New things in my life!

Hey friends,
There have been some new additions to my life! This week I have decided that I should start juicing again. In Born to Run, it was suggested to start your day off with a salad. Instead of a salad, I have been juicing making sure to get at least four of my five vegetables in for the day. My day has been looking like this:

Wake up and have 5 almonds and either an apple or an orange.
Go to the gym/ 5 Tibetan Rites/ Yoga (depending on the day!)
Juice: 4 carrots, 1 broccoli stalk, celery, and cucumber.
Shower (I use all organic or local products)
Smoothie: My smoothies have been getting crazy. I will have to do a blog just on my smoothies.
Work/personal time.
Grounding time: 1-3 mile run (wearing my vibrams!!) and then a swim in the local sinks!
Dinner: some type of veggie combo with a carbohydrate.
Wind down time: Reading/ meditating/ writing.

The past three weeks have been on this schedule! I am happy, healthy, and living my life to the fullest!!

Another thing that I have just remembered and want to get into is Laughter Therapy. I have been emotionally unbalanced lately. There are a lot of unstable things in my life right now and I am trying to find peace and give thanks for where I am, and where I am heading. In the process I remember my friend and I using Laughter Therapy when we have been mad for various reasons. I looked this up last night and found lots of good information. I love teaching yoga, so maybe I will start to teach Laughter Therapy. Check it out: http://laughteryoga.org/index.php

Just tonight I have decided to take on another thing in my life! This is bran new and I am excited about going through with it. I am going to be in my first marathon. It is going to be the 2011 Disney Marathon. A full 26.2 miles. One my my new friends started talking to me about doing it, and now my sister and I are going to do this together with my friends. I am excited about doing this though with my sister because recently she has seen my success and has started making healthier choices in her life. It will be fun and we will encourage each other to make it through. :) Here is the website if you are interested in joining us: http://espnwwos.disney.go.com/events/endurance/wdw-marathon/

Something else that is strong and working in my life is God. He has been extremely merciful and has allowed me to see that no matter where I have come from and what I have done in my past, that I am his beloved. He will love me no matter what my free will allows me to do. I am not only blessed to have great friends, but a stable spiritual community where I can grow and blossom into a beautiful lotus flower. I have also had the opportunity to write a devotional for my church's new series that is going to being in September. I will post this when the book is published. Here is the verse that I use to describe what God's relationship to me is like. “The Lord will guide you always; he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land and will strengthen your frame. You will be like a well- water garden, like a spring whose waters never fail” (Isaiah 58-59). Something to think about, something that I believe in that Michale Franti believes in: "I believe in the miracle, I believe in the spiritual, I believe in the one above, I believe in the one I love!"

Again just today, I was introduced to: Rusted Root! Great group. Check them out!!
My favorite line thus far is: "All I want is food and creative love!"

Okay, I am extremely tired! Hope you all have a wonderful day!
Remember as Michale Franti always says, "Power to the peaceful!"

Also, a good question to end on: Are you loving? It is interesting when you get messages like these from your friends who are trying to keep you accountable how your mood will change based on if you are putting your heart into something or not. So, I ask you, are you loving?

Much agape love,
jtodd