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Zen Suggestions
 | The China Study, The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health, T. Colin Campbell, Thomas M. Campbell, Benbella books, 2006A landmark study of why many Oriental communities live in so much better health than Western societies. |
 | How To Raise An Amazing Child The Montessori Way, Tim Seldin, DK Adult, 2006 |
 | Omnivore's Dilema |
 | Holding Time, Martha Welch, Fireside Books, 1989 |
 | The New Becoming Vegetarian: The Essential Guide To A Healthy Vegetarian Diet, Vesanto Melina, Brenda Davis, Healthy Living Publications, 2003 |
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Inspiration
You cannot do yoga. Yoga is your natural state. What you can do are yoga exercises, which may reveal to you where you are resisting your natural state.Sharon Gannon
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| Written by Richard | ||||
| Tuesday, 31 March 2009 10:01 | ||||
 I'm a vegetarian. It hasn't been a long time, around three years. How did it happen? Why did I choose to become vegetarian? Well, it's more a case of vegetarianism choosing me... There was no reason why I should become a vegetarian. I wasn't particularly a fan of animals, I wasn't obsessed by my weight and I wasn't extreme in my environmentalism. On the contrary, despite always respecting peoples' choices, I always found vegetarians to be somewhat unlogical in their choices. So it was particularly odd that I became vegetarian. It started in quite a plain manner really. My partner and I decided mutually to reduce our overall consumption of meat as our cholesterol intake must have been rather high. We were eating lots and lots of meat at every opportunity, at least twice a day every single day of the week. Charcuterie, ham, sausage, dried meat, steak, you name it, we were eating it.  Unbelievably, the less meat we ate, the more energy we seemed to have and the better we felt. Moreover, the less desire we had to eat meat. We never had to force ourselves to stop eating meat, it just came naturally. One day we just decided to stop eating it altogether. Now we're vegetarians, it was a mutual choice and one based upon our desire to feel better and healthier. Interestingly, as we stopped eating meat, we became increasingly concerned about animal welfare and the state of the environment. It's almost as though our subconscious was unblocked by the choices that we had made and we were suddenly in better balance with nature. Whether you are a vegetarian or not, the moral of our story is that it is so important to learn to listen to our bodies, its needs and the advice our own bodies gives us. It's very discrete, but if we listen carefully our bodies are an excellent guide to how to live our lives. Since I've started listening more to my body, I feel better and am ready to accomplish more in my life. So it's time for you to have confidence in your own body and listen to it. How might you change? Leave your story in the comment section below. Come back soon to read these articles:
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