Try The Recipe | Coconut Liqueur with Coconut Milk

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Ingredients:

3.5 oz (100g) coconut,
11.8 oz (350 ml) brandy,
2 tablespoons vanilla sugar,
12.3 oz (350 grams) of sugar,
6.7 oz (200ml) milk,
10 oz (300 ml) of coconut milk.

Preparation:

Watering the coconut with brandy. It is best to do this in a bottle can be closed or in a jar. Leave for 2 days, then add the milk and the mixture transfer it in gauze. Through the gauze well filtered the liquid. Coconut do not throw away.

Briefly leave it to dry and use it for a dessert. In the jar in which you filtered the liquid, now add the remaining ingredients and mix occasionally, leave for little time until sugar get melted. Then put it into a bottle and Cheers . The liquor keep it in the refrigerator.

Note: If you do not have coconut milk, do it only with milk, but it would be good if you find aroma of coconut extract also add it to get greater effect, although I’m sure also from this you will immediately feel the taste of already filtered coconut.

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New Moon 2016-01-09 Thor’s Hammer

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New Moon 2016-01-09 Thor’s Hammer

This New Moon in Capricorn occurs with a longer term Thor’s Hammer aspect just two days past Sun Square Uranus and a few days after a Mercury Retrograde station.   Here is the chart, filtered for the Thor’s Hammer:

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Here is a list of New Moons for 2016, and here is a list of Full Moons for 2016.  We think this can be a good day to “get things done,” but you should be looking at old projects that somehow were sidelined at some earlier point and may now be ripe for resurrection.

Here are some other interpretations of this New Moon:

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On Saturday, January 9th Is The Exact Day of the Capricorn New Moon

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The Capricorn new moon’s importance for anchoring your creations can’t be overstated.
It’s vital.
Make time during this three-day window to write down, organize, plan, and order your creations for as much of the year as you are clear on. Writing things down gets the forces of creation moving.
Make sure you know what your highest priority creation is so you can concentrate on manifesting it. Connecting in a group can really support you in pulling these pieces together.Element: Earth
Window: January 8 – 10
Exact: January 9 ~ 8:30 p.m. Eastern 

This very grounded new moon begins the year immediately with the call for you to create a plan for the year ahead. Planning sets the forces of creation in motion. You can always adjust your plan to allow for changes you see along the way, but planning will give you a firm creation foundation.

The more you take responsibility for creating and designing your life and business the more effective you will be at aligning the forces of creation with your desired results. The energy of Capricorn can help you create better structures and form in any area of your life and business. The most powerful action you can take during this new moon window is to create a grounded plan for the year and do a personal activation ceremony to anchor your plan!

Enlist the help of Capricorn to assist you in designing and administrating systems. Develop procedures. Handle business and financial affairs effectively. Apply discipline to your physical world. Create goals and step-by-step procedures to accomplish them. Make serious commitments for success. Take care of your body. Provide support for your family and children.

This archetype considers the impact of its actions on the next seven generations. Allow Capricorn to help you design sustainable economic and Earth honoring systems for your life, business, and community. A good way to work with this energy is to ask yourself what steps you can take now to create a better world. Write down any insights you receive.

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Choose the one or two ideas you need most to work with, then focus on those. Intentions function best when there are only one or two to concentrate on in any cycle.

Personal Action Suggestions for Capricorn New Moon:

  • Create your personal blueprint for the year ahead.
  • Listen to your body wisdom by placing your awareness into your body (your personal earth). Ask it what it needs in order to be more vibrant for the upcoming growing cycle. Write down what your body says and make plans to set into motion the requests.
  • Make notes on any items that need to be accomplished in order for your home, car, and garden to function effectively.
  • Create financial goals and a month-by-month strategy. Review your investment and savings plan.
  • Go for a walk outside and talk to the Earth. Ask how you can be more honoring of the environment and of the earthly things in your life. Spend time in nature.
  • Responsibly tend to all areas of your life.
  • Honor the cycle of growth and the full, ripe, organic time for something to happen.

Business/Professional Action Suggestions for Capricorn New Moon:

  • Create a solid business plan and strategy for the year ahead.
  • Write out business goals in a step-by-step, month-by-month plan.
  • Put your business financial goals in writing for expenses, income, business growth, and product development.
  • Plan your work for the first quarter of the year or longer and then work your plan.
  • Fertilize the soil of your business with your awareness, time, and attention.
  • Ask yourself where you need to take more responsibility for creating the business or work life you desire. Write down any insights you receive and design a clear path for achieving your desired outcome.

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Recipe – No-Bake White Chocolate Raspberry Cheesecakes

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Here’s what you need:
8 oz cream cheese, softened
1/4 cup butter, softened
1/4 cup sugar
1 Tbsp. vanilla
1 cup white chocolate chips, melted
8 oz whipped cream
1 cup graham cracker crumbs (about 8 crushed graham crackers)
1/4 cup butter, melted
6 tsp seedless raspberry jam
 
Directions:
In a bowl, beat cream cheese, butter, sugar, and vanilla. Fold in the melted white chocolate, then the whipped cream. Line a muffin tin with liners, and spoon half of the cheesecake mixture into the muffin cups. Spread 1/2 tsp of jam onto the cheesecake mixture, then top with remaining cheesecake mixture. Mix graham cracker crumbs with melted butter, and pat on top of each cheesecake. Freeze for at least one hour. Remove from the muffin tins, remove the liner, and serve graham cracker side down. Enjoy!
 
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Recipe – Enchilada Lasagna

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Ingredients

  • 2 tbsp of vegetable oil
  • 1 lbs chicken breast, chopped to bite pieces
  • 5 cups of mexican blend cheese
  • 1 can of cream of celery
  • 1 can of cream of chicken
  • 1 1/2 cups sour cream
  • 1/4 cup canned and chopped green chillies (drained)
  • small corn tortillas
  • 1 tsp cumin
  • 2 tsp salt
  • 1/2 tsp pepper
  • Enchilada/Taco Sauce, to taste if you need a little extra spice in the sauce (optional)

Directions

Brown chicken in a pan on 2 tbsp of oil. Season with cumin, salt and pepper.
In a bowl combine cream of celery, cream of chicken, sour cream and green chillies. (Enchilada Sauce to taste if desired)

Prepare the dish you will assemble the lasagna in. Put 1/2 cup of cream mix on the bottom of the baking dish and spread. Layer a row of tortillas followed with cream mix, chicken and cheese. You should be able to make 3 layers like this. Last layer doesn’t need chicken, just a ton of cheese. That is the best part!

I preheat the oven to 425 degrees and let it bake for about 20 minutes or until cheese is nice and melted and golden brown on top.

Brain Imaging Shows How Vagus Nerve Stimulation Improves Symptoms of Depression | Brain & Behavior Research Foundation (Formerly NARSAD)

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In a study funded in part by the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation, Foundation NARSAD Grantees Charles R. Conway, M.D. and Yvette I. Sheline, M.D., and team found that vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) made positive, long-term changes to the brains of people suffering from major depression.

Source: Brain Imaging Shows How Vagus Nerve Stimulation Improves Symptoms of Depression | Brain & Behavior Research Foundation (Formerly NARSAD)

Affirmations Improve Your Life

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“My body is simply a projection of my beliefs about myself.”
 
Do you really and truly understand how powerful affirmations are?
 
Understanding all that you can about affirmations and how they work can give you a boost like you’ve never seen when it comes to changing things for the better.
There is an outstanding number of tools that can be used to improve our lives. The best thing about having so many different tools to choose from is the fact that it allows people to find the tool that works best for their life. Affirmations are one of these tools and just happen to be one of the most commonly chosen when it comes to personal development.

Some people are quite familiar with affirmations and some people have no idea what they are. If you are a bit unfamiliar with affirmations, you are in luck as this article from Success Consciousness should clear things right up for you.

What Are Affirmations?

They are positive statements that describe a desired situation or goal, and are often repeated, until they get impressed on the subconscious mind.

This process, causes the subconscious mind to to strive and to work on your behalf, to make the positive statement come true.

When you know how to use affirmations, you get a great tool for achieving success and for improving your life.

Most people repeat in their minds negative words and statements concerning the situations and events in their lives, and consequently, create undesirable situations. Words work at both ways, to build or destroy. It is the way we use them that determines whether they are going to bring good or harmful results.
Imagine that you are swimming with your friends in a swimming pool.

They swim fifteen rounds, something you have never done before, and since you want to win their respect, you want to show them that you can make it too.

You start swimming, and at the same time keep repeating in your mind, “I can do it, I can do it…”. You keep thinking and believing that you are going to complete the fifteen rounds.

What are you actually doing? You are repeating positive affirmations.

In a different situation, you might find yourself repeating, “I cannot do this”, “It’s too big for me”, “It is not going to work out”, and consequently, lose ambition, motivation and faith, and actually bring about what you said to yourself.

It would be a good idea to pay attention to the words you repeat in your mind, to discover whether you are using negative statements, such as:

•I cannot do this.
•I am too lazy.
•I lack inner strength.
•I am going to fail.

If you discover that these, or similar words, run through your mind, you should do something to change them.

Your words and thoughts program the mind in the same way that commands and scripts program a computer.

Repeated positive statements help you focus your mind on your aim. They also create corresponding mental images in the conscious mind, which affect the subconscious mind accordingly. In this way, you program your subconscious in accordance with your will. This process is similar to the way creative visualization works.able situations. Words work at both ways, to build or destroy. It is the way we use them that determines whether they are going to bring good This process, causes the subconscious mind to to strive and to work on your behalf, to make the positive statement come true.

When you know how to use affirmations, you get a great tool for achieving success and for improving your life.

Body Scanning Yourself – STOP SAYING “I WISH” AND START SAYING “I WILL”

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Are you having a hard time connecting mind and body?

There is a technique that you can use to do a “full body scan” and connect everything perfectly.

If you have ever read anything about mindfulness or had any interest in the subject, there’s a good chance you might have heard of the ‘body scan’ technique. For those who haven’t heard of this exercise, it’s a great introduction to mindfulness and also a great way to strengthen your mind/body connection.

This exercise is also a fantastic way to see just how much you miss by being too inside your own head and forgetting to be present. Read on to give it a try…
The Body Scan

The idea of the body scan is to help bring your attention to your own body, your surroundings and the simple experience of ‘being’. It will take you out of your own head and show you just how much sensory information is coming in at any time.

To begin then, bring your attention to your breath and focus on it with each breath inward and outward.

Continue this for a few minutes and as you do you might notice your mind starts to drift. Don’t punish yourself for this, simply make a note of how your mind is working and then bring it back to your experience.

Eventually, you should start to notice other sensations throughout your body. You may notice the feeling of your buttocks on the floor or chair for instance. Perhaps you can feel the light breeze on your skin. Maybe you can feel a slight tension in the muscles of your back.

Gradually expand your awareness to encompass your entire body and then further to encompass the environment around you. Try and listen for sounds in the distance and be aware of how many sounds you can pick up. Don’t engage with them, just be aware of them and be constantly aware of your breathing.
Mindfulness

To extend this to true mindfulness, you’re next going to expand your mindfulness even further – this time to encompass your own thoughts so that you’re aware of them drifting through your mind like clouds. As with the external sounds earlier, the aim here is not to engage with those thoughts – simply to observe them in a passive manner without assessing or judging them.

If you’re interested in trying this exercise but not sure how to go about it yourself, you can find one among my meditation MP3s uploaded on The Halau’s community page on FaceBook or on ReverbNation .

Meditative Practice – Kundalini Yoga – 40-Day Sadhana with Snatum Kaur

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Snatam Kaur discusses how to practice Jap Ji for the upcoming Spirit Voyage 40 Day Global Sadhana: Meditation of the Soul – An Experience of Jap Ji. We begin on January 1, 2016. To register in English, click here:

http://www.spiritvoyage.com/globalsadhana/experiencejapji_english

Swordmaker, Instructed in Dreams, Recreates Infallible Sacred Swords of Legend | Ancient Origins

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Chinese legends tell of a kind of infallible sacred sword, forged from meteorite material, that gave its bearer an apparently supernatural advantage over his opponents. The creation of such a sword seems beyond the capabilities of ancient technology, but modern sword-maker Chen Shih-Tsung has revived the art successfully—guided, he says, by instructions imparted to him by celestial beings.

Source: Swordmaker, Instructed in Dreams, Recreates Infallible Sacred Swords of Legend | Ancient Origins

Reiki Peace Garden Upgrade – Bring The Healing Power of Water To Your Garden!

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Here’s a 2016 twist on the Reiki Peace Rock Garden idea:  add a free-form water feature to your outdoor space!

http://theownerbuildernetwork.co/…/diy…/diy-garden-fountain/

Contrary to how it seems, building a garden fountain yourself is not that difficult! With enough research and planning, it’s a project you can accomplish in a weekend.

Could this be your next weekend project?

Create and GIVE a healing water fountain as a gift this year … Spread your Aloha through Water!