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Justin aka Vasya
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Diet etc: Meat, particularly the meat from more emotionally developed and attuned animals like cattle, pigs, goats, deer, sheep, etc has been mentioned. The primary reason for avoidance of this kind of meat has been mentioned which is primarily because when these animals are raised and go to the slaughter, and potentially to a lesser extent when hunted, feel a lot of emotional fear when they are dying.
If one feels one must eat meat of these kinds of animals, then the best kind is from animals who were not aware of their imminent death and of course who were in happier and healthier conditions.
Where i live, in the country of America, such meat is very, very, very rare and hard to find unless one goes out and hunts it or raises oneself.
Besides the consciousness and energetic issues, heavier meats just tend to be harder to digest in general. The concentrated complex proteins take a lot of stomach acid to break down fully and properly, and tend to be hindered especially if amounts of starches are ingested at the same time. These starches will prematurely neutralize too much of the hydrochloric acid necessary to break down these concentrated complex proteins.
Foul and especially Fish on the other hand, are not near as emotionally developed as the former mentioned animals. There is a certain amount of fear experienced, but it's a more instinctive reactive automatic process of "get away now to preserve life", and less emotionally laden. The former mentioned animals are closer to humans in how they experience and feel fear in a very emotionally powerful and laden way.
But even then, it is not helpful to eat too much fish or foul too often and too consistently. It still slows down the body vibrations, just not to the extent that the other meats do.
Generally speaking, the more natural, the more nutritious, and the easier to digest the food, the better it is for your body and the holistic balance of your consciousness system.
This precludes many preservatives, chemical additives (for the former especially artificial kinds), pesticides, overcooking certain foods or undercooking certain foods.
The best and healthiest food will also be the freshest and most locally grown food. Food caries the vibratory patterns of the surrounding physical environment to some extent. Hence, when you eat primarily food grown in your local environment you are harmonizing your body vibratory pattern with the surrounding area. This facilitates greater balance. Harmonization, then balance, tends to leads to opening up greater energy levels. It's just the way this Consciousness system works.
Cooking in some cases is quite helpful and helps to make a food more digestible, but in other cases raw is better because the enzymes present in certain raw foods assists in the digestion/break down and thus assimilation of that food.
If you eat a lot of foods that need to be cooked in order to digest better, like legumes and the more hard, fibrous, and tuberous vegetables, then one way of makign this food more "alive" again is to culture or ferment it.
This makes it even easier to digest, often increases certain nutrients, and adds helpful microorganisms to your system which do a number of helpful things.
For example, i like lentils a lot, but even cooked they are not the easiest to digest food in the world. So i do a couple of things which helps to change this. Food i soak the raw beans at least overnight. Then i cook. Then i blend this up, and add fresh, homemade Kefir to it and i let the Kefir organisms work on it for a full day or two before i refrigerate. It might sound like a lot of work, but really it's more simple and less work than you think, but it is more time involved in the long run.
Not only does the lentils become easier to digest, more nutritious, but it changes the somewhat bland flavor of same and adds some interesting and more complex flavors.
Another general issue is the simple one of eating too much. It seems that many people just eat too much food within a meal and throughout the day. One doesn't have to be overweight for this to be the case.
A big thing in diet, which is mentioned time and time again in the Cayce readings, and to a lesser extent with Rosiland McKnights guidance is the issue of food combining.
There are plenty foods that by themselves are fairly good for you and easier to digest, but when you mix them with very different food groups, this changes the digestibility because different food groups require different acids, alkalines, and/or enzymes, etc. to properly break down. This is not yet recognized much in mainstream and medical based paradigms, but that is largely because these tend to lack the holistic perspective that understanding such things require.
A quick example: Most fruits are pretty easy to digest, nutritious, alkaline reacting, and generally healthy for you.
Conversely, most veggies are relatively easy to digest, often quite nutritious, alkaline reacting, and generally healthy for you.
But what happens when you eat both in the same meal? On a basic level, they do not harmonize, but more materially speaking they are digested in different ways and at different speeds. Most raw fruits are digested very quickly, and many veggies take a longer time.
Mixing these in the same meal puts a strain on the digestive system, and if your digestive system is already strained to begin with, chronic habits in these area will tend to lead to dis-ease or even disease of some kind eventually--especially if the body is not often cleansed and revivified by enough meditation-prayer, positive loving thoughts, acts, etc.
As mentioned by Edgar Cayce's guidance and confirmed through my own experience, the best combination of foods are vegetables with starches, vegetables with heavier or lighter proteins, fruits alone or with smaller amounts of lighter proteins.
The most harmful combination are heavy proteins with amounts of starches (especially more complex and harder to digest ones like wheat and some other grains), veggies and fruits, starches with most sweets or fruits, heavier proteins with fruit and sweets, and amounts of sweets/sugars with amounts of fat/oil.
More specifically, some particularly harmful combos are Coffee with milk or too much sugar, Tomatoes non vine ripened in general or even if so when mixed with starches or heavier proteins, and citruses with milk and most starches.
Food combination naturally leads us to the issue of the alkaline acid balance in the body and the extreme importance of same. Yet another issue and subject that most mainstream and medically based paradigms don't look at or scoff at, but yet when people with developed cancer in the body have their ph levels taken via saliva or urine, it's almost always universally very acid polarized.
Edgar Cayce's guidance also spoke time and time again of the importance of the acid alkaline balance in the body.
Generally speaking, much of the typical American and to a lesser extent general Western diet is acid forming in nature. This might not be a problem if the basic body metabolisms weren't acid forming in nature, but they are!
Hence, generally speaking,many people would benefit from eating a more predominantly alkaline reacting diet.
But not is all as it appears on the surface with this whole acid and alkaline thing. Take for example, the lowly but nightly Lemon tah dah. Pretty acid in it's normal state primarily because of the large amount of citric acid in same. You might think that it's a highly acid forming food...
But that same Lemon contains huge amounts of potassium. Potassium is quite a negatively charged (very alkaline or high ph) salt mineral, and there is much more potassium than citric acid. Under ideal circumstances when you ingest from lemon, your body neutralizes the citric acid and unlocks the potassium from it, and when all is said and digested, it leaves behind a predominantly alkaline "ash" which enters the blood stream as nutrition that is predominantly negatively charged.
Now if you eat that same lemon or drink lemon juice with some dairy or starch or steak for example, then chances are the conversions are not done properly and the lemon remains acid forming.
Generally speaking, most vegetables are alkaline reacting with some exceptions, most fruits are alkaline reacting with some exceptions, most starches are from moderately to mildly acid reacting with some alkaline or neutral exceptions, all heavier proteins like meat or concentrated soy protein are quite acid forming, most dairy is from mildy acid forming to slightly alkaline forming (with the exception of certain Cow dairy cheeses which are moderately acid forming), most lighter proteins like most legumes, nuts, seeds range from slightly acid reacting to slightly alkaline reacting, and most concentrated sugars are highly to mildly acid forming with some exceptions.
Back to the combination. All of the inharmonious and difficult to digest combination lead to large amounts of acidity.
Basically, the ideal healthy body is one that is slightly alkaline in nature. Your body works very, very, very hard to maintain the very specific range of ph of the blood, but if you keep stressing and hindering that process and there is even a slight shift in that ideal ph of the blood, dis-ease, disease, and eventually death results.
Some get confused by the whole acid and alkaline balance because of not understanding the holistic nature of same and that we're talking the general body system and not every specific organ or system in same.
For example, your stomach is supposed to be highly acidic, if it wasn't, it wouldn't be doing it's job. We're talking chronic acid buildup in the tissues and fat of the body, which again can eventually lead to that super detrimental very slight shift in blood ph. PH of the body is best measured through a combo of saliva and urine and in a very consistent sense.
If both consistently measure only very slightly acid, base/neutral, or slightly alkaline, then chances are your body is more or less ok.
Now another important factor. Physical activities tend to burn acids. So, the more physically active you are, generally speaking the more of an acid reacting/forming diet you can eat and really, one will tend to need. Many acid forming foods have a lot more calories.
If you are more sedentary and tend to use your mind much more than your muscle, then you will need a greater Alkaline reacting diet to maintain health and equilibrium.
Climate also matters! The hotter and/or hot and humid the climate, the more alkaline reacting foods you need to eat. They produce less "body heat" than the heavy proteins and certain starches like Wheat.
The colder the climate or rather the more exposed you are to actual colder climates and temps, the more acid forming you need to eat in order to maintain health and body balance.
The Eskimos need all that heavy protein and fat in their diet otherwise most of them probably wouldn't survive well unless they spiritualized the body more completely (like some of the Tibetans do more so).
For the average person is moderate, seasonal changing climates, it's obviously better to eat less heavier proteins and easier to digest foods like fruits and veggies and some starches in the Summer and the reverse in the Winter. Spring and Fall are pretty much whatever floats your boat...err.. i mean circulates your blood.
Ok, we've covered most of the important basic principles.
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