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Celebrate Your Relationships...

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Hello again my friend & welcome to this magical month of February! This month we will examine the BEST ways you can ignite your passion while celebrating your relationships. Within this February Museletter we will explore the benefits of sumptuous & satisfying soul food in our daily diet. I will then share with you an easy beans & greens recipe... Perfect for warming your heart & soul! Finally, we will discuss how relationships should complement our identities not define them On that note, I hope you savour this months magical Museletter... Wishing you a fabulous February!!! With GREAT gratitude ~ XOXO

 

 

 
FebruaryWiseWords: 
Ignite Your Passion!
  

Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.

~ Rumi

 

 
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Soul Food

 

Think for a moment of a food from your past, one that makes you feel great after you eat it for no specific reason. Maybe it is macaroni and cheese, slow-simmered tomato sauce, ice cream cones or potato pancakes. Eating comfort foods (every now and then) can be incredibly healing, even though your rational brain might not consider it highly nutritious.

 

Food has the power to impact us on a level deeper than just our physical well-being. What we eat can reconnect us to precious memories, like childhood playtimes, first dates, holidays, our grandmother's cooking or our country of ancestry. Our bodies remember foods from the past on an emotional and cellular level. Eating this food connects us to our roots and has youthening and nurturing effects that go far beyond the food's biochemical make-up.

 

Acknowledging what different foods mean to us is an important part of cultivating a good relationship with food. This month when we celebrate lovers and relationships, it's important to notice that we each have a relationship with food-and that this relationship is often far from loving. Many of us restrict food, attempting to control our weight. We often abuse food, substituting it for emotional well-being. Others ignore food, swallowing it whole before we've even tasted it.

 

What would your life be like if you treated food and your body as you would treat your beloved - with gentleness, playfulness, communication, honesty, respect and love? The next time you eat your soul food, do so with awareness and without guilt, and enjoy all the healing and nourishment it brings you.

 

 


FebruaryFoodFocus:

Beans 


 
 
Secondary: FOOD

 

 

Beans, or legumes, including peas and lentils, are an excellent source of plant-based protein. Beans are found in most traditional cultures as a staple food, offering grounding and strengthening properties that enhance endurance. They offer a highly usable, highly absorbable source of calcium for the body.       A very inexpensive source of high nutrition, beans can be rich, delicious and satisfying,

 

Lack of sexual energy is often due to overtaxed adrenal glands and kidneys. Beans are known for strengthening these organs (ever noticed the shape of a bean?) and can help restore vital energy as well as sexual energy.

 

Beans have a reputation for causing digestive distress, but this is usually because they have been undercooked or improperly prepared. To help reduce gas-forming properties, soak beans overnight prior to cooking, increase cooking time, add spices like bay leaf, oregano or cumin, or add kombu (a sea vegetable) when cooking.

 

   


FebruaryRecipe: 

Easy Beans & Greens

 

  

Recipe: Spices

 

  

Prep time: 10 minutes

Cooking time: 10 minutes

Yield: 2~3 servings

 

Ingredients:

1 can black beans (or pinto, red, kidney~     your choice)

1 bunch collard greens (or kale, spinach ~   your choice) as well as your favorite toppings,   such as salsa, avocado or guacamole & non~dairy sour cream

 

Directions:

1. In a medium saucepan, heat drained beans. Add your favorite seasonings, if desired.

2. Fill a separate medium saucepan with 1-2 inches of water and bring to a boil.

3. Wash and chop greens (you can use the stems, too) and add to boiling water. 

4. Cook for 2-3 minutes until greens are bright green and tender. Drain off water.

5. On a plate, arrange a portion of the greens, top with a portion of the beans and finish with toppings of your choice.

 

   



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Wishing you PEACE, PRESENCE & PROSPERITY!

With Great LOVE for YOU...

 
ALWAYS,

Rebecca Daniels 
  

Magical Mentoring with Rebecca Daniels 

~ Your Guide To Happiness & Wellbeing  

 FebruaryQuote

 

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"On a deeper level you are already complete. When you realize that, there is a playful, joyous energy behind what you do." ~Eckhart Toll
 




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  FebruaryTip
                        Tip of the Month~Bamboo

According to 

Jenn Hourani

I learned that while relationships complement our identities, it's vital to form them from a sacred space within, or else that complementarity is just veiled dependency.

The concrete rules I made for myself were:

1. Think before deciding to do something...

Before automatically saying yes, ask yourself if it's something you really want to be doing, and why.

2. Don't cancel on old plans because new, seemingly more exciting plans come up.

Staying consistent is necessary to defining yourself, even if the lure of adventure seems to place consistency on the backburner sometimes. Yes, you want to stay impulsive and spontaneous, but you can balance that spirit of adventure with being reliable and resolute.

3. Take time to know yourself.

List what makes you feel good. List what kind of friend you want to be. List what you want to achieve in the next five years, no matter how small or grandiose. These things may change, according with how you change, but at least you can track that progression on paper, versus abstractly thinking about everything & getting lost in an ocean of questions & doubts.

4. This slightly contradicts my first rule, but let's not confuse alone time with cooping yourself up at your place and shutting the world out.

Of course, it'll always be easier to stay in the comfort of your living room with a meal and a movie. That can be good for you on some nights. But alone time is just one facet of connection with yourself.

Your next steps are to use what you learn on your own and then apply that to interaction out in your world. When you commit to going somewhere, doing something you've never tried, being out & about, you never know who you'll meet, what you'll see, and what small moments of illumination you'll encounter.

These moments can bring you closer to who you are & what you want if you've learned to nurture your independence & identity first. So, maybe this rule isn't a contradiction to number one; it's the complement to it. 

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