Cultivating a Positive Attitude to Start the New Year
January 21, 2010 | Articles, Raw Musings | Share
A week or two ago, I started taking pictures of the sunrise from my front porch and driveway.
This week has been full of heavy rain and strong winds. Lots of rain and flooding, trees falling and becoming uprooted. I see broken branches from eucalyptus trees, having fallen to the streets.
So, I’ve been looking back to the days just prior to the storms, and going through some sunrise photos I’d taken. And I came upon this one that was very interesting, and looked somewhat promising as a start to a new day.
I’m taking the notion of cultivating a more positive attitude and approach to the New Year. It seems the past year-and-a-half has been very trying for me. Lots of negative energy getting kicked around in my life. I confess it disrupted my usual positive flow.
Am I working to get this positive flow back?
Perhaps…
I confess too that I let the negative energies around me get the better of me. I had stopped being raw for awhile, and I paid the price. I didn’t feel well at all, not my usual energetic self, but I now realize just how addictive a lot of cooked foods are, especially rice and other cooked grains.
It’s hard when we live in a world where cooked foods, fast foods, so-called “fine dining” is considered the norm. As much as I now am dedicated to the raw vegan lifestyle and in 2010 (so far) I am a practicing raw foodist, it’s quite hard when you’re surrounded by family and friends who aren’t raw and consider you the oddball of the group.
But at the same time, people admire me for my “courage”(?) and dedication to the raw food lifestyle. And there really is more to it all than just raw food. It’s about achieving a sense of well-being, of practicing “ahimsa” and practicing compassion.
A raw food lifestyle truly makes it easier to practice Zen in all aspects of Life. And it’s just one part of a (w)holistic approach in experiencing our journey through Life to its fullest…
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Randomguru
