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ChakraVibe suggests exploring food for chakra healing

Foods, especially foods that share colors with the chakras, carry vibrations that can activate or balance your chakras.  book_cover_cffoh_b

Root Chakra Healing Foods: Protein (especially animal protein), root vegetables, edible and medicinal mushrooms, red-colored foods (apples, pomegranates, etc)

Sacral Chakra Healing Foods: Fats and oils, fish (especially wild-caught salmon), tropical fruits, seeds, nuts, orange-colored foods (oranges, tangerines, carrots, etc.)

Solar Plexus Chakra Healing Foods: Carbohydrates (complex), fiber, whole grains, legumes, yellow-colored foods (yellow sweet peppers, yellow lentils, corn, etc.)

Heart Chakra Healing Foods: Vegetables (especially cruciferous vegetables like broccoli, kale, cabbage, and leafy greens), sprouts, raw foods, foods rich in chlorophyll, plant compounds like phytoestrogens and phytosterols, any green-colored foods.

Throat Chakra Healing Foods: Sea-plants, fruits, juices, soups, sauces, (which bring together different elements like water and earth), and foods from different ethnic groups (The throat chakra encourages variety of foods.)

Third Eye Chakra Healing Foods: Caffeine, tea, chocolate, spices, wine, purple-red foods (purple potatoes, red onions, blackberries, blueberries, purple grapes, etc.)

Crown Chakra Healing Foods: Since the crown chakra is more “spirit” than “matter,” it is not nourished with physical foods in the same way that they feed other chakras, but the crown chakra thrives on the sustenance that comes from sunlight, air, and love.

Read more on Healing Chakra Foods and “How the colors on your plate can light the way to health” By Deanna Minich, PhD, CN to find out which health conditions are associated with which chakra, and learn how to choose foods to bring your chakras into balance.

Learn more about Deanna Minich, PhD, CN and her book on Chakra Foods for Optimum Health: A Guide to the Foods that Improve Your Energy, Inspire Creative Changes, Open Your Heart, and Heal Body, Mind, and Spirit

Summer Detoxifying Cleanse

Good for body and soul, ChakraVibe recommends a summer detoxifying cleanse.raw_food

With summer in full swing markets and gardens are brimming with luscious ripe fruits and vegetables. If you have ever thought about embarking on a cleansing program, now would be the time to do it! What exactly is a cleanse, you ask? Simply put, when your body does not have to constantly attend to the complex tasks of digestion, assimilation and elimination-it is able to more efficiently attend to some of its other functions, the most important being cleansing and healing.

Drastically simplifying your intake of food will allow your body to expend its energy on cleansing and healing.

Nami Shannon author of The Raw Gourmet describes three ways to prepare fresh fruit and vegetables for a detox cleanse; you can juice them,  blend them, or simply eat the entire fruit and vegetable raw if you don’t have a juicer or a blender. For more tips and recipes you can read her complete article.

How will you feel at the end of a detoxifying cleanse? Most people report feeling lighter in body and mind, clearer skin, clearer thoughts, weight loss and lessening or the complete disappearance of bothersome symptoms like sinusitis, digestive disorders, mood swings, fatigue, high blood pressure and much more. With a new spring in your step and a flatter belly, the results of enjoying summers bounty will be well worth it.

raw_gourmet Check out The Raw Gourmet by authour and lifestyle couch Nami Shannon.