What's it about anyway?

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Building Health from the Earth Up

This blog is going to contain a guided approach to building your and your family's health from the earth up.

In addition to food and physical health, no one can be truly free and happy without some form of spiritual advancement. So included here will be earth to ether, root chakra to crown, body, mind and spirit. And of course, that includes lifestyle and increasing meaning in our life.

I am a Muslim, but you don't have to be a Muslim to find meaning here. Why? Because it's all about humanity, health, thoughts, living, and above all, progressing in every aspect of our life.

Sources and Inspiration

It will contain references from the Holy Quran, traditions from our Holy Prophet (may the peace and blessings of Allah be upon him and his family), and references and explanations from science — benefits of certain foods, nutritional information that is practical and understandable to everyone who can read — and recipes showing many ways to prepare these natural ingredients.

That's so often the problem. We sometimes know what to eat but don't quite know how to incorporate it into our life. So we begin enthusiastically buying all these ingredients, and then we give up because of time, life, or just the consequences of following a program that we can’t keep up.

A Holistic Approach

This is a very holistic site. I believe in holistic medicine and, as I mentioned before, was heavily into it a few years back.

Everything from chakra healing, Reiki, Therapeutic Touch, ear candling, reflexology, herbology, homeopathy, and I have to mention right now my favorites — crystal healing, and even more subtle on the energy alignment: essence healing.

So I may, from time to time, post links to other areas of health information such as Ayurveda, the chakras, Feng Shui (because where and how we live affects how we feel), and just feel-good images of nature to help us stay connected.

I'll also be including wisdoms, philosophies, and quotes from different places that pertain to lifestyle and healthy living — because after all, we eat to live, not the other way around.

A Personal Note

I want to mention here that I am in no way an expert on any of the above, but I have made them all a part of my life at some point or another. Since I was still looking for the basics, they sort of left my practices.

These philosophies are great and true, but without the correct foods or understanding, we cannot attain complete health. We have to go back to the basics. Where did it all start, and where do we begin?

On Recipes

Back to the recipes for a moment (I do this often, by the way).

They will be a mix of all cuisines because we need variety in order to stick to anything, and they will include anything that is appropriate in that category — whether from the web, my own favorites (often from my mother), or even sometimes just something that fits in that I picked up through the years.


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