Konnichiwa. Watashi wa Bobby desu. Watashi wa speaking Japanese. Anyways… Rachelle and Tyler just landed in Japan and they are loaded with an iPhone app to translate for them. Thats all I know for now. I will keep you all posted with news as it comes. So far we’re booked into ichy(1) of the biggest food expos in Asia: Food EX 2010! Think Street Fighter.. but for food! Ok maybe a terrible comparison… think the largest food providers around the world, some known, some unknown, showing their warez in a showdown to produce the ultimate street fighter!! *Hadouken* Lets be honest… I have no idea… all I know is they are in Japan for the next month. I would be surprised if Tyler didn’t play street fighter somewhere in Tokyo though.

They are going to upload some videos and keep some updates coming in so we can go on a bit of a journey with them.

It is really interesting some of the random bytes of information we come across on some of the social networking sites. As you may know, we have a twitter presence and although we don’t live on there, from time to time we come across some things we probably wouldn’t have found otherwise. Today for example, @DanielPriestley made a twitter post which said:

Jamie Oliver gives an inspired talk about one of the most important issues we face… http://www.ted.com/talks/jamie_oliver.html

So I decided to click on and have a look.

Jamie Oliver won this years TED competition and the prize is he gets to make a wish for humanity, and as you probably know – its all about food. But what you probably don’t know is how passionate Jamie is about healing the world of sickness and obesity by changing our understanding of food and what we allow to be served up en mass through our schools.

He starts off…

For the last 7 years I’ve worked, fairly tirelessly, to uh, save lives in my own way. I’m not a doctor—I’m a chef. I don’t have expensive equipment, or medicine, I use information, education.

Profound huh?

I profoundly believe that the power of food has a primal place in our homes. That binds us to the best bits of life. We have an awful, awful reality right now. America you’re at the top of your game – this is one of the unhealthiest countries in the world.

There is some shocking footage and startling facts which might not be a surprise to you, but interesting to watch nevertheless. He continues..

The adults of the last 4 generations have blessed our children with the destiny of a shorter life span than their own parents. Your child will live a life 10 years younger than you, because of the landscape of food that we’ve built around them.

and..

2/3 of this room today in America are statistically overweight or obese.

I’ll leave it there. Jamie really breaks it down and exposes the ignorance and the faults behind the education system and what it severely lacks, but what he really shares is how easily things can be changed, 1 person at a time by re-educating people about vegetables, fruit and preparing food at home. Enjoy… and thanks Daniel for the link.

Is this guy passionate about doing what he does or what? Seeing this art form in real life is sort of hypnotic but I don’t think I’ve ever come across anybody this good… If you read some of the comments on the YouTube page you can see people arguing over its authenticity – isn’t it great when somebody’s form has you questioning reality and contemplating illusion? Spell-bounding huh? Binding a spell indeed!

Something equally astounding, and you’ll know what I mean if you’ve heard what I’m about to share is the ‘White Stone Carillon’ bowls and the spell-binding and healing primordial tones they create. Calibrated in “The Key of David” made of pure Quartz Crystal, NASA scientists have confirmed this key is the ethereal and enchanting tone of space.

The ‘White Stone Carillon’ is used by people who just like to clear the space of a room, to focus the mind and prepare for meditation or yoga (the “Key of David” resonates directly with the pineal gland and third-eye), or for people like leading Oncologist Mitchell Gaynor simply to create instant tranquility and have excellent cancer remission results. I’ve even seen the ‘White Stone Carillon’ used in office spaces to bring the whole space into a unified frequency. Its a truly mind captivating tone which people can speculate about and criticize generally until they hear it.

But there is so much more about the ‘White Stone Carillon’ we will unfold in time. The mysteries and the true power of this tool are boundless…

Quartz crystal emits a vibration, which extends and amplifies the powers of the user’s mind. Like a laser, it radiates energy in a coherent, highly concentrated form, and this energy may be transmitted into objects or people at will.” Marcel Vogel Senior scientist for 27 years with IBM.

The ‘White Stone Carillon’ is coming soon to ConsciousLifestyler. Be the first to find out when it is available.

If you already have the ‘White Stone Carillon’ we would love to hear about how use it. Share your tips in the forum or comment below.

I heard about a really cool and well referenced article titled “Life Expectancy and Medicine” published in NOVA Magazine while talking to a close friend. We were discussing the way modern medicine, more-so ‘big pharmaceutical’ has the ability to spin statistics and choose words in a way to report on those statistics which smiles on them favorably. My friend thought it was incredibly relevant. A great marketing agency with almost limitless funds can take a statistical results which have nothing to do with what they do or have done, and take direct praise and acclaim for it.

Living longer and retaining vitality for longer seems like the eternal quest of modern man and woman. To stay younger for longer. To be more potent for longer. To appear more youthful for longer. It is one of the most important values of our time. Who takes credit for this? Big pharmaceutical, of course. Its all the pills and toxins they’ve capsuled, apparently.

I wanted to share some snippets from this article (or just read the whole thing over here) by Dr Peter Dingle PhD who suggests we look beyond the accepted ‘truth’ and gain a clearer view of our community’s health…

He says…

All too often, we hear that the reason life expectancy has been increased is thanks to the marvelous developments in modern medicine. This is a message that is repeated many times and promoted by the medical industry, but with little or no evidence. In fact, the opposite may be the truth.

A combination of not understanding the concept of life expectancy, ignoring scientific facts, plus a willingness to take credit when it is not due has seen the medical industry promote itself as the reason we live longer. Behind the scenes, this is little more than a marketing strategy for the big pharmaceutical companies.

Don’t get me wrong; this does not undermine the fantastic role medical doctors play in acute life-saving events. These make a huge contribution to an individual’s life expectancy, but an insignificant contribution to life expectancy for all of us. The overemphasis of modern medicine on the pharmaceutical model and “silver bullet” approach has led to a disempowerment of individuals over their own health during the past few decades, during which we have seen a huge rise in chronic illness. The more specialists and the bigger the medical budget, the poorer the health of the public.

What you will find in his article is just how skewed the information is around life expectancy, and like myself, you might find literally ‘empty data’ which is used by modern medicine to take credit for improving life span, shocking… it might even make you angry. Its lack of reliance on fact and its complete dependence on fiction to me is not surprising, its just encouraging because of what we do here with ConsciousLifestyler. But I do find it alarming to the peel back the veil once again and discover the kind of mindset and lack of integrity behind these companies which are taking credit for something they in fact have little to nothing to do with such as prolonging life.

Here is a perfect example by Dr Dingle of how the ‘truth’ is skewed:

Life expectancy is poorly understood. Most people think it is increasing the age to which they can live; for example, people at 50 think that they are going to live longer because of an increase in life expectancy. This is not the case. Life expectancy is a statistical anomaly, which takes the average of the age of a person’s death. It includes everyone: infants, children, teenagers right through to those in their old age. This means that if the rates of infant mortality are reduced, the average life expectancy is dramatically increased overall. A simple example will highlight this. If 50% of the population died before one year of age and 50% of the population died at 80 years of age, the average age of life expectancy is around 40 years, even though 50% lived to 80 years of age. If you eliminate the infant mortality, the life expectancy goes up to 80 years of age. This does not mean people are living longer – they are still dying at 80 years of age, but the statistical average, the “life expectancy”, has increased.

Read the full story here…

Once you’ve read the article… How does it make you feel? Are you surprised? Shocked? Disgusted? Or is it really what you’ve just come to expect from big pharmaceutical?

It probably seems as though we are really lazy around here. But due to a mountain of glitches and technical issues, changing our audio streaming providers and other lame excuses, getting the recorded webinars out to everybody took an incredibly long time. But, they are now here, online and ready to listen to (instructions to follow). Last week Tyler had Don Tolman on the show talking about the Tolman Academy and what everyone can expect. Don also talks a little bit about the FDR3 coming soon and what we can find in that. Listen and learn about food signatures, revelations versus academia and more… What Don goes into during this podcast is extensive.

So, how do you listen? Well, the simplest way is to simply add our podcast feed to your reader of choice… for us, that is iTunes and its as simple as this:

In iTunes, click on Advanced, then ’subscribe to podcast stream’ like so…

And then, enter our feed address: http://consciouslifestyler.blip.tv/rss/itunes/

Then, whenever a new podcast is available, your iTunes will let you know you’ve got new stuff to download, and you can download straight away and take it from there.

So… for being patient (not a patient, just having patience) I want to add a little more…

Here are some other podcast streams I think are worth checking out to help survive the droughts in between our releases:

tip: add these podcasts the same way you did above.

Dr Mercola totally blew the lid off the Swine Flu propaganda, and with the largest hitting natural health website on the planet I think he deserves a bit of a round of applause for being in the position to speak out to so many about the dangers of the H1N1 vaccine. His podcast is http://www.viddler.com/explore/mercola/videos/feed/itunes/. Tune in.

Peter Joseph might not be a name that rings any bells for a lot of you, but if I were to mention Zeitgeist you might lift a brow or 2. Whether you agreed his first video or not with an alternative look into mass religion, his second video Zeitgeist: Addendum is really well worth checking out and its free. Check out his podcast at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Peter-Joseph.rss

Visionary Culture with Laura Fox is just a really interesting and diverse array of so many awesome things. Raw food. Great music. Interviews with Conscious minds and of course you will find a couple in there with Don and Tyler Tolman. Laura is quite the lovely host to tune into and I feel you will love what comes from her show. Definitely subscribe to her feed at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/rawinspirations.rss

I would love to know what podcasts everybody else tunes into. These are just a few I listen to now and then but always like finding new ones. Maybe you’ve got your own? Let us know in the comments below.

Simply put, the food you eat should help you maintain your ideal weight, feel great, look good, fight disease and stay healthy. Does that seem like you’re asking too much? It shouldn’t! If you’re not getting these benefits from your diet there may be a simple reason:

As we all know your body burns food for fuel, so that it can perform as the amazingly complex and unique piece of machinery that it is. Food provides essential nutrients – of the dozens, possibly hundreds yet to be discovered, science has classified 17 vitamins and 24 minerals essential to our body’s functioning.

However, what is lesser known is that in order to do this the food you eat must deliver these nutrients in a non-corrupted, bio-available form (one that your body can respond to and make use of). Explaining this process, Michael Colgan, the author of “Your Personal Vitamin Profile” observes: These vital substances must be “supplied to the body in the same mixtures and concentrations that occur in raw, unprocessed foods”. Your mouth might swallow anything you put into it, but your body can’t be fooled into ’swallowing’ something nutritionally empty. As Colgan goes on to say “your body through evolution has been genetically programmed to only recognize food in a certain form”.

So, just because a product lists vitamins and minerals on its packaging doesn’t mean that your body can absorb them. Forking out mega-bucks on ’supposed’ health-shakes, bars, and powders is money down-the-drain if the vitamins and minerals are not in a form your body can recognize.

What puts Abundance in a class all of its own?

Abundance is engineered to maximize nutrient absorption through specially combining the selected ingredients according to a secret formula-that took decades of research to discover.

The man responsible for this discovery and the insights from a lifetime devoted to food-wisdom and healing is Don Tolman, author of “Farmacist Desk Reference” and “The Boy Who Found Pulse”.

Furthermore, since cooked and processed foods are stripped of their nutritional value, Abundance is neither cooked nor processed but is 100% raw and active. This ensures a nutrient-rich purity that sets abundance apart from virtually all other health-foods on the market.

What is the relationship between diet and disease?

Some argue that feeding your body a steady diet of cooked, refined, and processed foods is as nutritionally beneficial to you as eating cardboard; or to put it another way, like filling the petrol-tank of your beloved automobile with diesel instead of petrol(gas). It may still run, but at what cost? When we make bad choices about the food we eat we may be filling our bellies but our bodies are literally starving. Is it any wonder then that our bodies begin to break down and produce discomfort? This is how illness and sickness begins in the body.

One of the most highly respected authorities on nutrition, biochemist Roger Williams, regards ‘cellular malnutrition’ as the root cause of many of today’s diseases such as allergies, arthritis, coronary heart disease, emotional disorders, insomnia, infections, mental retardation and disorders of the immune system, (to find out more about the benefits of a raw food diet and how to eat to treat various illnesses, check out David Wolfe “The Sun Food Diet Success System” or his web page — thebestdayever.com.)

This is why including Abundance in your diet can introduce an element of health into your life and help fight the unpleasant side-effects of a nutrient-starved body.

And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.” Genesis 1:29

The benefits of ‘Abundance’ to you are -

• All seeds and grains are germinated making this food completely bio-available
• 100% gluten free
• 100% raw, living and activated which means you will literally feel the ‘Pulse’
• “Ancient” secret recipe made to mathematical proportions to correspond to every single part of your body
• An entire meal in bite-sized snack-portion so you can have this superior blend anywhere you go
• It will take you to your ideal weight fast and by healthy means!!
• A meal designed to feed your muscles and help your consciousness evolve

This food is the best thing the human body can take. Being a trainer, I wanted to supply my body with the top nutrients and I became addicted to pulse! This food strengthens the body.” Marcus Patrick

Welcome to a new era

If you haven’t noticed – we’ve had a branding shift which coincides with a strategic shift and direction for the company. If you’ve been tuning into the Weekly webinars you would know that after much deliberation and weighing up a lot of feedback we have decided to move away from an affiliate marketing model and make our products available to wholesalers instead. Essentially, the reason for this shift was an inconvenient one. We would be out and about talking about our products and the benefits of them and found when people learned there was even the inkling of network marketing involved, it tainted the message. After all, how can you trust a message when it seems like making a bunch of money is the reason behind it all? So for us as a team, it felt in-congruent and ultimately we did not want an obstacle like that standing in the way of expansion, since our aim is to help as many people as possible make shifts toward light and health rather than quick riches.

Since we decided this, it lifted a weight from all our shoulders.

Naturally, some of you will be disappointed by this news, but even more will be delighted by the fact we now offer a wholesale purchasing membership for those who truly believe in the products we offer and want to buy them for the most lucrative prices and then on-sell privately or via retail and markets. If you are interested in that, please visit www.consciouslifestyler.com/membership_signup

So in 2010, you can expect to start seeing our products surfacing around the world in various retail outlets. Hooray!

Finally, you will see we’ve had a face lift here and it is the first of many new and exciting installments to the look and feel of ConsciousLifestyler. We have a brand new logo and at a closer look you will see some familiar elements such as Pi, the Stonehenge, A.F.E.W (Air, Fire, Earth, Water) and in the center is a seed, for it is a new era and a new beginning for new life. The seed holds an intention which obviously grows with the elements and becomes what it will become.  In the background around the place you will notice these elements being represented such as clouds, and stars and the moon and water popping up as constant reminders of the natural world around us. All of which are vital elements to our life.

We hope this year is absolutely awesome for you. Personally, I have embarked on a lengthy water fast where over the next 2 – 3 weeks, depending on how I feel will be only drinking fresh spring water I have sourced from a pure location. I am currently on day 3 of this and I believe Tyler is currently undergoing a Colon Cleanse followed by a juice fast. This is what we do when we are cleansing and it often represents the severing of past patterns and clearing ourselves of of stuff inside that is blocking the path into the future ahead.

Perhaps you will join us? What do you dream will manifest in the year ahead? What would you like to gain? What would you like to let go of? It is still a very auspicious time to be thinking about this, but keep in mind that often before something new can be attained, a vacuum or space must be created to make room for that newness.

Take care everyone and we hope you will share with us your dreams and plans for the future.

As you are probably all too familiar with, when Christmas comes around it is time to start stocking up on yummy treats. My family tradition usually involves massive indulgence with every taste imaginable. Sweets, savory, cakes and fruits, salads of every kind and strange and interesting beverages, lots of festive cheer, family members akwardly getting along perhaps arguing over which meal to serve up first or what the best way is to put the pan in the oven – but the most common thing I notice at Christmas gathering – be they my family or other gatherings is the emphasis on the food and often uncomfortable painful Santa belly that generally always follows.

So here is 7 ways to get the most out of this Christmas – how to stay light, alive and flowing:

1. Make room in your belly before the festive eating begins

There’s nothing worse than feasting your eyes on all the yummy treats available and just not having the room to eat. So don’t arrive at the upcoming Christmas breakfast, lunch and dinners with an already full suitcase – clear the already backed up matter in your Colon and make room for an extra few pounds of decadence. Why feel full before you need to? Make room for that extra plateful of Christmas pudding by evacuating food that has been blocked up inside you since July. Believe it or not – the average person has 15 Lbs of excess fecal matter in their colon at any given time… “fif-teen-pounds” and some of it is years old!! Potentially last years Christmas dinner is still in there – so start your Colon Cleanse Now

“During Thanksgiving week, the food at my brother’s house was so good I gained 10 lbs…as soon as I arrived home, I used the Tolman Colon Cleanse for two days followed by 1 day of drinking the Tolman Rainbow Juice Formula and lost 14 lbs…Thanks for offering such a pleasant way for me to get back in the groove…” ~ Samuel Kiwasz (community synergist/educator)

2. Serve up a treat that keeps on giving

Christmas doesn’t have to be an unhealthy overload of yummy treats which we have to be worried about eating. Imagine the smiles on their faces as you serve up a bowl of Abundance and let everybody know that they can eat as much as they like and not worry about the weight. Not only is Abundance a delicious whole food it can be the perfect compliment to dessert and comes with all the right fibers that will keep everybody flowing this season. Grab some and put in a stocking

3. Go for a walk in between meals

After a huge feast the last thing most people feel like doing is going for a walk – but all the more reason you should. A lot of people simply pass out as soon as the Santa belly kicks in but this year, keep spirits high and take everybody for a walk. Not only will it help digest the food its an awesome way to connect with your loved ones and just enjoy the simple things. Being together. Moving together. Importantly though, if the only thing you are exercising is your digestive muscles from all the food being eaten – you’re in for trouble around the corner :) So give your body something to do with all the energy you take in and avoid needless indigestion and weight gain.

4. Drink lots of water

With all the beverages going around at this time of year to help people unwind and get stimulated we can often forget to keep our water intake up. Remember the greatest gift you can give your body is a good amount of water and it will help to keep all those treats moving through your body. Another tip however is to not drink too much if at all while you are actually eating as it can put out the digestive flames in your belly. After a meal, give your body some time to generate the proper acids to digest your food and then have a good serving of water.

5. Be present

The most awesome gift anybody can ever give is the gift of presence. I know that in times in my life when I haven’t been able to afford gifts for my friends and family I still feel like I am Santa Claus bringing the gifts to the party: the gift of presence. You know it is such a time of connection and it doesn’t really happen enough to just come together with people you love and take the time to listen to one another. What is incredible is that quite often people feel they have really felt loved and connected with somebody is when they felt they were listened to. People will say “he’s a great conversationalist” and yet all he did was ask questions and was available to listen. And people remember that and the memory it leaves lasts so much longer than a ‘present’ that will probably go out of fashion by next season. So think about what gifts people give that last more than a season, like tenderness, listening, caring, compassion, understanding, truth, non-judgement, authenticity… these will be the best gifts you can give people that will be remembered forever and although they might not be as cool or popular at first and harder to give than an iPod or Gift Voucher for some store – I guarantee they will be cherished.

6. Breath

Long and slow breaths in, and out. This one goes hand in hand with water. Its the gift you just can’t stop giving your body! And did you know this simple act of breathing helps move food through your stomach and digestive system? And that it helps to move the acids around for digestive? Or that it helps to keep your body electrified and energized? Now you do. Remember, scientists have spent billions of dollars in research to discover that if you want to stay alive and healthy – you’ve got to keep breathing!

7. Give the gift of knowledge and health

The Farmacist Desk Reference in many homes is considered a family heir loom that people use when wanting to understand what a certain fruit is good for, or what a certain symptom means and how to truly heal it. The FDR is often the first thing people reach for or if they just want to learn about something entirely new. It is the perfect companion to the healthy and inspired mind that would be a true treasure underneath the tree. As a special Christmas offer to you, if you order an FDR before December 25th you will receive a FREE DVD set ‘D-Talkz’ (5 DVD’s valued at $199) with the remarkable Don Tolman. I can see it already.. Christmas day comes around and this 2 Volume book is unwrapped. Throughout the course of the day as people are snacking on certain foods they are referring to different pages actually learning about what they put into their bodies. Not only are you giving the gift of insight, but the gift of good health that will help so many people for years to come combined with an age old tradition of coming together around new information and conversation.

What do you do to keep spirits high? How can you help others to feel optimistic and grateful for what they have? Whats your family’s secret to health and longevity or just having a good time? We’d love to hear from you. Share your tips for the festive season in the comments below!

As it turns out, “It's” human - The three of us brainstorming at Magic Apple Cafe (the walls are filled with stylish and inspiring affirmations about vegetarian food - very cool).

So whats new? As some of you know, a few of our orders to the land of endless white sunny beaches and life-saving men in bikini briefs were being incinerated randomly because our Abundance contained living ingredients. Duh, right? Initially the solution Customs offered was simple “Just cook it before sending it over”. Obviously.

As we were sitting here at Magic Apple on the Gold Coast—a newly revamped vegetarian food and juice cafe by the beach—brainstorming ways to make everything work better for everyone, Rachelle got the call and proudly announced with an elated but moderated tone “We got the import license!” which means we can now bi-pass whole orders being turned to ash at the shipping gates.

Why the elation? Australia is home to Rachelle and myself originally, and so bringing the food into these waters is important so we can help our friends and family here, but also because Australians are our second largest market. Rachelle’s charm somehow managed to get the Aussie Customs to let us ship in our food without frying and spraying it with poisons. It was high fives all round.

As I high fived Tyler and Rachelle while sipping back my L.S.D (Latte Soy Dandelion, quite a nice coffee substitute if you haven’t tried it), Tyler immediately wanted to do what he does when he’s feeling great and that is basically give stuff away and party. The problem though? Tyler just started a 4 Day Colon Cleanse with a bunch of locals like Leah from lookgoodraw.com and they are all on Day 1. So instead of buying a few rounds of drinks for all those around him, he’s decided he wants to have a kind of Ozzie cleansing party and is going to give away a 4 Day Colon Cleanse to any Australian who purchases the 7 Day Sampler or a 15 Bag of Abundance pack within the next few days.

Leah, Krishna, Rachelle & Tyler Starting the 4 Day Colon Cleanse in Byron Bay

So comon Australia – lets celebrate with Tyler and clean our colons!

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What else? This is just the beginning of many exciting changes that have come as a result of putting our brains together in the same timezone for the first time. So stay tuned because we have got lots of new things coming just around the corner.

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I had the pleasure of being graced by the animated and legendary Don and Tyler Tolman today over here on the Gold Coast, Down Under (otherwise known by the locals as Australia). It was a funny show with nuggets of invaluable information we think you’re going to get a hoot out of. Hoot wise as in Owl like as in wisdom. Don Tolman, sometimes known as the Indiana Jones of Health disseminates the “Poison Makers” process of refining natural products into an evolution of words such as ‘Sophistication’s’ to ‘Adulterations’ to today’s simple form of ‘Additives’ such as Artificial Colorings and how these things are often derived from crude oil or other waste products from industries. Don breaks down the shocking truth behind where these artificial flavors and preservatives come from–and its not pretty.

We had some feedback that there was broken sound for some listeners, that is the bad news… the good news however is we recorded the show!

Here’s just a few snap shots of Father and Son spreading the wisdom in todays session…

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