What was learned? How is it useful?The focus for October was on individualizing one’s diet.
The focus in allopathic medicine about individuality has been that idiosyncracies have little or no functional significance to medicine.
Conversely, Roger Williams in Biochemical Individuality: The Basis for the Genetotrophic Concept indicates that there are numerous physiological variables that make each of us unique. Williams points out that in composition, enzymes, endocrine production, excretion patterns, pharmacological manifestations, basal metabolism, growth, temperature control, pain sensitivity, oxygen use, blood pressure, electricity, taste, presence of parasites and transplantation all manifest uniquely in individuals. If we wish to “do anything about” or treat any of these areas, we best customize the approach.
We can use a variety of systems to ascertain our unique mind-body psychophysiology: autonomic nervous system type; oxidative system, Ayurvedic; acid-alkali, endocrine, lipo-oxidation, and blood type. Questions we can ask ourselves about our nourishment are:
· What am I trying to say by this food choice?
· What is nature communicating to me?
· Can this food sustain my focus on the Divine?
It’s trial and error. Limit the variables and become both the scientist and the experiment. Because I spent 21 days in October this year in Pancha Karma, I spent a great deal of time contemplating the Ayurvedic modality, in particular, and its relevance to my mind-body.
My Ayurvedic RYT, AHE, in Toronto, Matthew Remski (who studied under David Frawley), assessed me as a robust pitta(3)-kapha(1.5) prakriti with excellent structural stability and a vast pool of emotional resource beginning to quiver under a hyper-competent intellectual and professional persona. Vata is over-excited on the level of reproductive power and manas by spiritual emergence. Pitta-type psychological drive has served me well in terms of artha but cannot stop for kama or contemplation or simple rest because of a long-standing fear that foundations are insecure. I was told my body is fairly clean. The raw diet has done me well on many levels: it has eliminated many toxins (clean tongue, improved skin, feeling of lightness). However, there are four issues that I would tinker with and balance out.
Under Matthew Remski's supervision, I responded to the assessment by conducting a 21-day cleanse and making some minor adjustments to my daily diet to support my Ayurvedic dosha balance.
This is not a search for a perfect diet, but a part of balanced, harmonious life. This is not a technique for enlightenment, just a support system to aid in harmonious, centred spiritual unfolding. We know we are eating optimally when we are glowing with life, have enhanced communion with the Divine and realize the highest state of awareness and functionality to fulfill our roles in the world. And over the month of October, I did feel more grounded, more at peace, healthier and radiant.
The higher purpose of diet is to aid in spiritual unfolding; to assimilate, store, conduct, transmit spiritual energies; to balance subtle energy centers, and to enhance peace on the planet.
Diet is the cause and effect of our awareness. David Wolfe writes in The Sunfood Diet Success System that food on the chlorophyll side of his Sunfood triangle can tune us into natural resonant frequencies. (page 184) I intuit that this is true. The more green I get, the more attuned, sensitive and energized. But I also have had to manage or balance this new state.
We want to transition wisely to a high proportioned-live food diet and use the triangle to modulate and customize: weight, stage of life, detoxification issues, hypoglycemian/diabetes issues, candida, mental clarity, athletics, temperature and grounding.
We can use a variety of systems to ascertain our unique mind-body psychophysiology: autonomic nervous system type; oxidative system, Ayurvedic; acid-alkali, endocrine, lipo-oxidation, and blood type. Questions we can ask ourselves about our nourishment are:
· What am I trying to say by this food choice?
· What is nature communicating to me?
· Can this food sustain my focus on the Divine?
It’s trial and error. Limit the variables and become both the scientist and the experiment. Because I spent 21 days in October this year in Pancha Karma, I spent a great deal of time contemplating the Ayurvedic modality, in particular, and its relevance to my mind-body.
My Ayurvedic RYT, AHE, in Toronto, Matthew Remski (who studied under David Frawley), assessed me as a robust pitta(3)-kapha(1.5) prakriti with excellent structural stability and a vast pool of emotional resource beginning to quiver under a hyper-competent intellectual and professional persona. Vata is over-excited on the level of reproductive power and manas by spiritual emergence. Pitta-type psychological drive has served me well in terms of artha but cannot stop for kama or contemplation or simple rest because of a long-standing fear that foundations are insecure. I was told my body is fairly clean. The raw diet has done me well on many levels: it has eliminated many toxins (clean tongue, improved skin, feeling of lightness). However, there are four issues that I would tinker with and balance out.
Under Matthew Remski's supervision, I responded to the assessment by conducting a 21-day cleanse and making some minor adjustments to my daily diet to support my Ayurvedic dosha balance.
This is not a search for a perfect diet, but a part of balanced, harmonious life. This is not a technique for enlightenment, just a support system to aid in harmonious, centred spiritual unfolding. We know we are eating optimally when we are glowing with life, have enhanced communion with the Divine and realize the highest state of awareness and functionality to fulfill our roles in the world. And over the month of October, I did feel more grounded, more at peace, healthier and radiant.
The higher purpose of diet is to aid in spiritual unfolding; to assimilate, store, conduct, transmit spiritual energies; to balance subtle energy centers, and to enhance peace on the planet.
Diet is the cause and effect of our awareness. David Wolfe writes in The Sunfood Diet Success System that food on the chlorophyll side of his Sunfood triangle can tune us into natural resonant frequencies. (page 184) I intuit that this is true. The more green I get, the more attuned, sensitive and energized. But I also have had to manage or balance this new state.
We want to transition wisely to a high proportioned-live food diet and use the triangle to modulate and customize: weight, stage of life, detoxification issues, hypoglycemian/diabetes issues, candida, mental clarity, athletics, temperature and grounding.
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