Have you ever struggled with the discipline of rinsing your sprouts twice a day?

Sprouted seeds, pulses, grains and nuts are highly nutritious: they are living foods with all their vital force present, and as embryonic plants they are loaded with the enzymes our bodies need to carry out a myriad of processes. They also help alkalise our bodies, and are rich in minerals.

Cooked and processed foods are enzyme-poor, so many of us end up short of enzymes, and our bodies may even draw enzymes from other organs to help us digest the food we eat.

What better than to eat live, nutritious foods in the form of sprouts? As well as being nutritious, they are very tasty – with flavours ranging from the peppery radish to the nutty chick pea. I’ve also been surprised how filling they are.How to sprout the easy way

1. Buy yourself an ‘Easy Sprout Sprouter’ at a very reasonable price from Amazon UK, or USA.
2. Select something to sprout – my favourite is a mix of different types of lentil – green, puy and brown. [Sprouts that get mucilaginous, and therefore do need to be rinsed frequently are not suitable for this method.]
3. Fill the inner sprouter beaker to about one third full with eg lentils, and place inside the outer beaker.
4. Add water to almost fill the sprouter (I use filtered water, as the sprouts will absorb the water). Put the vented lid on, and leave to soak overnight.
5. Empty the excess water, take out the inner beaker with the sprouts and rinse very thoroughly under the tap. Drain the excess water by shaking the beaker containing the lentils..
6. Replace the vented lid, and leave the sprouts to grow until the shoots are about the same length as the lentils. This takes 2-4 days depending on the temperature. I keep my sprouter on a sunny window ledge.
7. Once the sprouts are ready, store in an airtight container in the fridge. You can use the sprouter itself with its sold lid, or another container.

Your sprouts will easily keep for a week in the fridge.

Easy, eh?

Eating your sprouts!

Now for the good part! Because your sprouts are still alive, they have not lost any of the nutrients as happens with so many transported fresh foods.

Sprouts are good in salads, sprinkled on soups, as an addition to wraps, or even as part of your juice. You can also use them as the base for making pates and dips, like hummus.

It’s good to eat a variety of different types of sprout, to benefit from a range of nutrition.

The Delicious Nugget: Sprouts are highly nutritious, live foods, that you can easily grow with a minimum of effort.

Your body is unique, so why not tune into her specific needs, rather than follow the rules someone else has developed for their very different body?

In the self-development arena there’s sometimes a notion that we need to get beyond the shackles of the body into the ‘higher’ world of the spirit. On the contrary, our bodies are highly aware – perhaps more than we are, and you can easily tune into your body’s awareness.

The Leaning Test

There are many ways to check what your body wants to eat, such muscle testing and dowsing with a pendulum, both of which take a bit of practice.

Here’s the easiest way to check if your body wants to eat a particular food. from Access Consciousness.

1. Stand with your feet together, heels and ankles touching.
2. Have an open mind about what your body wants!
3. Hold the food or drink you’re considering in front of your solar plexus (ie a little higher than your navel).
4. Check which way your body leans:
   • towards the food means your body wants the food
   • away from the food means your body doesn’t want the food.

After a few practices, you’ll find this a quick and easy way to check what your body wants to eat.

If you’re unable to hold the food, as in a shop or restaurant, simply look at the food, or the item on the menu, and your body will respond to its vibration.

Now to explode another eating myth – what your body wants to eat today, it may not want to eat tomorrow! Your body has no hard and fast rules like never eating chocolate; one day it may need chocolate, another it may not!

Prepare to be surprised at what your body wants to eat and drink, and how this changes from day to day!

As always, please check with your medical practitioner if you are concerned about the food your body can tolerate.

The Delicious Nugget: Your body knows best what it wants to eat at any given time, use the leaning technique to tune into your body’s awareness of what it needs at any given time.

This article answers the 6 questions people often asked

What are The Bars?

There are 32 ‘Bars’ of energy that run through and round your head. They relate to a range of aspects of your life, including Healing, Body, Money, Control, Sadness, Joy, Peace & Calm, Ageing etc.

Each Bar stores the electro-magnetic component of all the conditioning you have stored about that particular area of your life (often experienced as stress), that limits your experience of what life can be.

Where do The Bars come from?

Gary Douglas channelled the 32 Bars in the early 90s.

Gary is the founder of Access Consciousness, which aims ‘to create a world of consciousness and oneness’. Access Consciousness offers thousands of tools and techniques to help you access consciousness. These tools and techniques fall into two groups: body processes – including The Bars, and verbal processing.

Having your Bars run is the foundation of Access. It’s also a very effective stand-alone gateway to a more joyful life.

Is it like Reiki?

No! Having your Bars run is quite different to Reiki, acupuncture, reflexology, phrenology, EFT and all other modalities.

What happens in a Bars session?

As each Bar is activated, all the redundant conditioning you are willing to let go, automatically dissipates out of your head. Just like pressing the Delete button on your computer!

You lie fully clothed on a couch for about an hour, while your Bars practitioner gently touches small groups of Bars on your head.

For a distance session, you simply relax while your Bars are run ‘remotely’. Yes, I can tell you from experience, distance sessions can be just as effective as in-person sessions! Listen to Liam Phillips interview me about distance healing here.

What will having my Bars run do for me?

As you easily and effortlessly undo years of conditioning you create more space in your head, and more opportunity to be the joyful you! As a minimum you will feel very calm and relaxed. Beyond that it’s your choice how you use your new space!

Will I need my Bars run more than once?

Ideally every two or three weeks. To return to the computer analogy, it’s good to frequently ‘clear the history’ of the points of view you’ve accumulated! That’s why it’s good to do the Bars Training, so you can set up Bars exchanges with colleagues, family and friends.

More questions?

I’d love to answer them, please ask them on my Blog, or contact me.

The Delicious Nugget: Having your Bars run allows you to easily and effortlessly release old conditioning, opening up the space in your head for more joyful living!

If your body is still alert at bed time, it’s going to be difficult to get to sleep.

See which of the following tips will help your body prepare for a good night’s sleep.

Limit daytime naps

If you take a nap or two during the day, and you have difficulty sleeping at night, try reducing or cutting out the nap, or taking it earlier in the day.

Eat early

A large meal late in the evening means your body is busy digesting food, rather than slowing down for the night. Aim to eat your evening meal several hours before bed time, and limit any further eating to a light snack.

Limit the volume of fluid

Taper off the amount you drink as the evening progresses, to minimise bathroom visits during the night.

Exercise regularly

Regular exercise, particularly late in the afternoon, helps your body to feel tired and ready for sleep. I slept particularly well when we had a dog, and I had a short walk last thing at night.

Relax before bed

Relaxing your body is a good way to help it slow down ready for sleep. There are many ways to do this, from listening to soothing music to visualising each part of your body relaxing in turn.

Take a hot bath

A hot bath before bed will make you feel drowsy, so you nod off easily.

Get into a routine

Having a bedtime routine cues your body that it’s time for sleep. So extend your habit of brushing your teeth to include other activities like a session on the chi machine, or some form of relaxation.

Ask your body

I’ve saved the best till last! The most effective way to be sure your body is ready for sleep is to ask what it needs you to do, or not do, to ensure a good night’s sleep. How to talk to your body? That will need to be another article!

The Delicious Nugget: Your body needs to be ready for sleep; there are several practical things you can do to help.

Do you ever feel like the clogged-up hard drive of your computer?

Maybe you’re fine in the morning, but by evening you’re ready to crash out in front of the TV. Perhaps you manage it through the week, but the weekend is a write off. Or you’ve chronically lost your oomph.

How would it be if you could reclaim your oomph by simply allowing all those redundant thoughts, beliefs, judgements and points of view, plus the stuck feelings and attitudes they hold in place, to run out of your brain and body into the ‘waste basket’, just as you clean up your hard drive. Simply press the ‘Delete’ button and away those files go!

Then you’ll feel spacious and energised, with your oomph back!

It’s as easy as that! No going into past memories or reliving incidents, simply allowing what you no longer need to drain away. Which is probably why ‘Amazing’ is the most frequent response I get after I’ve run someone’s Bars.

There are 32 points on your head which relate to different areas of your life, such as healing, peace & calm, creativity, control and ageing. When these points are lightly touched, the Bars turn on, and your redundant ‘files’ dissipate, freeing up all the energy you’ve been using to hold those thoughts, beliefs, judgements and points of view locked in place.

You simply lie on your back and relax while your Bars are run. You may notice some sensations, or simply feel yourself relaxing as the session progresses. At worst you’ll feel as if you’ve had a massage, at best your life will change! You’ll definitely have more oomph!

The Bars run equally well ‘at a distance’. My Bars buddy, in France, was very surprised that she could feel me run her Bars from Scotland, just as she does in an in-person session.

The Bars form the foundation of Access Consciousness, a set of tools and techniques you can use to change anything in your life!

The Delicious Nugget: You can easily reclaim your oomph by getting your Bars run.

How would you like to refresh your energies  in just five minutes, just as you refresh your internet browser?

Daily life can quickly scramble your energy, send it flowing the wrong way, and block the flow of your meridian and lymphatic systems. These disruptions lead to adverse effects such as poor concentration, fatigue, fuzzy thinking, and when the disruptions become chronic they may result in illness.

Donna Eden has distilled her extensive knowledge of Energy Medicine into a 5 minute routine which will unscramble your energies, relieve stress, boost your energy, help you function better, and perhaps nip illness in the bud.

In this 8 minute video Donna demonstrates her 5 Minute Energy Routine, which comprises six techniques. With a little practice, you’ll be refreshing your energies in just 5 minutes, and like me won’t want to miss a day!

You can do the techniques in any order.

You can focus on the techniques you feel will particularly help you.

This video alone is enough for you to learn the routine.  If you’d like to know more, read on…

The techniques in detail

For the whole routine:

• Breathe deeply: in through your nose, and out through your mouth.
• Massage points firmly. Sore points indicate blocks, so you may want to spend longer on them.

1. The Three Thumps

To get your energy flowing in the right direction, energise you, and boost your immune system.

• While breathing deeply, thump, tap or massage: K27, Thymus & Spleen points several times each.

See Donna teaching The Three Thumps:  Part 1: K27 &  Thymus; Part 2:  Spleen

2. The Cross Crawl

To think more clearly and improve coordination.

• Exaggerated march on the spot, say 20 times.

See Donna teaching The Cross Crawl.

3. The Wayne Cook Posture

To unscramble your energies.

• Place one leg across the other knee, hold your ankle and foot and take 6 deep breaths as you lift your body and legs. Put your legs down.
• Form your hands into church pose, and repeat the breathing and lifting.
• See the variation on the video if you’re unable to do this.

See Donna teaching The Wayne Cook Posture

4. The Crown Pull

To release mental congestion.

• With finger tips facing and forming a vertical line, press into the centre of your forehead and pull it apart.
• Repeat moving your hands back over the centre line of your head.

See Donna teaching The Crown Pull

5. Neurolymphatic Flush

To energise, and clear toxins and stagnant energies.

If you’re not sure quite where the points are, move around a little to find a tender point. Any points that are more tender indicate blockages, so you may want to spend longer massaging them.

Breathe deeply and massage firmly:

• Heart and Governing points below your clavicle.
• the groove between the arm and front of your body, on each side (Central meridian)
• down the middle of your sternum (Lung)
• down each side of the sternum, between your ribs (Lungs & Gall Bladder)
• with thumbs, half moon under your breasts, from each side to centre (Liver & Spleen)
• bottom of your rib cage, from centre to sides (Small Intestine)
• spleen points, below your bra line (chaps please imagine!), and in from the side of your body
• points one inch above and one inch  out from belly button (Kidney)
• points one inch to side of your belly button (Triple Warmer)
• along the top of your pubic bone (Bladder)
• down outsides of legs along trouser seam line, from hip to knee (Large Intestine)
• with thumbs down inside of legs along trouser seam, from groin to knee, (Small Intestine)

See Donna teaching The Neurolymphatic Flush

6. The Zip Up

To feel confident and protect your energies.

• Use your fingers to ‘zip up’ from pubic bone to bottom lip, and ‘lock’ at the top.

See Donna teaching The Zip Up

For more information, see:

Donna Eden’s book ‘Energy Medicine’,
Donna’s website, InnerSource.

The misery of pain! Whether it’s the emotional pain of anger, or the physical pain of a sore shoulder, it tenses you up and saps your energy. The more you focus on it, the worse it gets.

One way of looking at pain is to see it as a concentration, or intensity, of feeling, that has somehow got locked up inside you. Just as you use water to dilute concentrated orange juice, you can use space to dilute pain.

The key to diluting your pain is knowing that you are in Infinite Being, temporarily experiencing the extreme constriction of existing within a human body. You’re pretty squashed up inside your body!

If you allow ‘yourself’, which you may think of as your ‘energy’ or Being’ or ‘consciousness’, to expand out of your body, you release the tension and the pain will diminish, perhaps disappearing altogether.

Expand your Being

At first you’ll find this technique works best with you eyes shut, so please read it over first!

Close your eyes.

Expand yourself – your energy – your Being – to fill:

• your room…
• your building …
• your town …
• your country …
• your world …
• your universe …
• and beyond …

Now, how do you feel?

With practice you’ll be able to quickly expand yourself out quickly, and do so with your eyes open. The more time you spend in this expanded state the less pain you will experience!

The Delicious Nugget: Expand yourself out beyond your body to dilute your pain.

As a change from a slice of lemon in your water, try a slice of cucumber.

One slice in a glass of water, or four slices in a jug. To comment click:

But what exactly is the message? How do you receive it? What language does it speak?

Look up the clues

If you’re new to interpreting what knee problems mean, you could start by looking up ‘knees’ , for example

Louise Hay, gives a general interpretation:
Knee Problems: Stubborn ego and pride. Inability to bend. Inflexibility. Won’t give in.

Heal Your Body, p46

Debbie Shapiro interprets three separate knee problems:

• Water on the knee – a holding of emotional energy.
• Inflamed knee – something or someone is making us feel irritated or angry.
• Dislocated knee – a resistance to giving way.

Your Body Speaks Your Mind, p125

These interpretations will give you some clues about your knee’s message. Sometimes they are sufficient to trigger an insight to what’s going on.

Other times they feel too vague, or you just can’t relate to them. That’s when you need to move from the general interpretations of knee problems to find out exactly what your knee is saying to you.

Discover your knee’s specific message to you

The best way to discover your knee’s message is to ask it to tell you. Have a conversation with your knee! This may seem strange at first; only because we’re not in the habit of communicating with our bodies.

The key is to find a way to access your intuition/higher self. Here are two ways I use:

1. Trick your way past your conscious mind!

This question (from NLP) helps bypass all the doubts of your conscious mind, and allow your intuition to speak up. It is surprisingly effective!

Ask yourself:
‘If I did know, what would the message be?’
Accept the first response you receive, however strange it may seem.

2. Tap, alongwith a Command

This is a blend of EFT and the wording used in The One Command.
If you’re new to EFT you can use just one tapping point – the knobbly, inner end of your collar bone, at the bottom of your neck. If you know the EFT points, you can move to a new point with each phrase of the sentence below.

As you tap with two fingers on your collarbone, slowly say to yourself:
I don’t know how, I know the message my knee is giving me, I only know I do know now, and I am grateful.

Repeat the tapping and repeat the sentence slowly, several times. As you start to feel calmer you open to your intuition, and your knee’s message will come to you.

Whichever method you use, the keys are:

1. Relax
2. Be receptive
3. Trust the first message that comes to you, whatever form it takes – words, images, a knowingness etc.
4. If the message isn’t clear, ask for clarification.

The Delicious Nugget: The discomfort in your knee has a message for you so you can help yourself to heal. To receive the message you need to access your intuition, relax and be receptive to receiving the message in whatever way it comes.

Ginger has a multitude of healing properties

Cut thin slices of fresh ginger root. Add boiling water and a slice of lemon. Allow to infuse until it reaches the strength you like. Sip and savour!

I first tasted this tea with an Italian fig biscuit in the tranquility of the Botanic Gardens in Cambridge! To comment, click