Monthy Reading #2 (July 2008) Food Effects on Mind, Body and Spirit

This month, I noted yoga and the Kabbalah similarly describe the multileveled body-mind-spirit. It is said that aspects are interrelated; when you affect one aspect, such as the body, you also affect the other aspects, such as the mind and spirit. I also noted in myself that as I change personally a number of levels change simultaneously as in a Domino effect. Also, I see these interrelated aspects manifesting in myself first and then read about them later, as if the books and teachings are confirming my experience.

The 1988 statement by the American Dietetic Association (ADA), quoted in Eating for Beauty, on page 14 suggests a positive relation between a vegetarian lifestyle and the decrease of several chronic degenerative diseases like obesity, heart/coronary disease, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, colon cancer, and other conditions. The virtues of this lifestyle are rewarded on other levels of the body-mind-spirit complex; the cause and the effect become blurred.

The Sunfood Success System reading articulates that you will begin to attract beautiful events and experiences and realize instant karma as an amazing synchronicities begin to occur. You will look more beautiful. In Eating for Beauty Wolfe also adds, “you are what you eat” Your food choices will paint an accurate picture reflecting refinement of character. You will enjoy life and love more fully. Improved appearance and increase in synchronicities are some of the phenomena I experienced first in my transition into yoga and the living foods lifestyle.

Currently, my changes seem more on the emotional or heart level. My emotions demand to be authentically claimed/recognized by me, even if I formerly would have judged them “illigitimate.” Some of these are ecstatic, some are painful and some are a mixture of pain and joy and not all are directed towards God (that I am aware of). A number of quotes speak to me: “Until the first three chakras are balanced and our consciousness is merged and integrated with their higher functioning, the consciousness of the heart, or Love chakra, and the superconscious fifth, sixth, and seventh chakras cannot completely emerge or be fully integrated in a way to create the alchemy of meditation. (Spiritual Nutrition, p. 169.) It will be easier for the pranic energy of the system to be drawn into the upper vortex field, the goal being the superconductivity of Kundalini and directly experiencing the ecstasy of God. “...there arises an experience of an extraordinary, exquisite, gentle flow of the Divine spirit, God’s light, and Divine sound filling the body.” (Conscious Eating, p 172.) I feel moments of this state and am excited by further prospects. Apparently, noncausal joy should run through every cell and be omnipresent.

Awareness (Toxemia Explained, p 10), the path of the heart, our holy rhythm and lifestyle can be affected by the biochemical stress and post-stress response and addictions involving neurotransmitters (serotonin, dopamine, noradrenaline, glutamine, GABA), endorphins, lack of EFAs, excitotoxins, and other biological chemicals. These can shift the consciousness of identity and consciousness of the nature of the world. At least on the physical level one can try to dietary approach of an individualized, organic, vegan, live-food, high-mineral, low-glycemic, well-hydrated, sattvic (holy), moderate-intake diet prepared with Love as a powerful aid in the process of spiritual evolution. (Spiritual Nutrition, p. 198.) I look to wake up to a new level of awareness and joy.