Review: Life is a Super Fruit!  Love it.  Want more than I've written here?  I recommend the book!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 22, 2013
An innovative idea introduced in this book is this: Life is a Super Fruit.  Thus, while it has the expected fruits and vegetables listed in it, it also has a lot of non-food “super fruits” in it.  These include Diet, Effort, Integrity, Quintessential, Ultimate, Victory, Experiment (listed under X), Yesterday and Zealous.Under superfood vegetables, it lists Determination, Foresighted, Generosity, Heart, Intention, Nourish, Quest, United, Value, Experience (again under X), and Yearning.  Interesting.  It may not be everyone’s desire to find these things in it, but it fills an open slot in the alphabet, and anyone only interested in the fruit, vegetable, and legumes can easily skip by them.  For the rest of us, it is a welcome reminder that super-nourishment includes not just the foods we put in, but the attitudes and ideals that come from within.Also of interest to me is the appendix.  It is titles Muscle Testing, but it is about some methods of communicating more effectively with your own body.  Most of us can “hear” our body well enough on things like pain, discomfort, hunger and thirst (though if I’m busy enough, I admit that I often do not notice hunger or thirst – I tend to realize my productivity is slipping and only then realize I have not fueled or hydrated for too long).  This system lets you ask more concrete yes or no questions of your body, and I certainly know many that are not included in the book.The simple idea of actually stopping and asking your body questions is a fascinating one I first learned from Deepak Chopra.  One thing he says is if you are trying to quit smoking, just start with awareness and actually ask your body if it really does want the cigarette.  Often, we will realize that our body does not want it simply by shifting our awareness to what it is doing to our body.  Maybe these system produce accurate body-answers, or maybe they work on our internalized ideas of what is good for us or bad for us.  Either way, it is always a good idea to be more mindful of our own body and what we put in it.