The 13 Holy Nights  

Merry Christmas and all the Best To Y'all.  I would like to share this exciting ritual with you that I found out about by none other than the legendary Dr Christian Northrup  (One of my most important mentors throughout the years.  I accredit a lot of my growth and becoming to her work, and presence, personally and professionally.  Dr. Northrup, thank you forever! )

I invite you to check out this ritual, Dr Northrup does annually, and this year she shared it with us all.  I am ready to go tonight.  Feel free to do this yourself and share with those you care about.  If you read this beyond the 24th of December, you still CAN do your own version of the ritual.  It will be perfect, just get creative.  

The 13 Holy Nights

From Dec 24-January 6, 2016 are a profound opportunity to tap into your inner wisdom and plant the seeds for a healthy and healed New Year.

Here are the steps: 

Dec 21-24-- make a "nest" in your heart during the solstice. Where you plant the seeds of light inside you. Get a new journal , some candles, and oracle decks of your choice. 

Dec 24--the first Holy Night. At sunset, light a candle, draw a couple oracle cards of your choice. For the next 24 hours, until sunset on Dec 25, play attention to your dreams, your activities, who you meet. This first 24 hours portends the entire year of 2016.

Each subsequent night at sunset, light another candle and draw more cards as oracles. Each 24 hour period represents one month of 2016. So-- Dec 25-26 is January. Dec 26-27 is Feb, etc. Until you get all the way to January 6 when you are finished.

Each day, write down your dreams, the things you did, and the people you meet. Each will have significance for the coming year. Keep that journal close at hand in 2016. And each month, go back and see what you wrote for the Holy Night that represented that day. You'll be amazed at the inner guidance that comes through.

For more information on the 13 Holy Nights-- just google the topic. You'll find lots of great information about this sacred time.

Some of my suggestions for oracles to use, but you can use anything you feel like:

Oracle Card Decks:  (I am using these, drawing one card of each)

The Oracle of E http://bit.ly/eoracle

Wisdom of the Oracle: Ask and Know http://j.mp/wo_ 

Truthbomb Card Deck – Volume 1 http://bit.ly/1IteWjR

Truthbomb Card Deck – Volume 2 http://bit.ly/1U7ogdE

Apps:

Outrageous Openness Oracle App http://bit.ly/1f89K3U

The Truthbomb App - white hot truth + sermons on life http://bit.ly/1m86Ovd

Books:

Change Me Prayers: The Hidden Power of Spiritual Surrender http://bit.ly/CMP_

Uplifting Prayers to Show the Way http://amzn.to/1TBAbRh

Outrageous Openness: Letting the Divine Take the Lead http://bit.ly/OO-TS

Let's plan to check in next year, at this time, or throughout the year, to see how it all unfolds.

I love the idea of all of us doing this together.

I'd love to hear what YOU do to make the Season of Light special and holy.

Hit me up on twitter or facebook, and share. 

-- 

All My Love,

Monika

Paris

Paris

My heart goes out to those affected.
Truly;
My highest prayers are directed to
Paris--you all.

Above all, please pause;
Reflect, where IN YOU,
Where are you,
Personally harbouring the
Metaphor of Paris. Dare to
Go there.
Find it.
Stay there, and invite the truth in.
This is, this is how, and where
Healing of the world begins.
In you.
Stay here.

Can you love this place of you?
Can you bring compassion to this place?
Just a drop?
You can.
Invite help from the Divine.
They are waiting for your call.
Heal it here.
Release it.
It's safe.
No need to judge yourself one bit

Healing, Divine Love and prayers, are us.
Each of us.
One by one.
As individuals.
As we become the love
The world is lifted.
One by one.
We are, each one of us.
Yes, you are
THAT powerful.

Become the Divine Life Force you are
Each coming moment you live
As your present moment.
Heal yourself.
Heal the world.
You can
So, you must
The world needs you
More than ever.
Open your heart
Put the gun down inside you
Lift up compassion
No more harm
Only love
Love only

May it always be so.
As it is.

xo

Monika

Paris

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Crazy Sexy Juice: 100+ Simple Juice, Smoothie & Nut Milk Recipes to Supercharge Your Health

Welcome to a brand new Juicing + blending adventure.  It is time to feel more zing in your life, life in your veins, and dance in your cells. 

Whatever it is, you’ve come to the right place. Get ready to say good-bye to feeling meh and hello to feeling and being fabulous!

In Crazy Sexy Juice, releasing October 20, 2015, wellness advocate and New York Times best-selling author Kris Carr teaches you everything you need to know about creating fresh, nutritious juices and smoothies, and creamy, indulgent nut and seed milks. With enough recipes to keep your juicer and blender humming through every season, she shows you how to fit them into your life, helping you make health deposits—instead of withdrawals! Cha-ching!

She guides you through her wonderful world by teaching you:

·         How to create flavor combinations that tantalize your taste buds

·         How to choose the best juicer, blender, and kitchen tools

·         Ways to save money while prioritizing fresh, organic produce

·         Troubleshooting advice for common kitchen mishaps

·         Tips for selection, storage, and preparation of ingredients

·         Answers to frequently asked questions and health concerns

·         Suggestions for juicing and blending on the go

·         Tips on how to get your family onboard and make this lifestyle stick

·         And oh, so much more…

Whether you’re an old pro at juicing or just starting out, Kris will help you experience juicing and blending as a fun and delicious journey into the transformative powers of fruits and veggies! By simply adding these nutrient-dense beverages to your daily life, you can take control of your health—one sip at a time.

With more than 100 scrumptious recipes and oodles of information, you’ll be ready to dive into a juicing paradise. Cheers to that!

Grab your copy of Crazy Sexy Juice: 100+ Simple Juice, Smoothie & Nut Milk Recipes to Supercharge Your Health.  In the meantime, enjoy a few sneak peek recipes.  Here we go: Green lemonade is the Cadillac of juicing recipes. This is my take on the beloved classic. The juice is a little sweet (thanks to the apple) and a little spicy (gracias to the ginger). The natural bitterness of leafy greens is cut by a bright squeeze of lemon. You can use almost any type of leafy green in place of chard or kale. Romaine, baby spinach, collard, bok choy, broccoli—you name it! In fact, I love adding broccoli stems to this recipe. Get creative. This juice is a perfect vehicle for all of your greenest fridge scraps.

Classic Green Lemonade Makes 2 Servings (16 to 20 Ounces) 2 stalks celery 1 small cucumber 1 apple, cored and seeded 1-inch piece ginger, peeled 3 leaves Swiss chard or kale ½ lemon, peeled Wash and prep all ingredients. Juice all ingredients.

This immunity-boosting beverage is all about vitamin C, which may also help to prevent high blood pressure and high cholesterol. Win-win! I love the purple-haze color that red cabbage lends to this sweet-spicy juice, but green cabbage is a fine replacement if you don’t have red on hand.

C Bomb Makes 2 Servings (16 to 20 Ounces) 1 cucumber 4 stalks celery 2 small apples, cored and seeded 1½ cups red cabbage 1-inch piece of ginger, peeled Wash and prep all ingredients. Juice all ingredients.

Blueberries aren't just a delicious way to sweeten your smoothies (and give them a gorgeous, deep blue hue). They're also powerful brain boosters. In clinical studies, blueberries have been associated with increased cognitive function, including memory improvement, and they may also help to protect your brain from oxidative stress, lessening the risk of Alzheimer's disease and dementia. The omega-3 fatty acids in walnuts are also associated with cognitive protection, and a possible mood lift: omega-3's are thought to help fight depression. Who knew there could be so much power in your glass? (You did!).

Brain Booster Makes 2 Servings (16 to 20 Ounces) 1/2 banana, frozen 1 1/2 cups blueberries, frozen 1 1/2 cups almond milk or nondairy milk of choice 2 tablespoons walnuts, chopped 1 cup kale, leaves only, tightly packed 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon, ground Wash and prep all ingredients. Blend and serve.

“Get your chai on!” as Oprah would say. This recipe is sweet, spicy, and all-around divine. It's wonderful blended up with fresh banana and greens, and it also pairs well with tropical fruits. For a creamy evening treat, warm a cup over the stovetop, sprinkle with cinnamon, and sip to your heart's content.

Cashew Chai Milk Yields 3 1/4 Cups 1 cup raw cashews, soaked for 2 hours, rinsed, and drained 1/2-inch piece ginger, peeled 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1/4 teaspoon cardamom 1/4 teaspoon salt 2 to 3 tablespoons maple syrup 3 1/4 cups water In a high-speed blender, blend all ingredients till creamy and smooth. Store in an airtight container for up to three days in the fridge.

THE NEW NOBILITY

The tawny gold of the first chantrelle
beneath the rough wall of fir bark,
a gleam in the undergrowth
to ignite the eye and ennoble the imagination.
Everyone is waiting for breakfast
to which I bring this husk and this holiness
of the newly grown and the newly found.

White plates are laid along the table,
on each of them the omelettes
rest steaming, deep and rich,
the eggs brought from a friend's farm,
the chantrelles nested firmly
in their hot buttered interiors,
and the basil flecked
through them, plucked from the last
tangy stems of a summer garden.

Perfection is a fragile, ice-thin ground
that barely holds our human weight,
one false step and everything cracks
black to the edge. In this perfection
no one dares mention the waters
of the Saratoga Passage shining through glass.
No one mentions our present happiness;
though the last dead century of grief
and misery has barely dropped from our grasp.

Outside the window, the children are playing
in borrowed clothes. One throws
back her head, sleeves trailing on the ground
and laughs in the sunlight,
and we laugh in witness, for in the midst of history
we are happy like them and all before them.
In their happiness everything still bears our weight.
Timelessness is the new nobility.

  -- David Whyte
      from Everything is Waiting for You 
     ©2003 Many Rivers Press

Everything is Waiting for You

Your great mistake is to act the drama
as if you were alone. As if life
were a progressive and cunning crime
with no witness to the tiny hidden
transgressions. To feel abandoned is to deny
the intimacy of your surroundings. Surely,
even you, at times, have felt the grand array;
the swelling presence, and the chorus, crowding
out your solo voice You must note
the way the soap dish enables you,
or the window latch grants you freedom.
Alertness is the hidden discipline of familiarity.
The stairs are your mentor of things
to come, the doors have always been there
to frighten you and invite you,
and the tiny speaker in the phone
is your dream-ladder to divinity.

Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into
the conversation. The kettle is singing
even as it pours you a drink, the cooking pots
have left their arrogant aloofness and
seen the good in you at last. All the birds
and creatures of the world are unutterably
themselves. Everything is waiting for you.

  -- David Whyte
      from Everything is Waiting for You 
     ©2003 Many Rivers Press

Cooking and Love

Cooking is an expression of love.
Sharing a meal, lunch, breakfast, dinner with someone is also a form of love.
Taking someone you really like to share a meal, is a form of intrigue, a privilege--and easily can be the beginning of love.

When the modern dating smarts demean it to mean everything but that, well you can look around yourself, your life and [socially conditioned] attitude and approach to dating, and you will find all your values will be laid out like your outfit for work, the night before.
What did you find?
Is it pleasing?
Is it what you want, what makes you happy and turned on?
It should be.
It was just yesterday I thought of a modern day dating guru. A man. Extremely charming, and great looking--teaching woman how to get, keep and turn on a guy.
There is absolutely nothing personal and let me say attractive, nor attracting in there. IT is more manipulative, and did not have any sensory feeling of being awakened.
How much more pleasurable is it to be awakened by the 'like' and intrigue one feels for someone else, and pursue that call simply.
Living for Love.

xo

The Luxury of having it all

Today, allow yourself the luxury of having it all.
In all ways you desire.
Little. Big.
What are some of the ways, you can call LIFE into being present, in ALL the ways YOU do desire?
xo

PS:
"Thank you, Divine Beloved
For changing me into One
Who allows Herself the
Supreme pleasure of
Having It All."

Running on adrenalin no more

Running on adrenalin 
Having that glorified, is boring
It is tiring and lacks life for me

It is like loud obnoxious noise at a concert
You do not enjoy and
Must escape
And I LOVE concerts
The kinds that make me melt into my seat
Or without notice
I am picked up into the enjoyment
And only brought back down, when
The artists had sang the last song

Years ago I was the opposite
I thought it WAS the very value to glorify
The only way that COUNT

Not today
Not anymore

Today, I want to feel, sense, clearly and fully

I want to have the purity of the exact experience before me
One I choose
One I realize
One I desire
One that resonates with my Highest within me
As me
One I am

Are Bikini/Figure Competitions really the answer to cure Eating Disorders?

Are Bikini/Figure Competitions really the answer to cure Eating Disorders?

This is for the ladies in mind, but the gent's are also invited to read and reflect.

This morning I was prompted by a post on Eating Disorders, it was in connection to the Bikini/Figure Competitions, whose season is now in full effect.

To be very clear, Bikini/Figure Competitions are NOT cure for Eating Disorders, far from it.  You may feel like it as you are getting close to contest day and you SEE the results and are feeling good about what your mirror reflects and the 'Like's you receive on social media.

Eating Disorders are the RESULT, the EFFECT of some underlying MAJOR, if not complete disconnect of the self from the Self.  It is the disintegration of one's whole being/existence at the mental, soul and physical level.   Contest Prep is like highest flammable oil one self-volitionally pours over the already lit fires--one desperately, yet foolishly attempted to control for some while.....

We have an entire industry (that is blowing up), built around this and more.
Why?
Why do we bring about more disorders and glorify it?
Why?
And claim, 'you look great!'
Yes, on stage.  Maybe.  And, from the distance.  And on images....
In reality, no. It is not pretty, it is not normal, it is not natural. It is not alive, it is not at peace, it is not happy, it is not prosperous, it is not fulfilling.

You can have it all, but you have to know what you are doing, and most importantly WHY!!!!  It may take a more frustrating, far from the mainstream 'how to'
But as you commit and follow it through your results will be beautiful, healing and healthy.......

Sending you my love.
xo
Monika

#MyCoachMonika
#MonikaKovacs
#eatingdisorder
#bulimia
#anorexia
#Contestprep
#healthy
#fitness
#diet
#weightloss

Don’t miss The Diabetes World Summit 2015!

The mission of The Diabetes World Summit is to change lives. This incredible, online event has the potential to improve the health of tens of thousands with diabetes or pre-diabetes! Better yet, it’s completely free from March 23-30, so there’s no reason to miss it!

WHY ATTEND?

Dr. Brian Mowll, The Diabetes Coach™, created The Diabetes World Summit to share the expertise of the world’s leaders in natural diabetes care to help you regain blood sugar control, live the highest quality life and even reverse type 2 and pre-diabetes. The 40 powerful, expert sessions at The Diabetes World Summit will benefit anyone with type 1 or type 2 diabetes, pre-diabetes, metabolic syndrome, as well as those who want to avoid blood sugar problems and achieve optimal health.

Register for FREE now at the following link:

The Diabetes World Summit 2015

The Diabetes World Summit will teach you about:

• Causes of type 1 and type 2 diabetes

• Preventing and stopping the progression of diabetes
• 10 most important things to help reverse type 2 diabetes
• Optimal diet to prevent, control and reverse type 2 diabetes
• Most effective forms of exercise for optimal blood sugar control
• Special information for Type 1 Diabetes management and care

Here are a few of the experts who will speak at The Diabetes World Summit:

• Richard Bernstein, MD, world-famous diabetologist and author
• David Perlmutter, MD; author of Grain Brain
• Joel Fuhrman, MD, author of The End of Diabetes
• Mark Sisson, author of The Primal Blueprint
• Sara Gottfried, MD, author of The Hormone Cure

• Franziska Sprizler, RD, CDE, The Low Carb Dietitian

• Craig Ballantyne, creator of Turbulence Training for Fat Loss

• Michael Murray, ND, author of How to Prevent and Treat Diabetes with Natural Medicine

With 32 additional presenters sharing their expertise about metabolic health, this invaluable (and FREE) resource is intended for anyone who wants to prevent or beat diabetes!

Better yet, if you register today, you’ll have access to the following FREE GIFTS as soon as you register!

• Free Gift #1: Best Of The 2014 Summit Recipe Book (PDF Download) from The 2014 Diabetes World Summit, a collection of amazing, low carb, diabetes-friendly recipes from our 2014 Diabetes World Summit speakers.
• Free Gift #2: Do Calories Matter? (Audio-only presentation) with Cassie Bjork, RD
• Free Gift #3: Reversing Type 2 Diabetes with an Optimal Diet and Lifestyle (Audio-only presentation) with Dr. Josh Axe

The Diabetes World Summit (ONLINE and FREE) from March 23-30, 2015!

Register for FREE at the following link today:

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I’ll see you at the summit!

Do You Meditate?

I was reminded today, x 3 at least, of the power of MEDITATION.  I have to be honest, the past couple of weeks I put it off, more than I practiced it.  I was 'busy' and had a LOT on my plate.  I got caught up.  It is the very process of life, that keeps us close, just to release us, allowing us to leave onto our path of life.  Only to call us back in, and remember. 

I started feeling off, and was LOOKING FOR something, 'outside' of me, to "HELP"  Important to note, how our EGO is always here to help. What a reliable companion on our path.

MEDITATION is the cure for most things.  MEDITATION may not be the ONLY answer, but it is a HUGE part of the RIGHT answer-for us all.  Sometimes I forget, or not choose to practice.  But when I remember, and do, I am quickly reminded of it's value, WHY I do it, and am I ever thankful.

MEDITATION is best in silence, and being still. But we can make it an active meditation, like walking, knitting, running, working out, in a state you are zoned in with your WHY.

I hope this reminder was of value to you
How do you MEDITATE?

xo

Non-Diet Weight Loss ? YES !

What is the most common New Year's resolution?

Drummmm rolls: to lose weight.

All over the world, for people ages 22-82, the goal is the same. We all want to be healthy and fit in 2015, but most people will mistakenly turn to the latest fad diet or fitness program for help.

Here's why this is dangerous:

* 92-98% of dieters fail to lose weight long term; and worse, many diets actually make your body more prone to fat storage, so it becomes more difficult to stay thin with each passing year

You may have experienced this yourself: the yo-yo cycle of gaining and losing is counter-productive, emotionally devastating, and can lead to a lifetime of weight problems.

So what's the solution?

Since there is no one-size-fits-all answer; however, there is a new approach to weight loss has proven to be extremely effective. Rather than focusing on overeating (which is really a symptom not the cause of weight gain), this "mind-body" approach focuses on the whole person, and the environment, that "triggers" the weight problem in the first place.

The Mind-Body Weight Loss Summit, hosted by one of a fellow colleague and made available to you at no charge.  It is a fantastic resource for you to being understanding, not only the in's and out's of this fascinating journey to mond body health.  But also, discover your own path to healing, total health and wellbeing in a body you love--that also loves you back. 

During this online Summit, you'll learn mind-body weight loss techniques from 27 different experts in the field of nutrition, meditation, tapping, emotional healing, psychology, and more.

So if you or someone you know struggles with weight, don't miss this exclusive event:

The Mind-Body Weight Loss Summit.

See you there, and thereafter.

xo