Cheap Food for Hard Times

In certain jobs that I have held, such as a call center customer service representative, you are basically on the phone the whole day taking calls every 7 minutes. Talk about demanding, by the end of the day you can really be wiped out. Doing this day in and day out is very intense, and eats up all of a persons electrolytes , and after years of doing this you see people showing symptoms of diabetes, having major sugar issues. Call centers as a rule don’t let you have food at your desk as they don’t want the person on the other end of the phone to hear someone smacking food or chewing while talking to a customer, point well taken. However , lunch and breaks never really seemed to be enough to regroup and replenish all of the energy that you expend while on the phone.
You can do gator aid, some people used to use candy energy bars and supplements , and the easy fix was the energy drinks, but in the long run they all have their drawbacks and take their own toll on the body.
I have been doing that kind of work, for a number of years, and so what I ‘ve found is that most things that we would like to do including our hopes , and dreams come down to a question of having enough energy.
You can do energy drinks but, eventually , most our made with too much sugar, and they leave you high and dry feeling more tired than when you started. Most of them have more caffeine than 5 cups of coffee , and we all have heard from friends and the news , that having too much caffeine can cause heart attacks as well as stress the entire nervous system as well as the adrenal glands. Even if you find an energy drink that doesn’t have all the sugar you have another obstacle to deal with, which is the ginseng that is used in the drinks to provide a foundation for the energy.
Ginseng has been used in the orient for years as a stimulant to aid a persons supply of energy. However most Americans have not been using this for most of their lives as have the Asian people.
Have you ever noticed that after doing an energy drink that your hands shake or you get heart palpitations, where it feels like your heart is beating so hard and loud in your chest. I remember , on day I had a couple of the rockstar energy drinks in one day . I was at the park with my 2 year old boy at the time , and I was pushing him in the swing , and this put me out of breath and I was getting chest pains. I thought to myself , this is ridiculous I teach martial arts and this shouldn’t be happening. So I took a couple of aspirins and the pain went away.
I usually carry a bottle of aspirins for the chest pains. It has kept me alive.
So here is the question how do we have enough energy to pursue our dreams and share our family life without succumbing to being out of energy and on a constant sugar low?
Following a hunch from my inner guidance , I decided to get some sunflower seeds, wheat berry seeds and lentils, and proceeded to sprout them.
It was very easy to sprout the seeds, and only took a few days.
Within a few days , I had a collection of very fresh sprouts, that not only looked appetizing but also you could feel the life force emanating out of them from 3 feet away.
One of the major problems with most foods is that they are cooked.
One thing to realize is your basic foods such as fruits and vegetables and greens, when picked fresh are filled with the life essence which the Chinese call chi, Indians call prana, from the Sun and interaction of heaven and earth. Consequently , when a person tends to eat something fresh such as fruit or greens or vegetables, than we in turn end up getting that abundance of energy in our bodies , and we feel refreshed and replenished as well.

However, as with most people have been taught and grown up with the idea of eating meat , fish or fowl, and don’t get me wrong, sometimes a person just likes to have something different, and there are enough recipes to testify the tastiness of having some meat dishes from time to time.
The problem with having meat dishes or cooked foods is  they are all  second hand sources of chi or life force.

For example, lets talk about beef, you have a cow or steer which is used to eating green grass or hay . The green plants are filled with life force from the Sun and interaction with the elements,earth,water,air,fire, as well. So than the cow eats the grass and inherently the life force is transferred to the cow. Lets say that  we’re having a dinner with beef as the main ingredient, such as beef with broccoli , which is a favorite to be sure . But notice , we are getting a source of second hand energy from the meats that we eat. So here is the metaphor, we all want to have more energy right? This being said , why not get the energy first hand.

This is where the sprouts come in as the amount of energy generated from the sprouts is truly amazing. Stop and think about it for a moment. Here you have this little seed which is just bursting with the fullness of life and it just sprouts, and is in the phase of generating all of this energy to grow.
I have been doing internal martial arts for over 30 years and I have learned to live with the awareness of the life force, and you can actually learn to sense this life force, which becomes important.
So if one wants to have more life force to be able to able to cultivate their hopes dreams and wishes, than take the simple path of feeling and sensing which foods make you feel more energized and alive. It is not an intellectual exercise but rather one of experiential feeling and experience.

I would have the sprouts on my desk at work and they would actually be a little life force battery which would counteract the negative environment and negative chi generated in the workplace. Plus , I could eat them in between calls, and they would allow me not to drop into a sugar low and maintain a very positive attitude which is crucial to the customer service industry.

It was really funny because when I would just eat the sprouts, during the day and just snack on them without anything else or any other foods, I would be so energized that I would not be able to sleep more than about 3 hours, and than get up and do the work and family thing again. As long as I would do the sprouts , I could actually feel the abundance of energy as if my cells wanted to expand out in their fullness much like a basketball being filled to the max.
What is really ironic about all of this is that this all takes some getting used to . Most of us are way to sedentary in our ways and are not used to being filled with energy and the tendency is to rest in our old habits , and make excuses.
Well guess whats, it comes down to a question of energy, as if you try it for yourself and just start implementing the sprouts into your daily routine, instead of just having energy drinks or heavy meals, try eating more sprouts and watch the transformation in your energy.

You will see an amazing thing, as they also make you aware of the presence of life all around and the inherent harmony that is always available to us .     For those in pursuant of the more spiritual life, one can do all of the practices, meditations, tai chi prayer and the like, but to break it down in the simplest terms, if one eats the sprouts , you will sense your own spirit, and become much more sensitive your own spiritual presence. One only has to explore this to verify it, and it is mindblowingly fun and joyous. It is a shift in vibration, likened to changing gears, as we are all in amidst the changes , as we are all evolving into less dense energy patterns to that of light vibrations into more of our divine potential as we near the year 2012. We will all be given the opportunity to ascend, providing we have prepared ourselves.

I ‘ve had the pleasure of healing with accupressure for over 25 years and one of the most amazing discoveries, is that we have the basic meridians of energy or chi flow. They relate to the different internal organs in the body and also to emotions and spirit as well.
They are basically a network of checks and balances , and one of the ways we check the health of the body/mind is to take the pulses for the internal organs from the meridians. This being said, one of the approaches we take is if one area is out of balance in order to rebalance the chi flow in those affected systems is we would use the accupuncture points to allow the excess chi or life force to flow into the meridian that had the deficiency, mind you this is a simplistic illustration .

What I have found is amazing, is when a person is eating sprouts say this and nothing but this for at least 3 days, is when you check the pulses for this person , that all of the meridians are in perfect balance. That is very incredibly unique, and is very rare as well.
So what does all this mean? Think of it , if your meridians for the internal organs are in balance, than the emotions will be in balance and the spirit will be peaceful and clear.

What you will need:

Go to your nearest health food store and there you should be able to find what you need.

1.  1 pound of sunflower seeds without the shells.

2.  1 pound of winter wheat berry seeds

3.  1 pound of lentils                                                                        

4.  Enough water to fill the glass bowl or tupperware,(I try to use distilled water at best,however, you can use purified

water, and least regular tap water)

5.  A large glass bowl or tupperware .

6.  A  glass plate large enough to fit over the bowl.

How to prepare the sprouts:

First you either want to get a large glass mixing bowl or a small tuperware.  Then you will take about 1 cup of sunflower seeds, a cup of the wheat berries and a cup of lentils, than put the seeds into bowl.
Next we are going to fill the bowl with water and place the plate on the top of the bowl to cover and keep out bugs.
We’re going to keep the plate on the bowl filled with water for 24 hours.  You don’t need to do a thing except wait for the seeds to sprout.

Once this is done, the only thing to do is at the end of the 24 hours you will want to hold the plate on the bowl turning it upside down over a sink and let the water drain from the bowl. 8 hours later you will want to fill the bowl with water and soak the sprouts (seeds) for a minute or two, than after 2 minutes hold the plate , flip the bowl upside down over the sink and empty the water out again.
You’ll need to do this about every 8 hours, soak rinse,repeat.
The end result will yield a large bowl full of sprouts which can be kept in the fridge to slow their deteriorating .  Only make as much as you are going to use else wise, they are done in about   4 days and have to be thrown out.
They are delicious in salads and in sandwiches if you want to slowly integrate them into your daily food regime .

This comes in at one of the cheapest ways to survive, literally, the sprouts can be eaten 3 times a day with no ill effects , and one has to put them to the test.  They are amazing, and there are bible references to the 12 grains, which , I have seen info on the internet describing further explorations and sprouting the 12 grains.
If you are a meditator you will find the attention is calm and able to easily achieve quality results when using sprouts as the main ingredient of the diet.
In closing, remember to rinse your sprouts as this keeps the bacteria off them and a huge thing, don’ t reach in the bowl and grab your sprouts as the bacteria from your hand will go to the sprouts and cause them to deteriorate quicker.
Use chopsticks or some utensil and serve a small bowl,this way they will last longer for you.

This recipe is also a great survival recipe as it comes in about 40 dollars for a month supply.

Most of your nutritional requirements are also met by eating sprouts such vitamins A,C,E,D,B,Amino acids, Iron, Magnesium, Niacin, Phosphorus,and Potassium.

I will include a picture when this batch sprouts for you, thanks for your attention and bon appetite. Here is a great additional resource for any other sprout related questions that might come up. sprout people