Sprouting time again!

I missed having my sprouts yesterday so I took some alfalfa and broccoli seeds and put them in bowls to soak over night.

This morning I rinsed them well and put them in the sprouting box:

From now on I rinse them twice a day and in three to four days we can enjoy fresh sprouts! 
Do you sprout to? What are your favourite sprouts?

Back on Facebook again.

Yesterday I posted on my Facebook page again. It has almost been 4 years ago since I last posted! I realize how much I miss the beautiful community there. I'm not very active on Facebook myself anymore, I'm hanging around on Instagram instead but I miss the questions and the interactivity that I used to have on my Facebook page. I love to get some response otherwise it feels like I'm not talking to anybody.

We had a very sunny morning here today and even the cats enjoyed the sun. I started with a celery juice:

After that I had a fruit, berry and greens smoothie.

For lunch we enjoyed chickpeas and spinach served with rice.

Focus - throughout the day.

Good evening!

I hope you have had a lovely Friday. I started my day with yoga and meditation to be prepared to meet the challenges during the day. It can be challenges with relationships, with lack of my own motivation and so on. That's why it's so great to start the day in a prepared and focused way. As a project manager I wouldn't start a project without any preparations and I should actually value every day to be important enough to be fully prepared. This life is precious. Something to value high. And we should respect ourselves enough to make the best out of every day.

Me enjoying a smoothie this morning. I filmed 3 meditations today. One in English and two in Swedish. It's been over four years since I edited and posted videos though so I have to kind of start over again. What video editing program should I use? And so on.

Greens, greens, greens.

I confess. I'm filling up with lots of greens at the moment. Just look at this lunch plate:

Where is the food!?!?!? Ha, ha, ha. We cook almost all of our meals from scratch because we like it that way. I also want it to be simple to have a mixed salad to the meal. Therefore we buy this bag with mixed organic leafy greens. It comes rinsed and it's perfect to throw on your plate!

Smoothie!

You know I've said it before. Dont't be afraid of fruit but don't forget about your leafy greens either!

My container is stuffed with bananas, strawberries and blueberries!

On top of that I put barley grass powder and lots of leafy greens! 

After that I just add water and blend! This smoothie is loaded with energy and nutrients. What more can we ask for? Oh yes, it tastes delicious as well! 

My Tuesday.

Charlie had a fever yesterday so we stayed at home today too. His appetite return at dinner time so tomorrow I think he will be ready to go outside and play. When we are ill our bodies wants to focus on fighting the virus. Not be forced to eat. Charlie often prefers fruits and raw veggies when he is ill and the old Jessica would have been a bit worried about that. Now I know better and I also know that the appetite will return. Honestly I don't know any child who loves eating healthy as Charlie does. One reason is that he is used to eat healthy since he was a baby and another is that we never force him to eat. Since Mattias and I are on a healthy diet he has also always eaten what we eat. No special "child food". I see so many around me giving their children a boring tasting child food while they are eating something more tasty and delicous. When I started feeding Charlie something else than breast milk when he was a baby it was fruit. Children loves fruit! Fruit are also one of the healthiest food on the planet. It is so, so sad that so many people don't eat fruit because of "all" the sugar it contains. Download a simple app called cron-o-meter and start education yourself on all the nutrients you find in fruit. Your body will love you!

Before Mattias went to work I went for a run. It was quite a tough one because it was hard to run in the snow today. The snow was hard and soft at the same time so it was like running in sand. It was a really good workout for my legs though.

Charlie and I played with lego and did yoga today. After I had put Charlie to bed I meditated. So today I have done all of the three things I believe is an important foundation in my life: running, yoga and mediation.

My beautiful boy doing his version of meditation.
 

Yoga and meditation saved my day today.

Yesterday something happened to me that made me feel like I was overrun by a bulldozer. I took this feeling with me into bed. Unfortunately I was too tired to change any feelings or mindset so I hade a restless sleep with very strange dreams. Naturally when I woke up the feeling was still there. I felt exhausted and I didn't want to leave my bed. But I did Kundaliniyoga with asanas, breathing excercises and some chanting and it transformed my feeling. I went out of the bed and made myself a celery juice. I decided to go for a run in the winter landscape. This strengthened me even more and the day that started so bad changed to a good one.

This evening my mother called. Apparently she is having a manic period. She is bipolar. She also suffers from schizofrenia and some other diagnoses. She was telling me things that I know aren't true. And suddenly she shifts and talks like everything is normal. Like someone in the early stage of dementia I guess. If I hadn't made an effort to really change the way I felt this morning this most likely would have been too much for me to handle. Now it makes me sad but not devastated. Yoga and meditation doesn't put up shields around us that makes us like non-feeling zoombies. Instead it makes us feel our emotions without losing our mind and our stability.