Yes Chocolate is a Superfood....

Yes you can eat chocolate and not feel quilty, actually you will feel the exact opposite if you eat raw chocolate- known for it's bliss enhancing effects and here is why:

*Raw chocolate is rich in magnesium which enhances brain and digestive functioning
*Contains Anandamide- the bliss chemical
*High in Phenylethlyamine- the love drug
*Raw Cocoa Powder has no chemicals- so you won't feel like you have been drugged or in a fog

So enjoy the following recipe knowing you are doing your body Great!!

1/2 cup Raw Chocolate Powder
1/2 cup Cocoa Butter
1/2 cup raw honey- or 1/3 cup agave nectar
tsp vanilla
add coconut, almonds, walnuts- what ever nuts you enjoy
put ingredients into a bowl, place bowl in boiling water and allow powder and butter to melt together.
Press into a pan-
Optional- spread almond butter and real raspberry puree on top when still warm- put into fridge to cool
Enjoy

Foods to Keep You Looking and Feeling Young

Beans...A fabulous food to eat at any age to maintain your youthful appearance and great health

Beans are brimming with folate—a vitamin that women need before and during pregnancy to prevent birth defects. One cup boasts about 200 to 300 micrograms, depending on the variety. Folate (and folic acid, the form used in dietary supplements and fortified foods) is so important for mothers-to-be because it helps produce DNA and form healthy new cells. As with iron, the daily recommendation for folate is highest during your childbearing years (400 mcg/day). The only other times it’s higher is during pregnancy (600 mcg/day) and lactation (500 mcg/day). Nutrition experts advise pregnant women, and those planning to get pregnant, to get 400 micrograms of folic acid from supplements and fortified foods—in addition to eating folate-rich foods.

Other ways to get folate: Green leafy vegetables like spinach (1/2 cup cooked = 121 mcg) and citrus fruits (a cup of OJ = 110 mcg) are also rich in folate. Fortified foods, such as bread, pasta, flour, breakfast cereal and rice, can contain as much as 700 micrograms per serving, although most fall in the 300 to 400 mcg range.

What is Success???

I don't really appreciate the fact that every time someone speaks of a successful person or the media portrays a successful person it is always spoken in terms of how much wealth they have acquired or their position in life as compared to someone else. I don't like this because it is not a man or woman's wealth and standing that decide their self worth, and it creates a huge pressure amongst people to be something they don't want or to feel bad about things they may not be or have.This societal definition is being passed on from generation to generation, instead of parents saying "success is being happy and content with your life and yourself" (which would cause a growth spurt of successful people) they are saying "Your not going to be successful unless you have a certain career, house, family etc" this is creating the opposite effect in society. This is why society is in the state it is in because we have placed our self worth on things..so people are always looking outside of themselves for worth when they should be looking inside and living from there..society would be so much more successful and functional.
In order to live from your authentic self you must determine what success means to YOU..write it down and then achieve it. There is no right or wrong here there is only You and Your dreams so don't let the expectations of another stand in the way of your happiness...Be content and happy with who you are and always come from a place of self love.

Master The Law of Attraction..Become a Powerful Manifester

I believe in the law of attraction and have witnessed it throughout my life. There are so many variables involved in the cooperation process between you and the universe and a couple of the variables missing in the talks that I have attended and in some of the books I have read are very key ingredients and those would be 1. What we are ingesting 2. How we care for our bodies
What do these have to do with the law of attraction you say...well...If you are ingesting toxins you are not feeling well or thinking clearly, you may be fuzzy and toxins in the foods and medications people consume cause negative physiological effects on our brain like depression, anxiety, allergies etc...so if you are toxic you will be unable to think and be clear the way you need to be when practicing the law of attraction.
Taking care of our bodies...basically the same idea, if you are sick you are not clear so if you are not taking care of your body it will eventually begin to break down.
However if you are ingesting good, clean food, exercising and loving your body very positive physiological reactions will take place; which, will enable you to experience very positive and powerful results...I know I have been on both sides of the fence and as soon as I started ingesting for the purpose of clarity...my manifestation skills enhanced 100x. I am a personal trainer and have witnessed this in my clients as well so it is time to become whole don't you think?

Success = Following Your Dreams NO Matter What Others Say- True Story

This is a true story which is still unfolding and one in which I am very grateful to have and continue to watch unfold.
This story started when a young boy - 5 to be exact decided he was going to be a fashion designer and an artist and let me tell you the clothes this boy could design and draw when he was 5 were incredible they weren't just the triangle dress on a stick person.OH NO, these were intricate drawings of women - who looked like women, wearing beautiful gowns complete with accessories- I was shocked when he showed me them and asked "would you wear these?" - he was 5. and I sincerely, answered "Yes".
Needless to say when a young boy is into drawing women and clothing and not into typical "boy" things life can be a bit stressful and may make some pretend they like things they don't or don't like things they do...NOT this boy he continued being him, he was the colorful dalmatian amongst the black and white ones.
As he grew into a teenager he maintained who he was, never faltering and when he was 14 years old he decided he wanted to go to Parsons School of design and live in New York- "Ok" I said "then that is what you will do" he would design and design and the fabulous part was he would design something and then you would see it on the run way- fashion tv was always on- after he designed it and he was 14. It wasn't easy for him to maintain but he did.
He is 19 years now and he has a fashion blog- for which he was contacted by some top designers in New York to blog about their line- which he did and was able to have a phone interview with them as well.
We also have since moved to a larger city so he can make some connections with people like himself and 1 month after we arrived he secured employment with a company he has wanted to work for since he was a 15 years old, they also have stores in New York and due to his hard work over the past 4 months they have promoted him to Assistant Manager. He has also submitted drawings for their review and still maintains that he will be going to New York and be a very successful fashion designer.
I believe he will too.

"Why Are We Playing Russian Roulette With the American People?": Longtime Nuclear Critic Ralph Nader Advocates Phasing Out Nuclear Power Industry

"Why Are We Playing Russian Roulette With the American People?": Longtime Nuclear Critic Ralph Nader Advocates Phasing Out Nuclear Power Industry

Live Independent of the Thoughts and Judgements of Others....Fly...Be Free

The only way to be free is to free yourself from the judgments and thoughts of others like so many before us have done and look what they were able to accomplish...live from your heart and believe in YOU.

Amelia Earhart did.

Happy, Content...Independant...That is All There Is...

We spend the majority of our time worrying and hurrying and for what...in the end when all is said and done what will it have mattered? will it have mattered that you had a nice house, fancy car, new clothes, more money, more friends, more of what ever it is you thought you needed more of? No it won't. So we spend all this time and effort worrying and stressing and never feeling satisfied - and that being because the universe will always bring you more of what you need to help you continue to feel the way you do.....When you are faced with your own mortality what matters most is what is in your heart and who you loved that is what matters. I know because I have been faced with my own on more then one occasion and I will tell you the only thing I could think about were the people I loved and what I prayed for was not to "Please let me see my car or my house one more time", no it was "Please don't take me from my son, let me tell my family I love them, let me see my little people grow up and be happy" that is what came into my head.
So be content and happy now because it is all you really have and it is all that really matters and remember the universe will always bring you more of what you need to help you continue to feel the way you do.And remember happiness is relative to your own experience so live independently of the judgments and thoughts of others. I feel content now even when times are challenging I feel content because I get through it much easier and quicker.
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The Quest...

The quest...we're all on it and yet how we get there is all relative. So what is this quest I speak of, well the quest for inner peace and happiness. No matter what a person is doing be it career wise or personal their motive is always because they want to feel satisfied, happy or it gives them a sense of peace inside. Whether others agree with the means of achieving is always a discussion and sometimes a source of discontent amongst many. Can we really find calm in the chaos? I think so we just have to live independent of the judgment of others and as long as you are coming from a place of love for humanity and the earth their judgments are of no consequence to you so be free..and you will achieve what you are looking for; which is inside of you already. The quest for some is so difficult because they are seeking outside of themselves always and as long as you do this your quest will never end.