C is for Cider Vinegar #AtoZChallenge

This year my A to Z Challenge is all about wellbeing - something I'm particularly passionate about. Whether it's physical, emotional, mental, spiritual or even the wellbeing of my business, I'm passionate about it! Today it's all about the strong stuff.... cider vinegar :D

My husband is positively dotty about this stuff. He loves it! His enthusiasm has rubbed off onto me a little bit because I find myself craving it every now and again myself. The best way to drink it is to put about a tablespoon of apple cider vinegar in a tall glass. Fill with water (room temperature) and add a little honey to your taste. I like about a dessert spoon of honey because I have a sweet tooth. Mix until the honey has dissolved and drink. Mmmmmm it's super good and super healthy.
Vinegar, you say, healthy?
Why yes... super healthy!
You want to get hold of organic unfiltered apple cider vinegar that contains “mother,” which are strands of proteins, enzymes and friendly bacteria which are believed to have a variety of health benefits including:

1. Helps detox

2. Helps your body get rid of candida

3. Helps you lose weight

4. Helps with diabetes and sugar control

5. Ais digestion

6. Help curb appetites

7. Protects your health

8. Kills bacteria so helps fight infection

9. May help reduce the risk of cancer

10. Lowers cholesterol levels

11. Helps control arthritis

12. Used as a rinse, can help hair become glossier

Are they enough reasons to make you want to try the strong stuff?

You CAN heal your life

Many years ago when I was a teenager, I was lent a book that would have a profound impact on me. The name of that book? You Can Heal Your Life by Louise Hay. The woman who lent me the book died about a year later. Something else that had a profound effect on me. You see, she was rather a special lady. She was my psychology and business studies teacher and she was also my dad’s girlfriend. She only lived with us for a short time before a massive asthma attack took her life. I was distraught. I’d lost my mother only about five years previously. So as you can imagine it was a difficult time for my family and I.

I’d developed quite a bond with her: I guess you could say she’d become a bit of a mentor, so to lose her when I was only seventeen hit me hard. But that book helped me enormously. You see, Carol (that was her name) was a tarot card reader and she told me not long before she died, that I would be successful in life, that I would reach self-realisation. Since she told me that, I have always had a strong belief in myself. I do have bad days, we all do. But when I do feel a little low, then that book is where I turn.
The author Louise Hay is an incredible woman who cured herself of cancer through positive thought and her book, You Can Heal Your Life, uses positive affirmations to help people make drastic changes to their lives.
Whenever I read it, I feel a huge burst of positivity and love bubble up from within me. It truly is an amazing read.
Over the past few months, I’ve been delving further into the world of affirmations and have discovered some wonderful books, all of which I will be telling you about at some stage. But first of all, if you are feeling low and need a boost, please get yourself a copy of Louise’s book. It just might change your life. In the meantime, check out her website for more details about positive affirmations and how they can make a difference.