Coconuts are like the Vegan Buffalo

Coconuts never fail to amaze me! Over the last months, I've been increasingly eating more and more coconuts being back on the Big Island of Hawaii. Also, we had a BIG harvest of about 50 coconuts right on the piece of land where I am living. At first having all this fresh, needing-to-be-processed meat was overwhelming. Overwhelming because my body only wanted the water, and I felt stressed about wasting any of the precious white coconut meat that is found in older coconuts.

My discovery of eating consistently older coconut meat has inspired me to write down a list of all the foods I'm creating with coconuts. I am learning to FULLY embrace whatever stage the coconut is in,  because this particular raw, local, organic food creates an enormous variety of foundational foods found in the human diet.

Here's the List:

Older Meat:
-Coconut Oil
-Rich smoothie base
-Very sugary, refreshing alkaline water
-Toasted coconut croutons (taste just like bacon bits)
-Coconut Rice (just the coconut meat fiber)
-Coconut ice cream (good cream to use as ice cream base)
-Toasted coconut fiber (good to add to yogurt or granola)
-Coconut Milk
-Coconut Mac n Cheese (use coconut meat or coconut milk instead of regular milk)
-Thai-style Coconut soup
-Thick coconut salad dressing
-Raw coconut curry cold soup

Younger Coconuts:
-Best-ever water for fasting or enjoying in the hot sun
-Vegan egg whites
-GREAT for smoothie
-The young meat is like vanilla jelly.

I'm sure I'll still keep discovering new uses of coconuts-- and I'll let ya know! Bye for me :)

I don't know if writing helps...

I've been searching lately to pin-down some sort of spiritual practice.
Something consistent and something that works!
I know it works when, after the practice, I am an overwhelming POSITIVE person
I feel better after the practice.

This is not where my yoga practice nor my massage practice led me today.
In fact, it just allowed me to wallow deeper in contemplating my despair.
Maybe sometimes there's just no natural remedy to take me UP from being down.

Today the affirmations were all about accepting the pain and disappointment of life.
I am always avoiding discomfort, pain, injustices, depression, anger
And I fully embrace optimism and enthusiasm for life.
I figure, when I'm not feeling WONDERFUL, than there is something I must do... and fast.

When I don't do something to reverse the ill feelings I am having
the negative thought and feeling linger, and sometimes fester.
I did help today my chanting, "I am grateful. I am appreciative. I am grateful. I am appreciative"
That helped a lot.

I notice when I can physically voice positive statements-- even better-- when I can say positive statements out loud, the power is more obvious. The lowest form of power is when something just swirls in the head. Writing is the second most powerful. Only second, because you can keep it in your head for quite a long time.

Voicing things out loud is the third most potent form of transmutation- something negative into something positive. I want to be a leader on this planet. I want to be a leader on this planet.

In many forms. I want to be a leader on this planet.
I want to be a compassionate leader on this planet.
Today, I didn't do so great. And that's ok. I still love and accept myself.

My attention span seems low. I need something to help train my mind. Is writing on this blog the answer to my conundrum...? I notice that writing is the second best- also meaning it is the second-most accessible. If I can't say something or have the freedom to say something, than I better have the balls to write it. Ahh.... writing it. Why is writing so great anyways?

Perhaps writing is a way, method of compost. Maybe... just maybe... the negative voices that I give attention to... maybe the negative voices that I write down will magically loose power when I write them down. Or perhaps it is a process where one writes down the negative thought, then erases it and writes in the positive thought. So, like a writing process that has two major phases. The dark side----erase-- and then the light side.

The mind seems to have both perspectives at all time. But, I bet I can train my mind to only see the positive. It is about training- and superhero warrior training in our day. This takes focus on words, and the ability to TAKE RESPONSIBILITY.
I TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR MY THOUGHTS, WORDS AND ACTIONS