Our choices

I just wanted to share the Tusli flowers with you. Last year the plants didn’t flower so it was a real treat to see the in the garden the last few days. As is often the case, it really is the simple things in life which bring the most joy!

I also wanted to share my beans. Not many beans as you can see. Which makes me have even more respect for all the people who grow all the food that I and my family eat - especially the lovely man who sells his produce just up the road from us, which keeps us going many weeks of the year. I feel as a society we are very much disconnected from nature and from the source of our food stuff, and I know how much better I feel when I eat food which has been grown and made with love. We are lucky here with our hedge veg, making fresh fruit and vegetables accessible and affordable, not everyone is so fortunate.

I was talking with my best friend up in Edinburgh the other day who was saying that since Brexit the supply chains to the supermarkets near where she lives continue to be affected. But more than that, the escalation in food prices, does mean that food is pricier, especially fresh fruit and vegetables. As a consequence lower income families have no choice but to buy cheaper processed food and as we all know this doesn’t promote immune function or wellness.

In fact I was alarmed to read in this article, which I shared on the Facebook page, and which you can read here, about processed food and the connection between eating them and rising cancer rates in you get people. In the articles it reads:

“As Dr Chris van Tulleken has written, we are becoming ultra-processed people. More than 80% of the processed food sold in Britain is considered unsafe for marketing to children by the World Health Organization.”

It’s a crazy world that people can make money from selling products that actually harm and kill people. And that ignorance means that people eat said food products without realising the harm they may be causing to themselves in the process. Not forgetting of course that people trust others to have their welfare at heart when they don’t, because money is all that is important to many people - money motivates our choices in so many ways, some awful and some helpful…always an interesting enquiry for each of us, our relationship with money and what we will do for it and how we spend it and the implication collectively.

Another enquiry is what we eat and why we eat it. How much is produced in factory without any life force and how much is grown in the earth. Not forgetting that even if it is grown in the earth that doesn’t mean it’s grown safely and cleanly. Has it been grown with chemicals and des it contain any love? And how do we prepare the food we eat and how do we eat, consciously or unconsciously?

Anyway, we have Lughnasadh on Tuesday, the first grain harvest when traditionally people celebrated by making bread and having a merry old time together. I’ll be celebrating with some of you at a Yoni Yoga class - there are still some spaces so please sign up here if you’d like to join me.

It happens to coincide with the full moon too, which i am told is a super full moon on account f the moon’s closeness to Earth. It means we’ll feel everything that much more and there is a lot of collective agitation in the air…

So happy Lughnasadh and full moon and if I don’t see you before, see you on the other side!

Love Emma x