Jumping on that Wagon Again

Saf training is a whole lotta fun, still! The menu and juice list looks heavenly and I forgot to mention that there will also be a shop selling al the raw lifestyle essentials like rebounders, superfoods, nature's first greens and the like. Also there will be a take away menu a simple bar/snack menu, its also got wifi and the company seems to be very conscientious and caring in an ethically minded kinda way. Got miffed that I had to go and buy my lunch today, cos as a raw girl, my dietary needs were looked over - ironic huh! But the staff seem increasingly interested in the raw foods thing, and am being bomabarded with questions and have promised to introduce all the girls to the gift of raw chocolate tomorrow!

More excitingly, am back on the juice wagon come Monday, hurray! I am so, so excited about this. I miss it so much, food doesn't integrate in the same way that juice does - I miss those love vibes too. I will be sharing the fun with Holi, as we will start officially on the same day although she might zip off to Thailand soon, we will still be sharing it together. I wish I could run away somehere warm too, harumph! Soon come, I hope!

Talking to Dusty tonight, in his organic shop got my brain thinking over a lot of stuff. I find it very uplifting to talk to other conscientious people, it makes the process so worthwhile because you know that you are part of a mass consciousness. Its clear now, that so many people want to make positive change. We may all have different ideas on how to achieve this, but most importantly I see people looking into themelves, gaining awareness of their own potential and becoming nicer people. I thought, what an impact we could make on the world if we each shared a caring smile with a few extra people each day, if we said something nice to each other. Perhaps we are too focused on making the global shift that we forget the impact of small changes that we can impact here and now! I left smiling, walked through the woods and felt wonderfully blessed by the splendor of nature in Spring! I am happy, I notice how significantly happier I feel today than I did a year ago. I think it is possible to embrace life with fresh, youthful eyes each day and discover new things each day. Life seems exciting right now, so much potential. I am happy in myself. Perhaps I need to get better at being more extorvert and sharing with others, but I feel comfortable in myself and it has taken me years to achieve this. I don't know if it is raw food that has made me feel this way, but it certainly started at the same time that I embraced this lifetyle. Weird how food can have such an impact.

People focus a lot of the aesthetic side of raw food, its like we've been brain-washed to believe that diets can turn you into the supermodels whose beauty we perceive to epitomise perfect health. I often felt insecure about telling people I was raw, because I felt that I wasn't your typical 'Shazzie' or 'Karen Knowler' type. True, my skin glows and so do my eyes, but most importantly I smile from within. Thats what I have gained from raw food, an inner smile and confidence in myself and my potential. So much more important that anything else, me thinks.