Life Force Lesson #11: Practice, Patience, and Perseverance
Softness triumphs over hardness, gentleness over strength.
The flexible is superior over the immovable.
This is the principle of controlling things
By going along with them, of mastery through adaptation.
—Lao-TzuPursuing an alternative lifestyle is never easy. It often elicits floods of resistance from family and social circles, and requires great patience and perseverance in the face of obstacles. For me, it took more than twelve years of dedicated practice to reach my current level of self-awareness and self-sovereignty. I also had the help and encouragement of extraordinary teachers.
As for the floods of resistance, in my own case, I found ...
Ana’s Lazy Girl Food Tip: Relax & Enjoy
One of my biggest challenges with food and feeding myself properly has been emotional eating. I ate when I was scared, sad, lonely, tired, cold. And I ate to calm social anxiety, to celebrate happy events, and sometimes even to intentionally hurt myself when I was feeling like I’d really let myself down. Author Annie Lamott (one of my favorites) has called this assault eating, and I whole-heartedly agree.
Getting into a place of relaxation and calm before dinner is essential. Natalia always recommends a bath before a meal, and it helps tremendously.
If I don’t have time to take a bath, ...
Recipe of the Week by Natalia Rose Institute Executive Chef Doris Choi: Perilla Salad
Perilla Salad
For Salad
- 4 heads romaine lettuce, shredded
- Handful perilla leaves, made into chiffonade
- 2 English cucumbers, julienned
- ½ package 100% soba noodles, cooked and rinsed well
For Dressing
- ½ cup Nama Shoyu soy sauce
- Juice of 1 lemon
- Juice of 2 limes
- ¼ teaspoon garlic, minced
- ¼ teaspoon ginger, minced
- Pinch of crushed red pepper
- ½ bunch scallions, minced
- Pinch of black pepper
Shred the romaine by laying down the head of lettuce on a cutting board, stabilizing the top, tip down, with one hand and slicing thinly across after the stem. Chiffonade the perilla leaves by lining them up on top of each other, rolling them up, and slicing them thinly. Using ...
Testimonial from Leslie
Hi Natalia,
I am on Day 9 of your Detox 4 Women plan. I have been taking Candex since Day 1 and am about to finish an entire bottle of it. I didn’t have a yeast infection, but I assumed that I probably had too much Candida as a result of taking the pill for 10 years and eating acidic foods for a lifetime (26 years). I have already lost 9 lbs and feel great 🙂 Thank you so much.
Leslie
Natalia-ism on Detoxing
“If waste is being awakened but not leaving the body, you’re not detoxing. The bases are loaded and the ball is on the T. Now you just have to swing the bat to hit that ball out of the park!”