Green spring smoothies!

Spring is coming! Its cleaning time! Its time to leave behind the winter sluggishness and to start cleaning our systems to start the new season full of energy. So, Im not kidding! You should also clean your houses, your work spaces, your FACEBOOK! and let go all those things you dont need anymore.

Take a deep breath... ahhhhhhhhhwwwfffffff!!!

I want to share with you a very simple recipe you can do to nourish your body during this season. If you have read my post about 5 elements in chinese medicine, you know by now, that spring is the season of growth. If you havent you can read it here.

Spring color is green, and the organs that are related to this season are liver and gallbladder, to nourish this 2 organs, according to the macrobiotics, we should eat green vegetables, growing vegetables (shiitake mushrooms), big leaves vegetables (spinach or kale)  :) green apples, limes, etc.

Recipe:
1 1/2 cup of spinach
1 cup of mango
1 cup of pinapple
half green apple
2 or 3 spoons of honey (optional)
1/2 cup of celery
2 cups of water

Mix the spinach and the celery with the water, till they have a smooth consitency, then add the rest of the ingredients. I add a little bit of honey :) because I love honey it in the morning, but the natural taste of the smoothie is also delicious.

Enjoy!! Happy Spring!! :)

The power of appreciation (POA)

Thank you. Isn´t that one of the first things your mother repeats non stop when you are growing up?

¿Claudia, cómo se dice? (Claudia, and what do you say?) T-H-A-N-K-Y-O-U-! 

Many of us learnt to say thank you as an exchange of something that we were given, but why didn´t we learn to accept gratitude as well? I have heard many people say, oh no! you don´t need to say thank you. When the fact is that when we accept gratitude we also say thank you back :)

I have always worked for big companies, and I have always felt nobody really cared about me. They never said thank you, they never said well done. But was I showing my gratitude to them as well? of course not. why would I care? The truth is:  the day I started to appreciate myself more and appreciate all the good things in my life, -everything- got more relaxed and better... and cheesy enough, it got happier.

My collegues were happy to help me because I was happy to help them, my bosses were happy to let me go out in the middle of the day to take a workshop I really wanted to take because I was always there for them as a support. I knew I deserve to prepare myself more as much as they deserve my support.

Today, I just want to leave you with this thought: Offer thank you everytime you can, and also recieve it, gladly :) Appreciate everything without asking yourself why this and not that. It is an interesting excercise, and from my experience, I cant tell you, it makes you feel lighter :)

Thank you for being around me :) !!