A Course In Weight Loss : Lesson 1

I started reading A Course In Weight Loss by Marianne Williamson not so long ago and wanted to share some of the take aways from the book.  These were the kind of truths that resonated with me and got me thinking or seeing life and it's relation to me in a different light.  Key themes that stood out :

• We all have a wall that we build to keep something away from us.  Be it a person, a situation, a feeling or a truth.  the trick is figuring out the make up of your wall.  Mine is food.  For others it could be sex, drugs, excess TV or some from of addiction or escapism
• We are meant to feel no matter what.  Pain, joy, peace, fear, shame etc.  We are meant to feel it, experience it, process it and move on.  It's through feeling it that we process it and move beyond to a space of choice and truth.  Somehow we get stuck with some by not truly feeling and processing.  I love how after you feel something that you come a point of choice to take a different view or let go of the one you hold.  It's a powerful place to get to.
• Being truthful with yourself can take many forms and do what sits comfortably with you.  For some it is confessing, for some it means coming clean and for some it is writing it down.  But what is truly remarkable is that being honest with yourself is merely surrendering to the rawness of that truth and looking it straight in the eye and acknowledging it for what it is.  When we brave to do that, we move to a powerful place of choice.  Choice to let the story go or deepen our understanding of the perception

My biggest take away from Lesson 1 has been the concept of how we fear seeing ourselves clearly!  It's hard not to see when the lights go on in a room and the darkness disappears.  You cannot deny what is in the room.  I see how the walls that we build protect us and keep us in the dark so that we do not have to put the light on and see clearly.  It is the whole stay in ignorance and be blissful thing.  Some of us prefer that state versus having to own up and look at what's in the room and choose to leave the mess or clean it up and make space!

The other take away is that I can ask for help from something bigger and wiser than me!  I can pray and be grateful for the access to a higher wisdom, a higher power and a higher intellect that I can surrender my problem to help me solve it and move forward.  This whole notion of faith and trust come into play which I will admit is still a challenge for an outcomes based individual as myself.  But it is something to work with and unpack and take one step at a time.

I would love to hear about your stories when it comes to trusting in the Universal wisdom, limitless solutions and intelligence?  Have you had experiences that you can share?

Keep up to date on the other lessons by visiting the The Business Of Good Livin page.  Love and Light xoxo

Learning Together Is Sexy

I realised after my last Golf lesson just how sexy learning can be with someone.  To learn means to be open, to drop your guard and let a new idea be processed by yourself.  There is an element to let go and be vulnerable.  It is putting what you know and do not know out there for others to see that are learning with you.

So there is something to be said about taking up a new hobby, craft or exploring a skill you are new at.  When you allow for yourself to be open to digest the newness in front of you and you get to do it with other people, there is a sexiness that prevails.

You truly start seeing who they are.  It has nothing to do with how they look but with how they respond.  And for some, it is uber sexy and for others it is simply a deeper understanding of who that person is.  It has just been a fascinating process learning a new sport with other people.  There is a comfortability developing and a closeness as we drop our camouflages and what we know and simply open up to embrace the newness of a skill and insight as well as each other!

It's SEXY!

CrazeeBee Essential Kitchen Items

So I will go on record saying that I am not the expert when it comes to Food, but I am the expert on what I love eating.  So read at your own risk and if you like it, try it ;)  So my journey with food has resulted in some shifts of attitude of late.  Getting my hands on Geenen Roth's book "Women, Food & God" and now Marianne Williamson's "A Course In Weight Loss", has started changing my relationship with food.  There is still more work that I need to do but one step at a time.

So a big shift is that I have started spending more time cooking rather than buying ready made meals.  Based on that, below are some key items to consider for the kitchen that can make the difference (All based on what I love ofcourse!) :

1. Non Stick pots and pans - Your life will never the same.  Food just looks prettier when it is made in a non stick pot or pan!  This was not as obvious to me until I tried it
2. Oil in a spray/spritz - Whether it be coconut or olive oil, rather spray it than pour it.  Combine that with a non stick pan or pot and you are on your way to hardly using any oil
3. Containers that remove excess air - For the single folk, this is soooo handy.  It keeps your wastage down as well as allows you to cook smaller portions
4. Must Have Ingredients - Avocado, Salad Spring Onions, Mushrooms, Fresh Tomatoes, Pepadews, Wok Egg Noodles (a handful adds a touch of luxury and comfort to those fry pan meals. Yum), Paprika and Garlic.  I love the flavours it can bring out in a meal :)
5. Create Your Own Cookbook - Cooking is so flexible. So take a recipe that appeals and experiment.  Change up some stuff and experience the difference. I am having soooo much fun taking a recipe and changing it up.  Once I am happy that I have a winner, in my cookbook it goes
6. Happy Music While You Cook - It just adds to the energy and creative process.  Be sure to turn off the TV.  I found that it distracted me from really enjoying the full process as I could not engage my full senses
7. Pour In The LOVE! - Most important.  Pour in love and blessings as you cook.  I have found that the savouring of the food while I eat after such a process is amazing.  I have noticed that fast food just does not get to that same satisfaction level after I tasted food made with love.  Probably why most miss their Mom's cooking.  It has to be the love factor missing?

So there you go.  Chef CrazeeBee has shared some ideas on his cooking essentials.  xoxo

Embrace The Looming Change In Your Life!

In Honor of my last post of embracing the change in your life, below is a delicious song to get you into the frequency to surrender to the change that is manifesting in your life.  Ask to be open and be grateful that you will get the answer.  Start releasing the idea that your questions go unanswered.  They can be when you are willing to be open the how the message gets to you.

No offense to The Verve.  But I love changing the verse that repeats "Can't Change" to "Can Change".  It rolls off the tongue better ;)

Well I never pray
But tonight I'm on my knees yeah
I need to hear some sounds that recognize the pain in me, yeah
I let the melody shine, let it cleanse my mind, I feel free now

Some Food For Thought

I have been on this sentiment of fair exchange in relationships and embracing relationships that heal and bring us closer to our best.  I found this phrase from Abraham.  For those who don't know him, he inspires the work of Jerry and Esther Hicks.  Enjoy the thought.  It leaves me with a sense of comfort that relationships do bring out the best in us.


That "death do us part" thing is a protective mechanism. It says, "I don't trust me, and I don't trust you to be in a place where we are evoking the best from each other. And so, just to make sure, let's promise that even if we don't, we'll suffer it out together." Every law, sacred or secular, that we have ever seen in your environment has always come from a place of disconnection, from a place of protectiveness.


--- Abraham

Change Is The Only Constant

Change can be a scary concept for most.  Your sense of safety and trust in something constant can get shaken and removed and that looming feeling of loss or a place to safely land seems no where near in sight.  It makes sense why there is panic, anxiety and fear.  Then the need to control comes along and we all know how controlling people can be!

For the first time in a long time, I have been feeling positive anticipation!  I can see the signs of all the internal shifts that have occurred over the past few months start showing up in my life.  And I am beginning to surrender to those and allowing them to be.  It is exciting and scary!

I invite you to start raising awareness to what is shifting in your life physically and beginning to open yourself to what happened internally in your life.  Don't kill yourself you draw the link.  Simply give your awareness to that and trust that you will get an answer.  Be aware of what life decisions or life themes you have now bought into.  What stories have you let go of.  These could be small or big ones.  Be aware of big and small changes in your physical life.  

It could be the overhaul the landscapers have done to your neighborhood that have now changed your surroundings, people enter or leave your life, a change to your role or focus workwise, you see someone or some people in a new light, you have a deeper breakthrough with someone you hold dear, something happens and you realise that it no longer stings or hurts like it used to . . . . . .   The list can go on!

I amazed even to this day how the internal decisions we make to love ourselves more, or let go of limiting stories or embrace a new idea to see life can ripple out and one can draw the link.  It is encouraging to me that this internal work stuff does actually work and that life is this canvas I can paint with anything I truly want.  It is very awesome to realise the power I have to simply be happy.

So if there is a constant stream of change in your life, you can be sure that something inside has shifted or is shifting to cause that physical reflection of change.  You simply need to be open to making the link between what internal choice you have made and how it rippled out into the world  to be experienced by you.

Raise your awareness to this idea and life will work in its way to answer it for you.  Good luck and excited to hear what your answers are!  If you feel the need or are comfortable to share with me , please do!  Look forward to reading it . . .