Hello blog, long time no see

Another stage of renovation of our flat is over, so after a couple of months of sleeping over at my friends' I'm back in my flat. We had our floor changed to cork in both rooms, and now, before we put back the furniture, I'd like to take advantage of the opportunity (quiero aprovechar de la oportunidad) and show you almost all the things related to the raw food diet, more ecological living in a city, spiritual growth and using the power of thought I use in my daily life (apart from fresh fruit and vegetables - not in the photos).

Different aspects of my life

My stationery:

Recycled paper notebooks, from Latvia and Thailand.

If you come across or decide to give me as a present pens that use NON-petrol ink, I'll really apreciate it!

My everyday jewellery: I prefer gem stones and silver.

The bracelet and little Buddha are bijou exceptions, but they were bought in a sacred cave temple in Thailand and I love them.

This chakra bracelet is the last gem stone thing I bought,

and it was in Tilburg, in one of the very nice shops they have there.

A friend of mine is interested in

silver and the litte rose in the photo is by him =) A wonderful present.

Food for thought: Some of the many books I've read on topics ranging from enzymes, vegan raw diet, amazing properties of water to energy flows in the body and universe, the power of thought, feeling good, feelings, intentions and positive affirmations.

Lately I've been listening to or watching lectures on the Internet.

What I really appreciate are the teachings of Abraham - Hicks and Bashar (it's contemporary channeling), EFT tapping technique with David Childerley.

Some of the many pictures and photos of places I want to go to or live in and things I want to have or use.

As for food for the body,I've been eating a lot of melons, peaches,

nectarines and grapes the last 3 months (90% of my food intake). I have an ozone cleaner for fruit and vegetables, especially good for grapes and other berries, dill, parsley. I try to buy food at local markets, and I use public transport. So this handcart (тележка) is very helpful. I'm going to try to sprout barley (ячмень), peas, popper and val beans (dolijos). I also have flax seeds, white and black sesame.

In August I went to Spain where I came across a wonderful bio shop where I bought an excellent sprouter, very good for sprouting buckwheat.


In the photos you can see what can be stored at home for a long time: seeds for future sprouting, nuts, pumpkins, algae. I do eat algae sometimes. I'm going to buy a 25 kg sack of buckwheat at antibludoman.ru. I'll do it as soon as they collect the harvest. Really looking forward to it! It's not only about taste, it's also about independence from the unpredictable government-market-weather conditions-etc.

Drinking: I do drink fresh juice. I know it's not very good and natural, but it's the only drink I can have when with friends in a café, apart from water. The summer (=dacha) season is over and I guess I'll use the destiller again. Now there are several bottles of water from the spring near Mozhaisk. This water tastes so good, it feels so pure. But my Dad won't go to Mozhaisk till next May. I haven't used stones (shungite etc) for some 4-5 months. But I think I will. And I bought a wonderful device a couple of months ago to structure water. It's copper and silver together, so there's a weak electricity flow in the water in a glass. Sometimes I have a bit of sea salt, coarse grey salt from Guérande or pink salt from the Himalayas. I have it separately, of course.

Sleeping: I'm sleeping on the floor, on a natural Thai latex matress (actually, I bought 4 thin pillows, and my Mum sewed them together).

Hygiene:There are a number of things not widely available and affordable in Moscow. Stuff to clean the WC or wash clothes not that harmful to our planet is an example. I bought it in the EU. It is avaiable at Carrefour in Belgium or in bio shops in the Netherlands.
When water and household soda (sodium carbonate, Na2CO3) aren't enough for my personal hygiene, I use special herb mixes in powder. I buy them in ayurvedic shops in Moscow.

When I see paper handkerchiefs packed not 10 separately but 100 together I buy them. I don't like so many plastic bags in my life but the vendors at the market or shop assistants think it's a high level of service to put even 2 peaches in a separate bag, uff.

Walking: I believe barefoot is best, and I really admire one guy from Minsk, Belarus, I know from the LiveJournal who walks barefoot

everywhere he can and carries with him a pair of shoes to put on where it's prohibited to be barefoot (the underground etc.)

My choice is using special shoes whenever I can. I bought them in Groningen, the Netherlands, 3 years ago, I think this is the most expensive pair of shoes I have. But they're really worth it.

MBT physiological footwear. Now this brand is in Russia too. The last time I was in Maastricht a couple of weeks ago I saw an old man riding his bike in similar shoes =)

Breathing: the air quality in Moscow is awful. When I am at the crossroads waiting for the green light, I automatically hold my breath.

Music: Mozart and classic, romantic, barocco music, Russian gusli (psaltery); rock and pop songs I loved many years ago. I know these are literally destructive for the body cells, so I measure out in doses (дозирую). No piano lessons since the beginning of summer.

Pyramid power:

Clothes: This summer I decided to buy clothes as natural as possible, preferably of bio cotton and/or linen. It isn't that easy! Many of the things I liked contain polyester, elastan etc. Nevertherless I managed to find 100% cotton, cotton+linen things. Not an easy task is to find you know what - socks! Producers add 5% elastan or similar almost everywhere.

Bathing house: Sometimes I have access to a Russian bathing house. This summer I went there 3-4 times and I loved the experience.

Animals: good news - I've got a friend with a dog and two friends with a cat and I go to their places regularly. Three weeks ago I walked the dog, the first time in my life! And I really love her. I find it easy to love pets now, but it's something really new for me. This dog came into my life several months ago. Before I loved only cats. During my trip to Thailand in March I felt the strength and the power of a phyton. And now I love dogs!

When I was in Belgium in September, I was invited, unexpectedly, to a countryhouse, and was very much surprised to find 3 dogs and 7 cats there! When it was dogs' time to walk they all ran about, and the largest one appeared to be the most social. He was taller than me when he stood up on his paws and he was very strong. But I wasn't afraid, not a second. He even jumped at me, hit me and I fell over on the grass and got a clour (шишка) on my forehead. But all I felt was love and joy and gratitude.

Quantum Touch: I had a short session of QT in Brussels. It was on my spine. Several years ago I got some nerve jamming in the upper back while stretching, and since then I've sometimes felt uncomfortable. Arlette worked on my back, but it's impossible to tell whether it has helped or not, as this uncomfortable feeling happens maybe 3-4 times a year.

In early November I'm in Brussels again, now to learn to run energy myself.

MMS: I'm very curious about MMS (Miracle Mineral Solution)! Ordered it from the UK to Tilburg but it hadn't arrived when came there. So I'll get it in November.

Fasting: I feel the need for abstaining from food quite often, my body wants less food and more water, but my head (my mind, my psyche etc) via my eyes and nose just won't let me! So, once a month, maybe 20-30 hours, and that's it.

~I like the taste of the distilled water I prepare at home. Drink at least 1 litre regularly, try to stick to the classical 2 litres.

~My mum's friend gave her a couple of kilos of dried plums that they'd got somewhere for cheap, and she ate a lot of them at a go. She doesn't think about SO2 etc, and here's the result: she's quite sick, with all the symptoms of intoxication. You'll never get this if you have apples or other really raw fruit.

~As I said I don't feel ready for fruitarianism, so after 3 weeks without the leafy greens I'm enjoying them again. And not only the greens, sprouts too. Bought young sunflower shoots - and liked them a lot! Thick and crunchy.

~Synchronicity:

I've been thinking of ways to wash my hair naturally for a while. Today received a newsletter I'm subscribed to, and there was an interview with a 50y.o. woman who's been living a relatively natural lifestyle for the last 10 years. She gave some tips on several issues, including washing one's hair. Then I read LiveJournal, and one of my virtual friends asked advice on washing his hair.

So, I tried washing my hair with bicarbonate of soda (2 spoonfuls per 500 ml of lukewarm or hot or very hot water) and rinsing it with lemon juice (half a lemon, squeeze, strain, 500 ml of lukewarm water), and I like the result!

Stages in diet

omnivore -> ... vegetarian -> strict vegetarian=vegan -> raw foodist -> mono raw foodist -> fruitarian -> liquidarian -> breatharian

In this chain, the diet is getting lighter and lighter.

The body goes through intense cleansing during the raw stages, intuition improves, and it will signal you when you are ready to stop eating, but not before the physical health has been gained.

Where am I in this transition? It's somewhere here: raw foodist -> mono raw foodist -> fruitarian

June

The entire month of June I was very busy, slept less than I needed, spent almost all my time inside, was nervous because of lack of time - not really a healthy way of life. Strangely enough the monorawfoodism aspect was ok. I ate small portions of fruit and vegetables during the day, so the absolute majority of my meals were fine from the mono perspective. But in the evening I couldn't avoid mixing everything. Now that I'm quite free again I eat a lot again and mix even fruit with vegetables, uff. Drinking water is still a big issue, just can't drink it.

I read one monorawfoodist's diary. He's mono since some 8 months ago and he's tried mixing stuff recently. He says he felt the difference in clarity of his mind although the body reacted ok. As my reasons for rawfoodism are related to both physical and non-physical (spiritual, mental) aspects of life I'm even more convinced to switch to a 100% mono now.

It's the season of sweet cherries now. I'm a big fan of those and taking advantage of good prices at the Preobrazhensky market. 3 kilos of dark, pink and yellow sweet cherries a day? Easily! And with pleasure =)

Linden trees are in their full blossom now. They smell so good that I enjoy my morning walk to the metro station as there are a lot of linden trees on my way.
Good olfaction can cause some inconveniences as too many people smell bad and the air quality in many parts of Moscow is really poor.

Soaps / Sesame / Ekadashi / Mum

Soaps:
I like natural soaps, love to choose them for presents =), but it's not easy to find one without animal fat or glycerin. So I am happy now as a wonderful savon d'argan artisanal came to me as a present from Morocco (soap with argan oil by Coopérative Marjana, à 14 km d'Essaouira sur la route de Marrakech). If you have never tried it you don't know how pleasant a soap can be!

Some recent changes:
The colour of my skin is getting whiter and pinker. I noticed it only today looking at my hands and I really like this change! Since several days ago I have been feeling cold. I know this is usual for many people who just start switching to raw foodism. In my case I felt wonderful in September-October, slept with a fully open window with 13C. But now it's 20C in my apartment, and I am wearing a sweatsuit.

My weight is low but stable (obviously, the BMI shows I am underweight). My mum's weight has changed considerably but gradually and smoothly, minus 10 kg since December (~5 months). She didn't limit the amount of food nor restricted the number of products. Just ate everything she wanted, raw, with a bit of salt, then sea salt, black pepper, some oil; during the last 5 months she had, besides raw food, some thin Armenian pita (лаваш), bread, several times she ate boiled potatoes, braised vegetables, stchi (Russian cabbage soup, щи) and puff pastry patties (слоёные пирожки), some cheese, milk, coffee. It was a drastic change in eating habits for her, but she feels much better with her current food preferences, which makes me happy as well. She perceives it as a temporary diet, but how suitable is the word "temporary" when she is going to keep to it for the coming year for sure? =).

Sesame seeds:
Read they are all treated with some alkalies in order to remove a specific taste of their hull. I don't know if to trust this info, but yesterday I put some seeds to soak to see if they are alive. By now none has started to germinate.

Ekadashi:
Still try to follow it twice a month. Yesterday it was ekadashi, but I did eat, so I am having a dry fasting today, on dvadashi, instead. My mum joined me today.