The Medicine of Beauty
If the medicine of beauty exists, would you be willing to take it? In this episode of Wisdom of Ages, host Ayn Cates Sullivan and guest Marcella Benson talk about an inspiring story of overcoming illness with the live-food vegan lifestyle. Marcela is the author of the book: Love, Peace & Vegetables: Recipes for Conscious Living. She has been teaching people to become healthy chefs – and healthy people. Some recipes are straightforward. Others are creative and more detailed. It does require focus to become a healing master. You will also hear Ayn’s poem “A Universal Prayer” by Ayn Cates Sullivan which explains how poetry, art, and crystals bright light and beauty into our lives. Tune in to know how eating healthily is a form of self-love— the true medicine of beauty.
Ayn Cates Sullivan:
Well, welcome and blessings. This is Ayn Cates Sullivan, host of Wisdom of the Ages. I’m also the author of a number of books. Today I’ll focus on my latest children’s book, Eala: Mother Swan / La Madre Cisne, which is a Nautilus Book Award Gold winner. It’s bilingual, so you can read English and Spanish together, and I hope you’ll pick up a copy. It’s available online everywhere. And if you like it, please send me an email or a message, I’d love to hear from you. So it takes a village to create a book. My design success has a lot to do with a medicine woman, Marcela Benson, who has an incredible sense of design. Some people just have talent in certain areas, and that’s her thing she brings beauty to this world. She brings the medicine of beauty to this world, I should say.
Marcela has written and designed and created the most beautiful recipe book I have ever seen. It’s not really a recipe book. It’s a coffee table book, it’s a work of art, it’s wisdom for the ages, it’s really amazing. It’s called Love, Peace & Vegetables: Recipes for Conscious Living. I have been part of the midwife-ing process, and my goodness. This is a contribution to humanity. In fact, I use it more than any other book. It’s truly the medicine of beauty, and I highly recommend that you check it out. You can find out more about it on her website, which is Marcela.love. Easy to remember, Marcela.love. Just at least go look at her website because even her website is a work of art. Let me tell you a little bit about her.
So, let’s see. Marcela was trained by Gabriel Cousins, MD. He’s been on this show several times, but he is a master healer. At the time he had the Tree of Life and he had a school of holistic wellness. This was in Arizona. And she graduated there with a Masters in Vegan, Live Food Nutrition, specializing in diabetes and spiritual fasting. Marcela is someone that knows how to help you become truly beautiful. Since then she has witnessed hundreds of healings and spiritual transformations. Marcela claims that health and peace are the birthrights of each and every person. And when I spend time with her, that’s what I experience, health and peace. Now she honored me by allowing me to put my poem, it’s called A Universal Prayer in her book. I’m not sure which way this went, but she loved this prayer, A Universal Prayer, and I asked her if could read it today. So we’re going to just do that. Now it’s very short, but it goes like this.
Please clear the veil of separation so that I may experience the full radiance of my being. Please reveal my true nature and remove all misinterpretations of reality. Please melt all suffering, pain, and ignorance with the vibrations and pulsations of love. Reveal the essence of the boundless colors of love to me so that I may reveal and revel in the cosmic dance of light, and play on this earth free, clear, and radiant as my true and authentic self.
Thank you. So that is from a little book I did called Three Days in the Light: Blessings for Our Lives. It was one of those moments when I was just completely blissed out and had to write poems in the place of Samadhi. Marcela and I have been dancing together for a long time. She is a true inspiration to the world. I think we’re going to have a lot of fun. Just get ready to get blissed out. I’m going to take a little break here, but when I come back, we’re going to speak more about the medicine of beauty. Stay tuned. We’ll be right back.
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