The next is an excerpt from from my December twenty second, 2024 Soul-Aligned Sunday e-newsletter.
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A REQUEST FOR PRAYERS
I had deliberate on sharing about how I’m coping with the frustration I’ve been feeling about my ACL surgical procedure restoration having some hiccups…
And to let you know all about taking on Thai Chi, in my quest to meet the prescription for “slowing down” that was assigned to me by my Ayurvedic practitioner, Eran.
However all of that appears, nicely, unimportant and irrelevant for the time being.
What retains arising for me is that my good friend, Chef AJ, not too long ago got here out about her prognosis of lung most cancers (watch on YouTube)…
And what I’d fairly share about, is her request for our prayers.
My coronary heart broke once I heard the information…
Not solely the truth that one of the real, beneficiant people on the planet has most cancers…
But additionally the truth that she had felt the necessity to conceal it for nearly 2 years as a result of she was afraid of the backlash it’d trigger…
That individuals would attribute her prognosis to a plant-based weight loss program “not working…” and that trolls would have a area day.
In actuality, epigenetics DOES show that a large share of illness may be prevented by “turning off” disease-causing genes by means of weight loss program and life-style selections. And what nice information that our genes don’t essentially decide our future!
Not solely that, the analysis is evident that an entire meals plant-based weight loss program may even reverse many ailments (most of you studying this are nicely conscious of this truth).
AND
There aren’t any ensures. Particularly these days, when our world is as polluted, and full of poisons, as it’s.
Just by residing in society – carrying garments, utilizing soaps and lotions, respiration the air, consuming the water, and consuming meals from the grocery retailer, we’re uncovered to disease-causing chemical substances.
“Effectively that’s miserable, Ella!” you might be pondering.
Sure AND…
Being depressed and anxious clearly doesn’t assist – in reality, it simply provides stress and exacerbates the issue.
So…
We do our greatest, inside cause, to align our life-style with compassion and well being, for ourselves, different folks, animals, and the planet…
AND follow LETTING GO of the remaining.
Aspect be aware: One in every of my favourite Tara Brach talks known as The Three Steps of Letting Go, which has helped me by means of some actually powerful occasions (Apple podcasts / YouTube).
Again to Chef AJ…
I feel it was in her newest YouTube live that she recorded when she received house from a lung biopsy, the place she mentioned simply how comforting it was realizing that individuals had been praying for her.
And no marvel!
It’s not nearly faith or religion within the conventional sense of praying.
In response to the HeartMath Institute, “quite a few research have proven that group or collective meditation, prayer, and centered intention directed in direction of a particular optimistic consequence can have elevated useful and measurable results. Each particular person’s power impacts the collective area surroundings.”
So, in case you may maintain Chef AJ shut in your coronary heart, and ship out your model of a prayer for her day by day, I’d be extremely grateful, as I do know she will probably be as nicely.
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