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From 2017 to 2018 – The year in review

2017: CLEAN UP AND STEPS TO AWARENESS

This year was vibrating at a ONE which is the beginning of a cycle which had me sensing that it would be very heavily focused on new beginnings, starts ups and get goings but I was wrong. Instead it was the year of facing the overloaded dumpster of all the things that had been accumulated through our last numerical (ten) cycle. Everything that had survived a lack of personal scrutiny was still lingering around us. The truth was underlying everything but not to be revealed until we tossed the old narrative of our beliefs. Ignoring this, we would take a beating. This would be a challenge for most since there is a vast divide between the truth and what we believe since our thoughts skew reality. The over intoxication of our personal beliefs and the unwillingness to let go of them had everyone higher than a Woodstock Music festival leaving many still soaking in the jacuzzi of their views of right and wrong.

Prepared for battle our collective disfunction put on boxing gloves and armed ourselves with how pristinely correct we were, a right to our beliefs over those of others. Many are still in the fight, boiling and defending differences. This was the frustrating part of the year as from the sidelines I could see that no one was winning all the while the wrestling continued. I grabbed some solace at times and trusted that higher vibrations would prevail and that the whole chaos that we were collectively creating would subside. I waited and waited and then I shrugged my shoulders when nothing changed, we were going for the long haul. My job as a spiritual light bulb grew harder and harder as I kept rescuing people from the external world that was whittling away at them. The more we looked outside of ourselves the more dismal it became. I kept redirecting traffic trying to reorient the emphasis on us as individuals, trying to convince others that the internal is the place of salvation. “Come out of the chaos, dump your beliefs and find the truth beyond the noise” I called out to many. For those who took the call, it meant some deep dumpster diving.

Sexual abuse, childhood vulnerabilities, untruths about our legal and political systems, unconscious motives by previously trusted people and institutions and fake narratives that we had bought in to all surfaced. It was a rough year as many relationships did not survive stark realities. Among my extensive clientele I experienced a good share of divorces, separations, job changes, reevaluation of lifestyles and plain and simple destruction of old paradigms. Everything was falling apart, luckily.

We started to realize that our perception of everything around us was not as it seemed. From fake news to fake medicine we did not have the truth anywhere. Yet as I suspected, when our beliefs began to dissolve,  the truth started to slither out of the crevices as everyday the awareness of what is going on behind closed doors emerged. For many it was brutal, as their institutional minds were unraveling. Interestingly, our illusions had created a fake world view and we were screaming at what we hated, which was ironically the story that we had been sitting on for years, a mistaken truth.  So 2017 was a wake up call to clear out our totally incapable view of the world around us and begin deciphering what was real. This unsettles people, in fact, makes them crazy, insecure and desperate, but unfortunately it is a required pathway. With just one truth we can unravel centuries of obscurity and when the light shines through, it sets all of us free even those who have lived in the shadows of it all.

So, how did you do? If you are still pissed, you haven’t finished 2017. It is time to turn off the faucet of anger and belly up to the bar and order a hang over tonic and detox from your chain smoking beliefs, fully customized by toxic media.  Take a breath, the perception of this horrible hateful world is your creation fueled by your beliefs and is your wildest dreams, not your real backyard.  Take a cold shower and remove all of the careless thinking that has lead to an insanity of ideas that puts you into useless categories of thought based on old divisions of people. The collective is really kind and generous and although shaken has a genuine quality since at the source we are speaking from our heart. It is the mind that is suspect and manipulable as from the mind to the mouths of separation, our bias is spewed.

2017 was humanities time for a quickened awareness that it is time to trash the thoughts and concepts that have bridled us into a servant of antiquated beliefs. No one is right and no one is wrong so don’t bother with accusations as they are puffs of smoke yet can be debilitating if inhaled . Thinking otherwise can never get us to the highest good. We are each simply the cosmic conglomeration of an earthly experience where we are suppose to be learning from our walk, not busting down the signs along the way in some ego sense of our singular place in the grander scheme of things. Like feisty children, some of us have to learn the hard way when all 2017 was asking of us was to take a big bite of awareness and we would feel powerful again.

The successful who have survived 2017 have done so by slimming down on the intensity of their beliefs and gone within and asked spirit to reveal the truth that has absolutely nothing to do with your thoughts especially when they are toxic. But wounds run deep and it is harder for some to walk away from their bag of beliefs than others.

 

2018: FOUNDATION AND PROSPERITY – THE MASTER NUMBER 11

In 2018, we have all hopefully depleted our disgust about the world we live in and exhausted the hate towards all who do not believe in the perfectly designed view of our righteous selves. We have also hopefully moved beyond seeing the world through the lens of politics and current events and into a longer term goal. This year is a time for peace and understanding so the clean up should be wrapping up and we should be turning inward.  2018 is a year of two ones. Get out your hammers and nails as we are going to be building stronger inner foundations for different outcomes. Change from 2017 has been good as we have been forced to face what was not working and now prosperity can begin, but overall the planet will be more sensitive. There will be a renaissance of new ideas and innovative solutions will be given more merit, do not judge new ideas from those that you have opposed as all creations are valuable. This creates a richer sauce when the mixing is over. If you are starting over, now is the perfect energy as you rebuild a clearer and more intuitive path. When all that you believe is shattering, intuition thrives and new ways of thinking are revived. Sure there are times of slide when you doubt the potential but the energies are available now, if you can just get out off the battlefield of ideas and right and wrong and into creation. Resisting and clinging will not serve you now, no one is listening to lame lyrics as the volume is turned up too high. The subtle and more fine tuned, graceful and accepting you can become the greater the wealth of energy flowing your way and out to the world around you.

When people see prosperity, they prosper. The ego thinks there is more to go around so it lies less in scarcity and can become more generous with others. Keep it real, give to what matters most for the evolution of your heart not your mind. This investment will pay back dividends as the higher vibrations begin to reward you for taking the higher road. This is a good year to create a solid nest, savings, family, housing, long term commitments and investment in self. Coaching, self improvement are all foundational matters to start the base of solidarity around you, not limp, ego driven external causes which can be tap dances with fear. With the realization of personal power we will not feel the sense of helplessness and we will thrive more successfully on our own contributing to the greater good one by one instead of constantly seeking consensus and diluting our individual impact. We will just know we are powerful. With increased prosperity we can assume greater joy but we must temper it with reality, remembering that money does not buy happiness no matter how much the perceived thrill of trying to obtain more and more of it.

As we shift from powerless and unaware into a personal and collective abundance many will thrive around us, yet we need to stand strong focused on the goal which is the removal of beliefs. We then turn to replacing them with trust and a higher level of consciousness that does not breed antagonism, frustration and fake dialogues. The veil of transparency will continue to be lifted and more and more will be revealed to us about falsehoods and misperceptions. Keep an open mind to all avenues of information and avoid bias.

There will still be the remnants of conflict that will be attaching itself to the weakened ego but little by little we will stop drinking the kool aid of separation and find common ground to build our new spaces. Our personal innovation will come with less ego and more values if we drop the toxic thoughts.  There will be a tendency toward peace and calm even though you may feel like protesting against everything, just know that being in line with the restorative energies of the master year you will be contributing with or without a protest sign. By expressing ourselves in a higher vibration we can tap into the sensitivities of the planet and guide mother earth into a soft landing after so much conflict. Allowing for patience is key so that the negative does not prevail.

The bottom line for 2018 is: diminish ego, redefine personal prosperity, change the discourse, embrace the ideas of strangers, invest in your individual excellence, recalibrate frustration by busting beliefs, ask yourself “is this really the truth?” and know that 99% of the answers to that question are within you and not in your exterior world. All will continue to be revealed, be open to receive the truth in whatever form it takes.

 

From the other side of life,

 

Lori

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The secrets to getting to BLISS!

I love the word BLISS, it sounds so much like something I want to exude. The definition of bliss is perfect happiness and great joy. So what does it take to get it? What does it really mean to follow your bliss?

Here are the step by step instructions of getting to bliss.

1.) Stop planning the life that we think we should have or hope to live. This is all fantasy, give up the visions of sugar plums that we have dancing in our head. Our life is happening now and is not the illusion of what our mind keeps telling us what we could or should be doing.

2.) We deserve to be the real us, no matter what we have been told, taught or convinced of. The real us  resides under all the conditioning of others and the beliefs of society of who we should be. Reach into your heart and find the muse, the music and the real person that wants to be seen and heard.

3.) Stop asking about our life purpose and seeking under every rock for the why of why we are here. To feel alive and with purpose, our experiences must align with who we are. If you love flying you should not be a ship captain. Go out and do what feels good.

4.) Know that our wealth is found in the ashes after we have crashed and burned. Experience and failure are golden.

5.) If we are afraid to enter the cave of fear, we will never find the light in the darkness. Fear is our biggest obstacle to bliss.

6.) Do not regret anything. It is the past coming back to haunt us. Maybe it wasn’t the time then, but the time is now.

7.) Carve out a sacred space for ourselves and our thoughts and desires. This is the place where we can create and bring things to life.

8.) Know there is a GOD/Universe available to make our intentions our reality, trust this as there is nothing greater than GOD or the Universe anywhere else.

9.) We signed up for the human experience and it will not change. It involves pain and sorrow, life and death.

10.) Say yes to adventure.

Choosing bliss we can arrive at the center of our existence. We cannot ever be alone in the world, it is impossible. When we begin to design our own symphony we can create the melody of dreams that permeates thought and brings into alignment all that is willing to arrive on our platter of fate.

From the other side of life,

 

Lori Morrison

 

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Creating Sacred Space

My home is my castle, my refuge, my roots and my sanctuary. A sense of home is vital to a stable and strong root chakra. Without a sense of place we can feel ungrounded and unable to launch. Often when I see clients who are struggling with moving forward, it is because they lack stability in their living situation. Food, water and shelter are the basics and if any of those are uncertain, we end up in survival mode and exhaustion creeps in. So the most important thing for a foundational existence is a sense of place. In your sanctuary I suggest that you create sacredness and a connection to the spirit world. This connection builds a sense of safety, knowing that higher beings are protecting you and working with you and the unseen world, which I can assure you exists and is a vibrant place to connect to.

Shamans create a sacred place by calling in the four directions. Here is how I create sacred space, my prayers for calling in my spirit guides and my protection prayer.

CALLING IN THE EAST

East is the place of the rising sun and the element of air. Here you can place offerings of feathers, pumice, mint, incense, butterflies, lemon grass and lavender. The color associated with this direction is white. Here you would place stones that are clear and white or a soft blue.

Guardians of the east, Great Eagle and Condor, come to me from the  place of new beginnings, open horizons, visions and inspiration of newness and fresh starts.  Protect this corner of my circle and allow the air to flow in.  Bless me with the music, melodies and vibrations that ride the winds. Inspire me with new beginnings through the rising of the sun. Bring clarity and perception from the eyes of the eagle and the right language for expression. Allow me to be  the wind beneath your wings and to fly with the great spirit, and to see from the mountain tops the perspective of the unseen world.  I bless you and request your infinite wisdom and blessing for this space. Join with me, spirits of the east.  

If you prefer to work with angels, Raphael is the keeper of the east.

CALLING IN THE SOUTH

South is the element of fire and the place of creation. Here you can place offerings such as rosemary, apache tears, copal, pomegranate, cinnamon, sunflowers, tobacco, marigold, frankincense, dragons blood, pineapple and tangerine. The color associated with this direction is red. You can also light a candle. Here you would put stones that are red, orange and yellow.

Guardians of the south, Great Serpent, come to me from the place of the summer heat with strength and courage to ignite my heart with unconditional love. Protect this corner of my circle and allow the sacred fire to burn within it. Bless me with passion from the flames and allow them to burn all that does not serve me. Inspire me to rise from the ashes into a higher place where I can speak my truth. Help me to shed the past the way you shed your skin. Teach me to tread softly on the earth and bask in all the beauty that is here. I bless you and ask for your infinite wisdom and blessing for this space. Join me, spirits of the south. 

If you prefer to work with angels, archangel Michael is the keeper of the south.

CALLING IN THE WEST

The west is the element of water and the place of the setting sun. Here you can place offerings such as shells, passion flowers, tamarind, morning glory, gardenias, avocados, aloe, hibiscus, sugar cane, papaya, moonstone, mother of pearl and gourds. The color associated with this direction is blue.

Guardians of the west, Great mother jaguar, come to me from the place of the harvest with  community and sharing of the bounty of our efforts and purpose. Protect this corner of my circle and allow the water to flow into it. Bless me with cleansing from the sparkling streams and rivers, the power of the waterfalls, mystery of the oceans and the peace of serene lakes. Bring me the peace that comes from the abundance and nurturing of mother earth and teach me too have a life that is fruitful and full. Help me to walk in the world with no fears and to live impeccably and love beyond the cycles of life and death. I bless you and ask for your infinite wisdom and blessing for this space. Join me, spirits of the west. 

If you prefer to work with angels, Gabriel is the keeper of the west.

CALLING IN THE NORTH

The north is the element of earth and the place of sleeping and dreaming. Here you can place offerings of ferns, corn, vetiver, agate, jasper, coal, crystals, malachite.

Guardians of the north, Great Hummingbird, ancestors and ancient ones, come to me from the place of the night and winters that hold the wisdom of my elders. Protect this corner of my circle and allow the spirit that exists in all living things to support this space. Bless me with dreams, quiet, stillness and introspection that takes me deep into the reflection of my true self. Bring me the guidance of the wise ones, and the knowledge of the great source for the understanding of my connection to all things. Help me to honor all who have come before and shower me with the light of crystals and plants who nourish my body and soul. I bless you and ask for your infinite wisdom and blessing for this space. Join me spirits of the North. 

If you prefer to work with angels Uriel is the angel of the north.

FATHER SKY

Spirit of father sky, come to me from the place of angels with the sparkle of stars in the night and the vast beyond that has no knowing. Bring a light to shine upon me and guide my steps into the unknown with confidence and connection to the cosmic world. 

MOTHER EARTH

Spirit of mother earth, come to me from the place of the roots of my existence, the ever changing and inspirational world of your beauty. Bring your nurturing and bounty to my heart and the wisdom of your support and stability. 

HIGHER SELF/ESSENCE OF SELF

Finally, I call in my own essence, the place of emotion, intuition and feelings. Help me to embrace this wisdom that comes to remind me of my uniqueness yet also my connection to the universal field. Guide me to sing my song and share my gifts and fill up others with union, love and reverence for life. I open my heart to receive all who are here. 

PRAYER FOR CALLING IN YOUR SPIRIT GUIDES

I invite all of my guides and spirits to come from the highest vibrational place of existence. May the messages that you share with me be illuminating for my highest good and the highest good of others. I ask that the messages be clear, kind and compassionate. May the voices bring lessons and insight to the purpose of life. May the energies that flow through me be in tune with what is needed at this time and in this space.

PRAYER FOR PROTECTION

 I declare my boundaries and my right to be fully who I am. I allow only those of the highest vibrational energies to connect with my heart energy in both the physical and non-physical world. I am protected from any influence that does not serve my highest good.

 

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Spiritual Weight Loss – The magic fairy dust you need.

As I continue on my 100 pound weight loss, I have to admit that I am hovering. I got bored with the same old food, my cravings were starting to get out of control and I stopped dedicating the time I needed to eat consciously and healthy. I am now over the lull and back on track again but this time with a new weapon, a full blown probiotic and gut visualization plan. I envision little guys in my stomach who are desperately begging me for sugar. I keep saying to these bacteria bad asses that I am taking them on, no more sugar!  I also decided to pull out the big guns and get savvy about probiotics. If you are going to take one supplement in your life, it should be a probiotic. If you do not have good flora in your gut you are not a healthy person. Stress, toxins, antibiotics, non organic foods, over the counter medications can give you a leaky gut. The symptoms of leaky gut are bloating, constipation, gas and weight gain . You can carry 10 pounds of  bacteria in your GI track so it is a force to be reckoned with. I had some of these issues and my GI tract was in degradation. Our tummy is the center of our immune system and if the balance is off, the bacteria overgrows and eats through the system, into our blood stream and causes autoimmune diseases and a whole basket of other problems.

I have come to the conclusion that it is virtually impossible to have a successful weight loss effort without a healthy gut. I also realized that I needed to get out of the no fat mode and I should be embracing a good fat diet with no sugar so as to not give yeast, fungus and mold an invitation to build up. These bacteria creatures can multiply 52 million times in 24 hours, yikes! There has been a party going on and I wasn’t invited, yet kept sending stuff to keep everyone high.

The other benefit of cleaning up your gut is that a crappy gut gives you a bad mood. Research shows that sad people have messy stomachs because the levels of serotonin and dopamine are affected and the inflammation in the body is over the top. After doing the research I came to the conclusion that I needed a probiotic intervention, fast.  First, I needed a bomb to blast out the bad bacteria so I purchased Dr. Westin Child’s weight loss probiotic Gut Bomb with 350 billion ultra potency and multi strain bacteria. It is especially formulated for weight loss. It comes with 15 packets, you take one per day for a total of 5 .25 trillion probiotics per container, the highest value of any probiotic on the market. I have taken 5 “bombs” so far and wow, the difference was immediate, I lost my cravings and  appetite and I feel great. It is good for a lot of other things too like reducing inflammation, balancing hormones and digestion. The other thing I learned is that the amount of calories you absorb depends on the bacteria in your gut. You know those people that can eat and never gain a pound? They have the right bacteria. Lastly, and probably the most important is that the bacteria in your gut influences fat storing hormones such as leptin an insulin. By taking probiotics you can reduce the resistance to insulin and losing weight.

Now, just going to the grocery store and picking up a random bottle will probably not be that effective unless the CFU (colony forming units) are really high. For weight loss you need at least 15-20 billion CFU’s per serving. The right dose makes a big difference so check the labels. You also want to be sure that the probiotic includes these four ingredients

Lactobacillus gasseri
Lactobacillus rhamnosus
Bifidobacterium lactis
Lactobacillus casei

These are all well-studied and only certain probiotics support weight loss.

So, I hope this helps me and you to get the tools we need for taking on the cravings and getting ourselves back to balance.

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What I learned about algae

I was lead to learn about algae from Dr. Michael Kiriac who has developed the most advanced superfood on the planet. After working to help people after the devastating affects of the Chernobyl disaster in Russia he has made it his life’s work to produce this powerful product that brings life to where there is darkness. He has developed a super compound of algae that fits in a capsule and the success is amazing for the degenerative conditions of many illnesses such as Leukemia, Epilepsy, HIV, Lyme Disease, Glaucoma and Osteoporosis, Energy, Stamina and Mood, Improved Kidney Function and Tissue Repair. He describes his discovery as awakening the genius within us by creating a product with thousands of nutrients that can reach the cells in the brain that are more difficult to reach than others. These cells that govern the organs of our metabolic heath receive hundred of nutrients so they can grow and repair us.

Currently, the task of nourishing our cells has become less efficient because of a poor choice of foods and deficiencies in our diet and by other stressors. This is compounded because our foods are depleted of nutrients. There is only one food that can bring us to an optimum cellular health and that is algae.

We need to go to the cellular level to heal everything. Like Hippocrates says, let thy food be thy medicine, all good foods have the potential to nourish and heal. This algae product which you can get by clicking here is scientific based and has helped thousands of people. I read the full study and it is so impressive I wanted you all to know about it too.

Lori Morrison does not receive anything for the products that she recommends, she just wants to share her discoveries with others. 

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The FIVE most important things I learned from dead people

My husband Tino left this world eight years ago. His leaving uncorked my gifts of intuition and clairaudience and I began speaking to spirits. Some of the spirits that I talk to are ancient Mayans who have a desire to return and work through me to help others. The intention is to spread their knowledge about the human experience. The Mayans are extremely intelligent, probably more so than we are today because they had the knowledge of both the cosmos and the earth. The two together results in a rich perspective of our journey from stars to the human body and back and what is the best way for the soul to navigate these transitions. They are very interested in the human experience and how the soul and its consciousness evolves through our cultures and conditioning while on the planet. For me, I am fascinated with the perspective of those on the other side. What do they think of us?, What would they do different? What is the secret to getting out of here ALIVE? These are all questions that I have asked the spirit world over and over. So here are my top five things I learned from dead people:

1.) Dead people are fine: They are in fact better than ever. It is being in the human body that brings pain and suffering. Without a body they are simply consciousness and awareness and are now an energetic thumbprint of themselves. They have a memory of their life with us but they do not have all the emotions and irrelevant thoughts that go along with it. The human body is an emotion factory and the trick is the management of emotions which the transitioned all wish they had done a better job of. They also say that it would have been much easier just to surrender to the process of getting through life than having so much drama about everything that happens.

2.) Obstacles:  They are just part of the deal. They are what we signed up for in order to learn and expand our consciousness. We need to see them as lessons not a horrific monster that we can’t deal with. Every person we meet is a teacher and it is our job to understand what we are to learn from them, even our most challenging times of conflict and disappointment.

3.) Expectations: These are a set up, an dangling carrot to go into the futility of the future and keep you out of the present moment. We spend thousands of hours creating illusions and conjuring up expectations that we worry about, hope for, strive for and wish for. It is the biggest waste of our precious human time. Real peace is found in the present moment.

4.) Beliefs: Beliefs are accumulated from others, none of them are congruent with the soul. From the day we are born we are molded into the beliefs of our culture and our families intergenerational fears. Layers and layers of sticky and gooey fears create a “baklava” that we live in, with a lot of nuts thrown in.

5.) Become Conscious: For the most part we walk the world in a cloud, caught up in the drama of everyone around us. The healthiest place is to get off the stage and find a good seat as the observer. Here we can manage emotions, be aware of all the actors, understand the plot and path and lastly be entertained and enjoy the ride. Here is how to do that with your family.

The perspective from the other side will have you questioning everything and it can help you to reconstruct your life and make it a smoother ride.

Hugs,

Lori

If you would like to expand your knowledge of the secrets of living an amazing life, you will love my new online course. You can find out more about it here.

 

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Spiritual Weight Loss – The Dreaded Plateau

The definition of a plateau is “a state of little to no change after a period of progress”. A plateau in weight loss seems to happen to everyone. Strange, because I was eating everything spelled out on the diet and had even increased my exercise. It was time for a reassessment. I started checking my portions, going back to weighing everything again and paying attention to the quantity. This is where I found the kink in the system. I had been slowly inching up on how much I was eating. The confidence that I knew the right quantities had convinced me I was right. The old brain that was tied to full plates was taking over and running my show.

The other strategy I put in place is changing up my exercise and adding some spice to the mix. I hired a Chi Gong teacher to come one morning a week to begin to instill a sense of balance in me, I was obviously out of balance and this was confirmed when I could hardly balance on one foot for very long. I also started to do some free weights in a simple morning routine on another day before my normal walk. Variety seems to be helping my body to have an overall effect on the stagnation of my metabolism.

From a spiritual point of view, I started to show gratitude for myself. Thanking me for all the effort and for making better choices. When in meditation I tried to feel my body in its different form and celebrate the changes and the vibrancy I was feeling after losing 40 pounds. It was like I needed to see the new form that I was inside with new and different eyes and to embrace it and welcome it to my healthy world.

I turned the plateau into a time of celebration, tallying up the successes along the way and looking forward to knowing that the best was yet to come. I did however have a serious chat with my fat cells, knowing of the theory that my body might naturally be trying to maintain a weight where it is most comfy and that it was possibly stuck in its comfort zone. I reminded them that all was well but we were still heading down the path to more weight loss and to get on board.

Lastly, I put a picture of the old me on the refrigerator to remind me of how far I have come. When I did that, I realized that I did not have a full length mirror in my home, a subtle reminder that I was in denial for so long. Awareness is powerful and bringing things out in the open has given me the opportunity to take this head on, like sharing my journey with all of you.

If you have lost 100 pounds, I would love to hear your thoughts and suggestions too.

Hugs,

Lori

 

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Spiritual Weight Loss – Re-thinking abundance.

As human beings we are caught in a world of wanting more and more, striving for abundance. From the moment we are conceived we are marinated in an embryonic fluid full of our mothers worry about not having enough money, time and support to raise us. Welcome to scarcity. We are then fed baby food that is “designed” for our health, as if mother nature’s effort is missing something and we need more. We look around the planet and exploit and eat everything unlike any other creatures here.

Since our bodies have learned to live in a lack of abundance it is always looking for more. As much as we try to enjoy a glass of red wine or a chocolate to reward ourselves we do not have the appropriate enzymes to manage overabundance and our stomach cannot synthesize it and these foods in the long term create an inflammatory reaction.  Since we have all become borderline hoarders of stuff, the collective energy puts us in an out of control accumulation mode. We are piling up larger and larger fat reserves and our level of insulin remains on high alert. After we have totally trashed ourselves then we go looking to supplements to “cure” our problem that is, in reality, the reflection of everything that is going into our mouths during and between every meal. The reality is that no pill is capable of fixing it.

After twenty years of research we know it is not how much we eat but what we eat, we simply eat too much of the wrong things. We have bought in to the conditioning of reward and abundance. “If you are good, then you can have something sweet”, ever heard that in your head? This is how we are motivated anymore. We also associate everything that we do with food. I still find myself deprived if there is not a restaurant involved in an outing, it just does not seem celebratory. People turn on a football game and our next thought is to find a bag of chips and a beer, everything accompanies food.  Food is no longer for nourishing our bodies, it is to turn on our senses and have a feel good moment. “Healthy Granola Bars” and other trendy ideas are simply compressed carbo bombs ready to go off in our trendy stomachs. These tainted messages have convinced me many times that I was a health nut, but the truth was I was nuts for thinking I was healthy.

To break the cycle I am focusing on proteins, which are the fundamental building blocks of the body. Proteins promote cell growth, help the muscular system, hormones and bile acids, among many other things. I have blown off carbohydrates that just end up in the body as sugar anyway. It is the same poison.

So what are my tricks for the right nutrition?

1.) I shop the outer ring of the grocery store, only venturing into the canyons of guilt for certain items which I limit to extra virgin olive oil, brewed ice tea with no sugar, vinegar, organic beans in healthy cans and steel cut oatmeal. Everything else is fresh and whole from mother nature.

2.) Every morning I measure out three tablespoons of oil into a small bowl. That is my daily ration of oil. I cook many things with vegetable consomme and then use the oil and vinegar “sauce” at the moment of serving or use a paint brush to glaze over anything that I cook on the grill.

3.) I try to have a lot of vegetables prepared and ready to serve with my proteins. One of my favorite veggies is to use cauliflower and make mashed cauliflower all spiced up with some garlic and it tastes just like mashed potatoes.

4.) I eat three times a day at least five hours between each meal. This keeps my insulin from spiking and begging for carbs. If I am hungry, three glasses of water does the trick.

5.) Lastly, I care about what I eat. Anything processed I no longer equate with satisfaction and pleasure. I try to see food as fuel not a pre-requisite for a party and a deserving celebration. I see a meal as a relaxing time not a buffet that I need to conquer because I am in scarcity mode and feel like this could be my last meal on the planet.

I have lost 38 pounds so far and I can say that I have my days that I fall back into oblivion but as I lose the weight it becomes less and less. Old habits are spewing their last ditch efforts to derail me but the strength of my body and the wholeness that thrives on real food is beginning to take over, day by day. There is no perfect diet, no perfect weight loss plan, but the ultimate secret is abandoning scarcity and convincing your body that it has all it needs to survive.

 

From the other side of life,

 

Lori Morrison.

 

 

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The Autumn Party

THE TREES REACH FOR THEIR MOST FESTIVE WARDROBE,

PUTTING ON THEIR COLORFUL BEST.

IT IS TIME TO CELEBRATE THE COMPLETION OF THEIR SUMMER LABORS

OF ENTERTAINING BEES AND BIRDS AND BUTTERFLIES.

THE LAST LEAF DROPS, THE ROOTS ARE EXCITED AND

CELEBRATE THE ARRIVAL OF THE SLUMBER PARTY.

THE REMAINING VIBRANCE MOVES THROUGH THE VEINS AND INTO THE ROOTS

ON ITS JOURNEY TO THE UNDERWORLD.

LISTEN CAREFULLY, THE MINERAL KINGDOM VIBRATES WITH THEIR FINEST JEWELS.

THE SPIRITS OF THE UNDERWORLD ARE PREPARING THEIR FEAST.

THE INSECTS RUSH LIKE CATERERS TO ARRIVE ON TIME,

SCURRYING AROUND THE ACORNS BURIED BY THE SQUIRRELS AND CHIPMUNKS.

THE WATER TABLE BRINGS THE DRINKS

AND THE LEAVES OF THE PAST ARE THE ELEGANT TABLECLOTH OF NOURISHMENT.

THE LOWER WORLD IS NOW IN ITS TIME AND PLACE OF EXHILARATION AND FESTIVITIES.

BULBS BOUNCE AND ROOTS DANCE TO THE HEARTBEAT OF GAIA.

 MAN SLEEPS IN HIS DISTORTED TRUTH

AND WALKS THE WORLD WITH IGNORANCE OF THE EXCITEMENT UNDERNEATH

Lori Morrison

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When the EXTRAordinary happens

To this day my story still seems unreal to me as well as some of my readers. What do you do when something so extraordinary happens to you that there is no place to put it? In my case, I wrote a book about it. My first intention was to just get it down on paper for posterity. This would give me a chance to digest the phenomenon one by one. Did it really happen or did I just perceive it in inter-dimensional cocktails of the mind?

If you haven’t read my book yet it goes like this; husband dies, I find myself living alone in a luxury home on a lake in Central America, phenomenon happens, I cannot make sense of it, I begin to think I am crazy, I can hear, see, feel and sense Mayan spirits who seem to have woken me from a earthly slumber of who I really am, chaos ensues, I realize extreme gifts of intuition, become one with the universe and then travel all over the world to understand the unexplainable, all the while I am shedding the past and an ego that was fueled by a corporate career and a glamourous lifestyle.

As I now sit calmly writing this article with a foot in the “real world” and another foot in the spiritual world I sometimes have a yearning for normal, yet normal will never exist for me again if I live. I asked many who dabble in the spirit world for answers and the response was, you have stepped over the line that keeps the rational mind intact. It is a journey that you cannot erase since there is no place to logically store it. They were right, I will never stop pondering the proximity of another place, time and space of existence, curiosity now abounds.

When someone asked me what it was like to have the veil between dimensions come crashing down I asked them to imagine this: “What would you do, think and contemplate if you were sitting on your patio, you looked up at the blue sky, all of the sudden a large zipper appears. Next, a large hand appears, unzips the zipper, a strange but loving face appears and smiles at you then zips everything up and disappears?” That’s it, that’s all, nothing more nothing less. Now, if you are alone, your mind will beg you to file it in a cabinet with an explanation of “I have had too much to drink”, “I must be tired”, “there is no way I really saw that” and on and on until it is gone from the structures of your beliefs. All whisked away into coincidence. This is the cleaning up that we do for things that might require an overhaul of our belief systems.

Now, if someone is there with you and sees it as well, that changes everything. That one stick of validation creates an entirely different outcome. Now the mind knows it happened but it still has no framework for an explanation so you both pour yourself a glass of wine, have a few laughs but that simple peek into another existence will never leave the mind alone in its obsession to make sense of it. This is the dilemma of the seer and those who transcend the earth plane, teetering on the edge of beliefs that are now on shaky ground.

From this new perspective, there is a freedom that opens an entire new world of possibilities.  Sure, sometimes I still question my sanity, but the unicorn in the kitchen keeps telling me I am just fine and I still go about the world believing in nothing and expecting all that the universe can bring to me.

When I first sat down to write this story, for it to come through me I had to let go of anything that was questioning it. The voice that says, “nobody is going to believe you”. The inner critic that clings to bold beliefs and whose gravity keeps us from the extraordinary world around us. A lighter energy flowed through me. When I was stuck, I would close my eyes and “float” into the scenes unimpeded and the vision of that experience would appear even more precise than when it happened. I could feel and sense it as it had occurred, all with no time between the moment and me the author. This is the place of a writer in the river of the matrix, where we can access the impossible and write the reality of a deeper existence that lies within all of us if we can move beyond belief.

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