CNN just posted an article about long waiting time for a doctor appointment at the waiting office.

The article is focused mainly on gynecologists, but it can be easy related to other types of practice, where people are patient or not to seat and seat and seat on waiting room chairs.

As CNN writes, and as I remember from times I used to seek the help outside – one can wait between 15 minutes to hour an half.

People do all sorts of things while waiting; they read ” Prevention ” or other pharmaceutical periodicals, they talk on their carcinogenic cell-phones, they watch … pharmaceutical advertisements on TV, they get angry, because the doctor just does not show up.

One blogger even made a video while waiting and posted it on his website.

My question is : Do you value your time and your health enough to WALK AWAY AND LEARN how to be your own doctor ?

My husband is a Doctor Chiropractor and he is currently working on his PhD in Nutrition. I work with him sometimes and I see frustration people feel when they have to wait. Now, I am not saying, that the doctors are unnecessary. In some cases we need them and they can save our life. All I am opting for is choosing the practitioners that are focused on health and nutrition not the diseases.

Dr. Bob Martin and his ” A-ha ” Radio Show !

Three days ago I attended a lecture of very famous doctor Bob Martin that some of you may know from popular radio show he hosts. I went to the lecture out of curiosity and wanted to actually hear and see him in person. As I suspected the talk was mainly about diseases people struggle with and drugs that might help them. Dr Bob plays this nice trick about ” being different than other health practitioners ” by talking about them as not meaningful medics regarding what they can do for a patient. Dr Bob sees himself as a more alternative doctor, because drugs he recommends have less side effects. That is most of what I got from the lecture which topic was focused on stomach problems. For at least an hour I was gratified with knowledge about potential bugs I carry within me and pills that would help. There was one (one!) sentence about diet in the subject of digestive track. Shame, what a shame. I couldn’t wait for the end and I just felt more and more anxious to leave, so – I left without asking a question : Where are the slides about the best foods ever that would help the stomach to be happier ever before ?!

I was watching all these, mostly obese people making notes about recommended pills and drinking some type of soft drinks. The first thing Dr. Bob should do is to pick up one of this sodas and say : from now on we stay away from these. But he didn’t. Maybe they were his sponsors.

People believe the others without asking them questions.

People ask others before they even go to the libraries and dig real deeply to find some trails they could walk toward welness.

People are oversaturated with information and they just get tired, give up and buy the drug or some type of ready to use magic.

And doctors simply don’t care. They are drained, because of politic, economy or whatever and go home without any remarkable insights.

RAW FOOD BOOKS ON READING TABLE

The patients in our office are able to read superior literature of raw food, nutrition, self development. They are lucky to watch videos that we brought from our seminars. To put these types of books or some superficial magazines on a reading table takes the same amount of time to do, but the outcome is different. People ask serious, live questions.

The thing that comes to my mind regarding the CNN article is the amount of tasks one could achieve by staying at home instead of going for some standard fruitless check ups when they get brainwashed with all the media they are pounded with through books on the office’s shelves and the TV grease :

IN AN HOUR YOU CAN :

• make quite a few green smoothies
• juice the best juice ever
• fill up your goal setting page in your notebook
• do some joga
• plant few plants
• make green smoothie, do some yoga, drink the juice

and many more … and still – one would have a half an hour to spare.

I truly believe people go to the doctors to testify ( intuitively ) about their own ” crimes ” they do to their holy bodies and to get allowance for commiting these small silent suicides again by taking another pill prescribed by obese Mr. Doctor.

How many useless trips one makes to the medics and how many pointless questions people ask other people instead of educating themselves with objective knowledge and sifting through it with open head and heart ?

Why are we so detached from our inner voice and why don’t we trust our gut ?

Is it a self pitty ? Are we not enough confident and don’t we believe in our own power because of lack of approvement from others ? Who have ever said that I ( YOU ) don’t, can’t, will not ?

If I am commited to master myself in subjects I want to grow in, I am able to be my own leader and student.

It must happen only because I choose to, I can, I want, I dare and I do.

And I value my time enough to know that watching brainless TV shows in waiting room of doctors who treat me like a needle/pin cushion is simply a waste of my exceptional life.

Does raw food nutrition influence your sense and thinking about art?

I love abstract art. I rather say : I FEEL abstract art finally.

I didn’t have these funny, exciting shivers some time ago.

Before going full on with nutrition, I was more attracted to realistic art. Contemporary mostly.

Since I have changed my lifestyle into powerful raw food nutrition, abstract art makes me feel like I am a child again.

I want to jump, play and yell : Come, people and LOOK!

When I look at the piece of abstract art I like, I can find myself on this bighearted high, that makes everything around me to disappear.

My feet can start walking by themselves, although I’m sitting.

My head rolls to both sides, like I am seeking for somebody to join me.

If my husband is around, I would jump on him and tell this nonsense monologue, rambling and I would pull his hair, so he can feel the intensity as well.

While I’m looking I don’t think about meaning of the piece, I don’t rationalize what I see and I don’t even care about the title. Actually I don’t like titles at all. Why should I connect to the painting through somebody’s words. What I adore is a texture and color, the space between spots, the harmony or disharmony, the little or big mess that puts everything together.

I guess it is all about exceptional balance between small accidents on a canvas that the brain can stand. Not too much, not too little, just enough paint and relationship to different senses the artist have used – that’s what makes everything to sing.

As I said before, I was not this abstract art fellow before raw food nutrition.

Does it mean that by strengthening my connection to the earth ( earthly/body friendly style of life ), my mind or senses are more open to some abstracts? Does it mean that the barrier between us, about which I didn’t even know, disappeared just by removing mucus forming dairy and going full on with spirulina and other goodies?

Might it than mean that dairy/meat eating people or just nutrition deficient rely on shut down senses?

MICHEL KECK, a.k.a. The Raw Artist®

It is time to introduce somebody, to whom I came across yesterday.

“Michel Keck, a.k.a. The Raw Artist®, is a self-taught, abstract painter from the mid-west. While Michel has been creating art in various forms throughout her life it was not until 2003, after having reversed several serious health conditions, that she started creating her art on a full-time basis.

Internally driven, and emotionally charged, Michel’s works have been described as “dark yet uplifting simultaneously”. Explosive abstracts, mixed media collage art, recycled art, spiritual paintings and her intricate and obsessive circle drawings are just some of the styles you will uncover when you delve into the world of The Raw Artist”.

Yesterday, while searching the web about raw foods, I found her website through Shelly from rawandjuicy.com. While opening the raw gallery link I was expecting another yummy recipe photos and maybe some flower paintings.

What I saw made my night sleepless.

I am writing about her, because she is an artist and rawfoodist and I love both. I love her abstracts misc. the most and I am sharing my favorite ones here.

You can own her art by making some exchange HERE. You can of course purchase it also.

I offered my Polish translations for everything she would need to translate.

Michel - hear me, please! Let me put a piece of you on my wall!

So – abstract art —> my Love.

...in memory of a discussion with Jack the other day…

I don’t talk about my habits if I don’t want to.
I don’t talk about raw food if not asked about.
This is a decision I made a while ago, after trying to preach people, who didn’t want to listen about something that doesn’t seem interesting enough for them.      And that’s fine. Perfect!
If I have a feeling like talking about chocolate I  made today , I will just have a conversation with myself. Why not, right?

We all should be aware of  somebody’s personal space.
If there is no place for my choco-story, I will not go there without permission anymore, although it wasn’t like so a while ago.

Anyways.
This story is about raw food discussion I was trying to avoid on this beautiful evening back in September.
Jacek ( Jack ) , you are an incredible guy. I owe you a lot and adore your brain
I am using our last mini-discussion of some sort to talk about one subject.
Don’t mind me this. It is not personal.

The subject of the discussion is below.

If you watched this video – fine, if not – fine also, because the video was only a cover to pick a little argument.
After listening to this lecture, Jack made a statements :

• there is no logic in David Wolfe’s presentation

• David Wolfe is a bad marketer and entrepreneur

• Raw Food is just another fashion and trend

Obviously Jack got bored and the whole chocolate thing that David is talking about is a bluff.

First of all, I knew that talking about chocolate over and over again might be risky for David Wolfe.

If you watched Rawkathon with Kevin Gianni and David Wolfe you might have noticed that Kevin got a little bit picky..what i simply loved!

Kevin Gianni said to Avocado :
- Let’s don’t talk about chocolate today.

I love what David Wolfe is doing for raw food/life food/pick performance health subject.
Without him we wouldn’t have this massive vegan/vegetarian/living foods/wellness and health attack.
Without him people wouldn’t know that one can cure diabetes in 30 days ( watch the movie below : A MUST!)

Without his marketing skills we will not know much about Gabriel Cousin, Dr. Mercola, Victoras Kulvinskas and all these amazing, educated teachers.
Without him I could be eating pasta over and over again thinking that because I don’t eat meat I am healthy and my body rocks.

It all brings me to the first statement :
No matter what does it mean ” a good marketer ” , David Wolfe influenced lives of thousand of people, helped them to find different way to approach their health and I am even brave enough to say : and they all got better.

If you saw latest Chocolate Spray/Deodorant made by AXE I truly believe it is a byproduct of David Wolfe’s chocolate marketing.

But what I am aware of also is that everything in an excess might be dangerous.

That is why the whole talk about chocolate fame must quiet for some time.

People started being attached to the words like : raw foodist ( although I use this name also to describe clearly who I am thinking of ) , chocolatier, superfoodist.
Instead of talking about health seriously we started talking about raw food diet as a cool way to spend some time or detoxify.
If we use this rhetoric to just describe a subject – fine. As long as we are really committed to search and find the most healthy way of living.
But if – before even studding the whole nutrition topic, we call ourselves cool names like : rawvolta, without focusing strongly on improving the health, it is possible that we are fooling around with another diet, on  salad this time instead of pasta-marinara.

I know, I’ve been there. I was “RAWVOLTA” after my first day of raw. One gets this nice high and wants to belong, I guess.
But on the other side, I don’t like cliche.
I don’t really go to raw food retreats anymore, unless there is bunch of people that I can learn from.

Yes, I love sweat lodges. But this is not my priority to decide if I want spend money for a trip.

This brings me to another subject :

RAW FOOD AS FASHION

I already wrote a post about it HERE, but let me take another look at this subject.
Is a Raw Food Movement a fashion?

The first thought that comes to my mind is : Is making grills in a basement of the house a fashion? Can we consider seeking an improvement in any area of our life a fashion ?
The whole chicken/pork/egg diet is so far from my interest like raw food diet for Jack, so all I can say is : if something is beyond my reach – it is a some sort of fashion, somebody else’s trend.
Going to steak houses.
Going to chinese restaurants.
Making grill parties. Grilling, grilling and grilling through the summer….to the point when one can not find a grill at the store by the end of August.

This type of having fun doesn’t exist in my world and is almost unrecognizable as FUN.

If fashion is the way people behave and the reasons they stay together in a period of time – everything that is related to the gathering is a fashion.
Is eating the best food ever, the greenest, the purest a trend?
When did it ( the trend ?) start ? I must say : I feel ashamed to even explain this, ask questions – that’s like talking about why we even trying to breath the freshest air.
My health interest started when I was able to make my own decision and when I went vegetarian ( or partially ) and this move was made based on THE KNOWLEDGE I HAD. I was doing MY BEST. I used to love to party – unfortunately, but on the other hand I was always having some vitamins and minerals ( again, based on the knowledge I had that time ) and I was doing fasts from time to time.
That is why Raw Food is not a trend for me .
I was vegetarian, then I went vegan and consciously choosing I started my raw journey. This is the only next step I could have made.
We call it raw to simplify, but we could describe it in many ways.

Also, if some want to call it “fashion” I don’t care. I opt for this type of fashion rather then  a fashion of smoking, drinking vodka or having sausage parties in a basement.
If at the bottom of a fashion is a care that we give to ourselves – I will go this direction no matter what type of trend it is.
I believe that people can be brainwashed on eggs and ham. Listen to the mothers advising bacon strips to their children  in restaurants.
I believe the raw food movement can make meat eaters angry because RAW FOOD is not only about spirulina, goji berries and salad a day. It is not even about supplements.
RAW FOOD is mainly about :

• LETTING GO OF ADDICTIONS TO FOOD,

• working on my attachments and habits,

• quiting smoking,

• quiting dairy,

• daily blending,

• taking back my power to decide what is the best for me to do for my health needs (again: David Wolfe and the power to decide with money)

How hard is to give up a swiss cheese for someone who eats it every day only I know, although as soon as my husband started calling it “cows blood” I have never looked back.

My point is : fashion or not, if the THING, MOVEMENT enriches peoples lives, changes them for better, makes them more happy, healthy – I am fine with calling raw foods names. I am going to follow advise of people who teach something meaningful.
I might find my own twist after a while and search around for broader approaches though.

The harder one wants to avoid to follow ( to tie to something ) the stronger one will stick with the stubborness, which is basically the same thing, just a different variation of a bond.

I am attracted to :

• DAVID WOLFE

• DR. TEL-OREN

• GARBIEL COUSENS

• VICTORAS KULVINSKAS

• VICTORIA BOUTENKO

• DR. MERCOLA

• PETER RAGNAR

• TRUTH CALKINS

• RAFFI DILLIAN FROM OMICA COMPANY

• SETH GODIN and many more

These are big voices in nutrition, longevity, marketing topics.
They all AVOID HARM.
They all have more then standard methods to approach the life.
Maybe for somebody who doesn’t look for changes, all the rest who is interested in life and health improvements on raw seems like a hippie sort of community.
But as David Wolfe said already , the Hippie ignored major thing : they put flowers into their hair, but forgot to eat them.

So, yes, my friend, Jack, Raw Food can be called fashion and it means nothing. Just another word or label. What’s important is the changes people experience through getting know this trend if you want to call it such.
Once you’ve sad that homeopathy does not work at all and if people get better it’s because of their minds, believes.
I would say that whole life is a Body-Mind game and we seem to forget about this indisputable connection.
The mind works both ways; if one builds a picture of not working homeopathy or spirulina smoothie then that’s what it will be – a bluff.
This is the Power of the Mind. And if you don’t believe in this new-age talking, just visualize this nice, hot chick with you….under you….on you….And tell me now : does the mind-body connection exist or not ?

START YOUR DAY WITH “YES!” FOLLOWED BY “I CAN”!

And there comes another day!

Today morning you sad to yourself this big loud ” YES ” and the intention of it was to influence all day activities. And of course you made a nice smoothie for yourself without making a face!

But before you even decided to take this small but powerful action, you set the goal based on a decision that you CAN do it.

This is another way to trick the inner voice of inhibitions.

Tomorrow morning you are going to magnetize bigger positive actions by saying :

” YES! YES! YES! I CAN! ”

When you think that you can, the world of possibilities expands and all of the sudden the foolish reasons that usually stop you from doing the right thing, diminish.

The goals that can be related to ” I CAN ” affirmation might be :

• I can swallow this purely green spirulina drink even if it looks painful!
• I can set up a daily plan for achieving my nutrition purpose even if it sounds boring!
• I can wake up earlier and prepare a healthy snack ahead to keep myself away from junk food!
• I can give up my coffee intake!
• I can be honest with myself and look closer at my harmful habits!

The only limits that stop us from doing anything are the ones that we made up.

Remember : ” If you think you can do a thing or you think you can’t do a thing, you are right ” – HENRY FORD.

Kevin Gianni is not lazy…

If you remember, The Raw Summit was an online teleseminar  that introduced raw food nutrition to thousands of people. The Rawkathon is Kevin’s attempt to create something even more beneficial.

This time Kevin has created a collection of one-on-one video interviews with 15 of the top raw and living food stars on the planet and they’ll be broadcast for us all to watch or listen to in a few short weeks, starting on October the 19th.

The Rawkathon‘s speakers include:

1. Dr. Gabriel Cousens
2. Victoria Boutenko
3. Dr. Doug Graham
4. David Wolfe
5. Mike Adams
6. Victoras Kulvinskas
7. Nomi Shannon
8. Cherie Soria
9. David Rainoshek
10. Frederic Patenaude
11. Dr. Rick Dina
12. Matt Monarch
13. Karen Knowler
14. Dr. Jameth Sheridan
15. Happy Oasis

SCHEDULE

The live sessions run from 8-10pm Eastern Time October 19-26th. Again, every session is available for a full 24 hours.

If you miss any of the sessions or – even better – if you want copies for later review, you’ll be given the opportunity to order written transcripts, MP3s, or DVDs of any of the sessions. This gives the people behind this event to generate some income from it.

JOIN ME!

I am very very excited to see and listen the Raw Living Foods Experts and I already joined the program!

I’ve been eating 100% raw for most of the time but I know there is amazing knowledge behind those eyes and hearts of experts. The more I can learn the more I can teach other people.

START YOUR DAY WITH A “YES” WORD!

What is your first thought after you wake up?
Is it a general YES or is it a common NO?

We all have nightmares and we all sweat during the night. It does not mean that the day is going to be a crash.

The night before your next day you are going to put an affirmation :

” YES! I start my day with a big YES word and I implement it into every moment when I usually say my habitual NO word.”

It’s general purpose is to just get up with a motivation.

But why not use it partially for a setting up a goal of making a tea instead of a coffee ? Say YES to your tea or a smoothie.

The tip of the day is :

Wake up and as you are lying in bed say to yourself: Yes, Yes, Yes!
The day will start with a good energy and every time you will hear this unfriendly lazy voice inside of you : “ I can not..” , you will be able to lock it up in the three letters of positive trained YES.

We all have days when we don’t feel like blending greens, although we know that they can carry us on for another hour, two or three.

We all sometimes feel like the fridge door are to heavy to open and we want to skip the whole raw food rutine.

But, once you force yourself to say silently or out loud the absolute YES for every constructive task you’ll be facing, the challenge will not be fatiguing anymore.

And make a smoothie before you leave home. It will save you from reaching for a nasty snack in a moment of doubts.

• water of 1 coconut
• meat of one coconut
• 1 tsp of spirulina
• 1 tsp of Tocotrienols
• 5 leaves of kale
• 1 apple
• handful of frozen blueberries
• pinch of cayenne pepper
• pinch of celtic sea salt
• 1 Tbs of honey/ agave syrup / yacon syrup

What Dr. Tel-Oren from Ecopolitan and Seth Godin have in common?

Seth Godin in his latest newsletter says :

Today, of course, yelling doesn’t work so well.

What works is leading. Leading a (relatively) small group of people. Taking them somewhere they’d like to go. Connecting them to one another.

This statement doesn’t say much about raw foods or health overall, but it describes a little the approach we all should consider in teaching people.

Yesterday, finally,  I met Dr.Tel-Oren personally.

I attended the Eco-Raw Seminar in Sturgeon Bay and I am telling you – this handsome wise man has a lot to say about superior health. And his memory for medical terms is amazing!
The seminar started at 8 a.m. and lasted till 7 p.m.
Alexandra ( Ali) Glad prepared for us lots of goodies and , of course, I ate too much.

Ali is a chef of Ecopolitan restaurant in Minneapolis which is a part of Eco – Health Network. Besides restaurant you can enjoy : sauna, oxygen bar, eco-shop and eco-art. Dr. T has a series of lectures and gives an opportunity to check your overall health by medical laboratory tests.

Every time I was in Minneapolis doing my yoga workshop I was having a blast in Ecopolitan restaurant!

Sturgeon Bay is just a half an hour from Green Bay, where I live. People from that area, specially Dawn and Fred Witting, the owners of Healthy Way ( health food shop ) are the biggest motors for events with Dr. T.
It wasn’t the first time when Dr. T came to us to give a lecture, but the first time for me.
We are trying to build a community of healthy life style, educate people about raw foods and eco-living.

I consider Dr. T as a leader of the growing community and the strongest medical voice behind the raw food scene in our area, if not the biggest medically experienced voice of all in a raw food lifestyle.

I truly believe that having this wonderful, experienced, highly educated man with us is the best way for showing people how to live wisely. Just take a look at the articles he wrote and his resume !

There is going to be a 6 free teleseminars put together soon. Raw Divas from rawdivas.com are working intensively with Dr. T and setting up a series of lectures HERE.

The seminars will give all the doubtful people the best medical background for making up a decision if they still want to have a supper at the closest greasy restaurant.

It is not a part or a way of supplementation marketing . It is a huge piece of Dr.T’s knowledge and experience that can not be missed.

Also, RAW DIVAS are almost ready to present the best weight loss program, that I have ever came across. Everybody knows Angela Stokes, her adventure into raw and results of loosing half of her body.

If you are looking for a program and support to loose weight in a healthy way, check THE BODY ENLIGHTENMENT SYSTEM

Back to Dr. T.

Last summer, my beloved husband took a wild food trip which was initiated by Dr. T. The attendants were living of wild edibles for three days. Just greens, flowers, seeds, because of which I was having this heavy feeling called jealousy – I couldn’t go.

Now, just few simple thoughts I put down into my notebook ( I videotyped whole lecture ) to share with you :

” It is more about what we are not putting into our bodies then what we actually are putting “.

” The trick is to maximize nutrients we have around us instead of moving out particular foods”.

” Cooking is just one of the ways of processing food”.

” Before we head into a detox , we need strenghten and fortify ourselves, otherwise one can develop diseases quicker not even knowing why”.

” Cancer cells  are just a group of the cells that survived our own misbehavior “.

” In nature no animal fasts. They use food around to survive and detoxify “.

” Some stick with the knowledge from 50 years ago “. Dr.T’s rule is to read at least 5 hours a day.

It was a great pleasure to be there.

If you are in the Ecopolitan area – visit them and try one of Ali’s Uncheese Stuffed Tomatos!

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Let’s see..

You don’t have time to read this thick book in front of you, but you are interested in it.
You wish that somebody would read the book for you and share the content.

Now there is a way to know the heath secrets without reading thick books all day long.

Our the most active raw food marketer KEVIN GIANNI from Renegade Health Show and health food writer/speaker MIKE ADAMS are providing now the easiest way to absorb all the knowledge you need to stay tuned without spending huge amounts of time on studing books.

Their new website HEALTH BOOK SUMMARIES provide you the way to know more without long hours of reading.

They promise that it is :

Simple, Informative and Free!

You can read the top health books in a fraction of the time normally required!

You’ll be well informed about health, nutrition and fitness in just a few minutes each week.

You can view or print the summaries.

Visit their website : HealthBookSummaries

Who isn’t in love with Daniel Vitalis?

If you still don’t know who he  is, please check out his amazingly informative videos on YOU TUBE about secret elixir craft.

I met Daniel at Eden Hot Springs a year ago and will never forget his presentation. I simply felt in love with his approach to making elixirs, teas, smoothies.

I watched online everything there is he posted ( actually the first videos on YOU TUBE were videotyped by me;-))

I saw his kitchen and I adore his minimalistic style of life. Glass bottles, candle, blender, wild mushrooms, table, spring water. That’s what I see when I think about him.

I am also fortunate to be a part of his Elixir Craft Teleseminar, which we finished yesterday.

Telling the truth I was surprised finding out that he is not a rawfoodist.

All he cares is an optimal nutrition. Daniel was a rawfoodist for 10 years. He was vegan, vegetarian and now he plays with other options. But I am assuming whatever he is playing with ( mushrooms, herbs, marinated wild salomon ) it is at its perfect nutritious state .

I’ve heard him talking about fermented cheeses at the One Radio Network on Monday .

If you are interested in his approch into the best health ever , please join the life show on Wednesday, 23rd this month at the http://www.oneradionetwork.com.

OTHER ONLINE SOURCES OF DANIEL VITALIS LECTURES / VIDEOS :

• Daniel Vitalis at WE LIKE IT RAW
• Daniel on water at Dhrumil’s Give It To Me Raw
• Daniel on super elixirs at Dhrumil’s Give It To Me Raw
• Daniel at The Best Day Ever
  

Today, on the 15th of October, is Blog Action Day.

The idea of this action is to bring up as many bloggers as possible to write about same topic. Last year they discussed the environment issues and this year’s action is about poverty.

There is already quite a few signed up for discussion . You can find them HERE.

Also, one can find few ways to participate . You can write about poverty on your blog, make a video, podcast, spread the word by writing a post like I am doing now or donate.

Already few big voices decided to help in a meaningful way :

• Brian Clark from Copyblogger – Brian is donating $25 for every pledge of $10 or more made at his Blog Action Day post.
• Darren Rowse from Problogger – Darren writes personal post about poverty.
• Social Media Club - video and podcasters are creatively engaging in the topic in Austin, Texas for 24 hours.

As we can see, the web, blogs are getting more visible and powerful to bring the collective voice about important issues to the public.