Body Presencing™ - Healing the Root of the Matter

“The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.”                                                                               - Robert Frost In winter the leaves have left the trees for the season and our plants and trees as well as many animals go into a dormant period. Everything slows down and pulls inward gathering resources and strength for the re-birth to come. If we could learn from the seasons we would learn a lot. As with the seasons, it is true of us as human beings; there is greater beauty to be found in us as we mature and grow wiser with the years. We have acquired wisdom and understanding that can only come from age. We become beautiful in a very different way; much as wine becomes more fragrant and rich and mellow. Society doesn’t always value this inner beauty. The value comes with us. As we value ourselves we can more easily let go. This inner sense gives us a greater sense of wholeness, inner vitality and spiritual/mental/physical

“In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was within me  an Invincible Summer” - Albert Camus Happy New Year!   I am excited to launch a new year and to introduce a new theme for my blog.   In 2013 we explored The Twelve Body Presencing Keys: Unlocking the Secrets of Vitality &Health, Wholeness & Joy.   In 2014 I will be sharing ways in which we can all Experience Body Presencing ™.   My weekly blog posts will be filled with inspirational stories, cases and examples of how Body Presencing™ works, as well as how living a vital and healthy life is connected to the seasons. The seasons teach us so much. I am a watcher. I spend time each day looking out my morning window which faces east.   I watch the sunrise and the play of the sun and clouds in the sky. I watch the birds frolicking. I listen to the sounds of nature, and watch the leaves turn colors, fall to the ground, and the re-birth in spring. Life in all its fullness gives

The only gift I have to give is the ability to receive. If giving is a gift, and it surely is, then my gift to you is to allow you to give to me.”                                                                                           - Jarod Kintz Love is a recurring theme during the holidays and yet we usually focus on loving others through gift giving. What if, this holiday, we were to give ourselves the gift of truly listening to our own souls and of loving what we find there? There are so many voices we hear inside of our heads, and so many sentences that reverberate in us and influence us. Most of these voices and sentences like: you can’t win, you have to do this, only the strongest survive, you have to give in this way, and so on, are really not ours. Most of them are beliefs we have heard from our families, friends, and associations. They are not truly ours and yet they influence us so profoundly. One of the best gifts we can give ourselves is

“It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.” -   Mother Theresa If you are on an airplane, the stewardess will remind you to place the mask over your own face before helping someone else place the mask over their face. The same principle applies to how we live.. By taking care of ourselves first we have so much more to give to others. One of the ways in which we can take care of ourselves and also give to others is through health cooking and eating. I love to bake which is a gift I give myself.   And of course, unless I intend to eat it all myself, this gift is joyfully passed along to others. For me, healthy baking means I do a little satisfying of the conventional sweet tooth and a little satisfying of my need for health. Healthy (and even not so healthy) baking makes for wonderful gifts, so let’s get started with a healthy twist on an old favorite recipe. Below you will see how I substitute traditional ingredients with healthier