and since all disease is essentially a variety of 'one', it follows that a period of intelligent water fasting

only according to thirst might be an excellent way to allow the body to take a break from its attempts to control potential or existing disorders, while allowing the mind
a detachment from the limiting belief that it is actually (even) food, after all, that keeps body and soul together.

After a fast, it bcomes so evident that it is only very small amounts of some particular food (herb, fruit, vegetable, nut...)that the body truly needs. (The rule here might be akin to the Natural Hygienist's rule of water fasting: to do it for as little time as necessary in order to achieve the most benefit. Thus, less strain upon digestion'assimilation as the main activity, and more energy available to turn the body's capacities to higher processes.)

Large amounts of food are indicative of one's 'starving', via the cells being overloaded with non-food oils and unnatural sugars and excess proteins likely... This catch-22 perpetuates a belief that one is "the body", (or is trapped thereby) since there can be no vibrating at a higher, creative rate, unless and until the gravity (being a thing headed to the grave)of the body is overcome.

I'm starting to really get a sense of the wisdom behind the dictum to "let your food be your medicine..."

Think of the size of a lozenge of truly medicinal herb, berry or other so called "superfood".

What if we were to have faith the size of a mustard seed (!) that the body doesn't run on shovelfulls of food, like some over-fed furnace, gobbling up trees?

After a water fast, if allowed to go its natural way, the body, and the eye of mind, will reach for a leaf of herb, a single fruit, a spoonful of cranberries and apple
baked together with no sweetener added... and these things are elixirs. What about pine needle tea? Infusions of backberry leaf and fruit. A saucer of velvety wilted greens in a dressing of mineral-rich (nettle and deandelion-infused) apple cidar vinegar. What about one delicious snow apple? (I remember as a kid after Hallowe'en; after sorting the sweets into heaps according to my sister's scale of 'best to worst', pushing aside all the candy in favour of that one, crisp, healing apple.)


We've moved so far away from a natural way to live, which would be 'eating to live', rather than 'living to eat', that we forget there is a huge natural pharmacopia, a floracopia outside our four -or umpteen- walls. I'm saddend to think of how little I know of the plants that grow near me, where I walk every day. How little I am able to communicate with them, or hear what they'd say. Not that I want to know their names in order to control them, as medicine controls populations by giving them labels to put on their diseases, and then feeding them patented medicines by the vialfuls.

I'd like to know what to nibble on, as I pass. One good idea I recently read for people who want to become more attuned to the healing nature of nibbling, rather than sitting down to platefuls, is to watch what your pets nibble on, on rare occasions. (dog and cat, I'm thinking, not neccesarily iguana) A leaf of a certain grass or herb... and to have a small amount of this yourself on occasion. It becomes very healing then, in minute quanitites-- And perhaps this gift of one's animal friends, you might say, attunes us to be wiser about how little we need to be open to, and appreciative of abundance within, without, all around. That we are ourselves of the very nature of wholeness: this is what "healing thought" is about. Part of the theory here must be the ages-old herbal wisdom that your 'medicine' always grows nearby.

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to life!



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