Exactly ! Intuition is the key ..the long buried and forgotten key in most of our cases . I remember the day this hit me too .. I had been getting increasingly confused by what foods were good for my toddler daughter after plenty of dietary advice from various, often contradicting , sources . One day I was listening to an interview with Anita Morjani who had a profound near death experience at the end of cancer but " woke up" from her experience cured . In the interview she was asked about diets for cancer and the answer she gave was exactly as you say .. our intuition can tell us and the answer is personal to each of us at any given time , we just have to listen to it . I use the arm test sometimes( used in kinesiology and homeopathy ) or even just tune in to whether something makes me feel stronger or weaker ..sometimes by picking up whatever it is ..or just imagining it works too . Now I used this method more and more for anything from food to whether I should go somewhere , do something , engage with certain people ..etc and as with exersing the body the intuition definitely seems to get stronger and clearer the more it is practiced .
Yes .. and I've heard the gut called the second brain ..esp important, it seems, to keep the gut flora healthy and balanced for emotional and mental health .
Great writing and great comments JP. I think you must be very healthy indeed and you have great will-power. Did it raise problems in the family as the children were growing up. Did you have to eat separate meals or did everyone eat the same
I wonder did God mean us to eat meat. I mean I know we've adapted to it and the drinking of milk. But surely he wouldn't want us to kill his beautiful animals. I know this is a different topic to a diet. But it tortures me a bit. I hated meat as a kid, I was a very fussy eater and my parents didn't tolerate it well, forced me to eat. I hated mealtimes. The only food I liked that I remember fresh bread, potatoes, beans, tomatoes and eggs I think, oh and fish on Fridays. I was small and puny and was often sick, but that was because of the damp and cold of the fifties growing up. I and one of my brothers had asthma until our teens, maybe as a result of the Polio vaccines of those days. I learnt to eat other foods when I went abroad as an Au-Pair after my Leaving. After being an ethical vegan for eight years, last September out of the blue I began eating a few eggs and butter and then some cheese. Mostly I like lentil and veg stews with lots of spices. I think I'll got back to the plant-based diet soon as I put on some weight with the change
To each their own choice. But even dairy and the egg industry has cruelty built in and the animal always ends up dead or manipulated to over-produce. I feel a bit guilty for my current choice. I remember rashers tasted good but I've heard pork if full of parasites and they don't die in cooking, I don't know if that's misinformation
Anyway for anyone interested in health and wellbeing, I recommend Barbara O'Neill, she's on Youtube called Living Springs
God is definitely there and I sense he's very close since 2020, I've never been so aware of that. Yes I'll carry on doing what feels right
I wasn't too evangelistic when I changed my diet for the first time. At least I hope not. Today some family members are meat-eaters, others vegetarian. I try to live and let live as best as I can. I never considered the impact of my being a carnivore or a vegetarian on the animal kingdom. It was a purely self-centred desire to eat as well as I could.
Now, as I reflect on food and diet, I see eating animals or animal-products as part of a human legacy I have inherited. It must be like discovering in adolescence that the wealth and privilege you have been enjoying is derived from criminal activity by your family. What do you do? What can you do?
I think we are all in the same situation, especially since March 2020. Each one of us has to decide for him or herself. I can only share my own story, in particular my extraordinary good fortune in finding a pathway out before I even realised I needed one.
I just wondered from the person cooking the dinner's point of view, did you have to cook a separate dinner or just eat like the others with meat left out
I tend to do my own stuff separately. Each of us can cook so that's a good thing. It requires a degree of co-ordination in a small kitchen. But after several decades we've got it down to a fine art!
I forgot to say that as well as all the chewing that meat involved, I was sickened by the blood flowing out of the back of the family butchers in our village every Wednesday
I grew up near a 'knacker's yard', where cattle were driven to be slaughtered. The smell was awful. Once I either saw or heard about a cow who resisted and tried to break free from the herd. I presume he was quickly recaptured but I have always remembered the scene. I don't know why.
Thanks for that. Your mother sounds like she was on the ball. You got a great start in life under her care.
I have never tried an enema although it is recommended in some of the books I read.
While I am sure I inherited some physical characteristics from my parents (like body size), I suspect others are more lifestyle-related (e.g. varicose veins). It can be difficult to sort one out from the other though.
Exactly ! Intuition is the key ..the long buried and forgotten key in most of our cases . I remember the day this hit me too .. I had been getting increasingly confused by what foods were good for my toddler daughter after plenty of dietary advice from various, often contradicting , sources . One day I was listening to an interview with Anita Morjani who had a profound near death experience at the end of cancer but " woke up" from her experience cured . In the interview she was asked about diets for cancer and the answer she gave was exactly as you say .. our intuition can tell us and the answer is personal to each of us at any given time , we just have to listen to it . I use the arm test sometimes( used in kinesiology and homeopathy ) or even just tune in to whether something makes me feel stronger or weaker ..sometimes by picking up whatever it is ..or just imagining it works too . Now I used this method more and more for anything from food to whether I should go somewhere , do something , engage with certain people ..etc and as with exersing the body the intuition definitely seems to get stronger and clearer the more it is practiced .
The longer I look into food and diet, the more I realise it is a topic with plenty of misleading information about.
Great that you have learnt to trust your 'gut' in these and other matters. As you say, the more you do it the better it gets.
Yes .. and I've heard the gut called the second brain ..esp important, it seems, to keep the gut flora healthy and balanced for emotional and mental health .
Great writing and great comments JP. I think you must be very healthy indeed and you have great will-power. Did it raise problems in the family as the children were growing up. Did you have to eat separate meals or did everyone eat the same
I wonder did God mean us to eat meat. I mean I know we've adapted to it and the drinking of milk. But surely he wouldn't want us to kill his beautiful animals. I know this is a different topic to a diet. But it tortures me a bit. I hated meat as a kid, I was a very fussy eater and my parents didn't tolerate it well, forced me to eat. I hated mealtimes. The only food I liked that I remember fresh bread, potatoes, beans, tomatoes and eggs I think, oh and fish on Fridays. I was small and puny and was often sick, but that was because of the damp and cold of the fifties growing up. I and one of my brothers had asthma until our teens, maybe as a result of the Polio vaccines of those days. I learnt to eat other foods when I went abroad as an Au-Pair after my Leaving. After being an ethical vegan for eight years, last September out of the blue I began eating a few eggs and butter and then some cheese. Mostly I like lentil and veg stews with lots of spices. I think I'll got back to the plant-based diet soon as I put on some weight with the change
To each their own choice. But even dairy and the egg industry has cruelty built in and the animal always ends up dead or manipulated to over-produce. I feel a bit guilty for my current choice. I remember rashers tasted good but I've heard pork if full of parasites and they don't die in cooking, I don't know if that's misinformation
Anyway for anyone interested in health and wellbeing, I recommend Barbara O'Neill, she's on Youtube called Living Springs
God is definitely there and I sense he's very close since 2020, I've never been so aware of that. Yes I'll carry on doing what feels right
I wasn't too evangelistic when I changed my diet for the first time. At least I hope not. Today some family members are meat-eaters, others vegetarian. I try to live and let live as best as I can. I never considered the impact of my being a carnivore or a vegetarian on the animal kingdom. It was a purely self-centred desire to eat as well as I could.
Now, as I reflect on food and diet, I see eating animals or animal-products as part of a human legacy I have inherited. It must be like discovering in adolescence that the wealth and privilege you have been enjoying is derived from criminal activity by your family. What do you do? What can you do?
I think we are all in the same situation, especially since March 2020. Each one of us has to decide for him or herself. I can only share my own story, in particular my extraordinary good fortune in finding a pathway out before I even realised I needed one.
I just wondered from the person cooking the dinner's point of view, did you have to cook a separate dinner or just eat like the others with meat left out
I tend to do my own stuff separately. Each of us can cook so that's a good thing. It requires a degree of co-ordination in a small kitchen. But after several decades we've got it down to a fine art!
I forgot to say that as well as all the chewing that meat involved, I was sickened by the blood flowing out of the back of the family butchers in our village every Wednesday
I grew up near a 'knacker's yard', where cattle were driven to be slaughtered. The smell was awful. Once I either saw or heard about a cow who resisted and tried to break free from the herd. I presume he was quickly recaptured but I have always remembered the scene. I don't know why.
Can't restack for some reason 🤔
Thanks for that. Your mother sounds like she was on the ball. You got a great start in life under her care.
I have never tried an enema although it is recommended in some of the books I read.
While I am sure I inherited some physical characteristics from my parents (like body size), I suspect others are more lifestyle-related (e.g. varicose veins). It can be difficult to sort one out from the other though.