on anger and criticism vs. healing

[Guest guest]

Thank you, Bay!

I agree!

I just check in every once in a while because I do, after all, eat 100% raw

foods, and am

happy to be doing so, and am interested in the experiences of others who do

so...but I

also care about my health! I had cancer just three years ago, and know from my

healing

experience that the all-raw diet that I instinctively discovered was only one

piece of what

turned me around from near-death to full health! I'll share some of those other

things I

think helped me in a big way:

 

1. Getting away from computers and other sources of electro-magnetic radiation!

 

2. Spending time in nature! Alone, observing and identifying myself as part of

this

beautiful creation.

 

3. Avoiding or simply ignoring (if avoidance was impossible) unwell

people--those

expressing anger or neediness or self-vicitmising tendencies, which are

unfortunately

quite contagious states of mind.

 

4. A wholistic sense of willful naiveté. ex: " Who me? Sick? No way! I'm not only

not sick, I'm

the healthiest, happiest, luckiest person in the world! " And basking in the

resulting

overwhelming sense of gratitude for what I did have. Why wholistic? I am by

nature a very

academic, rationally-inclined person, (I was a student of philosophy and the

history of

math and science), and enjoy studying the science behind

how-on-earth-I'm-not-dead-

right-now, especially as regards diet. However, I have repeatedly noticed that

my health

significantly improves each time I leave my technical studies behind for a time.

I believe

now, simply based upon my own repeated experiences, that supplement and

superfood-

taking may be detrimental to my health not because there's necessarily anything

wrong

with them, but because, in taking them, I am sending a mesage to my unconscious

that " I

am unwhole. " that " I need " these things. That without them I am " fragile " or

" lacking " in

some way. And that fractured self-regard is, in my experience, self-fulfilling.

And the

same goes for counting and calculating nutrients, calories, percentages, etc.

When I

choose to see myself as complete and as perfect as I would ever wish to be, I

find myself

instictively reaching out for those whole, raw foods which would naturally be

best for me,

as though I were giving myself a present every time I ate. And every meal thus

becomes a

heavenly feast and I could ask for nothing more.

 

My point in sharing this is this:

Let's keep in mind that a lot of people are drawn to raw foods because they

desire healing.

Physical, emotional: healing is healing, and a raw food diet can be supportive

of that. I

believe that a lot of people who seek emotional healing come to a raw foods

group

because it is so much easier to discuss physical healing than emotional healing.

But I think

it is rare that one form of healing actually comes without the other, or that

one can be

physically ill without also suffering emotionally or spiritually.

 

So let us keep these emotional/spiritual sensitivies in mind and tread lightly

on each

other's spirits as we discuss and share experiences of physical healing through

raw foods.

 

Warmly,

Storm

 

 

rawfood , Bay Montera <me wrote:

>

> I am pretty much a lurker here but all this anger has brought me out

> of the woodwork. Something Elchanon posted many moons ago has stuck

> with me although I am probably not quoting verbatim.

> Praise publicly, criticize privately.

>

> I have to say that the angry messages recently on this board really

> affect my mood. It is no one person doing this. but many who

> sometimes speak their truth a little more harshly than necessary.

> There is almost always a way to word what you want to say in a way

> that the words are not hurtful. Let us all try to find this way.

>

> Bay

>

> P.S. Perhaps we can start another group: " angry raw vegans " or " raw

> and on a rampage " for those who prefer speaking harshly.

>

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

> So let us keep these emotional/spiritual sensitivies in mind and

tread lightly on each

> other's spirits as we discuss and share experiences of physical

healing through raw foods.

>

> Warmly,

> Storm

 

Storm,

Your entire post was incredible. Nature ebbs and flows and is not

rigid. Such is health. Erica

[Guest guest]

Hello Storm,

 

I have trimmed your post but it was very thoughtful and insightful

with a lot of good heart put into it. Thanks for taking the time to

write it.

 

Namaste

Harsha

 

rawfood , " Love Food Lane "

<lovefoodlaughter wrote:

> My point in sharing this is this:

> Let's keep in mind that a lot of people are drawn to raw foods

because they desire healing.

> Physical, emotional: healing is healing, and a raw food diet can be

supportive of that. I

> believe that a lot of people who seek emotional healing come to a

raw foods group

> because it is so much easier to discuss physical healing than

emotional healing. But I think

> it is rare that one form of healing actually comes without the

other, or that one can be

> physically ill without also suffering emotionally or spiritually.

>

> So let us keep these emotional/spiritual sensitivies in mind and

tread lightly on each

> other's spirits as we discuss and share experiences of physical

healing through raw foods.

>

> Warmly,

> Storm

>