Happy breakfast anyone? Take the time to shut down the world and listen to yourselves!

Hello again Steemit believers!

So, I woke up this morning and immediately opened the browser, typed www.steemit.com and just continued to refresh and browse and read through posts and REPEAT!!!

It was an exceptional morning. Not only because the introduceyourself post on my blog from yesterday totally nailed it, but also the fact that I was actually willing to do something before getting a coffee!

After being totally energized by the comments and the upvotes, I started preparing my coffee!

Well... not really...!

Actually I took out my Nikon D90 (pretty old but I still love it) and started taking pictures for the next post on my Blog.

Yes! I was inspired enough to charge the battery of the camera, find the best lighting in the apartment, take out all the ingredients and finally have that damn coffee while waiting for the battery to be ready.

Since I have decided to write on Steemit properly, I have also decided to kind of put my heart out there and let people get to know me :)

This post will be on a healthy breakfast as you understood it from the picture and a bit more!

Until 2014 I really did not care about the way I treated my body, which is afterall the temple where our souls lie.

The carefree lifestyle worked out until I started having some serious panick attacks that later on turned out to be/ become an anxiety disorder. Anyone reading this that have not been through it will hardly understand fully what I am saying. And anyone reading this and relating with it, I have one advice only: Hang on there dear friend, because it is only you that will, at the end, drag yourself out of it with lots of self love and self respect! Listen to that inner voice because it is the key to everything.

Three years later now, I understand life will mostly throw you into situations where you will have to face all of your demons. Sometimes, even demons you did not know you could have inside yourself.

That inner voice, back in 2014, was telling me to start eating healthy and hit the gym. And hell I did so, otherwise it was getting so angry that was literally shaking me down to the ground and making me unable to breathe as I was blocking all of my muscles. All I could feel was a wave of fear invading me.

So, what I did was to start doing lots and lots of research on what kind of food benefits our bodies and how. I also started doing lots of soul searching in order to understand what I loved to do and how I could integrate it into my daily routine a bit more. And this breakfast recipe was one of the healthy habits I gained back then.

Since this is a food post let me do it properly and start listing all the ingredients and their benefits

1/2 cup oatmeal

Oatmeal contains from proteins to carbohydrates that keep you fueled up until lunch time for sure :). It also contains fiber, and just one cup of oatmeal has more than 10 grams of protein. Oats help you with blood pressure, diabetes, digestions and much more. Wohooo! However, I am not a doctor so I will just stop here :p

chia seeds

Chia seeds are known as supefood that help you with acheiving a healthy skin, aging, heart and digestive system, bones and muscles, etc.

1 small bowl of yoghurt

1/2 banana

grapes

Ohhh grandma' s yoghurt is all I can think about riht now. I grew up in a very small town close to the mountains in the south of Albania. I remember my grandmother making her own yoghurt in a very primitive way right after getting the milk from their own cow. I saw it all and sometimes I even helped her. Only one word comes to my mind when I think of that yoghurt or milk: delicious!!!

Yoghurt is said to have the right bacteria that our bodies need! It is high in calcium, B vitamins and trace minerals.

Bananas as we all know keep us happy because of the high level of potassium and come from the warm countries we would love to visit.

Grapes are just awesome! They provide us with vitamin K, vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin B6, thiamine, riboflavin, niacin and folate. They also contain minerals like potassium, calcium, magnesium, phosphorus and sodium. No need to say more I guess!

To be honest and tell you the truth, when I finally prepared my breakfast bowl and started to eat it, I really did not think of all these vitamins and ingredients because I am not practising mindful eating. At least not yet as I cannot relax into those brain wavelengths once I wake up! But, for sure it was delicious!

And here is the result:

Hope you try it tomorrow morning :)

Remember that mental health is something real and we should not neglect it. Take the time to shut down the world and listen to yourselves!

See you soon!

Until then, keep on exploring :)

All the pictures included in this post are taken by the author!