Did you know that your food has super healing powers? How would you like to wake up to something so beautiful for breakie, knowing it wanted to send love to your body from within?

We have this gorgeous rainbow appearing here on this fruit platter for #fruitsandveggiesmonday by one of my role models, a super vegan chef extraordinaire, @lenasveganliving!

I know Mondays have this bad rap... everyone hates Mondays because they are an end to the weekend but I actually love Mondays because they have so much potential and are filled with opportunity! I look at it as starting my week instead of ending my weekend and that gives me joy and gratitude for the world's most misunderstood weekday!

A fun way to kickstart the week is with a fruits and veggie Monday breakie! I have tried many a diet in my life and upon getting to the health(ier) place I am now, I prefer to begin my day with a lovely fruit platter like this, a fruit smoothie or a fun smoothie bowl! Fruits are the highlight of my mornings and they give me a surge of energy to take on the day and week ahead!

On my rainbow plate of goodies- we have 3 of our chakras being fed in this wonderful, playful, antioxidant rich dish! Let's take a look at them!

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Red/Pink:

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Root Chakra: Healing/Grounding. Associated with security and meeting your basic needs (ie: food!) If you're feeling aloof, or detached from the present, eating red or root foods can help you come back to now, connect to yourself and make you feel more secure in where you are. Aside from the color, root vegetables are very effective for grounding and centering. Beets (beetroot) being red and a root are especially healing since they come from the ground and can be a good way to center if you're feeling out of touch with reality!

• Strawberries
• Dragon fruit (bordering purple/third eye)

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Orange:

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Sacral Chakra: Emotions/Creativity: Associated with expression of emotions and creativity/desires/fantasies (ie: this artistic design of the fruit platter!) Eat lots of oranges if you're wanting to get in touch with your creative side! When the solar plexus is in alignment, ideas are able to flow without restriction!

• Oranges
• Papaya

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Yellow:

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Solar Plexus Chakra: Stomach! Psychological/Behavioral: Associated with personal power and self esteem (ie: choosing a diet that makes you feel fantastic!) The solar plexus is linked to many physical manifestations in our bodies including aches and pains. By balancing it, we can relieve those symptoms and come into our own power, control and thus have more ability to exert our wants and desires into reality.

• Mango
• Banana
• Passionfruit

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There are also mulberries sprinkled around the colors here so we have some deep, black from the berries and the seeds of the dragon fruit and passion fruit!

Ideally, having all of the colors of the rainbow or the 7 chakras is the most beneficial breakie in terms of color healing as you can get but, we've done a pretty good job with diversity and antioxidant filled super foods here!

Why did I mention chakras in a food post?

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Well, I am glad you asked! Our chakras each are associated with a color of the rainbow and eating those colors are said to heal and send energy/communicate with the appropriate part of the body. Whenever you're feeling a stomach issue, eating lots of yellow fruits and veggies can send some extra love to that space and you may just find some powerful healing come!

Super tip to women:

Eating red foods during your time of the month is said to reduce swelling, pain and cramping! I did a workshop with Brigitte Mars on color healing in Costa Rica which was incredible! Definitely check her website and books out if you're interested in this, she's amazingly inspiring and someone I really admire! She recommends borscht for very serious menstrual pain!

According to Brigitte, getting a diversity of colors throughout our diets serves to keep our chakras happy and in alignment, creating a healthier environment for our digestive system and bodily functioning!

To all you Steemians:

If you're feeling creatively tapped out, try some orange foods as they will recharge your creativity and may just be able to get you back on track!

How many colors did you eat for breakfast?

I challenge you to try to get some of every color (it's great if those colors come from fruits and veggies since they come from the earth and contain nutrient rich minerals and vitamins needed to obtain a healthy immune system.

I chose to explain the benefits of the colors on this plate and I'll have to make a plate with the remaining chakras to give you the lowdown on the remaining chakras, green, blue, indigo and purple!

It's not always easy to get every color in the meal and that's completely OK! The idea is to try to eat the rainbow as much as possible, promoting healing and as an added plus, it's a fun and beautiful way to play with your food! Here's my post about why I believe we should play with our food!

I believe food is a gift of love from the Earth! 😍

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Sending you love through (plant-based/vegan) food, as always! If you are new here, it's great to have you here!
I am obsessed with food as you'll surely see, and I am a strong believer in the power it has within it, and the ability it has to heal us! I aim to inspire through my recipes and posts and hope to connect with you here, through your heart. Some say the way to the heart is through the stomach, I 100% agree with that theory ;)
I believe in sharing what makes the heart happy, if you'd like to see more, come on by @heart-to-heart!😘
Here are some easy ways to make changes in your diet if you want to check it out!

PS: I am also running veganwednesday challenge every week! See here for more details on how to participate (and win by sharing some love!)

Until next time,
XO,
🍊🍉🍈🍇🍋🍌🍍🍎

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