Glass of Sunshine Anyone

Juicy Juicy!! I just made a GORGEOUS tasting juice and I thought you should know the recipe!!!

A Glass of Sunshine!

Juice:

Big chunk of pineapple

half a lemon

big chunk of ginger

four carrots

Blend with:

quarter of an avocado

one large sweet satsuma/ clementine/ orange

lots of ice!

Pour into a glass then enjoy your real Sunny D!!!

I can't tell you how beautiful this tastes!! You will simply have to go and make it!!

My Dreamy, Creamy, Cacao-Date Smoothie

Ah... poor Innocent Smoothies! They are in for a rough ride due to them selling a 20% per share of their business to none other than Coca Cola. They maintain they will be the same company with the same ethics and that they hope to positively influence Coca Cola... but surely they are missing the point! Business ethics aside, the drink Coca Cola has never and will never serve humanity! It is a fizzy, sugary drink which is highly addictive! The defining moment for me was when I was walking through rural Swaziland and I saw a lonely vendor selling Coke. It was then I knew how much power sugary water had in the world. 

SO! If you want to carry on buying Innocent Smoothies, that is of course entirely up to you and I am not going to blog about the rights and wrongs of this - only that to make your own smoothie is a joyous activity, it won't even be 'slightly pasteurized' and you will know exactly, EXACTLY what is going in it!

Here is a delicious smoothie recipe from my book, 30 Days in the Raw (buy from my site www.littleguru.co.uk if you want 24 more recipes like this, from smoothies, to cakes, from fudges to crackers!

My Dreamy, Creamy, Cacao-Date Smoothie

Juice:

1 apple

a large slice pineapple

half a lemon

Pour into your blender and add:

half an avocado

a handful of chopped dates

2 tbsp cacao nibs or powder

2 bananas

1/2 tsp spirulina

Now whizz on high speed for a minute then pour into a lovely tall glass. Chill for 30 mins or sip straight away!

If you want to serve this a pudding, then serve in small ramekin dishes and garnish with mint leaves, cacao nibs or maybe even a slice of mango!

NB If you are new to raw cacao, I recommend having much less in this smoothie, more like one or two teaspoons instead of tablespoons! The first time I had this I was wired for hours! 

From Almond to Cookie

Oooooooooooh! I had such a lovely morning! It all started last night when I soaked three cups of almonds in water for 12 hours! (overnight)

When I came downstairs this morning they were all plump and juicy!

I drained the water from the almonds, saved one cup of them, then blended the rest with a litre of water, a tbsp agave nectar and a pinch pink salt.

Whizz, whizz, whizz!

Now I have delicious, creamy almond milk! 

BUT! I want to strain it first. I don't have a nut milk bag yet so I chose a fresh new dishcloth instead!! (wonderful!)

I poured the milk through and I was left with almond meal/pulp. Why throw it away when you can make delicious Delicate Lemony Almond Cookies!?

So, I put the lovely warm almond milk in the fridge to cool, then I put the almond meal in to a bowl and added the following ingredients:

3 tbsp xylitol

1 tbsp omega blend oil

2 tbsp olive oil

juice of one lemon

2 tbsp shelled hemp seeds

1 tsp mixed spice (mine was a nutmeg/cinnamon blend)

3 tbsp flax meal

pinch of pink salt

then I 'chopped' the remaining cup of almonds from before by pulsing in the blender and added them into the mix too.

• I then shaped the mixture into little cookie patties.

• Now they are drying nicely on the dehydrator.

• I can't wait to eat them! The cookie mixture tasted delish!

• And what a way to make the most of your almonds!

The Score for Rawr is 44 (out of 44)

Ok here's another chocolate blog! Well, let's face it, no one's ever going to get tired of me talking about this topic, especially if I promise to share!

Last year I made it my mission to review all the raw choccie bars I could find (check out www.littleguru.co.uk for the reviews so far.) Quite a few companies have come into creation since then so I need to add to my list and one such company is RAWR! I received a parcel of their goodies this morning, and of course, I had to sample them all! These are delicious bars - sweeter than some other varieties I have sampled before, and like most of the raw choc bars, beautifully packaged. 

They are dairy-free, vegan, with no added sugar and are low GI, due to the sweeteners they use being agave and carob nectar. Their range includes orange, mint, fruit and nut, goji and vanilla and a very spicy cayenne pepper! A 35g bar cost £1.65 and the slightly larger 45g bar is £1.95.

Do pay the site a visit and as always, save the last bite for me! x

www.rawrchoc.com

When Chocolate is Heaven Sent...

I love chocolate. I really do. And since I discovered raw chocolate (well, stumbled across it - it had already been long discovered by a fair few folk), I have come to realize that it IS actually the cacao I love, not just the milk and sugar that forms the basis of many a mainstream 'chocolate' bar. This recipe I am about to share is something I made last night. I was inspired to layer it up by Matthew Kenney, author of a beautiful raw recipe book called Everyday Raw (check out his site, www.matthewkennycuisine.com.)  I warn you, this recipe is absolutely delicious and is slightly reminiscent of a Reeses Peanut Butter Cup  - but much more exquisite in taste and with far superior ingredients! No sugar, no dairy, no additives, no table salt, no nasties at all!  If you really want some, I might be persuaded to make you a batch - but I may have eaten it all before it gets round to being sent to you! Ok, why not have some fun with this! The person who writes the most witty poem about love and chocolate will be sent a beautifully wrapped LittleGuru Chocolate Bar! Or, you can make your own, you lazy thing!

This is a layered chocolate bar, so I prepared two bowls for each layer. The dark chocolate layer will form the base and the topping. This is exactly how I made it, so if you don't have the ingredients like agave nectar for example, try honey instead.

The Chocolate Casing

Melt 100g cacao butter gently in a pan (you don't want to cook it, just warm it until it melts)

and 2 tbsp coconut butter

Stir in:

4 tbsp chocolate powder (I used Green and Blacks cocoa powder for this batch)

4 tbsp agave nectar 

2 tbsp lucuma powder*

2 tbsp mesquite powder*

3 tbsp raw nut butter

pinch Himalayan pink salt

Now make the other mixture...

The Delicious Middle

Melt 100g cacao butter and 2 tbsp coconut oil

Stir in:

75g lucuma powder

1 tbsp maca powder*

4 tbsp agave

4 tbsp shelled hemp seeds

pinch of pink salt

Now you are ready to layer up the chocolate!

(I used a very thin, shallow tray and lined it with foil.)

• Pour half of the first chocolate mixture onto the foil and spread until even.

• Place in the freezer until nearly set.

• Now pour all of the second mixture on top, and again, spread evenly.

• Place back in the freezer until set.

• Now for the final layer! Spread the rest of the chocolate on top and then back in the freezer again.

• When the whole tray is set, you can choose how to break it up. I scored mine with a knife and broke off big chunks - very satisfying indeed to do this!

So there you have it! Now for a quick word about the ingredients that you may not have heard of.

Lucuma is sold in the UK in powder form and is a delicious Peruvian fruit that is used a lot in raw cuisine, especially sweeties and choccies!

Mesquite meal is a Native American food, and is the finely ground seed pods from the Mesquite tree. It is sweet and lovely!

Maca is a Peruvian root and is available in the UK in powder form.

I have the good fortune to live near a shop called Daily Bread (for anyone reading this in Northamptonshire!) which now sells lucuma, maca, hemp seeds, agave, mesquite and coconut oil. I also have the good fortune to live round the corner from a lovely lady called Debbie who sells cacao butter! But, it is SO easy to order all of these online and my favourite place to order from is www.detoxyourworld.com

Let me know how you get on with it - and yes, you can send me some! x

Me Grow Horns, You Drink Milk?

Milk. What is it? What is its purpose? Where does it come from? I can answer all these questions in one sentence. Milk is a living food that is produced by mammals for their young on planet earth, its main purpose being to feed and nourish and pass on natural immunity. Not including nut milks of course (but the idea of little hazelnuts and almonds having teats does make me smile!)

Ok, next question. Why is it culturally acceptable, endorsed, encouraged and even expected in some countries for mothers to feed and nourish their young as they please and for as many months or years as they like but in others (ahem) it is not only seen as taboo, there has been a call for the law to change so that mothers can continue to breast-feed in public after 6 months? Law? Milk? Or just the receptacle? It is now illegal for someone to ask a mother to stop feeding her baby but this law extends to six months only - (please correct me if I am wrong). So what happens when the baby is six months and two weeks? What about all the women who are feeding big babies who look like they are a one-year old but are in fact only five months? It all seems a bit ropey to me. How can this possibly be 'policed' and why should it be policed in the first place?

So, what's the deal? Do we need to have the same laws when children start drinking the milk from other animals? Are we going to have to shield them behind draping scarves and make them nip off to the public toilets so that they can drink their cow/goat juice? Just because it's in a bottle, carton or cup doesn't mean it didn't originally form in the mammary glands of our bovine friends. OK so I am being slightly facetious - I do realize that some people get uncomfortable around boobies - but I don't think that is the problem. Every breast-feeding mother I have ever come across has always been so discreet. I don't think the boobies are the challenge. It's the thought that the baby has grown teeth, can string a sentence together and yet still has the occasional suckle. But one friend related to me once that she heard a young mother with a small babe retort that breast-feeding past three months was absolutely disgusting. Oh! 

And the notion, 'Would you suckle straight from the cow itself?' surely is a relevant question! If noses are upturned at babies drinking breast-milk (heaven forbid such a thing should happen - and of course there wouldn't be the expectation for adults to drink breast milk as with all mammals there is a natural weaning period) then why is it so acceptable to drink the milk from another mammal - a milk that was exquisitely designed only for the young of that species. Yes, we can drink it  - but do we need to? We are the only mammal on the planet that is weaned off our mother's milk only to have it replaced with another mammal's milk - or several.

But this is where, for humans in particular, there seems to be the biggest debating, consulting, arguing and pondering. When should a baby be weaned from its mother's milk? There are people I know who will have a definitive answer for this. 'One week', 'Twenty days', 'Six months', 'One year - definitely one year' and it continues.

One of my friends told me the other day that I really shouldn't be feeding my two-year old anymore. I wasn't quite sure what to do with that information. Especially as one of my friends breast-fed her child until age four, the World Health Organization recommends feeding up until at least age two and oh yes - there is no definitive answer!

For me, I know there will be a natural end to feeding my daughter. Of course, she is not exclusively breast-fed now and I am sure there are times when she doesn't really need 'boo-boo' but she has it all the same. Am I disgusting for carrying on feeding her? Am I breaking the law? Do I annoy people when they ask me when I stopped feeding my little girl and I say, 'Well....'?

My conclusion to this rather sketchy piece of writing here is that each mother must decide what is best for her child and best for her. We have one of the lowest breastfeeding rates in Europe and this doesn't surprise me as breastfeeding is not exactly actively encouraged in the UK. Despite our midwife's attempts in our antenatal course to promote 'breast is best', I was one of two mothers who continued feeding my daughter after 8 weeks.

I have seen plenty of adverts for various milky formulas but not one single advert shows a mother advertising that it's actually OK to feed your own baby - and of course there isn't! Breast milk is free and it doesn't need any equipment to heat it up (then cool it down) And you will never find shards of glass in breast milk. But I digress! 

I am not the type of mother to flounce around with her two-year old babe guzzling milk for all and sundry to see but I don't think there are any mothers out there who do that. Breast-feeding is as natural and lovely to me as being outside on a fresh, sunny blue-skied, breezy day. Breast-feeding is enjoyed immensely by my daughter and by me and it won't last forever but it is within my reality now and by golly, I think it's great!  And it's something that doesn't need replacing with the milk from another mammal - whether it be cow, hedgehog or goat. And here endeth my lecture! Thoughts? Moo x

"All mothers should have access to skilled support to initiate and sustain exclusive breastfeeding for 6 months and ensure the timely introduction of safe and complementary foods with continued breastfeeding up to two years or beyond."

World Health Organisation

We are Noodle Folk

One of my favourite films is Kung Foo Panda and one of my favourite foods is the noodle! I don't care what kind of noodle it is, I just like to wind it round my fork and eat! I have always loved noodles, which is why when I started to eat 'maw along the path of raw' I wanted to find an alternative that still satisfied me on a taste AND a forking level.

Spiralizing courgettes is great but doesn't cut the mustard. Same with carrots and beetroot. I just know they are not noodles. They don't curl round the fork as you would expect a dish from, say, Noodle Nation to. And whilst they taste great, the sensation of 'noodle on tongue' only gets 2 out of 10. 

So thank heavens for the Sea Tangle Company in the USA for providing us with KELP NOODLES! Kelp is a type of seaweed but I assure you, these do not taste of the ocean! They are clear, glass-like noodles that wind delectably around the fork, as noodles should. You can make them taste of whatever you have stored in fridges and cupboards and the noodle satisfaction is actually 1o on 10!

So where can you get these from in the UK? None other than pioneering super/raw/lovely food company www.rawliving.eu! You can get a 340g bag for £6.90 - which I slightly blanched at when I first received the package through the post because two packs, with postage and packaging added nearly came to £20.

But then I prepared my first kelp noodle meal. And I discovered that they actually go a long way! They are surprisingly filling and when mixed with the curly courgette and carrot they all marry very well together indeed.

I have just started on my second packet and whilst I know they are not cheap, I know that four packets of these a month will stretch to several meals. And as I don't have any other real vices, let noodles be my vice instead!

Order yours from www.rawliving.eu - I have tried several times to get into contact with Sea Tangle themselves but to no avail! I would like to know how possible it is to get them delivered straight from the USA and if it would be cheaper - but for now, Raw Living is the way ahead. Beware though! You may end up ordering one of Kate's delicious cakes at the same time!

Here is how you can make your noodles taste delish!

Put one courgette through the spiralizer 

Get a handful of kelp noodles (rinse) and put both in a bowl

Shake over some shelled hemp seeds

Squeeze on half a lemon

Drizzle over one tbsp flax oil

Mash in half an avocado

Chop in some fresh tomatoes

Splash over some tamari soy sauce

Mix together

The noodles are quite rubbery when they come out of the packet but when mixed together in this delicious way, they settled down and behaved like proper noodles should. I can't quite believe how lucky I am!

Quality Time, Quality Life

One of my favourite things to do is to just hang out with my little daughter, Maya. She's my buddy and we go nearly everywhere together. We got in the car today, with the promise of getting some 'Shazzie choc choc' from a local cooperative shop called 'Daily Bread' and feeding the ducks in the park. It was a very chilled out adventure, with Maya helping me stock up the trolley with tasty treats and walking round the park, going 'high on the swings like Kipper the Dog' and climbing on the 'climbing tree'.  It was lovely taking time out from the usual activities of the week - we usually go to two music groups (and host our own one too!), make lots of visits to different friends, go swimming and occasionally pop into 'messy play'. 

But as none of these activities are on for the next two weeks due to Easter hols, we get to change our routine which is good for both of us. Sometimes I feel like I can't change the routine and need to go with the flow, but the week so far has reminded me that I can do what I want! I can change direction, I can steer into a different lane, choose the left fork in the road for once instead of the right and even go backwards if I want!

Is there anything you want to do differently? Go on, give it a whirl! x

Sipping my Alfonzo Mango and Mint Smoothie on a Sunny Day

So today is my first day back after a wheat, dairy, sugar, asthma-fest! I have given myself a few rules  - as I respond well to rules! NO wheat. NO dairy. NO sugar. First week all fresh and live. From then onwards, high percentage fresh and live, tiny percentage leeway food items such as baked sweet potato, steamed veggies and some fish. Make sure omega oils are incorporated such as flaxseed oil and whole grains such as buckwheat (which I soak, then dehydrate then eat!)

I have many goals, some of them superficial, some of them a little profound! Here is my list (in no particular order or importance!):

1. To be able to wear the beautiful dress that is hanging in my wardrobe - plus other very lovely clothing items.

2. To be able to be my natural weight.

3. To prepare my body for pregnancy number two (December onwards!)

4. To not have to use my inhaler.

5. To feel alive and free!

I have done this before - I promise you it feels great! Day one for me is always quite exciting as I stock up on foods that are soooo delicious and I really do feel quite privileged to be eating them. My shopping list of an hour ago looked something like this:

Grapes, bananas, lettuce, tomatoes, mango, cucumber, walnuts, courgettes, apples, carrots, celery, avocado, ginger and spinach. I already had some items at home like lemons, buckwheat, olives and sundried tomatoes. And I have some kelp noodles coming in the post tomorrow - never tried those before so will let you know how that all works out.

This morning I had a delicious smoothie for breakfast, a raw Organic Omega 3 foodbar (which has dates, almond butter, flax seeds, quinoa sprouts, raisins and sesame seeds in - really tasty!) and now for lunch I am sipping my alfonzo mango and mint smoothie. Do you want the recipe? It's simply heaven!

Put in the blender:

the flesh of one alfonzo mango

a big handful of spinach

half an avocado

one tsp camu camu (optional - will post about this soon!)

a few fresh mint leaves

a handful of ice

Juice the following fruits:

2 apples

2 carrots

2 sticks of celery

quarter of a cucumber

Blend it all up until smooth and sip whilst the sun shines serenely!

I am also nibbling on grapes and this evening I am going to have a very delicious curry - which I will also share the recipe for as I think you might like it!

Spring Curry

1/2 cup walnuts (soak for four hours before using - this makes them more digestible)

4 sundried tomatoes (I am using ones in oil today but you will need to soak them if they are completely dry)

4 fresh tomatoes

1 clove of garlic

1/2 cup of hot water from the kettle

pinch of salt (I use Himalayan Pink Salt - Jamie Oliver has a good version of this in a handy grinder - about £2.50 a pot)

1 tbsp apple cider vinegar (or lemon juice)

1/2 tsp paprika

1 tsp garam masala

1/2 tsp mild chili powder

1 tbsp olive oil (you could use coconut oil too)

Whizz all the above ingredients in your blender and serve over:

a plate of carrot and courgette noodles (I have a spiral slicer for this - if you don't, then use your vegetable peeler to get lovely long thin strips.)

finely chopped cauliflower and broccoli (I will be having these raw  - you could lightly steam them or soak in hot water for five minutes)

Optional extras for your curry:

finely chopped mushroom

sweetcorn or baby corn

avocado

shelled hemp seeds

red pepper

Anything that takes your fancy!

I have to say, before I sign off, that I am having a new website designed today, we have a new tree planted in our garden, the sun is shining and I feel very positive about becoming a healthy human! As you can see, everything I am eating is delicious and full of nutrients, vitamins and minerals. All ready to give me a new lease of life - a new beginning! Care to join me?

xxx

 

Getting my health back - yet again!

It's funny, don't you think, how when you know something to be a truth, you can still wind up denying it even to yourself. Take me and food for instance. I know (like I know, like I know, like I know!) that when I eat fresh, live, unprocessed foods, I feel amazing. Bursting with energy. Alive and kicking. So I'll have a few weeks experimenting, like I did last summer (and write an ebook and concoct lots of yummy recipes) and then little-by-little, little things will sneak-a-peek into my diet. Like a croissant, then some milky, sugary chocolate - then a big mother pizza with all the trimmings! I don't know how and why I do it, but I did think last December that enough was enough. I had a bit of an asthma scare and to cut a long and dramatic story short, my breathing worsened over six hours then finally, when I thought I might possibly die, the ambulance came and put me on a nebulizer. 

There are certain triggers that set my asthma off - like cats, rabbits, animals in general, dust, extremely stressful or worrying situations and smoke of any kind (incense burners, wood burners, cigarette smoke etc). But when my diet is spick and span, my body is able to process just a little better. So the question I need to ask myself is, why do I keep on returning to unhelpful eating habits. I decided that through the month of January, I would eat no dairy, wheat or sugar - in fact I had a near 100 per cent raw month. AND I made sure that my diet was FULL to the brim of greens. So fresh spinach blended in my smoothies every day, sprouted broccoli powder, spirulina and wheat grass all featured in my diet.

Then the incredible happened (as I knew it would!) From taking my inhaler four times a day (I know, not good!), it went down to once a day  - then I had a clear run for TEN DAYS without taking my inhaler at all! This was amazing for me - and every time I charged my body up with power greens, I literally felt like my blood was cleaning up and that blessed oxygen was reaching every cell in my body. I don't know the real science behind all this (I took rural science at school so I know more about messing around whilst growing carrots and turnips)

So, I have all this brilliant information. And yet every time I get on my fresh, live and unprocessed horse, I feel SO good then let the old ways creep in. Then my body yells, 'NOOOO VICTORIA! Stop it! You can't write books and essays and articles about health and not treat me right!"

I think however I have figured out the simple connection. The thing that gets me every time is... social occasions. I am very bad at saying no to people (am improving but not quite there.) If someone offers me an item of food that I know is not good for me, I would rather not offend them than say no. I DO say no quite a few times but I am so often in a social situation with my daughter, my faith,  my life in general (hark at me, social butterfly!) that there is all this wheat and sugar and dairy all flying around and not even tempting me but slapping me in the face!

This is where I believe that things happen for a reason. I have never had the ambulance called out to me on account of my breathing. I now feel quite within rights to say no thanks to a list of foods, on account of me really seeking the best route to health. Sure, I want to lose some weight (I still have a couple of stone to release  - this is a different post though!) but to not have to rely on my inhaler and live in fear of not being able to breathe would be the greatest gift. 

I have said several prayers about this - and there are two answers that keep coming into my mind. 1. Eat a plant-based diet - fresh, live and unprocessed, as much as possible. 2. Consume chlorophyll-rich foods daily. 'Make my life green' is what I keep thinking. And if my 'Green January' experiment was anything to go by, I can swear by it!

My conclusion for me, and perhaps this will serve as some kind of inspiration to you, is that it's a lovely quality to not want to offend people. But to turn down offers of food that are going to essentially make you sick - it's ok! In fact, if the person who is offering becomes offended or makes comments, all that is needed is detachment from this. I know I can't control anyone else but myself and the decisions I make may offend or annoy people sometimes. But I have me and a daughter to think of and I feel good about my choices in life as I know they serve me  - and then I am enabled to serve others!

Thanks for listening   - I needed to get that one off my chest! xx

Gossiping Geese

Ok, so the title was just to get your attention - I didn't stumble across a news feature about geese that like to gossip. Humans on the other hand  - oh my life! In the days of yore, when I was at school, I read a magazine article that said 'Gossiping is good for you'. I remember thinking, 'Wahey! I can talk about people and not only will I feel good, but I will be slim and healthy too and maybe pick up a boyfriend and grow longer legs.' 

I also remember, whilst talking about the flaws and foes of my friends, experiencing a little prickly feeling - it was uncomfortable and like a nagging headache that kept coming back except it was anchored in my heart and my stomach. I finally realized that the feeling was my conscience - my higher self  - and whilst the glossy magazine told me one thing, I knew the opposite was true. I became a Baha'i (look to this website if you want to find out the wheres, whys and whos about this faith  - www.bahai.org) at the tender age of 16 and I looked to the writings to see if there was any thing on backbiting. There was and it made my head spin! Backbiting was likened to murder. 

The 'me' that was aged 16 didn't understand how that could be. But over the years that followed, I was to see how through the mere act of talking about another person, with or without malicious intent, could make a community turn against each other, could enable people to live in fear and distrust,  could bring one single person crumbling to their knees, desperate for a new life to be built around them because the one life they new and lived for had been stripped away through just plain old speech. 

Simple fact that I have learned - lives can be ruined by backbiting. If we take this to the extreme - where celebrities are talked about incessantly in the tabloids - lots of things true, many things fabricated and completely false - the furore has in some cases been too much and the person has taken their life or numbed themselves with drugs and alcohol.

I used to have various Saturday jobs and in one particular clothing store, everyone would sit in the staff-room at lunchtime -  topic of conversation being the only person who wasn't in the room. I would sit there listening to how such and such was a terrible person because they did this, that and the other, then someone else would leave the room. Then the attention would be focused towards them instead. Every time someone got up to leave, the rest of the group would talk about them. No one was safe. I remember thinking, 'I am never going to leave this room!' I also wanted the conversations to stop - but I didn't know how to say the right words, or even know how to remove myself from the situation. I was almost frozen with what might happen if I joined in - what might happen if I walked away. I was only new - how could I stand up for these people? If what was being said was even true, was it just and reasonable to talk about their faults? Did everyone have the right to do this? Is gossiping good for you?

I have since read various articles which continually strive to prove that talking about others is ok. But is it ever ok? When should you draw the line? Is it ok to even say good things behind people's backs? For example, someone is pregnant, but they specifically didn't want anyone to know. But you share the good news with several people anyway - and then the person finds out. How do they react? Do they have the right to react that way - it was only good news after all?

What I have found as each year goes by, as I relax into me being me, I see people talking about each other as a way to fill time, or as a means to make them feel, look or just act greater than others. It's an empty form of conversation for me, to talk idly about others - but I can see how it's so very easy to do and slip into this way of being. BUT! Does backbiting bring good health? Does it bring happiness? Is there anything positive about talking about others? Are we damaging our own selves, our souls, if we speak foul of people instead of letting our lips drip with honey, diamonds and jewels?

What do you think of the quote below? Have a read and do post your thoughts, views and experiences on the subject.

If the fire of self overcome you, remember your own faults and not the faults of My creatures, inasmuch as everyone of you knoweth his own self better than he knoweth others. (Baha'u'llah)

I as an individual can only strive to be a better person each day - but to also question what we have in front of us. Will it do? Can we change it?

Welcome to my world!

This is my first blog - how exciting! And I have to say, this particular blogware was very easy to use - unlike others that I started then had to abandon as I just couldn't figure out what to do next!

Hoooray! So come and join me in my positively healthy world - a place where I like to find out about things that will help us all cheer up, be happy and full of joyous health! Keep posted xx