When live foods are introduced too quickly, I have observed that people sometimes have trouble digesting them. If one doesn’t understand this principle and doesn’t give oneself time to develop the digestive power by making such a transition slowly, it is very easy to become discouraged in the transition process. A classic case of this is my observation of people visiting the United States from India. In India, most of the food needs to be cooked for hygienic purposes. When people from India start to eat raw salads, they may develop some discomfort. On a more subtle level, in the transition to vegetarianism from meat-eating, some people may have difficulty responding to the forces of stored sunlight that are released by the plants. Plants store light through the process of photosynthesis. During the process of assimilation, this light is released from the plant into our own systems. According to Rudolf Steiner, if one is prepared, an equal and opposite inner light is activated to match this. By this process, one increases the strength of the inner spiritual light, which is the original sustaining energy that keeps us alive. Heavy meat- eaters become deprived of this light stimulation, because the plant light has been released into the animal and is not transferred to the human. Some people who have come from generations of meat-eaters need time to build up this light. To use a physical analogy, if one were doing push-ups, one does not immediately start with 100 push-ups, and then when one fails, make the pronouncement that doing push-ups is too difficult for nonpush-up people. If one wants to succeed, one starts with 5, 10, or 20 push-ups and works up from there. Gabriel Cousens, MD Conscious Eating How would a Conscious Eating education change your world? Join the CSHW Masters Intensive. Click here for more information: ow.ly/vFe7C
Posted on: Wed, 30 Apr 2014 00:46:41 +0000
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