Lifestyle Master Program

Author(s): Ellen Livingston
Publisher: Ellen Livingston

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Lifestyle Master Program
eBook 1.0 by Ellen Livingston
The unknown can be unnerving. We keep ourselves very busy, constantly on-thego, and stimulate ourselves unnaturally with outside substances. Our truest selves remain safely hidden. We identify instead with all sorts of socially acceptable, familiar and relatively comfortable roles.
Successful transitioning to the healthiest of diets-a simple low fat raw vegan diet of mostly fruits-demands of us that we grow to embrace our full human emotional experience. We must develop the courage to go where others don't want to go, and the discipline to stay with the experience and create for ourselves a new comfort zone. A yoga practice can help immensely, as it can provide a "container" for the exploration of this experience, spiritual discovery and guidance, and a proven method for making safe contact with our body and with our true inner self.
Eating our natural diet allows our body to detoxify and heal, and opens us up to a whole new exciting experience of feeling much more alive and open. We begin to feel more connected to our self, to our fellow humans and animals, to our planet, and to the higher power or universal energy that connects it all, and we can now recognize, appreciate, and enjoy things that were "hidden" from us before. We can begin to face our fears, sit with our emotions, embrace our true self, dare to live differently, and start to revel in the excitement of becoming fully alive!
As you detoxify your diet and you begin to feel much better, lighter and cleaner, you will naturally want the rest of your life to be in harmony with your new healthier self. Raw food literally becomes you, and as your body gradually remakes itself from new building blocks, you will begin to look different, have different thoughts, develop new beliefs, and take different actions. You will have more energy for exercise, more hope and resolve for creating a disease-free life of purpose, more environmental and emotional sensitivity, and greater desire and ability to participate only in loving relationships and positive, creative self
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