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Are You Getting Your Vitamin B17?

Apricot Kernels are simply the edible seeds of apricots.
A close relative to the almond, they have a sweet, nutty flavor with a hint of amaretto.
Apricot Kernels are one of the highest natural sources of a rare phytonutrient called amygdalin,
also known as vitamin B17, an important nutrient which has largely disappeared from Western diets.
A cholesterol-free food, Apricot Kernels also have healthy plant fats, protein and iron.

Vitamin B17 interacts with other antioxidants - including vitamin A, vitamin C and Vitamin E -  along with pancreatic enzymes to break down
and eliminate harmful cells from the body. This makes it beneficial for detox support, immunity and potentially even various forms of disease prevention.

These are raw, certified organic apricot kernels originate from wild apricot trees
that have never come into contact with any sort of pesticide, herbicide or synthetic fertilizer.
The apricots are harvested gently by hand, then the kernels are removed and slowly sun-dried.
Our farmers pride themselves on cultivating the highest quality
kernels possible while maintaining eco-friendly and sustainable agricultural practices.

Suggested Use:
It is best to start slowly with 2 - 4 apricot kernels a day.
Enjoy out of the bag, in a smoothie or trail mix, dipped in honey,
or ground and sprinkled on a salad.
Gradually increase to 6 to 10 kernels a day.

Vitamin B17 Smoothie

A creamy, chocolaty smoothie that is a delicious way to
get your Vitamin B17.
It’s super energizing, easy to make, and delicious!

Ingredients:

• 12 oz Almond Milk
• 5 Apricot Kernels
• 1 tbsp Cacao Powder
• 1 whole banana

Directions:
Combine all ingredients in a high speed blender. Blend for 20 – 30 seconds. Enjoy!

Natural Sleep Remedies

Stress, technology, prescribed medication, wrong diet, energy drinks, and more stress!
In today's world almost everyone has had sleep issues at some point.
While there are many over the counter sleep formulas who will put you to sleep, it is much better to take a natural routine.

Often it seems as if the body has forgotten how to sleep. And who could blame them?
Heavy food in the evening, or eating late at night are making it hard for our body to digest and rest at the same time.
No wonder we wake up in the middle of the night!
The same goes for TV, cellphone and basically anything with a screen.
Light is a signal for our body to be awake, so put your phone down an hour or so before your bedtime and pick up a book, a boring one would be perfect. ;)

Lets have a look at natural sleep remedies.
Try different ones , or combinations. We are all such different individuals and what works for someone might not work for yourself.

Tart Cherry Juice
Cherries, especially tart ones, are a natural sleep aid because they are full of tryptophan.
Tryptophan is an essential amino acid that coverts to serotonin, which then coverts to melatonin.
Best taken in juice form, 30 minutes before your bedtime.
You can also try snacking on dried cherries but it is said that the juice is best.

Calm Magnesium
One of the most vital minerals, and yet most of us are lacking it.
Magnesium plays a big part in the GABA receptors, which is the primary neurotransmitter that calms your central nervous system,
relaxes you, and can help prepare you for sleep. We get a lot of customer feedback that it puts them straight to sleep.
Magnesium also helps with regular bowel movements. Which is great since digestion is another big part of a good nights rest.

Ease Liquid Magnesium

Topical Magnesium Oil that helps you relax in the evening, fall asleep faster, and sleep better throughout the night as it improves your blood circulation.

Chamomile Tea
This is probably one of the most heard of sleeping aids. It tastes good and makes you sleepy.
Of course you can buy it in tea bags, but making your own fresh tea is so much better in many ways, one of them that it can become your ritual,
and will already signal your body that it is time to calm down.
2 to 3 dried chamomile flowers, honey or your preferred sweetener, nut milk (optional), freshly squeezed lemon juice (optional).
Bring water to a boil and let steam for 5 to 6 minutes.

Valerian and St. John's Wort
Are available in tonic form. Both are supportive of the nervous system, and can help to calm body and mind.

Lavender Essential Oil
Lavender is yet another famous natural sleep remedy.
It can be diffused and/or applied to the bottom of your feet, neck and wrist. Inhale and start feeling sleepy. :)

Homemade Essential Oil Sleeping Aid
A lot of essential oils can help and improve our sleep. Just a few drops on the bottom of your feet or in your diffuser can do wonders.
This recipe is a particularly nice blend.
Take a 1ml roll on bottle. Fill it with sweet almond oil or jojoba oil to 3/4. Then add 8  drops of Lavender, Bergamot and Cedarwood.
Apply at the end of your neck, on your wrists and on your feet.
Additionally you can have the same blend running in your diffuser for a great slummer party! Use 2 drops of each oil when diffusing this blend.

Homemade Sleep Milk

Warm up some almond milk and blend in your blender together with 1/2 tsp Ashwaghanda and 1 tsp Reishi Powder. Add some vanilla, honey, coconut sugar or stevia.

Regularity is key when using natural sleep remedies. Give it at least 1 week before deciding that it is not working for you.

More tips on easier and better sleep:

• Make your bedroom your sanctuary, and try not to use it as your living room or office.
• Also have it look tidy since a messy room will probably stress you out.
• Do some sort of exercise every day but not too close to your bedtime.
• Have a sleep schedule, meaning a fix get up and going to bed time.
• Create an evening routine. Take a bath with lavender essential oil, meditate, walk around the block, read a book, write a journal.
• Give up coffee, drink Matcha Green Tea or a coffee substitute, such as Dandy Blend, Teeccino or Ayurvedic Roast.

Find all natural sleep remedies at High Vibe and/or in our Online Shop. For certain products order over the phone 212-777-6645

Refreshing Reishi Immortality Lemonade!!

Usually I drink Reishi as a tea, or as a latte with some nut milk yum! But what do you when the weather is so beautifully hot and you look for a refreshing drink?

Well you go and turn your Reishi Tea into Lemonade or Reishi Iced Tea. :)
Whatever you want to name it, it is so refreshing and tasty I can't get enough of it.

A 16 oz mason jar of filtered water
1/2 to 1tsp Reishi powder
Juice of 1 lemon
2 to 3 drops lemon essential oil, optional
Raw Honey, Stevia, Maple Syrup or liquid sweetener of your choice

Tightly close the lid of your mason jar and give your mixture a good shake, this is where you can show your bartender skills. ;)
You could also blend it in your vitamix.

Reishi has become one of the most studied medicinal mushrooms in the last year.

Discovered possible helpful benefits of Reishi include:

• life extending properties
• help with allergies
• Autoimmune disease
• Asthma
• Alzheimer's
• Stress, anxiety and depression
• Diabetes
• Liver disease
• Lowering blood pressure
• Boosting the immune system
• Anti-Inflamaroty
• Bronchitis
• Antiviral
• Candida
• Calming
• Sleep aid

And now sit back and enjoy your Immortality Lemonade. :)

Super Easy Fudge Ball Recipe

Are you ready for a delicious, nutritious and super easy to make treat?

Raw Chocolate Fudge Balls

• 1 1/2 cups pitted dates
• 1 tbsp plus 2 tsp cacao powder
• 1/8 tsp salt
• Coconut shreds to roll in, optional

Combine the first three ingredients in a strong food processor or Vitamix, and blend until completely smooth.
Scoop into a bowl, and freeze until the sticky dough is firm enough to roll balls (a half hour or so).
Once balls are rolled, best done with your hands, you can roll in the optional coconut or cacao powder, or just eat them plain.

Best stored in the freezer to keep them as firm as possible.

Options: infuse with Essential Oils, such as orange, peppermint, lemon.

 

Enjoy!

Recipe from www.chocolatecoveredkatie.com

Superfood Amla Berry Powder

Also known as Indian gooseberries, used in Ayurvedic medicine, and known for the high amounts of Vitamin C. But there is so much more to the berry then just that.

Benefits of Amla Berry:

• Strengthen immunity
• Enhance food absorption
• Balance hyperacidity
• Fortify the liver
• Nourish the brain and mental functioning
• Support the heart
• Strengthen the lungs
• Regulate elimination
• Enhance fertility
• Help the urinary system
• Support skin health and appearance
• Promote healthier hair
• Act as a body coolant
• Flush out toxins
• Increase vitality
• Strengthen the eyes
• Improve muscle tone
• Act as an antioxidant
• Provide an excellent source of Vitamin C

In sacred texts such as the Puranas, it is referred to as divaushadhi, which means it is a divine plant, divine ayurvedic medicine.
One of the properties that makes it divine is that it contains five of the six tastes: sweet, sour, bitter, astringent and pungent. The only taste missing is salty.

Add 1 tsp of Amla Berry Powder into your morning smoothie,  porridge or Acai Bowl.

Try one of these Smoothie Recipes:

Papaya Amla Smoothie

• 1 cup fresh papaya in cubes
• 1/2 cup of fresh berries such as raspberry, strawberries or blueberries
• a handful spinach or kale, stems removed from kale
• 1tsp Amla Berry Powder
• 1 tbsp virgin coconut oil
• 1 tbsp raw pumpkin seeds
• coconut milk or any nut milk, enough to reach your desired consistency
• a couple ice cubs, optional

Add all ingredients into your blender, and mix till smooth.

Pina Amla Colada Smoothie

• 1 to 2 hand full of baby spinach
• 1/2 pineapple
• 1 banana
• 2 tbsp coconut flakes
• 1 tsp Amla Berry Powder
• 1 cup water
• 1 cup ice, optional
  

Add all ingredients into your blender, and mix till smooth.

Enjoy!

 

Finally, Sprouted and Dried Buckwheat! Plus Recipe!!!

http://rawmazing.com/recipe/mulberry-peanut-cacao-crunchy-bars/

 

We are so excited to finally be offering you sprouted and dried buckwheat in a quality that is High Vibe!
Only the best of the best is good enough for our customers. :)

• Ready to eat
• Crunchy and delicious
• Can be milled into flour
• Great for cereal and müsli
• A nice topping for salad and soups

Benefits and facts about buckwheat:

• Great source of high-quality, easy digestible protein, containing all nine essential amino acids, including lysine.
• Rich in iron
• Very high in carbohydrates (80%).
• Very high in antioxidants.
• Filled with many minerals and vitamins such as zinc, copper, and niacin.
• Contains a high level of rutin. Rutin is extracted from the leaves for medicine to treat high blood pressure.
• Buckwheat contains no gluten and is not a grain, is related to rhubarb and sorrel.
• Buckwheat is a warming food. It is classified by macrobiotics as a yang food.

We can't wait to turn these crispy buckwheaties into these yummy looking squares from Rawmazing, with a few High Vibe changes. ;)

Mulberry Peanut Cacao Crunch Bars

8 ounces cacao paste

1/2 cup jungle peanuts

1/2 cup dried mulberries

1/2 cup sprouted buckwheat groats

1-3 tablespoons coconut sugar, powdered in spice or coffee grinder (taste to figure out how much you want)

Flaked salt (optional)

1. Chop the cacao paste into small, thin pieces. To keep it raw, melt in the dehydrator at 115 degrees. It will take under an hour.
2. Pulse jungle peanuts and mulberries in food processor until finely chopped.
3. Stir mulberry mixture, buckwheat, and coconut sugar into the melted cacao paste.
4. Using a silicone mold, drop a few flakes of salt in the bottom (optional) and fill with chocolate and place in refrigerator to cool. The silicone will give you a nice shiny finish.
5. Pop out and eat! They store just fine at room temperature.

Recipe and Photo by Rawmazing

 

Recipe Time! Super Easy, Delicious Cream Cheese Spread!

Today we bring an easy, delicious and health cream cheese spread.

The secret ingredient is dulse!

Dulse is a nutrient rich form of red alga.

Some of the health benefits of dulse may include:

• Improvement of vision
• Boosting and protection the immune system
• Bone health
• Improvement of the thyroid gland
• Optimize the gastrointestinal system
• Lower blood pressure
• Strengthen the brain and nervous system
• Boosting circulation

In our recipe we use dulse not only for all it's benefits but even more so to give the cream cheese a fresh taste.

Ingredients:

1 cup raw cashews, preferably soaked and drainer for 2 hours
1 cucumber, peeled
Juice of 1 lemon
3 drops lemon essential oil, optional but recommended
1 small clove of garlic
1 tbsp chia seeds
1 tbsp dulse
1/2 tsp Himalayan salt
2 small bulb of spring onions, finely sliced

Place all ingredients into your blender, except for the onions.
Process until smooth.

Use as a dip for veggies, to put on crackers, or in salad dressings.

Enjoy! :)

Watermelon Pizza for 4th of July

Independence Day is just around the corner.

This Watermelon Pizza is a cool eye catcher and fun to eat.

Great for kids and adults alike.

Simply slice a big wheel of a watermelon, slice into 8 pieces, and start decorating with banana slices and blueberries to match the flag.

Happy 4th everyone!

Orange, Chocolate, Bliss Ball Recipe

Bliss Balls are amazing!

• They are quick to make
• They are healthy, if the right ingredients are used
• They give us bliss and energy
• They are easy to take with you

Today we bring you a Bliss Ball Recipe like no other, the secret ingredient is Orange Essential Oil. Please feel free to try other oils such as lemon, lime, thieves to create your own recipe.

When using essential oils in your food, it is very important to only cook with the highest quality of oils available, and from a source you can completely trust for the absolute best in safety and flavor. We, at High Vibe, use Young Living. Keep an eye out for our monthly educational classes on Essential oils. If you would like to become a part of our Young Living Group, and have the best support and source for you questions, then look at the bottom of this blog on how to join us.

Orange, Chocolate Bliss Balls
Yields 14 - 20 Balls

• 1 cup raw nuts of your choice, or a mix. Cashews, almonds, brazil nut, pecans all work great.
• 1/2 cup organic, pitted Medjool dates, chopped
• 1/2 cup dried apricot, chopped
• 1/2 cup raisins
• 2 tablespoons raw cacao powder
• 1 tablespoon fresh orange juice
• 5 drops Young Living Orange Essential Oil

For the coating:

• 1/4 cup coconut shreds
• 4 drops Young Living Orange Essential Oil

Put all the ingredient into the bowl of your food processor, except the orange juice and the orange essential oil.
Give it a quick mix.

Add the orange essential oil to the orange juice, whisk together and then add the juice to the other ingredients in your food processor.

Mix till everything is combined and smooth.

Roll about 2 tsp of dough into small balls and then roll the balls in the coconut shreds.

Store them in a glass container in the fridge.

ENJOY!

If you would like to become a member at High Vibe's Young Living Essential Oil Group, you can follow these instructions:

Go to the website: Young Living

• Fill out your contact info
• Create password and pin
• Next up is choosing your starter kit. Every new wholesale member has to sign up for a starter kit.
• Once you have chosen your kit, it will ask you about the OPTIONAL Essential Rewards Program. This is a monthly Program where you can save even more. This is totally optional and you can always join the Essential Rewards program at a later on. Click No, thank you, or enroll now.
• Now you simply have to agree to Terms&Conditions, and enter your payment information and shipping option.
• That's it!!!

Any issues signing up?

Call High Vibe at 212-777-6645 or
Cynthia at 631-241-1496 and mention High Vibe. :)

 

 

Chef Style Tri Color Quinoa Salad

This delicious tri color Quinoa salad is great for summer evenings, picnics or to take with your for lunch.

Our apple juice infused cranberries pair well with the basil, pine nuts and the lemon pepper vinaigrette. The Essential Oil are giving a special touch to this salad.

The Cashevre is a vegan raw cheese from Cheezehound that is aged and reminds of feta cheese.
It is made from organic cashews, organic coconut oil, culture, organic herbs, organic spices, and sea salt.

For the Salad

1 cup tri color quinoa
2 cups water
1 cup baby arugula
1/2 cup dried cranberries
1/4 cup fresh basil chopped
1/4 cup pine nuts
Cashevre from Cheezehound Cheese, in cubes or crumbs

For the Lemon-Pepper Vinaigrette

Juice of one lemon
4 tbsp Bariani olive oil
4 drops lemon essential oil
4 drops black pepper essential oil
Sea salt to taste
Black pepper to taste

Bring the water in a pot to a boil. Meanwhile rinse the quinoa under cold water.
Add quinoa to the boiling water, reduce heat, cover and let simmer for 15 minutes, or until the water has been absorbed.
Remove from heat, fluff with a fork, cover again and allow quinoa to sit for 5 minutes. Fluff again and set aside, without cover.

Whisk all ingredients for the vinaigrette together.

Once the quinoa has cooled down, combine with the arugula, cranberries, basil, pine nuts and the lemon pepper vinaigrette.
Place on plates and finish it with the cashevre cheese.

Enjoy.