I AM 50%

With all the percentages in the news today with the 99%, and I posted the 100% to my Facebook page, I thought it appropriate to show how my raw food diet is going. Not so good. I must say I am as raw as I was before I started the raw diet last week. I am always 50% raw. I did eat raw cookie dough for a day before I baked it. But I eat gluten free brown rice tortillas every day. I don't know if I want to live without those, and they are cooked. But other than cooked rice, the occasional bowl of popcorn, and maybe gluten free cereal and oatmeal, I can do this! I prefer raw vegetables to cooked anyway.

My fellow Yogi and I did make the commitment to go completely dairy free, and with all of the vegan choices out there, this is fairly easy. Eating out takes a little more willpower. Okay, A LOT more willpower, as the dish of butter across the table was calling out to me more than the veggie pizza right in front of me.

But I look at temptation like a poker game: "I'll see your butter," (acknowledge it) "And I'll raise it." (to a higher power). I do this exercise in meditation, also. When a thought comes up, especially an unpleasant one, I see it (acknowledge), and raise it (to a higher place, releasing it). You must fully see things before they will leave you alone. If you ignore them, they will be persistent in pestering you until you acknowledge them. Kind of like a child in the grocery store. (Note to moms: Everyone else hears your child; why don't you?)

But I digress...

The point is, I am vegan again, 50% raw, gluten free, and giving up temptation to a higher power!
I AM 100% FREE!

Have a beautiful day!
Namaste^