Yesterday morning, as I awoke from only two hours of sleep, I threw my arms into the air and exclaimed “I AM A RAW FOOD SUPERHERO!”.

It is moments like these where it really dawns on me the power that these tools are having on my being. With ever increasing regularity, I surprise myself with joyful, blissful expressions of being.

A little over a year ago, waking up was a frequent struggle. I was extremely dependent on coffee, I was not breathing very deeply, and I enjoyed eating my dinner late at night. As a result, my brain and body would be foggy and stiff and I resented talking to people for the first 30 minutes upon waking- until the coffee set in. I would move through my day with an above average optimism, and yet, there were still moments of negitivity. Be it the car that cut me off in traffic, the stress of the unpaid bill, the newest pimple on my face- many little things that created resistence and made it more challenging to express my fullest joy and gratitude for life. It essense, I really had to work for it to maintain a blissful state of being.

As my year anniversary of meeting the Bliss Family has come and gone, the memories of a toxic body and a foggy mind grow increasinly distant. People often ask me about becoming a raw foodist and I smile and speak my truth “It was so easy and so blissful”. This is due, in large part, because of Keval’s fantastic techniques for intoducing these technologies. Most of us have had our run with fad diets and quick weight loss tricks. I have actually had a couple marathons of these experiences! These diets are very challenging to maintain in our world. Trying to change hundreds of little habits and behavior patterns in one quick swoop is rarely sustainable. With Keval, we isolated a few tools that I could start implemented that were to be my main focus for 40 days. These tools had to be economically excessable to me, things I was willing to do and things that I wanted to change. In the beginning, I was sort of scratching my head because it was so easy. Just two or three things? This isn’t right! Dieting was supposed to be a struggle and painful! And yet, the tools Keval offered fit right in with my schedule and budget so I persisted.

One of my first tools was Pure Synergy Supergreens. This powder is quite palatable and it is extremely hydrating and mineralizing for the body. As the body becomes more mineralized, everything, I REPEAT, EVERYTHING becomes easier. My instructions were to drink my green water (loveingly titled guru goop) upon waking in the morning, before eating, before any sugar, drugs, or alchol, before bedtime and anytime there was a disruption in the system i.e. headache, cranky, sore throat, irritable, etc. The effect of the greens became apparent quickly, everything from increased mental clarity to a more relaxed, calm state of being. And yet, it wasn’t until around day 38 of 40 that I really discovered the true impact I had made on my subconsious mind. I remember this moment so clearly, it could have been yesterday. I was driving on the 405 in some hectic traffic conditions when another car swearved in front of my car, a few meager inches away from serious damage, causing things to go flying in my car, my brakes to squeak and my heart rate to skip a couple beats. My first thought, said outloud and with intense aggression, was “WHERE ARE MY GREENS?”. A grand smile quickly followed this thought, as it dawned on me that these superfoods had become a new coping tool for my life, a coping tool that was consiously chosen, not a repition of some toxic habit learned early in life.

Keval and I continued my health coaching, and through the immersion of The Bliss Bar’s summer tour, my life and diet permenetly changed. These changes were so subtle and yet, layered upon eachother, they rewrote my entire habitual patterning.

Today, I still experience “bad days” or “bad moods” but they dwindle as time passes. The tools and technologies of a raw, living diet are so in the flow of a blissful, exstatic state of mind, that you really have to try to be grumpy, because everything within your biology is supporting the elation and joy. I was reading an article the other day that asked the readers what percentage of time they spend unhappy. I was sort of stumped because I authenically couldn’t remember the last time I felt unhappy.

For this, and much more, I am deeply grateful to The Bliss Bar.

May your state of being flow easily into a constant state of Bliss and Gratitude!