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Prophylactic self-isolation for emo-C evaluation. Day 119th.

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Great way to stabilize a day. Great way to be OK

by Dr. A. Palatronis

Part 5 from X

About the balance between physical and emotional bodies

Original photo by Mark Neal on Pexels.com was adapted by Dr. A. Palatronis on www.z-antenna.com
On the left:
Resting energy expenditure of organs
and tissues (1). “Other” consisted of adipose tissue, bone, skin, intestine and glands. 		On the right:
Emotional needs to keep the body toned up.

Keeping physical and emotional bodies properly supplied with essential nutritious and “emotional”calories, contributes to a balance on physical and emotional levels.

As a result, it leads to self-satisfaction, better well-being and not overeating.

Well-feeling induces well-eating and one should work on it daily

Ingredients for Emotional diet (make it within the next 7 days)

ActivityWhat to do?DurationScore
DIYSoap, face cream, toothpaste making, furniture elements, natural garden sprays, compost, air freshener, candle making, waterfall aquarium,
room decor, DIY greenhouse!, clothing decoration, DIY using cement, cardboard, paper, etc.; hair hacks, inventions, ANYTHING!!!		1 h25
DIY means do-it-yourself. Activities to increase emotional stability and well-feeling

“It is impossible” syndrome

Whatever I make is ugly! I do not want to continue, or even to try – better to buy…

“I do not want to try – better to buy“,

– the inner fear says

“I do not want to buy – better to try”,

– the inner voice answers

In XXI century, we get used to consume, any factory-made product seems nice and well designed. The attempts to make something by yourself could lead to a great confusion and frustration, because the results seem awkward. That how the power of creation is taken away from us.

That is how the power of creation you convey to unknown hands…

I always remember the Egyptian proverb: “A beautiful thing is never perfect”

…the process of creation gives a power, a power of well-feeling…

Signing a picture. Inspire your friends to value their creation, make it real! July 2020

Just few examples of DIY:

  • Face/body cream – two ingredients, just know the technology how to make it
  • Chemically clean garden by making your own compost from vegetable peels
  • Need a toothpaste? The power to make it is within you!
  • What about to use 2-in-1 product for hygiene?: self-made deodorant, or air freshener?

P. S. Have not read about emo-C before? Here is the main info from my previous posts:

QuestionAnswer
What is emo-C in a daily-life?  Emo-C is the “emotional calories” to feed emotional body
Why to apply emo-C in an every-day life?  Emo-C allows to reach inner stability and well-feeling. When we feel well, peaceful and stable, – there is no need to overeat or crave for food
 Could be beneficial if overcoming difficult daily-life or challenging life situations
 Helps to reduce stress, actually it reduces unproductive and destructive stress feeling and leads to the proper responses and actions when needed
What should be done to ensure emo-C consumption?  Emotional calories are achieved by conducting specific activities within a day. These activities contribute to inner stability, peacefulness and well-feeling
How much scores per day?At least 100 scores are needed to ensure day’s intake of emotional calories
Activities to ensure “consumption” of emotional calories  These activities are graduated from very easy and taking just a few seconds to do, to some-how difficult, new, challenging, surprising and taking up to 0.5-1.0 hour
 Should be conducted regularly within all the day  
 Start from one activity, maintain it within a week and later add one more, any of those which seems for you good enough to try  
Main information about what is Emo-C and its benefits to daily well-feeling

You can find my previous about emo-C here:

References:

  1. McClave SA, Snider HL. Dissecting the energy needs of the body. Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition & Metabolic Care. 2001;4(2):143-7

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Prophylactic self-isolation for dessert-for-two preparation. Day 118th.

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Coconutty sex prelude

Recipe

ONE VERSION GOOD FOR:

1) warm days to refresh a body

2) cold (rainy) days to warm a body

Before you start:

Passive timeActive timeEquipment neededServings
05–2
Main information about preparation process

PASSIVE TIME is time before, during or after food preparation when nothing should be done, just waitingsoaking, sprouting, cooling down, freezing
ACTIVE TIME is factual time spent in a kitchen for preparationcutting, washing, boiling, crashing, mixing
EQUIPMENT NEEDEDspecific kitchen equipment, if not counting regular tools like pots, spoons or knifes

Ingredients:

Coconut cream, canned200 g
Coconut water or coconut milk (from a bottom of canned coconut cream)20 ml
coconut flakes, long cuthandful
date powder 2 Tbsp
date syrup 2 Tbsp
raisins 20 pcs
chocolate pieces or shredded50 g
goji berries, driedhandful
List of ingredients for preparation of Coconutty Sex Prelude dessert

Tbsp table spoon
tsp tea spoon
cup US measuring cup, equal to 240 ml of water
Abbreviations and their meaning

How to make it:

  1. Open a can with coconut cream and transfer coconut cream carefully into a bowl by using a spoon
  2. on a bottom of serving glasses, add goji berries, some raisins and pour some coconut milk (which normally appears on a bottom of a canned coconut cream)
  3. add some date syrup (do not mix)
  4. layer-by-layer, add coconut cream, date syrup, raisins, then coconut cream, date powder, chocolate pieces, again coconut cream, date syrup, etc. It is ready!
sex prelude coconut
Coconutty Sex Prelude (dessert for two:)) from the APa Treasury Box of the blog’s author.

Photo by Dr. A. Palatronis on www.z-antenna.com

Important note:

This is a transitional food, because we use canned coconut cream

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Prophylactic self-isolation for elite dinner preparation. Day 111th.

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Elite dinner for the winner

Overture

Honestly, some scarecrow stories about eating raw vegetables could lead for funny stories to appear. As this: at the moment I was curious to try raw sweet potato – I was just frighten to take a bite! It is RAW!!! Probably it will bite me back!

🙂 Oppositely, the raw sweet potato did not bite me back, and did not harm me any other way, but I experienced something very very new in tastes. I was thinking for a few days how that should be…and later this recipe appeared in my mind! Keep it very simple, just three ingredients – the parade of taste guaranteed!

APa treasury box (a food recipe from the personal collection). Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com, adapted by Dr. A. Palatronis

Recipe

Recipe for warm day to refresh a body

Before you start:

Passive timeActive timeEquipment neededServings
010 minnothing special2
Main information about preparation process

PASSIVE TIME is time before, during or after food preparation when nothing should be done, just waitingsoaking, sprouting, cooling down, freezing
ACTIVE TIME is factual time spent in a kitchen for preparationcutting, washing, boiling, crashing, mixing
EQUIPMENT NEEDEDspecific kitchen equipment, if not counting regular tools like pots, spoons or knifes

Ingredients:

Sweet potato, raw2 small pcs
Raisinshandful
Coconut, fresh or flakes (wide-sliced)0.5 pcs / handful
Coriander leaves, fresh (optional)2-3 pcs

How to make it:

  1. Rinse raisins in warm water (to remove excess of oil which is used for preservation)
  2. Cut fresh coconut into pieces or just use coconut wide-sliced flakes
  3. Cut sweet potatoes into small cubes (0.5 cm wide)
  4. Mix all together, add coriander leaves on a top and serve!

Enjoy!

Elite dinner for the day’s winner by Dr. A. Palatronis

Photo by Dr. A. Palatronis on www.z-antenna.com

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Prophylactic self-isolation for emo-C evaluation. Day 105th.

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Great way to stabilize a day. Great way to be OK

by Dr. A. Palatronis

About the balance between physical and emotional bodies

Original photo by Mark Neal on Pexels.com was adapted by Dr. A. Palatronis on www.z-antenna.com
On the left:
Resting energy expenditure of organs
and tissues (1). “Other” consisted of adipose tissue, bone, skin, intestine and glands. 		On the right:
Emotional needs to keep the body toned up.

Keeping physical and emotional bodies properly supplied with essential nutritious and “emotional”calories, contributes to a balance on physical and emotional levels.

As a result, it leads to self-satisfaction, better well-being and not overeating.

Well-feeling induces well-eating and one should work on it daily

Part 3 from X

Primary, it supposed to be 4 parts totally, but as far as we going deeper into the topic, I see that it is endless, So there will be part 4, part 5, part 6, part X, etc., etc.

Overture

May 20, 2020

What is actually that emo-C?

As we know, basic amount of food calories is essential for the proper work of vital organs and a body as a whole. Only overdose of calories in food, but not its basic amount, plus non-dynamic life style lead to overweight, obesity and related diseases. So, basic amount of consumed food calories is a necessity for a living organism.

I decided to apply the same principle to the “emotional” body – basic amount of “emotional” calories should be essential for the proper work of mental stability and emotional well-being. Basic amount of “emotional” calories, emo-C, should be consumed, in other words, guaranteed by myself to be taken each day for emotional stability, which in its turn leads to not overeating.

These days, I see that emo-C could be actually applied not only for overeating issue, but also for THE DAY, for each day while dealing with the emotional aspect of the pandemic and changing LIFE.

More so, emo-C could be adapted to overcome individual psychological or life-challenging problems and difficulties, which may be similar or different for many of us.

Today’s ingredient for Emotional diet

ActivityWhat to do?DurationScore
Supta Baddha Konasana (yoga pose in the morning)Lean back on the bed, bend your knees, and bring
the souls of your feet together under your groin.		30 sec10
Supta Baddha Konasana (yoga pose in the evening)Lean back on the bed, bend your knees, and bring the souls of your feet together under your groin30 sec10
Activities to increase emotional stability and well-feeling

Supta Baddha Konasana

Image from wakefit.co

Supta Baddha Konasana (yoga pose) translates from Sanskrit as the “reclining goddess pose”. The pose which evoke you for calmer mind, fall asleep easy in the evening, better flexibility, and even stronger and more toned legs!

When practiced regularly, Supta Baddha Konasana loosens up the muscles and connective tissues that can get so tight and sore and lead to chronic pain.

Doing this pose in the evening, please remember that you mustn’t do it immediately after a meal. Yep, do not eat at night, guys:)

Here I found the short youtube video which explains the benefits and shows how to make this pose: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYuGPtaSldU (Lie Like This for 30 Seconds Before Sleep, See What Happens by BRIGHT SIDE))

Contraindications and cautions. It may be contraindicated to practice this pose with knee conditions and during menstruation with excessive bleeding.

“It is impossible” syndrome

“In the morning I do not have time for exercises, I am in hurry to work. And in the evening too tired to do anything…”

Start doing it on Saturday, Sunday or your other free day – then will be no need to hurry. And in the evening just do it without thinking you are tired or not. Just let it be.

Do not give up! Continue, continue! 🙂

Just few examples of creative hobby:

And we will meet with the same topic after 7 days to continue! This is just a beginning!

References:

  1. McClave SA, Snider HL. Dissecting the energy needs of the body. Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition & Metabolic Care. 2001;4(2):143-7

Read other posts about Emo-C! There are plenty of valuable information, and here is a continuation!:

Emo-C part 1

Emo-C part 2

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