found in all people. It's a healthy practice to seek them out and bring them to the surface. When it's honest, it makes us feel good and radiates a higher vibration to everyone around us.

Principles to live by #1

My ongoing intention is to always have a warm heart, an open mind and a peaceful continence. To maintain this state of love there are a few principles I live by.

Principle #1: Have a forgiving view of people; believe that most people are doing the best they can.

Victory

"There are only two kinds of people: those who are victorious, and those who make others victorious." H.H. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

If we live by this motto for even just one day, our lives will change; our NOW will have purpose and our futures will no longer be of concern.

Breaking The Boundaries

The first art piece I created in my new year and new cycle broke many of my creative boundaries. And, it was the most fun art piece I've ever played into creation. This is just the beginning.