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You may (or may not) wonder where I get my health information from. My life is a constant journey of learning and experiencing so sometimes it’s hard to say exactly where I gather all of my new knowledge. There’s one site however that I absolutely love so I thought I’d share it with you. I feel as though I’ve been keeping it a little secret all of this time! Check out my video to find out more-

To sign up or learn more about the Best Day Ever membership site, click here.

And to learn more about the Longevity Conference (I’ll be there, come and say hi!), click here.

My housemate has started organizing weekly documentary screenings at our house. It’s a great way to learn stuff, get a group of like-minded people together and to share inspiring conversation. This week we watched Water which of course is a topic that’s always fascinated me. I talk more about these lovely little gatherings and the documentary in this video:

Here is the link to the trailer for the documentary Water if you would like to check it out.

And here are the images of the water crystals that I referred to in the video. These images are incredible. I could have posted a lot more in because this topic fascinates me. If you would like to see more pictures, a simple Google search for water crystals will bring up many images of Dr Emoto’s work, including water crystals that have been exposed to different types of music or water that has come from different locations (tap water, springs, etc). Continue reading →

The more we grow up the less we play. Somewhere along the line a lot of us got this unrealistic expectation that grown ups don’t play to have fun. So instead we began to do what all the other grown ups do to have fun – get drunk, hang out at bars, go out to dinner or watch a movie. Occasionally we join a sport team and play a little with that, but when do we really let everything go and play with no inhibition, no goal and no outcome, just to laugh, be silly and have a really good time…

I have an internal tug of war going on with this concept. A large part of me feels like I need to act a certain way because I’m 30 years old now, and therefore officially a grow up. But there’s also this little child in me that wants to bust out sometimes. It wants to run around the garden, do cartwheels, laugh a lot, wrestle, tickle my friends and dance freely.

I feel that somewhere along the line we learned to lock up this child and never let it out. It’s a beautiful freeing feeling letting that child within us loose. Letting it run around and skip and play.

When a friend and I were walking down the street yesterday we decided to play with this idea a little. So we skipped, walked sideways and jumped down the road. Sure we got a few strange looks from people but both of us ended up in laughter. And it was that deep satisfying, healing belly laughter that comes from playing around and being silly.

That’s the thing – play can be extremely healing. It can bring on laughter, it can move energy around your body and it’s just plain fun. We all know how incredibly healing laughter can be. There are even yogic groups that get together to weave all types of laughter into their practice as a form of healing! And moving the body means moving the energy around. This movement can create more of a free flow of energy throughout the body and help dislodge any blockages. Especially when we move our body in a completely different way to what we’re used to. Try playing with moving every single muscle in your body at once. You may be surprised at how little movement you have in your every day life.

But you don’t have to be as lame as my friend and I. There are no rules to this game. You can play around with anything that you child wants and desires to have fun. Mine is usually tickling, poking and laughing with my friends or dancing around the room (what I call “kid dancing”). What’s yours? I’d love to know.

And here is a video that you may or may not have seen already. It’s a perfect example of this concept, of how having childlike fun can bring more joy and magic into our lives.

Lovely huh. Maybe a lot of us usually take the escalator because it’s WAY more fun than the stairs. So if the stairs were more fun perhaps we would then choose to walk up the stairs.

Happy playing and mucking around x

Two years ago I made the decision to give up TV. I’d been traveling around the world for a year so wasn’t hooked on any shows and didn’t have a routine that included regular TV watching. So when I returned back home to Australia I made a quick decision not to get back into the habit. Now two years down the track I’ve never looked back. I don’t miss it and I’ve never missed it. I now have more free time, I never have the urge to rush home to catch my favorite TV show if I’m out, and I absolutely love not being advertised at (it has actually been a great way to bring more peace into my life).

In this video I talk a little more about my decision to give up TV. Sorry the video is so dark, the sun was in my eyes and I didn’t realize I was sitting in such a shadow .. but the message is still there

I’m sitting in a cafe writing this article because it has been cold and rainy for the past few days and too cold to work in my house unless I constantly run the heating. I’ve been spending a lot of time hiding in the corners of cafes tapping away on my keyboard and not out in the sunshine recording video.

So for those of you who love watching my talking head on the screen, I apologize for not getting my face out there and I’ll be back in front of the camera as soon as the sun starts shining again!

It’s still late breakfast time so I’ve been watching the food that cafe patrons have been ordering. A lot of eggs, big breakfasts and coffees have been coming out of the kitchen.

For as long as I’ve been Fran, one of my favorite things to do has been to eat breakfast out so I’m very familiar with the standard “vegetarian breakfast” on most cafe menus. This is usually the one option that does not include meat. Two if you’re lucky. Vegan’s have it even harder with most cafes not offering a breakfast option for vegans at all. And if you’re raw vegan, well forget it!

Which got me thinking, when did we start eating so much animal product and why has it now become normal? I grew up eating animal product three times a day every single day. Whether it be milk, butter, yogurt, eggs or meat, I ate it three times a day every single day. Sometimes even more.

Before I became vegetarian I never consciously considered how much food from an animal I was actually consuming, and how many of my daily meals relied on that food as being the main focus of the meal. And it’s not like I was consciously making a decision to eat that way for my health because I certainly didn’t believe I needed that much meat or milk. It was just the way things were and the way I was brought up.

The problem was meat got cheap so we started eating loads of it because we could. And the more we ate the the fatter and unhealthier we became. Until all of a sudden it became normal to eat bacon for breakfast, chicken for lunch and beef for dinner every single day. Continue reading →