SuperFood Smoothie

SuperFood Smoothie Recipe
Serves 1

1/2 cup Spinach
1/2 Frozen Banana
1/2 cup Frozen Mixed Berries (Blueberries, Raspberries & Black Berries)
1 1/2 cups Coconut Water/Aloe Vera Juice/Almond Milk (Your Choice)
1 tbsp of Maca Powder
Scoop of Green SuperFoodPowder
1 tsp Chia Seeds
1-2 tbsps Hemp Seed Protein Powder

Green SuperFood is a full spectrum of alkalizing green superfoods, antioxidant rich fruits, and support herbs unite with Acai and Maca to provide a powerful dose of whole food nutrition. Signature superfood provides amazing energy and amazing health.

Premium Blend of SuperFoods Provides
Amazing Energy & Amazing Health!

•  Helps you achieve your recommended 5 to 9 daily servings of fruits and vegetables
•  Naturally detoxifies and boosts your immune system
•  Probiotics and Enzymes to aid digestion and absorption
• Complete raw food with powerful antioxidants
• Alkaline green plant foods balance acidic pH levels
• Contains over 70% organic ingredients
• More organic whole leaf greens per gram than other green superfoods - not from juice
• Featuring Sambazon organic pure açai powder
• No soy lecithin fillers
• Nitrogen packed for freshness

Hemp Seed Protein Powder is among the most concentrated protein sources of all the plant foods, and it’s a complete protein source – offering all the essential amino acids. Navitas Naturals Hemp Powder is 50% protein, and it is protein in an easy-to-digest form. It is also a healthy source of dietary fiber, chlorophyll, and minerals including magnesium, iron, zinc and potassium. This finely milled powder has a rich, nutty flavor that is ideal for smoothies, baked goods or any recipe that could use a protein and fiber boost.

Hemp has been an integral part of life for many cultures throughout the world for thousands of years. Seed husk remains were discovered in Neolithic burial sites, indicating the significance of this plant in ancient times. The hemp plant (Cannabis sativa) is one of the earliest known cultivated crops, and it has many uses including textiles, fiber, wood, plastic and fuel alternatives. In the early 1940’s, Henry Ford built a car that was made completely of hemp plastic and fueled by hemp oil. The constitution of the United States was drafted on hemp paper and 'founding fathers' of the United States, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, were hemp farmers!

Chia Seeds the Mayans and Incans revered the tiny, but nutrient-dense, chia seed as a staple food along with corn and beans. In fact, 'chia' is the Mayan word for 'strength.' You'll find lots of strength in Navitas Naturals Chia Seeds, which contain an abundance of good-for-you nutrients that can be added to virtually any meal.

Maca Powder is an herbaceous plant native to the high Andean Mountains of Bolivia and Peru. It is one of the only food plants in the world able to thrive at such a high altitude. Maca, and more specifically the root of the plant, has a long history as a superfood. The maca root was prized throughout the Incan empire for its adaptogenic-like qualities that enable it to nourish and balance the body's delicate endocrine system, and to help cope with stress. It also energizes naturally, without the jitters and crashes of caffeine, and it can aid in reproductive function by helping to balance hormones and increase fertility.

If Happiness Is A Choice, Why Are So Many Of Us Unhappy?

Source: Mind Body Green

Today, I consider myself an extremely happy person, but it hasn't always been that way. The truth is that I've made HUGE strides to be where I am today. I had to dig deep inside myself to access authentic joy, the kind that cannot be manufactured by false promises and one-night-stand mantras spit out by pop psychologists.

If you feel depressed, or if your life doesn't make sense right now, you're not alone. Many people have feelings of self-hate, regret and depression.

So what's the real problem?

What's the source of this mass unhappiness?

Why are we all running around trying so hard to "get" happy?

Could it be that our frantic pace is indeed what's causing to our lack of joy?

Could it be that we're all looking for answers in the wrong places?

As a self-help author with a book on how to Find Your Happy, I find it incredibly rewarding to help people reach a state of more joy. But there's a downside to the pursuit of happiness, and most self-help authors, teachers and speakers gloss over it: happiness is a way of life, not a destination.

So many of us approach happiness as a goal: "We have to get happy to be happy." But happiness is not "out there" somewhere; it's already inside all of us. It's our job to remove the barriers, limiting beliefs, fears and insecurities keeping us from accessing the lasting joy. But this removal process can be fun. It can be play. The more we access our own source of happiness, the happier we'll be.

When I was depressed and stuck in life, I would read articles about happiness, hoping it would be my magic bullet. I was always looking for that "happiness hit" to pull me out of my own darkness. But that method in itself is what kept me from accessing lasting joy.

Accessing lasting happiness is a process and a lifestyle; it's not a one-hit wonder drug. The "pursuit of happiness" is indeed what keeps most of us from being happy.

If you feel as if you're constantly trying to be happy but don't see any results, these tips can help.


1. Avoid self-blame.


When people mistakenly buy into the overblown claims of instant happiness, they can begin habits of self-blame and fear of failure, especially when they don't achieve the outcome they've been promised. Instead of going to self-blame, recognize that there are great lessons to learn in the struggle.


2. Pump-up daily.


The more you can access happiness from within, the easier it becomes. It's a lot like a muscle: you have to work it out daily in order to strengthen it. One way to do this quickly is to do what you love daily.


3. Stop trying to get happy and just be.


Recognize that all of the work you're doing is part of the bigger picture. The books you read, the people you talk to and the lectures you attend are all part of the healing process. When we approach happiness as a lifestyle rather than a "got to get there" destination, we can recognize it's already with us. It is like eating a healthy diet — we don't eat a healthy diet to get healthy, we eat a healthy diet to BE healthy. Happiness is the same way.


4. Follow your nudges.


The most important part of accessing lasting joy is to trust your own heart. The nudges you get daily are your indicators to help guide you to true happiness. The inner pull from your heart that says, go buy that book, call that friend or go for a nature walk is the inner voice that knows you better than the outside world. The key to accessing lasting joy is to honor those nudges and let them be your own best friend.


How are you creating a life of more joy and happiness? I would love to hear your comments on this topic below.

Harvest Moon >> Cleanse and Nourish your Life!

When I think of harvest, I think of being so grateful for all of the seeds of thought that have sprouted and come to fruition earlier in the year. I think of indulging in fantasies and magic of your life as it is now.

Try to go outside. Fall nights are usually crisp and cool, and a perfect time for outdoor rituals.
Make a seasonal celebration table centerpiece -- something that represents the bounty of the harvest. Decorate the table with these seasonal goodies. Some ideas would be:  

A basket of apples
Gourds, squashes, or small pumpkins
Indian corn
Colorful leaves
Stalks of grain or wheat
Fall colored candles

Make a fanciful feast for yourself, family and-or guests!

Tomorrow Evenings Featured Foods:

Pumpkin Vanilla Spiced Peanut Butter OR Yogurt Dip with  Fresh Apples:

simply replace PB with yogurt: http://dunawaydietetics.com/healthy-tailgating-with-kids/

Twice Baked Butternut Squash:

http://mcdeavdesigns.com/OmLivin/511/

Sweet Fermented Beets:

Here is the recipe to make them at home but if you do not have them at your home you can most likely find them at your local health food market or farmers market: http://strength-to-awaken.blogspot.com/search?q=beets

Spiced Cider:

I am leaving the brown sugar out: http://allrecipes.com/recipe/hot-spiced-cider/

Seasonal Blessed Kombucha 

To be added soon! I will be doing a tutorial video!

Tomorrow's Evening Moon Cleansing Ritual includes:

**Herb Bath with Epsom Salts, Lemon Peel, Witch Hazel, Aloe and Rose Oil/Petals. **Lit Candles**

**Hormone Balancing Tincture

 will be taken 2 times tomorrow through out the day in various forms!

Woman:

Chaste Tree Berry 

Dong Quai

Black Cohosh

Red Clover

Maca

Men:

Deer Antler Felt 

Dong Quai

Maca

Chaga

  
** Cindi's Sacred Garden's Herbal Tea

will be sipped in my herbal cleanse bath!

Referring to the herbs Willow Bark in Daytime Pain Ease or

Hormone balancing effects of Wise Woman Tea

http://cindissacredgarden.com/Teas.html

AstroInfluences Resolving the Drama

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This passing New Moon was a strong one for anyone that are sensitive to the planetary movements. The Leo Moon brought out deep emotional feelings to the surface. This could serve us in either a good or bad way. Leo adds drama and expression to life, so this influence donated to creativity but also a forth coming of inner emotional turmoil. Some of you could have felt liberated and other anxious to communicate your feelings with others. Luckily we are transitioning into the Moon in Virgo which gives us the ability to sort through emotional manners and resolve them beautifully.

Everything you need to know: Harvest Moon 2013

In traditional skylore, the Harvest Moon is the full moon closest to the autumnal equinox. For us in the Northern Hemisphere, the 2013 autumnal equinox comes on September 22. That makes the September 18-19 full moon the Northern Hemisphere’s Harvest Moon … a bit of an early one for this year. Meanwhile, in Asia, this full moon falls on the night of September 19-20. Click the links below to learn more about the 2013 Harvest Moon.


Which night is the Harvest Moon for me?


Can I look for the Harvest Moon on other nights?


What makes a Harvest Moon special?


Is the Harvest Moon bigger, or brighter or more colorful?


Minor lunar standstill lessens impact of the Harvest Moon


How did the Harvest Moon get its name?


When is the Southern Hemisphere’s Harvest Moon?


What are some other full moon names?


When is the next Blue Moon?






Day and night sides of earth at instant of September 2013 full moon





Day and night sides of Earth at the instant of the September 2013 full moon (2013 September 19 at 11:13 Universal Time). Notice that dawn is coming to the U.S. while night is falling in Asia when the September 2013 moon reaches the crest of its full phase. Image credit: Earth and Moon Viewer


Which night is the 2013 Harvest Moon for me? The Harvest Moon for 2013 falls on the night of September 18 or September 19, depending on your location on the globe. In North America, the crest of the moon’s full phase comes before sunrise September 19. at 11:13UTC. That’s 6:13 a.m. central time in the U.S. on September 19, 2013. Translate UTC to your time zone.


So the night of September 18-19 has the brightest, fullest moon for the Americas. For us, by the night of September 19-20, the moon will be waning.


Meanwhile, in Asia, the moon turns full after sunset September 19. People in that region of the globe will call the night of September 19-20 the night of the full moon. In fact, September 19, 2013 is the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival in Asia, which is linked to this full moon.


No matter where you are on Earth, this full moon – and every full moon – ascends over your eastern horizon around the time of sunset. It’s always highest in the sky in the middle of the night, when the sun is below your feet. That’s because a full moon is opposite the sun. Being opposite the sun, the moon is showing us its fully lighted hemisphere, or “day” side. That’s what makes the moon look full.





Harvest Moon rising above the Little Florida Mountains in Deming, New Mexico as seen by EarthSky Facebookfriend Dan Gauss. Dan takes a photo of the full moon rising each month from this same spot. See more favorite 2012 Harvest Moon photos here.


Can I look for the Harvest Moon on other nights? Yes. No reason to limit the Harvest Moon fun to the nights of September 18-19 or 19-20. At middle and northerly latitudes in the Northern hemisphere, look for the moon to be bright and full-looking for several nights around September 18, 19 and 20. Around all of these nights, you’ll see a bright round moon in your sky, rising around the time of sunset, highest in the middle of the night. This procession of moonlit nights is what characterizes the Harvest Moon.


Want to know the time of moonrise in your location? My favorite source of that information is this Custom Sunrise Sunset Calendar. Once you get to that page, be sure to click the box for ‘moon phases’ and ‘moonrise and moonset times.’





In autumn, the angle of the ecliptic – or sun and moon’s path – makes a narrow angle with the horizon. Image via classicalastronomy.com.





The narrow angle of the ecliptic means the moon rises noticeably farther north on the horizon, from one night to the next. So there is no long period of darkness between sunset and moonrise. Image via classicalastronomy.com.


What makes a Harvest Moon special? Harvest Moon is just a name. It’s the name for the full moon nearest the autumnal equinox. In the Northern Hemisphere, the Harvest Moon sometimes falls in September and sometimes falls in October. But the Harvest Moon is more. Nature is particularly cooperative around the time of the autumn equinox to make the full moonrises unique around this time.


Here’s what happens. On average, the moon rises about 50 minutes later each day. But when a full moon happens close to the autumnal equinox, the moon (at mid-temperate latitudes) rises only about 30 to 35 minutes later daily for several days before and after the full Harvest moon. Why? The reason is that the ecliptic – or the moon’s orbital path – makes a narrow angle with the evening horizon around the time of the autumn equinox. The narrow angle of the ecliptic results in a shorter-than-usual rising time between successive moonrises around the full Harvest Moon.


These early evening moonrises are what make every Harvest Moon special. Every full moon rises around sunset. After the full Harvest Moon, you’ll see the moon ascending in the east relatively soon after sunset for a few days in a row at northerly latitudes. The lag time between successive moonrises shrinks to a yearly minimum, as described in the paragraph above. Because of this, it seems as if there are several full moons – for a few nights in a row – around the time of the Harvest Moon.


Is the Harvest Moon bigger, or brighter or more colorful? The Harvest Moon is just an ordinary full moon. It isn’t really bigger or brighter or more colorful than any other full moon. But you might think that it is. Why?


It’s true that, in some months, the full moon is closer to us in orbit than others and so truly appears bigger. But the distance of the full moon depends on where the moon is in its orbit. There’s no correlation between each year’s Harvest Moon and the moon’s location in orbit (the actual full moon size). It’s different every year. The 2013 Harvest Moon is pretty close to an average-sized full moon. The biggest full moon for 2013 falls in June. Nowadays, people call these close full moons a supermoon.


Still, you might think the Harvest Moon looks bigger or brighter or more orange. That’s because the Harvest Moon has such a powerful mystique. Many people look for it shortly after sunset around the time of full moon. After sunset around any full moon, the moon will always be near the horizon. It’ll just have risen. It’s the location of the moon near the horizon that causes the Harvest Moon – or any full moon – to look big and orange in color.


The orange color of a moon near the horizon is a true physical effect. It stems from the fact that – when you look toward the horizon – you are looking through a greater thickness of Earth’s atmosphere than when you gaze up and overhead. The atmosphere scatters blue light – that’s why the sky looks blue. The greater thickness of atmosphere in the direction of a horizon scatters blue light most effectively, but it lets red light pass through to your eyes. So a moon near the horizon takes on a yellow or orange or reddish hue.


The bigger-than-usual size of a moon seen near the horizon is something else entirely. It’s a trick that your eyes are playing – an illusion – called the Moon Illusion. You can find lengthy explanations of the Moon Illusion by googling those words yourself.


How did the Harvest Moon get its name? Why is this moon – the moon closest to the autumnal equinox – called the Harvest Moon?


The shorter-than-usual time between moonrises around the full Harvest Moon means no long period of darkness between sunset and moonrise for days in succession. In the days before tractor lights, the lamp of the Harvest Moon helped farmers to gather their crops, despite the diminishing daylight hours. As the sun’s light faded in the west, the moon would soon rise in the east to illuminate the fields throughout the night.


Who named the Harvest Moon? That name probably sprang to the lips of farmers throughout the Northern Hemisphere, on autumn evenings, as the Harvest Moon aided in bringing in the crops. The name was popularized in the early 20th century by the song below.


Shine On Harvest Moon
By Nora Bayes and Jack Norworth (1903)


Shine on, shine on harvest moon
Up in the sky,
I ain’t had no lovin’
Since January, February, June or July
Snow time ain’t no time to stay
Outdoors and spoon,
So shine on, shine on harvest moon,
For me and my gal.


When is the Southern Hemisphere’s Harvest Moon? For the Southern Hemisphere, the autumn equinox falls in March. So the Southern Hemisphere always has a full moon with these same characteristics – rising shortly after sunset for several nights in a row – in March or April.


What are some other full moon names? Every full moon has a name. The names vary in cultures around the world, and they particularly vary between the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. One of the most famous full moon names – other than Harvest Moon – is Hunter’s Moon. That’s the name for the full moon after the Harvest Moon. For the Northern Hemisphere, this year’s Hunter’s Moon comes on October 18. Read more about full moon names here.


Bottom line: The Harvest Moon in 2013 comes on the night of September 18-19 for us in the U.S. It falls on the night of September 19-20 in Asia. The Harvest Moon is the full moon closest to the autumnal equinox, which in 2013 comes on September 22. The exact time offullest full moon for this month is September 19 at 11:13 UT, or 6:19 a.m. CDT in the central U.S. The night of September 18, 2013 will have a beautiful bright full-looking moon, as seen from around the globe. So will the night of September 19, 2013. The Harvest Moon is not really bigger, brighter or more pumpkin-colored than other full moons, but it’s special because, at this time of year in the Northern Hemisphere, the time between successive moonrises – from one night to the next – is shorter than usual. Enjoy!


Article Source: http://earthsky.org/space/harvest-moon-2