Cauliflower Apple Soup + A Negativity Meditation

This sweet and savory cauliflower apple soup is creamy yet clean, light yet filling, simple yet impressive -- in a word, perfect. The winter-ready recipe - and meditation pairing - below are part of this one-day detox plan from Cassandra Bodzak, author of Eat With Intention. Get into it below and find more recipes from Cassandra here... [olists num=1]

Patience is a virtue that I wasn’t born with. A few years ago, I was listening to a Marianne Williamson lecture (Marianne Williamson is a best-selling spiritual author and lecturer), and she talked about leaving our lives up to the same force that turns the acorn into an oak tree. It finally hit me how powerful patience is. Whenever I feel my patience running low, I think about the acorn and remind myself that my patience allows the space for the magic to happen — I can trust that if I’ve planted the seed, nature will make the flower blossom.

Mantra:

“My patience is precious.”

Kundalini Meditation for the Negative Mind
Sit in easy pose. Make a cup with your hands, your right hand cupped in your left hand, with both palms facing up.

Close your eyes so that they are only slightly open, and look down toward your cupped hands. Place this open cup at the level of your heart center and allow your elbows to relax at your sides.

Inhale deeply, taking a long, steady breath through the nose. Exhale in a focused stream through rounded lips, as if you were blowing a feather out of your hands. You will feel the breath go over your hands. Let any thought or desire that is negative or persistently distracting come into your mind as you breathe. Breathe the thought and feeling in, then exhale it out with the breath.

Continue for 11 minutes, gradually building to 31 minutes.

Close by inhaling completely and holding the breath out as you lock in your navel point. Concentrate on each vertebra of the spine until you can feel it all the way to the base, as if it is as stiff as a rod. Inhale powerfully, exhale completely and repeat the concentration. Repeat this final breath 3 to 5 times, then relax completely.

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