1. Article: Love Your Body Love Your Food
2. Question: What can I do to create a non GMO world?
3. Action Step: Be Thankful: Start a Gratitude Journal
4. Inspirational Quotes on Gratitude

1. Article: Love Your Body Love Your Food

I had intended to write a Blog post about Thanksgiving which happens on October 11th in Canada where I live (although I will be in the US on the 11th).

As I was collecting my thoughts before beginning to write this Awakenings Newsletter an article plopped into my inbox that again showed conclusively the dangers of genetically engineered foods.

Since I’m passionate about avoiding GM foods I feel I must pass on the article to all of you.

But how could I combine thankfulness and gratitude with October as Non-GMO month?

Click here to read my Blog Post to find out and give me your feedback.

2. Question: What can I do to create a  GMO free world?

Make a decision to do it. It’s that simple. Too often we don’t do something because we feel we won’t have an impact. But the truth is we do!

Support the Non GMO project.  Click here for their website.

Be a conscious shopper. Know which foods are likely to be GMO, and just DON’T buy them.

Click here to find out how to go Non-GMO.

The Non GMO Project Tip #1 is to: Buy Organic. Here’s what they say:

“Certified organic products cannot intentionally include any GMO ingredients. Buy products labeled “100% organic,” “organic,” or “made with organic ingredients.” You can be doubly sure if the product also has a Non-GMO Project Verified Seal.”

Upon checking products which say “organic” and even have an organic designation on the package, I have found that there are non-organic ingredients listed, such as corn and soy which are most certainly GMO.

Granted they didn’t say “100% organic”, but the implication is they are if you only look at the front of the package.

Unless you read the ingredient label carefully to see which ones are organic and which are not you might assume everything is organic.

So we need to be careful even with organic products, by reading the ingredient label in detail. The only exception is if it says 100% organic and you see the organic certification label on the package.

Educate yourself and others. Share your inspiration and wisdom with others who may not know of the dangers of GMO foods.

3. Be Thankful: Start a gratitude journal

I have a journal in which I write all the quotations I find on gratitude. When I’m feeling a bit down, I read it and realize how many things I have to be thankful for.

Also, at the end of each day I write down three things in my Diary for which I am thankful. It’s a great way to end a day and sets up a wonderful vibration for the next morning.

No matter how our day has gone, we can always find at least three things to be thankful for, even it’s the fact that we’re alive.

Gratitude is like a muscle. The more you exercise it, the stronger it gets. There’s no better time to begin than now!

4. Inspirational Quotes on Gratitude

Here are some of my favorite quotes on gratitude.

“Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.” William Arthur Ward

“At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.” Albert Schweitzer

“If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, ‘thank you,’ that would suffice.” Meister Eckhart

“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.” John F. Kennedy

“To receive one thing with joy is to give ten things in return with gratitude.” Sri Chinmoy

“When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world, I thank God I am alive. Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a gift and not giving it.” Unknown

“Gratitude is noticing the extraordinary in the ordinary. And then taking the nanosecond to feel it.” Karen Krakower Kaplan

“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.” Cicero

“An attitude of gratitude creates blessings.” Sir John Marks Templeton

May the good things in life be yours in abundance, not just at Thanksgiving but every day.

Joyce Friesen Founder, Novalis Integra
Center for Healing and Transformation

If you have questions or comments, please drop me a line at joycefriesen@novalisintegra.com

Please forward this Newsletter to anyone you know who needs to optimize their health, vitality and well being.