The healing power of touch is in our hands. When you are close with someone, and you would like to share your caring heart with them, you can do that through your touch. Your compassion, respect, and love are more powerful than any massage techniques you can learn. It is easy to give an acupressure massage to your loved ones, spouse, parents, children and friends, because it is simply another way to express your love for them.
Mayonnaise is an emulsification of egg yolk and oil. Though easily made, it does require a few preparations to be done just right. Unlike popular belief, it is a healthy sauce rich in nutrients and is used in a variety of recipes as a base, dip and dressing.
There are many recipes for mayonnaise -- some use flour to obtain the proper texture, others warm the yolk to kill the bacteria and increase the use time, and others use the whole egg.
My favorite recipe uses all organic ingredients (provided below):
3 Egg yolks
1 Cup sunflower oil
Hear the word licorice and you may be thinking of vibrant red, chewy candy. While the word may conjure up fond childhood memories of eating sweet treats, it is anything but a candy. It is, in fact, a root.
Tomatoes not only have great taste, but they add a vibrant red color to food in a way that few other fruits can. They taste great fresh, stewed, minced, or grilled. But just as tomatoes are useful in a combination of ways, they provide multiple health benefits to us. Beautiful tomatoes are good to the eyes, delicious to the palate, and good on the heart – in more ways than one.
Keeps Your Lovely Eyes Sharp
Andy Renard, Fermentation and Preservation Lead at Three Stone Hearth in Berkeley, California, told a group of parents and kids that “all my ferments sing to me,” through their bubbling and burping in the kitchen.
We all eat (or at least try to eat) a lot of fruits and vegetables. Now, if you really are a produce nut, you may have noticed your grocery bill isn’t nearly as cheap as you’d like it to be, and your trash can seems to fill up again just as soon as you’ve successfully convinced someone to take the trash out. I’m well aware of the fact that some people don’t compile as much trash because, believe it or not, I’ve actually met someone who eats the entire kiwi (furry skin and all), and pickling watermelon rinds is a thing. Plus, I’d like to praise all the composters out there.
The title for this post comes from my dear friend Alok Joddha Hernandez. It really resonated with me because as I reflected on his comment, “Miracles happen outside of your comfort zone,” I realized he was right. All of the miraculous, wonderful things in my life have happened after I took a risk or did something that made me uncomfortable.
When I first journeyed off the grid I had to learn about keeping food the so-called “old-fashioned way.” Shopping is a little different when you trade in your refrigerator for a root cellar. However, root cellars are actually quite efficient. It's not that you have to change the way you eat, you simply have to change the way you shop. Root cellars are underground storage areas that stay at cool temperatures, even in the summer.
Meditation is a great teacher, but our internal chatter and distractions oftentimes hinder efforts to deepen awareness and mindfulness, let alone gain many insights. With practice, there are ways to overcome mind-created obstacles.
It requires patience and practice to access meditative mindfulness before upping the ante for insights. Letting go of obstacles is essential, and paradoxically difficult – especially for beginner meditators. We need to become aware of what’s hindering us from becoming more aware or mindful.
Liver cancer is the third leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the world. The liver spends all day and night detoxifying the chemicals that enter our body. Over time, the liver can become exhausted, which allows toxins to build up inside of it and cause damage to cells. This article describes three herbs that have the potential to prevent and treat liver cancer.
Licorice Starves Liver Cancer