Satiation -- sufficiency vs. abundance (WAS: Relearning to eat - Elchanon)

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[down2earthspirit] Wednesday, July 13, 2005

8:10 AM Re: [Raw Food] Relearning to eat - Elchanon

 

Thanx Elchanon for being more precise in your language than I have been. Of

course, all sorts of hidden/suppressed stuff will come up and out if I am

trying to get 'healthy' on any level. I used the term reacting to a lack of

fat because no longer was there enough heaviness in my body or triggering

foods to suppress whatever I have been trying to suppress all my life. I

also realize that the feeling of lightness that occurs after I eat raw is

NOT what I associate with fullness or satisfaction. I am addicted to the

reaction I get from eating fats and lots of sugar on top of it. Lots of

reprogramming (or releasing of old programs) to do.

 

And it seems no matter how much I have ALREADY done lots of internal

healing, I need to change this particular habit (using food to fill the

void/suppress what I don't want to feel) NOW. I know this is the next step

in my own ascension process and it, like every thing I experience, goes in

fits and starts.

 

I also resonate with not eating enough fruit. As soon as you wrote it, I

realized you are right. I ate much more veggies than I did fruit anyway. I

still do. I need to be vigilant to eat fruit, eating veggies is much easier

for me. I haven't discovered yet why I have an internal aversion to fruit

but it certainly feels learned not natural. More to learn and try!!!!

 

Thanx again.

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You're welcome, . I hear, and I feel so very grateful, for the way you

are reaching out in this group, sharing your deeply-felt frustrations and

fears and hopes, searching with such candor for real understanding.

 

When we eat those unrefined or processed (including juiced) sugars, and when

we eat fats, we create that " full " feeling to which so many of us have

become accustomed.

 

Most of us no longer know how to distinguish our body's physical signals for

satiation, so instead we go for that " full " feeling. Unfortunately, by the

time we reach " full, " we have already overeaten, at least in physical

quantity (volume), probably also in calories. And when we rely upon

" fullness " as our surrogate for genuine satiation, we never get clear as to

what we actually need -- we never experience when we have had enough of any

particular food.

 

This is the problem with ALL food combining. Our satiation mechanism is

designed to work one food at a time. Anyone can demonstrate this for

him/herself. Don't eat anything for a number of hours. (Better yet, start of

the day with this experiment.) Then begin eating one food -- any food --

making sure to chew it well. Take your time, experience the food. Notice ---

really notice --- how it feels physically in your mouth. Notice the texture,

the taste, notice the sweetness and the acidity, notice any " saltiness " or

bitterness.

 

Continue eating this one food until you begin to notice that your experience

-- how your body responds in the mouth -- begins to shift. The food may no

longer taste as good, it may seem more acidic, it may no longer feel very

good in your mouth, physically. Now your body is signaling you that you have

had a sufficiency of this food, which means that your subconscious mind is

sending this information via your physical body to your conscious mind.

 

Note my choice of the word " sufficiency, " I do not say an " abundance. " This

is one of the the problems with all thinking about " super foods. " We need an

abundance of almost nothing; rather, we need a sufficiency of everything.

The approach to eating, which some of us recommend so strongly, based upon

high-water-content foods -- sweet fruits, accompanied by other fruits, and

including a large amount of tender greens -- provides a sufficiency of

everything we need. We do not need more omega 3 or omega 6 than is found in

such foods, nor more protein, more more of any other water-borne nutrients.

And when we add a small amount of high-fat fruits, such as avocado, we fill

in the rest of what we need.

 

On the other hand, whenever we UNDEReat the high-water-content foods, we

experience a deficiency of thousands of water-borne nutrients, all at the

same time. We can mask this deficiency, suppress our self-awareness, by

consuming foods high in fats, indigestible fiber -- foods that " fill us up. "

The result is really not all that different than eating cooked foods. In

fact, I've truly experienced eating in a RF restaurant as MORE suppressive

of my energy and self-awareness than eating some pretty heavy cooked foods.

Why? Because in so many of the popular RF recipes, 60-90% of the calories

come from fat. (My dear friend, Laurie Masters, has done the math time and

time again.)

 

But these foods cannot give what they do not have, and they do not have a

significant supply of then untold number of water-borne nutrients we need.

 

Best to all,

Elchanan

 

 

 

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