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5 Days Vegan starts Sunday! Are you in?

Happy feel great friday!

This Sunday, some of us are taking on a little bit of a health challenge.  This is a challenge that I like to call 5 Days Vegan. The thing to remember, as we take on this challenge together, is that it doesn’t have to be an all or nothing thing. I can’t stress enough that when it comes to our health, every little bit helps and I am pretty sure that if you are reading this blog, you have an interest in making a few changes here and there.

‘Oopsies’ will happen and all you can ever ask of yourself is simply to do the best you can on any given day, at any given moment and adding a little mindfulness to your actions regarding whether what you are doing is working you towards your goals or away from them.

How did I get so wise as to offer such sage advice? I fake it. Sort of. Up there, in that one little paragraph, I summarized the amazing wisdom and knowledge that is shared in many more paragraphs by much wiser people in many inspiring works.

The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz is one such inspiring work. This was the first book of its kind that I ever got my hands on. I read it during the Summer of 2006 when my life was pretty much turned upside down by disease and dizzying lostness. I was up at my cottage, picked up the book and it suddenly opened my eyes to the understanding that life doesn’t have to be hard, or a struggle. I realized that the first step in easing up on the way I was living was easing up on my myself and how I let things that were external from me, affect my internal environment. Though I was unable to make the shift in being as rapidly as my understanding of the concepts were shifting, a shift did happen.

Don Miguel Ruiz and his son are sages of toltec wisdom. They have a gift with their words in making things that we make so complex in our own minds, read so simply and so practically. Whether intentionally, or unintentionally, the wisdom and lessons and freshness of The Four Agreements absolutely lend themselves to the healthiest way of living and the healthiest way of eating. Yesterday I joked about how a chocolate almond cup could actually hug you back, but in reality, when we are feeling really fantastic inside, we reach for such external stimulants and/or relaxants to provide what we can’t provide for ourselves.

The other day, when I was reading the newest book by Don Miguel Ruiz, The Fifth Agreement, I shared the agreements with a friend who jokingly responded, I don’t believe in that. We laughed and I offered him the challenge to go against each of the five agreements, that I would go with them and we could see who was happier and healthier at the end.

So my sweet little Vegan Adventurers and everyone else, as we embark on this little healthy living 5 Days Vegan challenge, why not think about making these new agreements with ourselves- as the kinder we are to ourselves, the kinder we will be to those around us.

So whether you are taking part in the 5 Days Vegan program or not, whether you took part in last weeks 10 Days Judgment Free Challenge, how about think about these agreements. These are tangible rules we can do our best to follow and again, the best only means what we are capable at any given moment.

1. Be Impeccable With Your Word
Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.

2. Don’t Take Anything Personally
Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won’t be the victim of needless suffering.

3. Don’t Make Assumptions
Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.

4. Always Do Your Best
Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.

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Win Tickets to See Miguel Ruiz, Author of The Four Agreements Live In Toronto

April 9th-11th 2010, Don Miguel Ruiz will be in Toronto to help us all make some knew agreements with ourselves that will invariably aid us in leaving that old, useless baggage on the carousel. If you have read his book The Four Agreements, or the Mastery of Love., his new Book, The Fifth Agreement, is fan-freaking-life-changing-tastic.

Send an email on over to me, telling me why you want this. As short as a sentence, as long as a novel (though I’ll likely stop reading after about 10o words)- let me know how his books have influenced your life, why you need his books to influence your life, how you believe you might be influenced or perhaps plain and simply why you want to go. You must be in Toronto from April 9th – 11th. Contest closes February 28th. Recipients will be selected by the peeps over at Inspirational Works. To purchase tickets to the event, go here.

The challenge begins next Sunday, February 21st so you’ve got oodles of time to get planning. Between now and February 21st, buy any two tutorials or media downloads of your choice and you’ll receive 15% off the total purchase by entering “FebruaryHealth” as your discount code at checkout.

How the group challenge works:

• Enter a comment here to signal your participation, and you will be entered to win a sweet little veg-friendly gift (to be revealed this week)
• Get yourself a copy of the 5 Days Vegan tutorial
• Follow me on Twitter for live Twitter coaching through out the duration of the challenge

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