Recipe: Carrot Strengthener

Be healthy, powerful and strong! Cook yourself, your friends, and your family some Carrot Strengthener this month. This recipe takes less than ten minutes to prepare and tastes sweet and wonderful. Carrots grow down into the earth, and have an inwardly grounding energetic effect when you eat them. They are one of the richest sources of beta carotene, which protects against cancer, benefits the skin, and helps relieve coughs. This recipe is meant to center you and give you access to your personal power.

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Invisible Acts of Power

I want you to realize that no matter how much money you have, no matter what sex, race, or age you are, you do have power. You can make a difference in your world and in the life of every single person you encounter.

We need to develop compassion and generosity to be healthy. We need to respond to others' vulnerabilities in the process of addressing and healing our own. Exercising empathy and compassion and performing good deeds makes our body and spirit thrive. The warm glow we get from helping others is not just a good physical feeling - it is the energy of a healing grace that moves between the giver and the receiver and blesses both. We need each other. We're not meant to be completely independent, but to give and receive. You cannot strive for a healthier life if you keep yourself separate and apart from life around you.

Giving and receiving are learned arts. As children, we first learn to give and receive in visible ways - we're fed, clothed, and sheltered and we learn to feed, clothe, nourish and care for others. As we mature, we undertake other vital acts of caring - we serve as listeners to our friends and loved ones; we encourage them and pray for them; we grow in our effectiveness in the world and learn to help and empower others.

Learning to manage your personal power means that you have to become aware of how you work with your energy and whom you give it to. By finding your inner compass, your intuition, and acting on its promptings, you come into your full power.

Sometimes we underestimate our own power, the power of a smile, a hug, a helping hand or an ear. Remember that you can empower yourself at any moment and that you can empower others in many ways: encouragement, hope, nod of approval, kind words and kind thoughts. Here is a list of invisible acts of power that can mean so much to someone else. I share them as a to do list, should the opportunity arise.

1. Hold a door open.
2. Smile.
3. Offer a kind word of encouragement.
4. Give a compliment.
5. Listen without interruption.
6. Make a call when your intuition tells you to.
7. Forgive others and yourself.
8. Prepare a meal for a friend.
9. Refrain from judging another person harshly.
10. Keep your power and attention in the present time.
11. Begin and end the day in appreciation.

Excerpted from Invisible Acts of Power: Personal Choices that Create Miracles by Caroline Myss, Free Press, $24.00

Success Story: Steve Rosenbloom: The Cable Guy

I was searching for tangible information about how to improve my eating and looking for a new career when I saw the red catalog for Integrative Nutrition. I immediately knew it was the right place for me. Going to the school was a great experience because I was involved with a community of people who shared my passion for healing oneself and being of service to others.

Since going through the school I have a stronger awareness and appreciation for life. My family-life has improved because I really listen to my wife and my son now. My son is 15 and I am allowing him to be who he is more than ever before. Our communication has grown, as I no longer try to change him. The best thing I can do is to be an example for him. I praise my wife more, telling her how great of a wife and mother she is. I feel more present at home and more at ease with myself.

As far as my business goes, I have had amazing opportunities. I met a man who was interested in what I did as a health counselor, so I gave him my card. He became a client, asked me to give a talk at a school where he runs an after school program and made me a guest on his live cable TV show that has 150,000 viewers. I appeared on the show last week and it was really exciting. I could see myself on the screen and I loved it! It's an ethnic cable channel and most of the viewers are from the Indian community in New York, many of whom have problems with sugar. Sugar is seen as an energy booster, but many suffer from heart problems and diabetes. I wanted to get the message out there about the harmful effects of sugar and processed foods. The program was called "Secrets of Good Health." I talked about diet and about primary food: the importance of being aware of how our relationships, spirituality, career and physical activity affect our lives. The show was half an hour long and there was supposed to be time for viewers to call in, but the host was so interested in what I was saying, that he kept asking questions and we ran out of time. Several people who saw the show contacted me for health consultations. My business is really expanding!

The work that I do as a holistic health counselor is really important. I bring a message to people, it changes their lives and it changes the world.

Steve Rosenbloom

Certified Holistic Health Counselor

Nourishing Quote

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?

Actually, who are you not to be?

We are all meant to shine, as children do. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

- Marianne Williamson