On Finding Balance

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stunning beauty 2 - CopySometimes I feel the weight of it all. Sometimes the load is light and easy.

Sometimes I breathe over and around all the bumps. Sometimes I run smack dab into newly exposed troubles and am overcome by the difficulty.

Life is like that. So much is simply out of our control. Where can you find the calm center everyone talks about?

Your ability to be in the midst of the storm and retrieve a moment of peace is only a breath away.

Directions:

Pour a little air into your lungs.
Stir well with three mindful breaths.
Mix in a dash of good posture.
Simmer with the following conscious breathing technique. Read More

Slowing Down with Three Breaths

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Bird On a Wire WM 500Do you spend the day rushing about multi-tasking? Sometimes things just fall together in spite of the lack of attention. Other times, things don’t work out so well.

Cooking requires full-on focus or you may find yourself on a mad dash out the door for a forgotten ingredient or, worse still, angrily trashing a burnt meal.

This simple technique for staying present and on track requires no yogic training or fancy meditation courses. You don’t even need special equipment.

As long as you are able to breathe, you have just what you need to slow a frenzied brain.

Cook up a little mindful attention with the following recipe. Read More

Alternate and Wait

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RapidsI do not worry about things I cannot control, and I focus on my own inner peacefulness. – Glenn Reiner, yoga teacher

I read an article at About.com the other day on how you can lose weight easily through one trick – stop drinking alcohol. Each glass of wine or beer holds a great lot of calories. Reducing by a few glasses a week may well be all you need.

If you have an alcohol dependency, quitting completely is the best way to go for your health and life. If you find you cannot quit on your own, please see your doctor.

For those that drink responsibly and do not have symptoms of dependency, there are ways to reduce the urge to pour one more.

These two techniques help you apply a little mindfulness to how you drink when you are at a party where a glass in hand is normal, or at home where you might have a few glasses of wine.  Read More

No Expectations No Regrets

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Yellow Crowned Night Heron Colleyville Nature Center LaurieThings got a little tough for a while. As the Spoon Mage™ of mindfulness, the first thing I did was sit and breathe away all the unfortunate “stuffs” that were causing me such pain.

Well, that is not exactly what happened.

Instead, like most folks, I did the monkey brained bouncing around never quite landing in the present moment acrobatics. I clung to visions of an “I wish” past and fervently hoped for or feared a myriad of futures.

I forgot to simply be and breathe. Read More

The Season for Eating

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Pearl Onions and PeasI am thankful that I live in a part of the country with two growing seasons and plenty of wonderful year round fresh produce.

The few weeks of the year when nothing fresh is in top form, I am also thankful for all those brilliant inventors who perfected the art of refrigeration and in-home freezers.

Peas may not be seasonal right now for you, but somewhere they are – and they were flash frozen just for you.

If you have a hankering for blueberries and it is the dead of winter, go right ahead and buy frozen, but with one bit of warning. Read More

The Simple Spores of Peace

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FragilePeace WMa Blog Blast for Peace, Nov. 4, 2014

Directions for a peaceful meal and a peaceful world:

Mix together with loving hands, let everyone to get to know each other, and adjust the seasonings to encourage beautiful harmony.

Hands of love forge peace meals through chemical action in a kitchen.

With each shared meal, peaceful spores flit about on the wind, seeking new soil, where they implant and grow in the most rocky or decayed soil.

Enjoy this gentle recipe.
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The Aroma of Peace

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ChangeWorldPeaceGlobeToday is BlogBlast4Peace.

Every November 4th, bloggers everywhere send out peace globes such as this one while blogging their thoughts on peace.

Words can be so very healing. I think food and aromas heal in a deeper way as they are capable of triggering intense primal emotions and memories. Read More

BlogBlast4Peace every November 4th

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World peace may seem too impossible to imagine. But what if more of us imagined peace?

What if the world got together and not only imagined it, but created imagery and blogs all focused on simmering up a world full of peace?

What if the number of Peace Bloggers grew with each year as a result of the hard work of Blog Blast 4 Peace’s founder, Mimi Lenox?

Is it possible to grow peace? With enough voices, yes we can.

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Mindfulness and the Horned Melon

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The Horned Melon

We are in the process of shifting the Spoon Mage™ and her thoughts on food, peace, mindfulness with a few great recipes to this site. Until that is complete, please visit Mindful Palate the Dot Com.

For more on the delightful horned melon, read on…..

I simply could not resist picking up this odd looking little fruit… or was it a vegetable?… that sat nestled in amongst a variety of tropical produce at the grocers. The label identified it as a Horned Melon. Read More

Peace with Butternut Squash and Cream

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Peace SquashBeautifully cooked food blankets the soul with a sense of peace, a peace that is best shared.

Mom, Grandma, and home cooks from previous generations created food that brought the entire family home to one shared purpose. With the simple act of eating together, differences were put aside, albeit briefly, except for a few jabs under the table.

That is the power of home cookery. Read More