Eat heavy foods, feel heavy, get heavy and then get sick. Eat light foods, feel light, be light, and so many other wonderful experiences begin to arise and open. When we eat foods that bog down our systems on any level, we spend more energy fighting to digest and assimilate, wasting precious time and energy that could potentially be used for the greater good; for ourselves, our work, our community and the planet.
With improper nutrition, we live at a survival vibration, the victim of our own compulsions and addictions, rather than living at our highest creative and spiritual potential. Women in menopause can give this careful consideration because we can be so preoccupied with the amount of heat moving through our bodies; it is definitely the biggest distraction I’ve ever experienced. Each one of the symptoms identified below is increased ten-fold; no exaggeration.
Think about the times when you go out for that special meal, or travel and eat differently, when you take in a bit more sugar, drink a little more wine or stay up later than usual. In all these situations, especially if you aren’t accustomed to it, the body’s natural rhythms are disturbed and have to work at least twice as hard for the same result. Napping or falling asleep early, then waking up in the middle of the night to use the restroom, or tossing and turning with digestive fire burning through your pj’s and sheets is common with this type of food and drink indulgence.
Waking up is often accompanied with a head or stomach ache, fullness, constipation or diarrhea, all accompanied with general feelings of toxicity and sluggishness. I’m sure you’ve had at least one of these symptoms and promised never to do “this” again. I imagine some of you have even used magic little over-the-counter pills to push away the symptoms too!
I used to think these awful feelings were all related to alcohol in the good old party days. Then I stopped drinking and found that my symptoms were the same with certain kinds of food and was the harbinger of these terrible maladies. The feelings always changed my ability to think clearly, feel emotionally stable and practically productive. One thing leads to another.
Most important, and this is a retrospective, I was irritable and my heart was coated with an odd layer of protection. I think it was stress; a physiological imbalance which led to mental stress and ultimately cut off the connection to my heart. It often pumped harder and sometimes even missed a beat here and there. I just didn’t want to be near anyone feeling this way.
What happens to our bodies is always a precursor to what takes place in our minds and emotions, eventually stopping our ability to engage with our soul, and other people’s souls as well. We are just too busy with our digestion, running to the bathroom or remembering to breathe, so we have no space to engage in an intentional, conscious, spirit to spirit connection with another human being.
And while this may be redundant, I will simply state that food creates physiological stress, which creates mental and emotional imbalance, which leads to hiding our hearts and focusing on our own survival needs. We have no room to be of service to our planet because our vibration is so low. A survival vibration is as close to dead on the scale of relationship as we can get without actually dying, because we are in a constant state of managing our base level needs.
We have no time for these cro-magnon cycles anymore!
For me the answer has always been in keeping everything very clean–house, car, paperwork, colons and mind–or suffer the consequences. I will also venture to say that if you haven’t ever committed to a clean diet, you may not quite understand this idea because you have no comparison. And although I’m speaking to the benefits of eating only raw vegan foods here, if you haven’t explored beyond your own backyard, you might want to ease into this journey, testing the waters and allowing your body to adjust slowly. Just a suggestion.
Raw, whole, organically grown foods have the highest nutritional value of anything grown, anywhere. They are easiest to digest and assimilate because their enzymes are fully intact and they aren’t toxic or genetically modified. When grown and sold by local farmers or grocers who support local trade, they also carry the highest vibration of all the possible food choices we have in our world at present because the people who grow and handle these foods are carrying a higher, more caring vibration.
I don’t know how you feel about all this and the choice is obviously your own; your body will tell you how far to go with anything you ingest, whether it be air, energy or food. At this point in my life, I’d rather eat a raw diet, feel easy in my body, open my heart more and be present for a bigger game plan than to hide because I can’t digest my food or my life.
And wow! Does it ever help with menopausal symptoms, especially that heat rising!
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