Health: Power Up On Lentils

Power Up On Lentils

Written by Susan Rutter

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perfect food - nourishing, inexpensive, and low in calories, fat and cholesterol. Lentils contain good amounts of phosphorus, magnesium, zinc, thiamine, copper, niacin and Vitamin B6. They're an important source of potassium and a good source of iron. Eating lentils with foods rich in Vitamin C, such as bell peppers, tomatoes and citrus fruits or juices, helps repparttar 115397

body absorb its iron more efficiently. And lentils provide more folic acid than any other unfortified food. Your body needs folic acid (Vitamin B9) to produce red blood cells as well as norepinephrine and serotonin (chemical components of repparttar 115398

nervous system). Though rich in protein, lentils lack one: methionine. Serve or cook lentils with grains, eggs, nuts, seeds, meat or dairy products for complete protein. The most common kinds of lentils found in Western-style supermarkets are unhusked green or brown ones. The smaller, rounder, husked red or Egyptian lentil is also widely available.

Five Pathways to Listening to Your Inner Voice

Written by Claudette Rowley

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Five Pathways to Listening to Your Inner Voice

Is your life out of sync with your priorities? Do you feel like you're a hamster running on a wheel? Have you forgotten who you are?

If you answered YES to any of these questions, read on. Learn to listen to your inner voice - repparttar 115394 essence of who you are - by following these five steps:

1. Check in with your heart.

Social conditioning teaches us to be logical and "use our heads". When you only use your head, your experience of yourself and repparttar 115395 world is limited. You miss out on repparttar 115396 vital information repparttar 115397 rest of your body, heart and soul is giving you.

Benefits: The same neurological tissue found in repparttar 115398 brain is found in repparttar 115399 heart. The heart is a second "brain" and our emotional center. Listening to your head and your heart is crucial to good decision-making about your life, your business and your relationships.

New Focus: Put your hand over your heart and focus there - what is it telling you?

2. Connect with your body.

Your body gives you a tremendous amount of useful information that you may not be conscious of. For example, when your mother-in-law visits, does your stomach tie up in knots? When your boss yells at you, do your shoulders turn into stone? When you feel passionate and alive, does your chest feel warm and open? When we ignore repparttar 115400 body's message, we lose out on valuable information designed to let us what works for us and what doesn't.

Benefits: For many people, fear manifests as a tightness in their chest. This is valuable information, especially if you aren't aware that you are afraid. Your body alerts you to what makes feels passionate and what doesn't. The body is a fount of wisdom designed to tell you when you're on repparttar 115401 right path and when you aren't.

New Focus: Notice repparttar 115402 messages your body is giving you right now. Try a self-massage to find areas in your back, neck or shoulders that are tense or knotted. What other areas of your body feel tight? Which ones feel relaxed and loose? Use this information as another key to listening to your inner wisdom.

3. Listen to your intuition.

Intuition is simply knowing something without knowing exactly how you know it. Connect back to a time that you had a "gut feeling" about something - repparttar 115403 job that you knew you shouldn't take, even though it looked good on repparttar 115404 surface or repparttar 115405 relationship that just felt right for you. That's your intuition talking to you.

Benefits: Gut feelings are a wealth of information. Remember, your intuition is never wrong, although your interpretation of it may be incorrect. When your intuition calls to you, trust it. Practice makes perfect when it comes to using your intuition effectively.

New Focus: The next time you need to make a decision, check in with your intuition. Experiment with trusting it. When you follow your intuition, what happens? When you hear it and disregard it, what's repparttar 115406 outcome?

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