In the Western hemisphere breakfast most likely consists of: coffee or tea, orange juice (from a bottle), yoghurt, muesli, some berries or fruits in it, a croissant, toast with cheese, marmalade, ham and maybe some eggs as well.
Nothing could be further from the truth actually. As a matter of fact it’s detrimental for you if you tend to eat what most people eat. What do most people eat?
Let’s break this down. Coffee or tea fine. Orange juice from a bottle comes from concentrate, which makes the body very acidic. Yoghurt mixed with muesli is protein and carbohydrates together.
Fruits and berries in the yoghurt spoil it all. Bottom line is that mixing a lot of “foodstuff” in the same meal is very energy depleting.
Why is that? Because it takes a lot of energy to try to break down the breakfast that won’t be broken down properly anyhow. When we wake up in the morning we have charged our body’s energy during the night. Let’s say it’s 100%. The same thing you do with your mobile, you charge it during the night and in the morning it has 100% battery. During the day you decide which telephone calls you will waste the battery on. Sometimes you have 5% left in the evening and sometimes you have 45% left in the evening.
Same thing goes for your body. When you combine the food the wrong way according to the body, you waste a lot of energy.
BUT if you eat only fresh fruits in the morning you hardly interfere with the process. The fruits start to be broken down in the mouth and it continues in the stomach for between 20-40 minutes, then it leaves the stomach. So do not go and exercise/train in the morning on a heavy BIG mixed breakfast. You will feel heavy and exhausted as your metabolism tries to break down the food.
Conclusion: Either you fast until lunchtime or you can eat a fruit salad in the morning.
Are you a person having trouble surviving all the Christmas food you will be eating?
There is an infinite choice of foods that make your mouth water during holidays like Christmas.
But not all ingredients work together in your best interest…
Christmas and Easter time is the time people end up mostly in the ER. How come?
Because they have eaten too much of combinations that doesn’t work together…
With that said, it means that you should not combine animal proteins with carbohydrates in the same meal. Something we teach all the year around at Bülow Clinic.
So if you have ham or turkey on the table together with herring, salmon, sausages, mashed potatoes, Swedish meatballs with lingonberries, brown sauce with mashed potatoes, creamed cabbage, Janson’s temptation, rice à la Malta, rice porridge with an almond, ginger cookies, saffron buns, brown bread, you’re in trouble if you eat it all!
Make good choices in what you eat, not only during the weeks but also for the holydays and weekends! If you go with the proteins, don’t take the mashed potatoes, the bread and the cookies. Sounds dull? I think ending up in the ER is far worse..
1. Don’t forget to walk or exercise. It will help with digestion and you won’t feel as a “couch potato” if you have been over eating.
2. Get enough sleep. When we sleep we rejuvenate our bodies and lose weight.
3. Drink enough water every day.
4. Have organic wines instead of Soda pops. Give the children ginger and lemon water instead of Coke (Julmust) etc.
5. If you now have gained weight after Christmas and New Year celebrations…maybe, it’s time to “do a yearly service” on your body?
Don’t forget that we digest over 70 metric tons of food in a lifetime. If you had a kitchen appliance that processed that amount of food, my guess is that you would have it serviced on a weekly basis.
We are now talking about your body, that is planned to last for up to 100 years, and not a machine in the kitchen.
Can it do that without service? Would it last for such a long time without cleaning the system from time to time? Well, that is for you to think about.
Our service station, Bülow Clinic, is open and you can klick here to contact us to schedule a “service time” with the Bülow Program. Read more https://www.bulowclinic.com/bulow-program
Today is the first day of our total lockdown here in the BVI and it’s also the first day of the rest of our life. What are you going to do with this opportunity?
For me it’s not so different from my normal day-to-day life, but for most people it’s a huge difference. Suddenly they have all the time in the world… What will they do with it?
Some will park themselves in the sofa in front of the TV with a big bowl of popcorn or crisps, waiting to be programmed.
Others will go bananas, feeling like climbing the walls, because suddenly they’ve got a lot of time to kill, and they can’t do what they normally do, and they will feel confronted by having to be with themselves or with family 24/7.
I just love it. The silence, the stillness when the world stops, is so soothing. It’s like you almost can touch it. Not to mention the healing of Mother Earth…
Only the waves crushing against the shores, some birds singing, crickets chirping in the evening and Mozart’s piano concertos all day.
What strikes me is the inspiration and creativity that suddenly floods the system, and that on the first day. Can you imagine what each and everyone has access to? And will have everyday for quite some time?
When people start to relax, creativity comes running. Never ever has anyone experienced anything like this, until now.
Make the most of it! Ask yourself what’s important in your life. Ask if there’s something you can do for others even if it’s just a telephone call. Read the book you never had time to read, paint or draw a picture, clean the house, sit in the sun every day for a while to get some vitamin-D, get rest, go to bed earlier and wake up refreshed. Challenge yourself!!
We were never meant to be little slaves running around in the rat race called living.
I call it existing.
For most people, the longest journey is from their brain to their heart.
What’s important in your life? Do you ask yourself that question on the last day of the year, or any other day on the year for that matter?
I do, and have always done over the decades and years. I always get a little melancholic…
Every year we make trillions decisions that shape our world. Some we regret and some we embrace.
It’s totally fine to have regrets if we don’t dwell on them, but instead see what we can learn from them and forgive ourselves for wrong decisions.
I’m not much for holiday festivities. It’s a show for the galleries.
As Dean Martin once said; “New Year’s Eve is for amateurs,” whatever he meant by that?
I don’t really believe in all these New Year promises people make. Most of them are broken in a snip of time.
Better having an intention than a wish. Every thought we have comes back to us sooner or later. If we are not content with how our lives look, we have concentrated on what we don’t want instead of what we do want.
That’s why all self-help books out there tell you to be positive instead of being negative.
But unfortunately it’s not that easy. We as well have to have the corresponding frequency vibrating of the item, wish or experience we want to have/create.
So, what ever you want to create: get the feeling of already having it, and just GO OUT AND GET IT.
It’s been a while since I wrote a blog, but a lot has happened since last time. Since April I live full time in the West Indies that I have longed for a very long time.
SO! What can you do on a hurricane day in the West Indies?
Power is out, of course, since 2 hours. The wind and the rain are howling and the trees are bumping into my house.
But it’s kind of cozy though, despite the fact that it is a hurricane. Fortunately not as bad as Irma and Maria in 2017. Right now I think we are in the eye of the storm, because it has become way calmer but it’s only the calm before the storm. I am sitting inside and I have time to contemplate on what’s important in this life. Having one gin tonic, having two gin tonics, almonds, pen and paper. What else do you need?
Well, fresh fruits, water, candles and a sound mind. No use being worried, that’s counterproductive. Passport, work permit, wallet and cash in a zip lock bag, in case of…
The only thing that would be nice would to have company, but my own company works too. I actually like my own company.
I really love living here. You can’t take anything for granted, which keeps you and everybody else on their toes.
This morning we had fifty shades of gray. Now it’s only one shade of gray; the color of rain.
The wind is picking up and the noise is eerie. It’s the kind of noise that penetrates your soul.
It makes me wonder about people’s priorities in life. Living on a rock in the West Indies makes you humble. You have to come down to the nitty-gritty of what is important in life.
Your health is your wealth as I always say. If you don’t have your health it doesn’t matter how much money you’ve got. To have health you have to accumulate:
Knowledge can be about everything really. For me it’s about being a pupil of life. You can read a lot of stuff, but if you don’t make it “your own” you are just going to repeat what others have said. You have to “own” it, make it yours and practice it every day. For me that is wisdom; living your knowledge if it resonates with you.
Love has the highest frequency vibration in the universe.
Firstly, love yourself. Not many people do that nowadays. Secondly, love the rest of the world. Sounds bonkers?? I’m not referring to the love between two couples. I’m referring to the universal love of nature, of animals, the weather, the circumstances in your life, especially the ones we didn’t anticipate, your family, your children, your friends, to the miracles happening in your life, let it be big or small ones. The Trogg’s wrote a song in the -60ies called “Love is all around you” and it’s so true. You just have to see it. Love is energy as everything else. It can never die, only transform into something else, but it can never die.
For me gratitude is part of love. I’m actually always grateful for the good, the bad and the ugly. It defines me, how I relate to it. It has shaped me into the person I am today. Over the years we have had many different versions of ourselves, but the current version about myself, I like. As my best friend says: Now it’s time for v. 3.0. Life happens, shit happens and it all comes down to, is how we relate to it.
When something labeled as bad happens, you can either see a bigger picture or just as bad as it looks. I always look at the bigger picture because I’m not smarter than the universe and the universe always delivers the best, so, the worse it looks, the better it gets.
Every morning and every night I go over the things I’m grateful for. That keeps my energy high.
Why would you not be kind? I never understood that. It doesn’t mean that you let people run you over. Don’t mix up being kind with being nice. That is two different things. Kindness comes from your soul and niceness from your ego. Kindness doesn’t expect anything back, but niceness does.
Being kind is awesome, being nice is questionable.
In today’s world where you can’t go anywhere without being blasted/bombarded with noise you haven’t asked for, it’s vital with having “silent time”. It’s rape on your ears, so it’s vital to get your alone time. Being in silence actually gets us in contact with the inner source of ourselves. That is why I recommend meditation. When my kids told me when they were small that they were bored, I always said: But that’s perfect! Then you can create what you would like.
I find it amazing that most of the so-called doctors haven’t got a clue of the impact real food has on the body, (preferably organic). Real food is as nature intended.
When you switch from “shit-food” to real food you will get your health back, your energy back, your sane brain back. I call it clean food.
#8 THE POWER OF RISING EARLY; AT THE SAME TIME IN THE MORNINGS
Rise with the sun in the mornings and go to bed when the sun goes down and you feel sleepy. When we follow the circadian rhythm, our whole body is in sync with the universe.
Music has its own fabulous frequencies. Mind though that different music has different frequencies. Heavy metal music is actually detrimental for our well being, while classical music is very beneficial for us. Everything in between the two, either relates to the first or the second to some degree. Listen to what empowers you! Listen to the music that enhances your frequency. You’ll know which. And preferably they should be tuned to 432 Hz, not 440 Hz.
I moved to the West Indies to simplify my life. For one, you don’t need to have layers and layers of clothes. You wake up and choose either a light dress or shorts with a top. Sometimes you’ll need an umbrella, like in the wet season, but other than that you are fine. Here you don’t need a lot of stuff. You actually ARE more than you DO, which I find very relaxing. Everybody is greeting each other in the streets, in the shops, in the banks. It’s a courtesy forgotten in the Western, so called evolutionary, World. They are too convoluted in their own heads and their own importance. Here people actually care.
Bye for now
All my love, Eva
DON’T COMPARE YOURSELF WITH OTHERS, COMPARE ONLY WITH YOURSELF.
