How to Grow into Raw Foods For every one of us, life is a process of growth in

understanding and commitment. Reach for Raw is

It's so clear Kindness is keeping us alive. You see
a growth process. It's a deepening understanding.
it in a sunset, in the moon dancing on water, in the
It's a beautiful commitment.
gurgle of a mountain stream.

The more we understand the more we commit

This Kindness will always help us to find fulfillment.
The more we commit the more we understand
Why would it want us to live in darkness, when it's
nature is Light?
Human beings – growing in understanding and
commitment – must be the most magical process
As Deepak Chopra writes: "We're not a body
happening on planet earth right now.
growing more brainy. We're Intelligence learning
how to be a body."
It's the path of surrender. I always prayed for
surrender. Until I realized surrender is a growth
To me it's a little of both, like the DNA helix. We're
process in understanding and commitment. It's a
Consciousness learning how to be a body-mind.
gift that's given when I reach out to accept it.
We're a body-mind learning how to be
Conscious.
From JAM to WAVE + RAVE

On the face of it how do we do it ? And how do we

Going from a life stuck in JAM, surfing on a lovely
get back to that lovely place of Grace again and
WAVE right through to RAVE.
again? So we feel fulfilled and free.

Once we ate JAM:

The secret is simply this. It's a growth process in:
J – Junk
A – And
Understanding and commitment.
M – Meat

Place yourself in an environment where your

Now we're riding the WAVE:
understanding and commitment will grow. Each
W – Wholefood
and every day renew that environment.
A – And
V – Vegan, with
When you don't feel like Committing, then on that
E – Exercise
day make time to READ a book on Raw, or
LISTEN to an audio.
All the way through to RAVE:
R – Rawfood
The Understanding we get from reading and
A – And
listening inspires us to DO IT. Gets us back on
V – Vegan, with
track.
E – Exercise

Why raw? Because when you apply a flame to
anything, you destroy it. Have you seen a
burnt-out house? This is what you do to food
when you cook it.
A World of Understanding
Understanding brings commitment.
Read books and web-sites on raw and vegan
foods, and healing naturally. Join vegan and
vegetarian societies and get their newsletters.
Watch TV shows on the magic of your body-mind.
Attend rawfood festivals.
Flock to the talks of rawfood teachers at every
opportunity.
Pay to see the teacher. It's worth every penny. To
me, the presence of the living teacher is the most
inspiring joy on earth. Whether it was my
unforgettable English teacher at high school or a
special teacher today.
The teacher takes me higher faster and inspires
me to try harder.
A World of Commitment
Commitment brings understanding.
This is why rawfood teachers are so inspiring,
because they are so committed. And therefore
understand so much more. First-hand experience
of what's true and beautiful, is their source of joy.
The easiest way to commit is to be in a committed
environment.
If you have enough JAM food in your cupboard to
last a week, give it away.
When you crave JAM food, buy only enough for
one day. Force yourself to go to endless trouble
and expense every time you want it.
If your family eats JUNK And MEAT, then find
ways to avoid seeing it. Keep your own little
cupboard and refrigerator.
Same goes for when you shop. Avoid that section
of the store where your favorite chocolate, cheese
or chips are. Don't look at them.
Start a rawfood support group. As Alcoholics
Anonymous says, the alcohol is more powerful
than you. So is the JAM. Get help.
Break the Addiction
Cooked food brings addiction in life. The longer
you've been abusing a substance, the harder it is
to stop.
You only have to get through today, one day at a
time. Live in the present moment, not in your mind.
If you're thinking it, you'll want it.
When I came off alcohol, to escape from a Mind
flashing me photos of endless delights at the
liquor store – and to live fully in the present
moment –
I'd tell myself out loud what I was busy doing.
"Now I'm eating beans on toast. Now I'm chewing.
Now I'm brushing my teeth."
Tremendous focus in the Now blocks out the
temptations of Mind. Any yogi worth her salt
knows that!
You're not eating dead food NOW. You don't have
to give it up for all time, only for today, or for this
moment while you make a Green Smoothie.
All time will take care of itself, one day at a time.
Balance Your Biochemistry
With raw food I couldn't begin to exercise
will-power until I'd reached a certain level of
biochemical balance. For me, that took one year
of Energy Soup or green juices every day. With
my GoGreen Automatic Sprouter, both are quick
and easy.
Grab a tray of greens and a half-tray of bean
sprouts from your Sprouter, blend them with fruit,
avocado (or ground seeds), a little seaweed, and
you're done. Greens, fruit, fat and trace minerals
from seaweed – a complete meal in ten minutes.
This is Energy Soup.
Fats like avocado or ground seeds give solidity
(chia, flax, pumpkin, sesame or sunflower seeds).
Solidity means it fills the empty spaces in me.
They lift me out of Oliver Twist mode ( please Sir, I
want more ).
BLENDED and JUICED LIVING GREENS will:
free you of cravings
detoxify your tissues
rebuild your cells
balance your biochemistry
Only the chlorophyll molecule has the right
chemistry to do this – chlorophyll acts inside you
the same way soap washes oil off your hands.
Only LIVING greens are rich in both chlorophyll
and oxygen. Oxygen speeds up the cleansing.
One day someone's JAM food will be right in front
of you, and you won't want it. You're free in the
peace of balance. As Joe Alexander writes
in Blatant Raw Foodist Propaganda! –
"The raw foodist health nut enjoys the pleasure of
peace and cleanliness within the body ... There's
no pleasure greater than feeling comfortable in
your own body."
Invest In a Rawfood Kitchen
Automatic Sprouter going in your home – the one
here at greensmoothie.com is by far the best.
A Sprouter forces you to eat living greens every
day, because the next day there's a fresh tray! If
you eat bread and cheese, fold the living greens
into your sandwich.
Keep a second Sprouter for growing wheatgrass.
Buy a multipurpose wheatgrass Juicer, this one is
the best value for money. I use mine almost daily.
It's so quick to juice a tray of wheatgrass. And
easy to make raw nut butters – my juicer does it
so cleanly, there's virtually no clean-up.
Macadamia is my favorite.
Nut butters satisfy cravings. You need the healthy
fat. When you crave fat and sweet – try mashed
banana with raw nut butter. When I started out on
raw, I always kept 2-3 kinds of homemade nut
butters in my refrigerator to satisfy my hunger.
Today I prefer fruit.
Always have plenty of rawfood snacks on hand.
Make It Easy to Reach for Raw. The dehydrator
here gives you snacks of every taste and texture.
To eat dead food, you need a stove. To eat living
food, you need a sprouter, juicer, dehydrator, and
blender for making smoothies.
The Higher You Go
Be committed, Do what it takes, and you will Have
what you want.
Keep yourself in a committed environment, and
you will find it easier to commit.
Commit – DO IT – and you will deepen your
understanding. The higher you go, the higher you
go!
Whoever said the higher you go, the harder you
fall, was on cooked food.
You Can Do No Wrong
Inside you is a power that has never sinned and
can never sin. It's keeping us alive, yet is
untouched by what we eat.
We've all felt it. All our life we practice techniques
to experience the peace within... a simple prayer...
watching the setting sun... The most
spectacular I ever saw was over the Rocky
Mountains!
When I first began to change my diet, I'd beat up
on myself daily, I could never do anything right.
Every binge I whipped myself for being bad. I
binged all the time – three days was my maximum
for staying clean.
Today I let myself off the rope. I keep on with my
greens (home-grown), keep on trucking, keep on
growing in understanding and commitment. I
see myself evolving in the heart of beauty.
A sincere heart is a winner! Every day, either
deepen your understanding, or commit and take
action. Ideally, do both.
The more we do both, the more surrendered and
peaceful we grow. Life becomes a journey of
fulfillment.
Make drastic changes only if you're terminally ill.
Add Energy Soup and Green Smoothies to what
you normally eat, then try a variety of rawfood
recipes.
You probably enjoy a dozen different dishes of
cooked and packaged meals. So go through the
rawfood recipe books until you can quickly
prepare ten meals you love.
If you over-eat, you'll heal quicker when you binge
first on whole foods (cooked or raw). Instead of
bread 'n cheese, eat cooked millet with raw
avocado! Or try banana and avocado. You get the
starch and fat, but as whole plant foods.
As you cleanse, your tissues will release toxins
into your bloodstream that may trigger cravings
you have not had in years.
Whatever you give in to, have Energy Soup or
Green Smoothie too that day. This will slowly
balance your biochemistry.