EAT WITH INTENTION http://cassandrabodzak.com/ by Cassandra Bodzak is a beautiful healthy living cookbook that combines daily meditation with plant based recipes. Her Radiance Juice Recipe and Radiant Heart Meditation is below. Radiance Juice (pg. 67) Beauty starts from within and permeates outward. Thinking thoughts that nourish your soul and eating foods that nourish your body are more effective than the most luxurious makeup money can buy. You can’t fake true radiance. This juice is packed with nutrients that will get you glowing from the inside out! Pineapple juice promotes healthy skin and helps prevent acne; watercress is also great for your overall health with its high levels of vitamin C; and cucumber has cooling and moisturizing properties. RADIANT HEART MEDITATION In this exercise, we are going to pull energy into our heart center and allow it to saturate everycell of our being, filling us with light and allowing our inner radiance to pour outward as itoverflows.Begin by sitting in easy pose and breathing long and deep. Close your eyes and focus on yourheart center while using your hands to slowly and steadily pull the energy surrounding you intoyour heart. Your hands should stay at heart height and move from the sides of your bodyinward, as if you are catching a ball and bringing it into your heart. Feel the light in your heartexpand and grow brighter with each motion. Continue for at least 3 minutes, gradually buildingup to 11 minutes. Take a deep breath in and bring your hands into your heart, right palm on topof left. Feel the energy pulsing through your heart center and allow it to distribute throughoutyour entire being. Imagine it filling up each cell with its loving light energy. Exhale.Yield: 1 servingINGREDIENTS½ cup (17 g) watercress2 cucumbers, peeled2 limes, peeled1 cup (166 g) pineapple chunks 1. Starting with the watercress, juice all the ingredients into a large glass.2. Lightly stir and serve immediately “My beauty radiates from within.” Radiance Juice (pg. 67)
Roald Dahl famously said: “If you have good thoughts, they will shine out of your face likesunbeams and you will always look lovely.” I couldn’t agree more. Beauty starts from within andpermeates outward. Thinking thoughts that nourish your soul and eating foods that nourishyour body are more effective than the most luxurious makeup money can buy. You can’t faketrue radiance. This juice is packed with nutrients that will get you glowing from the inside out!Pineapple juice promotes healthy skin and helps prevent acne; watercress is also great for youroverall health with its high levels of vitamin C; and cucumber has cooling and moisturizingproperties. RADIANT HEART MEDITATION In this exercise, we are going to pull energy into our heart center and allow it to saturate everycell of our being, filling us with light and allowing our inner radiance to pour outward as itoverflows.Begin by sitting in easy pose and breathing long and deep. Close your eyes and focus on yourheart center while using your hands to slowly and steadily pull the energy surrounding you intoyour heart. Your hands should stay at heart height and move from the sides of your bodyinward, as if you are catching a ball and bringing it into your heart. Feel the light in your heartexpand and grow brighter with each motion. Continue for at least 3 minutes, gradually buildingup to 11 minutes. Take a deep breath in and bring your hands into your heart, right palm on topof left. Feel the energy pulsing through your heart center and allow it to distribute throughoutyour entire being. Imagine it filling up each cell with its loving light energy. Exhale.Yield: 1 servingINGREDIENTS½ cup (17 g) watercress2 cucumbers, peeled2 limes, peeled1 cup (166 g) pineapple chunks 1. Starting with the watercress, juice all the ingredients into a large glass.2. Lightly stir and serve immediately “My beauty radiates from within.” Comments are closed.
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