Freedom Lies Within got started as a blog with a natural health/empowerment focus. Eventually, it evolved into a business centered on providing products, services, and unique health information that promote nutritional upliftment. As health enthusiasts and communicators, we are passionate about every product we offer.
Here's our philosophy of health and what we teach and use to help you get well:
Raw plant foods provide the most energy (a pure form of energy, not to be confused with stimulating energy). This energy allows for greater healing potential and vitality for daily living. They, particularly fruits and green vegetables, provide alkaline elements which assist the detoxification process by initiating it at a higher level. Many people contain high amounts of acidic waste products in their system and a flood of alkaline chemistry tends to return detoxification ability to its peak. Otherwise, detox processes (namely the flow of the lymphatic system that acts as a sewer system) run stagnant. The blood may continue to detoxify regularly but where does this waste go if the system for releasing this waste is not flowing well? It remains in the lymphatic system fluid (in the vessels and sometimes backing up around cells) until the body can receive enough vitality and alkalinity to resume its processes.
Fruit contains balanced alkaline chemistry along with simple sugars that are easily used by the cells for energy plus potent astringent properties that move lymph fluid out of stagnation. Fruits are more detoxifying to the lymphatic system than vegetables. Fruits are also more energizing to the brain and nervous system.
Vegetables (particularly leafy green vegetables) are very alkaline and do initiate detoxification plus they are high in the minerals that some people are deficient in. The high chlorophyll content is very supportive to the blood and acts as a buffer to toxicity and heavy metals.
Superfoods and Herbs are also very powerful aids for improving the detoxification process and rapidly raising vitality. They tend to also make it much easier to maintain a diet high in raw foods as they are so supportive to well-being that they help to reduce cravings and feelings of need for unhelpful food choices. Superfoods and herbs are often more wild-like in their chemistry and function than other foods typically available.
As far as cooked foods are concerned, we have found whole plant foods (wheat free) to be the best choices. In essence, upgrade to as much raw food as possible and veer toward these cooked food choices as the best alternatives to raw plant foods.
This includes:
Potatoes
Sweet Potatoes
Beans/Legumes
Gluten-free grains
Various spices and natural flavorings for cooked foods
Cooked vegetables
For best results and to up your percentage of raw foods considerably, use cooked foods (especially the choices above) as flavorings and calorie sources over an abundance of raw green leafy vegetables (and other raw vegetables that you like). For even better results, chew very well to allow the leafy green juices to more fully extract and lessen the digestive effort on your system.
Cravings for cooked foods when trying to go raw can be overcome in this way:
Starches: Eat a higher volume of sweet fruit earlier in the day and have a large quantity of fruit shortly before dinner.
Refined Sugar: Eat a higher volume of sweet fruit. Use raw honey or dates in hempseed smoothies etc. Use more mineral-dense superfoods to help balance out sugar cravings if they don't stem from a true carbohydrate need.
Protein: Eat a higher volume of green vegetables (Salads, green smoothies, raw soups and juices). Consider superfood algaes (on salads or otherwise) like chlorella and AFA blue green algae. Add a good amount of hempseeds to salads or make raw hemp milk.
Fat: Eat a little more avocado, hempseeds, or olive oil on salads or in smoothies/raw soups. If craving fish, consider adding in AFA blue green algae and/or Oceans Alive Marine Phytoplankton. Hemp seeds can also be useful in this way.
Salt: Eat more green leafy vegetables and add some good quality sea salt to salads etc. to provide sodium and other trace minerals that the body may be calling for. Consider also adding raw seaweeds to your diet such as raw dulse granules sprinkled on salads for flavor and minerals.
Emotional issues can also be a block to health and vitality. While raw foods, superfoods, and herbs tend to support emotional health and can lead to emotional detoxification as you incorporate more of them, you can accelerate emotional detoxification by choice. The system we teach for this is called The Chocolate Emotional Detox as it incorporates the use of dark chocolate, black coffee, green tea, or other uplifting herbal choices to help you engage in deep emotional work with less fear and more willpower.
You can download the e-book The Chocolate Emotional Detox for 99 cents on Amazon or order a consultation for faster progress.
Combining deep emotional work and meditation with a diet focused on raw foods can bring amazing results.
Here's our philosophy of health and what we teach and use to help you get well:
Raw plant foods provide the most energy (a pure form of energy, not to be confused with stimulating energy). This energy allows for greater healing potential and vitality for daily living. They, particularly fruits and green vegetables, provide alkaline elements which assist the detoxification process by initiating it at a higher level. Many people contain high amounts of acidic waste products in their system and a flood of alkaline chemistry tends to return detoxification ability to its peak. Otherwise, detox processes (namely the flow of the lymphatic system that acts as a sewer system) run stagnant. The blood may continue to detoxify regularly but where does this waste go if the system for releasing this waste is not flowing well? It remains in the lymphatic system fluid (in the vessels and sometimes backing up around cells) until the body can receive enough vitality and alkalinity to resume its processes.
Fruit contains balanced alkaline chemistry along with simple sugars that are easily used by the cells for energy plus potent astringent properties that move lymph fluid out of stagnation. Fruits are more detoxifying to the lymphatic system than vegetables. Fruits are also more energizing to the brain and nervous system.
Vegetables (particularly leafy green vegetables) are very alkaline and do initiate detoxification plus they are high in the minerals that some people are deficient in. The high chlorophyll content is very supportive to the blood and acts as a buffer to toxicity and heavy metals.
Superfoods and Herbs are also very powerful aids for improving the detoxification process and rapidly raising vitality. They tend to also make it much easier to maintain a diet high in raw foods as they are so supportive to well-being that they help to reduce cravings and feelings of need for unhelpful food choices. Superfoods and herbs are often more wild-like in their chemistry and function than other foods typically available.
As far as cooked foods are concerned, we have found whole plant foods (wheat free) to be the best choices. In essence, upgrade to as much raw food as possible and veer toward these cooked food choices as the best alternatives to raw plant foods.
This includes:
Potatoes
Sweet Potatoes
Beans/Legumes
Gluten-free grains
Various spices and natural flavorings for cooked foods
Cooked vegetables
For best results and to up your percentage of raw foods considerably, use cooked foods (especially the choices above) as flavorings and calorie sources over an abundance of raw green leafy vegetables (and other raw vegetables that you like). For even better results, chew very well to allow the leafy green juices to more fully extract and lessen the digestive effort on your system.
Cravings for cooked foods when trying to go raw can be overcome in this way:
Starches: Eat a higher volume of sweet fruit earlier in the day and have a large quantity of fruit shortly before dinner.
Refined Sugar: Eat a higher volume of sweet fruit. Use raw honey or dates in hempseed smoothies etc. Use more mineral-dense superfoods to help balance out sugar cravings if they don't stem from a true carbohydrate need.
Protein: Eat a higher volume of green vegetables (Salads, green smoothies, raw soups and juices). Consider superfood algaes (on salads or otherwise) like chlorella and AFA blue green algae. Add a good amount of hempseeds to salads or make raw hemp milk.
Fat: Eat a little more avocado, hempseeds, or olive oil on salads or in smoothies/raw soups. If craving fish, consider adding in AFA blue green algae and/or Oceans Alive Marine Phytoplankton. Hemp seeds can also be useful in this way.
Salt: Eat more green leafy vegetables and add some good quality sea salt to salads etc. to provide sodium and other trace minerals that the body may be calling for. Consider also adding raw seaweeds to your diet such as raw dulse granules sprinkled on salads for flavor and minerals.
Emotional issues can also be a block to health and vitality. While raw foods, superfoods, and herbs tend to support emotional health and can lead to emotional detoxification as you incorporate more of them, you can accelerate emotional detoxification by choice. The system we teach for this is called The Chocolate Emotional Detox as it incorporates the use of dark chocolate, black coffee, green tea, or other uplifting herbal choices to help you engage in deep emotional work with less fear and more willpower.
You can download the e-book The Chocolate Emotional Detox for 99 cents on Amazon or order a consultation for faster progress.
Combining deep emotional work and meditation with a diet focused on raw foods can bring amazing results.
