Awkward Topics That Needn't Be:),--DIGESTION

Elysha's Top 6 Simple Tips for Better Digestion

1) Don't eat at least 2 hours before bed

2) At least a pint of water upon waking in the morning, preferably with lime or lemon juice in it. 

3) Eat FERMENTED FOODS AND BEVERAGES

4) Watch your placement of fruit.  Eat fruit alone or with greens, NOT AFTER OR DURING A MEAL.  This varies from person to person, maybe this is not an issue for you.  If it is, give it a shot, eliminate the fruit during or after a meal and see if your digestion improves. I eat them in the morning at least 20 mins before I eat anything else, except greens.  Eat your green smoothies! :)   

5) Drink water at least 20 minutes before a meal.  NOT DURING!  If you need something during a meal, choose apple-cider vinegar water, or "Sassy" water, made from an essential oil metabolic blend from doTERRA. 
SASSY WATER
5 drops of doTERRA's "Slim and Sassy" metabolic essential oil blend per quart of water.  Drink throughout the day.  
Apple-Cider Vinegar Water
4 tsp Apple Cider Vinegar (the kind with "The Mother" present, I use Bragg's) per quart of water,
and about the same amount of honey, 4 tsp... or to taste.

6) Stop eating your meal when you are 80% full.  It does not help ANYONE if you over eat, especially your digestion. :)

At the end of the day, the most important thing is self-love.  These are guidelines with which I have had great success.  Contour them to you and what works for you.  If you fall off the wagon, no worries... laugh, love yourself and joyfully leap back on. Make it SUSTAINABLE for you! 

Enjoy the now! Love the now!
Joyfully,
Elysha 

An Intro of How I Use Doterra Essentail Oils in My Home.

This is a quick peek of how I use Doterra essential oils in my home.  I LOVE THEM!  My children and husband have fallen in love with them as well.  Let me know if you have any thoughts or questions.  Enjoy!

Energy Tool-Meridian Tapping, EFT

Were you wondering about the tools that I talked about that can help us move our roadblocks?  Meridian tapping is one of them.  I wanted to demonstrate how I use this tools in my life! Cheers!

So here is a loose format of how I use tapping.  It really can be done in many different ways.  You don't have to write your feelings down, but I've found that it helps when you are just getting started.

1) Find a target that you would like to tap about.
2)Then write your feels about your target phrase or topic.  Just right phrases that capture how you are feeling about the subject. I like to include I am feeling in my body concerning the topic.
3)Then write how you would LIKE to feel about your target.  Just imagine how it would be if you were doing it exactly like you wish you could.

Okay now comes the tapping.
4) See what your "number" is 1-10, 10 being very intense and 1 is no problem. WRITE IT DOWN!
As you are doing these rounds of tapping really try to embody the feelings that you write down on your paper.

Start tapping on your karate chop point.
Do a setup statement and validation 3 times.

Even though I _______________ I deeply love and accept myself
Even though I _______________ I love myself anyway
Even though I feel____________ I am of infinite worth.  (Use your creativity here, there are many options)

Then carry on to the eyebrow point and continue to do rounds.  I do about 2.  I say a phrase or sentence that I wrote down, one per pressure point.  When I do another "round" you start at the eyebrow point, you don't need to do the setups at the karate chop point.


Do about 2 rounds.  Take a deep breath.

Tune in and see what your number is now.


Now, start at the eyebrow point and read from your "positive" paper, and how you WANT to be regarding your target topic.  One phrase or sentence per point, or a couple of phrases, whatever works.

Do about 2 rounds.  Take a deep breath.

Tune in and see what your number is now.

Let me know if you have any questions or need any clarifying.


LOOSE FORMAT:
Find Target
Tune in and write down your number 1-10

Karatechop (3) times
Eyebrow
Side of the Eye
Under the Eye
Under nose and above upper lip
Chin point, in the crease below the lower lip and above the bottom of the chin.
Collarbone point, below the knot and a little to the outside
Side point, a hand width below the armpit
Top of the head, a loose circle

Do another round starting with the side of the eye.  Repeat as many rounds as you would like.

After 2 rounds, or whatever you decide, take a deep breath and let the rest of the energy out.
Take a look at your number and see what it is now.

Now do a couple of rounds from your "positive" paper, and how you WANT to be regarding your target topic.


After 2 rounds, or whatever you decide, take a deep breath and let the rest of the energy out.
Take a look at your number and see what it is now, 1-10.   Be curious if there are any other layers that came up that you need to tap about.

Here is one of my favorite Tapping gurus, Nick Ortner's Blog.  He has a great tapping script here to try.


HAPPY TAPPING TO YOU!!!
Enjoy your day, moment by moment!!!
Love,
Elysha

Intro to Coaching

Whew! I finally feel that in a video I captured what I do in my coaching practice. I graduated last weekend from my coaching program and am SOO excited to bring change into the world. Enjoy!

Rock your choices at Sam's Club and Costco!

I FINALLY DID A VIDEO!!!  ha ha.  Gotta love an amateur! ;)  Here are some things that I buy at Sam's Club and Costco.  Let me know what you buy there. ENJOY!!

Get Your Harvest on Part 2 of 3.

FERMENTED FOODS!!!!! 

 Pickled Beets- raw, live probiotics!!

I cannot think of a better way to harvest garden produce.  I have felt MANY FABULOUS, and FANASTIC benefits from eating fermented, cultured foods.  My digestion is much, much better, I am heartier and get sick less, and best of all I have more energy.  I made pickled beets yesterday and they will be sitting on my counter for about a week, happily culturing. :)  

I was going to post the recipe on this one, but them I realized that for copy right's sake I should not.  I got this recipe and SOOO many more from an informative, recipe book, Robyn Openshaw's   "12 Steps to Whole Foods".  It is an easy and fabulous way to either introduce yourself into more whole foods, or to compliment an already whole food diet.  She eats 60-80% raw and is a huge advocate of green smoothies.  It changes lives!~ ~

12 Steps to Whole Foods

I believe that things made with love have higher nutrition! :)

Get Your Harvest On! Part 1 of 3.

Ahhhhh... harvest time.  Though harvest season may not be in full swing, there are a lot of current wonderful opportunities to stock up and store for later.  I am excited to put together a 3 part series of some ways that I am getting my harvest on!

What is a HUMONGOUS category of food that most are hugely deficient???????  Gallant, Glorious, GREENS!  Yes, I had to use an online adjective finder for the gallant. :)  It is unreal to see the nutritional profile of greens, put up against basically any other food.  A green smoothie is the most brilliant way to get those greens into our diet, in the delicious way. 

We were blessed to be able to visit my in-laws this past weekend.  They have a gorgeous garden and greenhouse and are very generous with their produce.  We are going to be able to have green smoothies for many moons. It took a little work, but totally worth it.  Hooray for chard!!

Don't forget all of the other greens out there that can be harvested, cleaned and frozen for a later green smoothie day.  How many of you have dandelions in your yard that have NOT been sprayed?  If so, you have a free source of a green smoothie right there.  I BUY dandelion greens from a store, I am now looking for other free sources of obtaining them. 

We have LOVED growing kale in our garden this year.  Snip, snip, and we have beautiful and nutritious kale for our dinners and smoothies.

Don't forget to buy your huge bags of spinach, available at Costco (bigger bag than Sam's Club, but SOMETIMES Sam's club has organic baby spinach) or Sam's Club, and freeze it!!

 A little bit of help for mom, maybe a little too much? :)