||| three things you do everyday |||

hmmmm.... what are three things you do everyday? wake up, pee, breathe? not those things, things you do. i don't want to share mine because they are awful and unhealthy. i must do the discipline thing. simon told me, a long time ago, to be disciplined in anything you have to have to do one thing everyday{toward your goal}
he would do crazy things everyday towards goals he would achieve and then he would find another goal to achieve. so great. sometimes my goals seem too unacheivable because i cannot manage to find the discipline to stick to the idea of focus. and anxiety, and fatigue, which can be changed with diet, which is another form of discipline. so its really hard to focus! oh wait... see i just said that. so this is the holistic approach.
just sticking to a diet plan. i choose an alkaline diet to balance my entire bodies pH back up to 7.45 and go from there. so many things wrong with me. too thin hair really causing me more stress so the diet must be adhered to so enjoying always eating the rice and the popcorn and the chips and all the dairy and meats and eggs and grains and instant novel space age designed food and sweet things... and all the other pleasures of life causing so much imbalance in my physical body which is really messing with my mind and of course the always impending money making for cash for basic goods. the holistic approach is great for me because it makes the most sense to me, in my heart and how i feel about everything i learned about right and wrong through experience and education. diet, which is one of easiest choices to make because one dollar can buy you a whole fruit/s vegetable that you can eat raw and nourish you or less than the smallest bag of chips which does nothing in fact damages the body and the environment from its packaging. its awful to live with this knowledge. it makes life such a tedious series of choices but the blame is based on the consumer. if we all never bought instant food and chips in unrecycable packaging we as a species would be healthier and the world would benefit from the lack of pollution and cut corners for the instant appeal. i love instant food and chips. its so awful! oh man. you know what i appreciated in manila they have completely gotten rid of all plastic bags in groceries and shops, it was all paper bags i was so amazed at the change, and not a single cigarette butt on the street? it was bewildering. still completely over crowded and rotting but less trash.
ok this is going way off tangent. but the main point is

||| three things you could do everyday |||

• stick to a good diet plan

• keep your place tidy and clean and comfortable

• work towards a goal that enables a financial freedom based on your personal passions

and that is my holistic approach to working towards a disciplined self. still working on it ;)

oh. making the paypal buttons is really tedious.
so forget about making paypal buttons for things on etsy or dawanda (getting my stuff up on dawanda again!)
and will list the already made items on the blog. there are many classic its your life designs that have been stashed away this whole time. they need new homes. and i need lunch.

made herbs de provence sprouted mung beans with dried tomato and caramalized onion last night. i eat it with this fig balsamic glaze and virgin olive oil. yum. on top of rice with rosemary powder, a hint of garlic (granules) and sea salt.(recipe below)
i was trying to go back on an alkaline diet cleanse but its been difficult to remain disciplined without all the necessary ingredients stock piled. im still eating white rice and drinking coffee.

yup, getting back into the costume jewelry is a little daunting and lots of trial and error, what to plug my time into.... its all much better than spazzing and going through bouts of unproductive anxiety all day though for sure.
but i also wanted to post up my now closed aromatherapy studio pictures and also use this blog to post my aromatherapy research. i am on twitter @aromatherapyTO been working on skin care concepts and essential oil blends to revive my sense of smell and body awareness. so im not so disassociating all the time. im an old lady now and i cant be spacing out all the time, need to save that time for when im much older ;D
so on we go...


mung bean dish
1.5 c mung beans, sprouted
.5 onion
1.5 tsp herbs de provence
2 tbsp dried tomato
1 tbsp kale powder
pepper
what i did was sprout the beans, then caramalize the onion in olive oil, added half the tomato (soaked and saved water) , added the mung beans, sauteed for a bit, added half the herbs, added the kale powder, sauteed, added tomato water, satueed, added water, sauteed, added the rest of the herbs, added the rest of the tomato (unsoaked) added pepper, sauteed, then it was done, maybe about 15 mins of sautee-ing. not liquidy. brown bits. drizzled with virgin olive oil and the fig balsamic glaze.
the rice i had was leftover, so i used a small dot of olive oil to reheat the rice, added some rosemary powder, some garlic grains, some sea salt. but freshly cooked plain rice was better.
i also made a cabbage salad: finely chopped green cabbage (i like the red one better though) and a vinegar dressing made of apple cider vinegar, honey, pepper, and water, soaked the finely chopped cabbage in this for about 15 mis and served alongside the mung and rice. 

hives

omg

Alkaline Diet

id like to take this moment in time to share my experience of eating alkaline forming foods and the effect it has on clearing my sinuses. ikr gross. but seriously.

ok so i have horrible allergies and sinus problems. i have sleep apnea and snore and get really congested and am always sniffly and if i get a cold or cough that i dont treat immediately itll turn into bronchitis, which has in the past, turned to pneumonia!! i get fungal skin allergies and once went into anaphylactic shock from eating raw-ish walnuts. i loved walnuts!

but somehow i thought i had an unbalanced ph and needed to alkaline my diet. so i went on a fast and ate only alkaline forming foods. well mostly only. for about a month. and it helped me lose weight and save hella money and it cleared up my sinuses and general malady regarding allergens affecting me so much that they linger and cause further problems.

yes.

so all was good till christmas time. the feast. all that white flour and beef and sugar. then i kind of got lazy and was eating a lot of naan again (its sooo yummy) and did many other things that i am certain raised the acidity of my body.  my sinus got totally clogged again and i was kind of bummed. i started up eating mostly only alkaline forming foods building up to last night i ate:
2 roasted yams (oven 1.5 hours at 350) -mashed with butter, sea salt and pepper
with
1 small onion cooked in butter and pepper- with one cup frozen green peas.
plus drinking apple cider vinegar water again (which i stopped doing for some reason)
and with that, just today got fully back on track and my sinuses cleared up again, like fully.

its so amazing. im pretty stoked.

so this is the list of foods ive been using. i printed out the whole thing and its just by the kitchen at all times :)

http://www.rense.com/1.mpicons/acidalka.htm

this is about our bodys' ph level
http://altered-states.net/barry/update178/index.htm

cheers to good health!

hey check this 2012 edit:
i fixed my sinus problems.
totally gone.
change your diet. that was it and all i did.
http://nicoletirona.blogspot.ca/2012/01/alkaline-diet.html

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have the worst sinus headache/infection right now. god its like im living in a groggy foggy haze.
cant breathe! i hate it.
i was totally feeling like crap this morning with tonnes of sinus pressure so i looked online to see if i could find anything to relieve my symptoms.
1. mucus free diet. leafy veggies/fruits. no starch/sugar/dairy. not check.
2. steam inhalation. check.
3. no dust/pollen/allergens in home. not check.
4. drink plenty of water. check.

then i found this sinuswars site selling homeopathic medicine for every kind of sinus problem. i really want to try it. but i am broke. so its in my bookmarks for when i come back. i tried this other homeopathic stuff- my eye drops coz my eyes get super fucked lots of times (probably related to sinus!) and the homeopathic eye drops really work well, so i have good confidence with the homeopathic sinuswars racket.

meanwhile, been making lots of stuff for the i heart crafts fair on April 13. Candice, my agent will be selling for me!
so look out for her at the show. i will post the poster very soon!