Yesterday's Food: (got home tooooo late to blog)
Breakfast:
Fabulous green and yellow juice with 4 large leaves of red chard and 3 small golden delicious apples; with 1/4 lime
Lunch:
small amount of leftover sunflower sundried tomato pate on purple cabbage leaves, with 1 carrot; small amount of olive oil and nutritional yeast for dipping
Snack:
Raw Revolution chocolate cashew bar
Dinner (for my brother's birthday - Lotos Club, NYC):
Non-raw:
1 glass of champagne
a couple of handfuls of roasted mixed nuts
1 small hors d'oevre on a slice of cucumber, of I think Yellowtail sushi (this was funny, as I totally forgot what I was eating until after I ate it!)
a few glasses of superb red wine Paulliac
3 kinds of bread: 1 small marble croissant; a few crunchy grain crackers; 1 sourdough dinner roll with olive oil
Parsnip soup (vegan)
parpardelle pasta ribbons with mixed chunked veges with a sprinkling of parmesan
Dessert:
mango and blood orange sorbet
8 ounces water
OK, so my brother Richard celebrated a very auspicious milestone birthday, and our family went out for a really lovely and leisurely dinner. I decided to eat the food that was being offered, as I knew it would just be a really good time.
Here's what I'm left with: It is so rare that I do drink these days; both because of alchohol and susatined health as well as eating raw. Thankfully, I had plenty during other periods of my life! I actually really enjoy the taste. I love these experiments, as I can take them to you and share them with others. I believe there is a whole piece of this raw world that is not being touched upon; that piece is the concept of "cellular memory". People do discuss it in the context of "detox"; as in when you go raw and go through detox, your body is letting go of metabolic waste that can go back many years. In other words, you may be letting go of the metabolic waste of cigarettes you smoked ten years ago or a heavy sugar period in your life. What really isn't touched upon is that you may "re-experience" some aspect of this time period; even a faint smell or taste, or more potently, an emotion or feeling. This is called, "cellular memory". Because a large part of my practice as a Health Counselor surrounds "cellular memory", Somatic, or body-centered processing and releasing old trauma and belief systems from the body, I look at this concept a little differently. It's not just the "waste" we may detox; it may also be the stored "memory," which could include an emotional or energy-based response. This is more so the quantum physics of the body. Why would we believe it's merely the physical that would be stored and then released? We are all of our beings; a composite; physical, emotional and energy. As a result, often when "detoxing" from raw, a person may feel some deep and "old" emotional" responses; really stored energy in the body.
So, getting back to the alchohol and beautiful meal last night. Let me first say I was FULL. This is always so interesting to me, as I never feel full from raw.
I had some dreams about people from my past, and when I awoke, my body carried deep sadness and pain-melancholy feeelings. I have known these feelings before; they are from my past.I remember waking up with them years ago after a night out.
I have been tracking the responses of the body to food for a long time and am completely fascinated with this aspect of stored memory. Look how deeply these "body memories" are stored!
So, two things go on for me today: One, I get to see if there's something from my past worthy of examining a little more deeply in my present, and two, I clean out my body today, starting with a green juice. More on the subject of "cellular memory" to come.
I am wondering: Do you ever wake up and notice specific "feelings" after eating specific foods? Please write in and let me know...
PS - I also feel some reflux in my solar plexus due to the alchohol
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3 comments:
Hey Honey,
Yes, FULL....I know it all too well. I can't do large meals anymore; the price to be paid with indigestion, energy drain and discomfort is too great. I now do smaller amounts of food about every 2-2.5 hours so I never let the acidity build up for any length of time. I'm glad you are on your way to feeling better today ;-)
Thanks, Janine :) Yes, it over taxes the digestive system when we eat too much; we are asking it to work way too hard. That's why the fatigue occurs. It's great that you are "breaking down" your food into smaller meals.
A step further for those with digestive disorders such as IBS is to actually eliminate the acid-producing foods and eat an alkaline diet to heal the inflammation. It's really amazing how it can heal completely.
If you do have acid buildup on a regular basis, you might want to make that shift. A great book that speaks about the PH balance is "The PH Miracle," by Robert O. Young.
One of my student's dad has IBS and suffered excrutiating pain for over 50 years until he read this marvelous book about IBS whose title escapes me right now. Thank hashem never had to suffer what they go through. He is the one that told me to eat more frequently and it's been a g-d send. It's amazing; you go to a "gastro", they do tests and prescribe a pill. They can't just tell an acidic gal to eat smaller meals more frequently? No thought, no creativity, downright lazy and barely any integrity! Your menus sound REALLY enticing!
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