A short poem to get you through the darkness

​Doing too much thinking Feeling like life just might not be fair Hush, self, don’t worry now Just empty and become air.
Like I was saying, I've always had poor abdominal strength. Could it be possible that I have just always been too hard on myself? Maybe, but that's only because I've never had hard abs. Even during those good old days of having dance classes and rehearsals eight to ten hours a week. Leg lifts? Manageable. High kicks? Relatively flawless. Crunches and bicycles? Immediate and everlasting death.

Abdominal Strength: Thoughts From a Girl Who Has Always Been Killed By Crunches

Like I was saying, I’ve always had poor abdominal strength. Could it be possible that I have just always been too hard on myself? Maybe, but that’s only because I’ve never had hard abs. Even during those good old days of having dance classes and rehearsals eight to ten hours a week. Leg lifts? Manageable.
You may have attempted to go cold turkey, so to speak, from food and dove feet first into a water fast. The first few hours, you may have thought to yourself that you felt fine, felt amazing,  actually, and really thought that you would survive those measly few hours without eating. And maybe you did...but maybe you didn't. Maybe you started salivating like a wild beast as the smell of freshly baked éclairs or jalapeño cheddar bagels wafted through your open New York City window and knew that you would die if you didn't get one... or both. You definitely have to have both now and a 2-liter sprite to wash the stickiness of the chocolate and sun-dried tomato cream cheese from your traitorous throat.

How-to Baby Step Your Way Into a Water Fast

You may have attempted to go cold turkey, so to speak, from food and dove feet first into a water fast. The first few hours, you may have thought to yourself that you felt fine, felt amazing,  actually, and really thought that you would survive those measly few hours without eating. And maybe you did…but
Though circles and squares have very little to do with fasting outside of my metaphor, the belief that I hold in one of the benefits of fasting is that it not only eats away the physical toxins that are poisoning your body, but that it feeds on the emotional and mental poisons that have been ruining your spirit and aura, and damaging your mind.

The Struggle of Beginning Fasting: Understanding the Side Effects

Fatigue. All I feel is tired today. Tired and the familiar achy feeling I get in my joints after I haven’t fasted in a long time. I’ve read that these aches are the detoxing of your joints and articulating parts, and as those toxins release, my back pops a little easier and with less of
You feel fine...at first. If you're lucky. You're feeling on top of the world and like you can handle anything. You're thinking to yourself, "This is not so bad. I can do this every day...well, I could, if I didn't like eating so much." And you're right, you could do it every day for awhile... because the average person can live without food for about a month. You're feeling like you could be one of the people strong enough to do that...until 5 o'clock rolls around and your stomach bottoms out and there's nothing but water in your entire digestive system. Digestion can be such a slow process. Especially if you're really into carbs and fried foods the way most people are, and cheese. These sorts of things stick to your insides, making your body work extra hard to digest them. So, unless you have a high metabolism, it may take about 12 hours before your body is even aware that you're fasting.

How Day One of Water Fasting Feels to Someone With Poor Eating Habits

You feel fine…at first. If you’re lucky. You’re feeling on top of the world and like you can handle anything. You’re thinking to yourself, “This is not so bad. I can do this every day…well, I could, if I didn’t like eating so much.” And you’re right, you could do it every day for awhile… because the

Banana Apple and Yogurt Smoothie

An easy smoothie recipe of bananas, apples, and yogurt for something quick but surprisingly filling.

a quote for those who wish to give themselves to poetry

For those looking for inspirational quotes excellent for daily meditation or affirmations that focus on the concept of becoming a higher, freer, more fluid human...of becoming poetry, here is a list of quotes for your spiritual journey.

A chant for when you feel like you may not make it through

Sometimes life gives us a hard time and we need to adopt new mantras to inspire us to continue on. In this list, you'll find inspirational quotes from across anime, musicals, TV shows, and books to help you bolster yourself in times of hardship when simply believing you can is a trial in and of itself.
Though the sushi burrito may be as equally delicious as any sushi roll, will smashing two cultures' foods together lead to erasure of the people who created these two foods?

Should We Embrace the Sushi Burrito or Hold Tight to Tradition?

Though the sushi burrito may be as equally delicious as any sushi roll, will smashing two cultures' foods together lead to erasure of the people who created these two foods?

a quote to remind yourself that you are strong

Here lies a list of quotes to encourage you to have strength even in the times where you feel nothing but weakness.

a chant that will take you to higher places

Let go of your earthly tether. Enter the void. Empty, and become air. –The Legend of Korra
Close up view of Baoding Meditation balls

How to Use Chinese Meditation Balls Like a Boss

There are tons of benefits to using baoding balls to improve the movement and strength of your hands. Learn different exercises to maximize your efforts and challenge yourself while increasing your dexterity and working out cricks and soreness from crocheting, typing vigorously, or playing an instrument.
Fasting has many health benefits, both for fitness and for mental health, but is often overlooked because of the implications that come with not eating, like you are starving yourself or participating in self-harm via an eating disorder. When done with intention and in full control of yourself and regularly, fasting safely has the power to unlock tons of health benefits naturally and completely for free.

Fasting for Emotional Health

Fasting has many health benefits, both for fitness and for mental health, but is often overlooked because of the implications that come with not eating, like you are starving yourself or participating in self-harm via an eating disorder. When done with intention and in full control of yourself and regularly, fasting safely has the power to unlock tons of health benefits naturally and completely for free.
For lovers of the traditional Japanese poetic form, haiku, a brief collection of haiku about haiku, its form, its beauty, and its hidden meanings.

Haikus About Haiku

For lovers of the traditional Japanese poetic form, haiku, a brief collection of haiku about haiku, its form, its beauty, and its hidden meanings.
For lovers of haiku and sushi and Japanese culture, here are some tiny poems, the sweetest haiku dedicated to the wonderful and light, but filling, versatile, yet familiar sushi roll.

Some Haiku About Sushi

For lovers of haiku and sushi and Japanese culture, here are some tiny poems, the sweetest haiku dedicated to the wonderful and light, but filling, versatile, yet familiar sushi roll.




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