A healthy gut impacts virtually every aspect of our body by improving our immune system and supporting the health of organs such as the heart. This has important knock-on effects on our daily lives by promoting healthy sleep and a better mood.
Our gut microbiome is made up of hundreds of different types of bacteria, some necessary and good (or friendly) and others that can be detrimental to our health. For that reason, it’s important to look after your gut and keep everything working in harmony. Certain factors can contribute to gut issues such as lack of sleep, too much stress, taking antibiotics, eating processed foods, or having too much sugar in your diet.
Some signs that your gut may be in trouble include:
An upset stomach e.g. bloating or gas
Losing or gaining weight without changing your diet or exercise routine
Poor sleep or insomnia
Food intolerances
Let’s look at how to improve your gut health by making a simple but healing vegetable broth. First, I’ll explain how the different ingredients support a healthy gut and then share how to make the recipe.
Gut-Healing Properties of Vegetable Broth
I’ve used the following ingredients in this recipe: cabbage, mushrooms, carrots, garlic, miso paste, ginger, coconut oil, and turmeric.
Gut-Healing Properties of Cabbage: Cabbage is probably one of the best-known vegetables for being gut healing. The soluble fiber it contains is great for feeding the friendly gut bacteria and the insoluble fiber helps to maintain the digestive system by promoting regular bowel movements. Cabbage is also high in L-glutamine, a building block of protein, that helps to heal the lining of the gut.
Gut-Healing Properties of Mushrooms: Mushrooms have been used in medicinal remedies for thousands of years. In terms of gut healing, mushrooms help fight bacteria which helps to keep a healthy microbiome. They are also good prebiotics that stimulates probiotics in the gut.
Gut-Healing Properties of Carrots: Carrots contain pectin which is a soluble fiber. This slows down your digestion of starch and sugar. It also feeds the good bacteria in your gut helping your gut cells to stay healthy. Consuming carrots regularly can even prevent the formation of a gastric ulcer and other digestive issues.
Gut-Healing Properties of Garlic: Garlic has been used in medicine for over 5,000 years and it is a superfood on many levels but is especially good for the gut. That’s partly because garlic is high in a non-digestible carbohydrate called inulin that feeds good bacteria in the gut. This helps your gut function better overall and stops the growth of disease-promoting bacteria.
Gut-Healing Properties of Miso Paste: Miso paste is made from fermented soybeans making it full of probiotics that improve your gut health. One particular probiotic in miso paste, Aspergillus Oryzae, naturally helps maintain a good-bad bacteria balance.
Gut-Healing Properties of Ginger: Ginger has a calming effect on the stomach and has gut-healing properties. It also aids digestion and stops food from sitting and fermenting in the intestine by helping your gut move it along. Ginger has over 100 bioactive compounds with anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, and antiemetic properties and it’s many of these that aid digestion. It also stimulates digestive acids and supports the absorption of nutrients.
Gut-Healing Properties of Coconut Oil: Coconut oil helps to absorb the other nutrients in this broth and also has properties that destroy bad bacteria and lower stomach acid. It also works to restore a healthy balance when there is an imbalance in the gut.
Gut-Healing Properties of Turmeric: Turmeric has long been used to treat digestive issues in ayurvedic medicine. Turmeric is beneficial to the gut in several ways: it helps the stomach lining, promotes the growth of good gut bacteria, and can prevent bloating or gas while food is being digested.
However, turmeric does negatively affect some people’s digestion, especially where they already have issues. If you know that turmeric doesn’t sit well in your stomach then leave this ingredient out of the broth.
How to Make This Gut-Healing Vegetable Broth
This is a very simple recipe to prepare and should only take five minutes or less. It will then take one hour to cook, roughly 20 minutes to cool, then you need to strain it at the end. You should take this three times a day if you are experiencing gut problems or once a day or every few days if you are looking to maintain your gut health. You can make larger batches if you are going to be taking this regularly to save yourself time. If you divide the quantities below into four serving sizes each portion will have approximately 40 calories.
Ingredients
4 Cloves of garlic
1 inch knob of ginger
6 Mushrooms
10 oz. (250 grams) of cabbage
4 Carrots
A Pinch of black pepper
1 Teaspoon of ground turmeric
1 Tablespoon of organic virgin coconut oil
1 Tablespoon of miso paste
8 Cups of filtered water
Utensils
Large pot
Chopping board
Sharp knife
Strainer
Large bowl
Method
Slice 10 oz. of cabbage up into strips and place them in your pot.
Cut 4 carrots and 6 mushrooms into quarters and add them to your pot.
Bruise 4 garlic cloves with the side of a knife then throw these in.
Roughly chop your piece of ginger (you can leave the skin on if it’s organic, otherwise peel it first) then add this too.
Add 1 tablespoon of coconut oil, 1 teaspoon of ground turmeric, and a pinch of black pepper.
Cover all of your vegetables with water (about 8 cups) and put the lid on your pot.
Bring it to a boil then turn down the heat so the water is simmering and leave it for 1 hour.
Take it off the heat and allow it to cool somewhat before the next step so you aren’t dealing with hot liquid.
Wait until the soup has been taken off the heat and then stir or whisk in the miso paste. It will melt into the soup thanks to the residual heat of the stock
***Miso is a fermented food, meaning it contains live, active cultures of bacteria. Adding it to boiling water will kill the probiotics in the miso, nixing the health benefits it typically offers, like better digestive health.
Strain the liquid into a large bowl.
You can take some straight away or put it in the fridge. It will also keep in the freezer for a couple of months if you store it in airtight containers.
Takeaway:
The gut microbiome is host to an abundance of intestinal flora that can make (or break) your physical and mental health depending on if it is balanced. From immunity to nutrient absorption, anxiety and depression to weight loss, the gut microflora plays a crucial role in our overall well-being. Many don’t give a second thought to gut health until an issue develops. However, this is a mistake. If you would like to truly thrive, caring for your gut should be a top priority. And one of the best ways to do this is through diet and medicinal herbs.
Those who were asleep consciously, disconnected, are awakening. Light fills them. Those who have been dwelling in light, but are actually very dark … returning to their proper abode. (Grateful to receive this clarification!)
What happens in the unseen affects the seen. There’s magic on both sides of light and dark.
Historically, creation of circumstances happens when those in the know utilize the energy and consciousness of the human masses to power up their desire.
Raunchy and violent movies? Seeds. Seeds to create more chaos, and desensitize people to the horrors they wish humans to create. Conscious as well as Subliminal implants.
Do you see them growing? They grow in the mind and heart of those who are intertwined, their personal creator abilities are used to generate traumatic experiences in the world.
These seed implants are part of the collective consciousness. Sleepers still think what goes on in their minds doesn’t go any further.
They don’t think they create the chaos all around us because they themselves aren’t participating in violence, but the power of their mind is being programmed into it and carry’s the plan. They discuss the violence in movies and in the world. They may laugh and see it as entertainment. They do indeed empower the scenario.
I think the forgiveness we give people, the releasing of those not healthy for our expansion into light and joy filled spaces, that we are gifting and doing, actually is the dismantling of the “secret”.
Energy/Light …
Unseen to seen,
And now seen unto the unseen.
It’s a pendulum of experiences within creation, but all of it is created “through” human consciousness.
It’s unravelling.
Controlled chaos.
Or is it?
Even Lucifer is the counterpart to the Satan. Same coin.
Release, release, release.
Dance! Pump that balancing Light into the world. See what happens, how it feels.
The 2021 Summer Solstice created the New Opportunity. The Winter Solstice lifted and expanded it. This Equinox anchors that opportunity to be experienced.
But what does that mean for you? It means what you think and feel is what you will experience. Every thought and every feeling. Quickly.
Learn the simple, powerful tools we talk about in this event.
Divine Justice works within me, eliminating all that is unnecessary from my thoughts and granting to me all that is good. I walk in balance, knowing Earth’s care.
“I, Balance, as a Universal Force, have many things to consider. I must look through Time, judging the effect of present actions on future generations. I work through you, presenting opportunities that would benefit many, if you choose to heed my call. I speak through what some have referred to as your ‘conscience,’ giving you in any moment an immediate sense of what is right or wrong action on your part. I never work as Guilt, though I am sometimes mistaken for this one. I am more correctly experienced as Enthusiasm or Hesitation, depending on the situation at hand and whether the action you contemplate would benefit or harm the whole. Guilt, on the other hand, is often a conglomeration of old rules spoken to you by others and being held in your mind as ‘shoulds’ or ‘shouldn’ts.’ I, instead, work only in the now. I am your immediate pre-action response to the situation at hand.
“I want you to act. It is only through you that my work is done. Likewise, it is only through your action that you know if your inner convictions are truly in the good of the whole. You must test out your theories. You must see if they are valid. Your inner sense will tell you in the moment if you are creating balance … harmony … equilibrium. That which you no longer need, whether theories or things, will in this way be eliminated. My sword will fall, cutting away those thoughts that limit you. You will give away any possessions that are weighing you down. You will break away from people or circumstances that no longer promote your growth.
“I am the archetype of self-discipline. With me, you will begin to pursue enthusiastically your self-direction. Justice will prevail. True balance will begin. Remember, I am accountable for the whole Earth. What is allowed in your life must balance out through time and for all life forms. Everything affects the whole. As you work with an awareness of this and of me, you will find great peace overcoming your life.”
We have a physical body we can see. Perhaps the unseen are only unseen because the body’s they inhabit take on the appearance of whatever is around them, effectively blending into the environment. To us, it looks like the environment … but how many actual chameleon-like bodies are surrounding us at all times?
No such thing as being alone.
The human body is an antennae, a water filled electrical conduit, and it picks up on the slightest vibration, whether aware of it or not.
Some think their mood swings are all about their personality, and it sort of is – but for the most part I think they are extra sensitive and picking up on, and sometimes embodying, the energetics of others.
It is important to know what emotions, fueled by whatever type of energy, actually belong to us or are simply being picked up on and felt from another’s output., because not only are we an antennae, we are a power source, and empower that which is circulating within us … whether the thought, feeling or emotion actually belongs to us or not.
This stuff is like tar … it sticks to the energetic body, unless we can become aware of it and consciously release it, let it flow on out like a breath rather than constricting with it.
Taking charge isn’t always loud, sometimes it’s only a whisper in the mind, exercising the will to be as is without accepting the gifts of the wave, the energetic ocean of waves that we walk through and swim in on a daily basis.
Sort of like in the actual ocean where one gets wet, but the inner portion of the body remains as is. In the ocean of vibration, which is filled with waves coming from every aspect of surrounding life, it’s important to be “water proof” and let it roll off like water on feathers.
Physical body, emotional body, mental body, etheric body… and more! Caring for our body’s is so much more detailed than simply what we ‘see’.
To the one who can perfectly practice inaction, all things are possible. ~ Ernest Holmes
Step back to find clarity.
Take a breather and honor your yin (feminine) nature. This is not always so easy to do in a culture that honors and celebrates the yang (drive/strive mode), while turning its nose at the virtues of the yin qualities of flow and letting go. In yang mode we get things done. In yin mode we fill our tank and reflect on our larger vision and purpose, so when its time to move, we do so with precision. If we are to live in balance, we need both action and reflection. There are times to do and times for inaction. To know which mode is most appropriate, step back, and practice discernment.
Mantra :: Divine discernment lets me know when to go, when to stop, and when to drop into the space in between.
Artwork by Rassouli
The Hero’s Journey dream oracle, by Kelly Sullivan Walden