Interpreting your stomach ache (Caron) (WAS: Fast)

[Guest guest]

Caron,

Sorry for the long delay in responding ... I'm cleaning up a bit of my

backlog.

 

Your stomach ache is your key symptom, not your craving. We are used to ...

trained to ... focus upon our hysteria, our off-balance emotions. And in so

doing, we completely miss our genuine, core symptoms. What might your system

-- your subconscious -- be saying to your conscious awareness? What might

your system be asking you to do?

 

Perhaps the obvious is exactly correct ... continue not to eat for a bit.

When you fast, you create a state of relative rest within, and your system

immediately transfers resources from the usual digestive overload and toward

some cleanup. A stomach ache is cleanup-in-progress. So appreciate your

stomach ache, and listen to the obvious ... don't eat! Drink plenty of

water, and REST!!!! That's the key to almost all cleansing and restoration

of every part of our being, body, mind, and spirit.

 

Best,

Elchanan

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rawfood [rawfood ] On Behalf Of

Caron

Thursday, June 21, 2007 8:16 PM

rawfood

[Raw Food] Fast

 

 

Not sure why it's called fasting, feels like it should be called slow, but

anyway...

 

Didn't eat yesterday, beyond the limejuice in my water mid-morning. I'd had

a salad at my parents place the night before, plus a few dates and apples,

but something didn't sit right after not eating all day, so I had a belly

ache that night. Last night craved pizza and chips while I was trying to

sleep, and today I'm debating whether to go get some. I think I need more

water, but it's very cold, and drinking water makes me feel cold inside too.

(just had a brilliant idea and turned the cooler off on my water filter, so

will see if that helps!)

 

So at this point, I don't know if I should be continuing to fast, or

interpreting my cravings as my body asking for food. Yesterday and the day

before, I didn't feel like eating (I ate the salad so I wouldn't be tempted

to eat the cooked food mum had made, or the cake she had cooking in the

oven), but then the cravings set in, so I wonder if that means I need to eat

now (fruit, not pizza, though it is tempting on a cold day! even though I

hate pizza...).

 

Caron

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

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Elchanan

>Sorry for the long delay in responding ... I'm cleaning up a bit of my

backlog.

 

Thanks for taking the time to reply )

 

>Your stomach ache is your key symptom, not your craving. We are used to ...

trained to ... focus upon our hysteria, our off-balance emotions. And in so

doing, we completely miss our genuine, core symptoms. What might your system

-- your subconscious -- be saying to your conscious awareness? What might

your system be asking you to do?

 

These days, and for the last 8 years, it seems to have been asking me to

sleep, but no amount of sleep has helped. Also to stop eating, and drink

more water - both of which have been discouraged by everyone who hears of

it. I know, I'm no longer listening to them, but 8 years of scare tactics

are hard to overcome in a day ;o)

 

>Perhaps the obvious is exactly correct ... continue not to eat for a bit.

When you fast, you create a state of relative rest within, and your system

immediately transfers resources from the usual digestive overload and toward

some cleanup. A stomach ache is cleanup-in-progress. So appreciate your

stomach ache, and listen to the obvious ... don't eat! Drink plenty of

water, and REST!!!! That's the key to almost all cleansing and restoration

of every part of our being, body, mind, and spirit.

 

Thanks, I plan to do that this week, after 2 horrible weeks of off and on

horrible eating, and a mess in my poor belly. Need to get the boy back on

track too.

 

Caron

[Guest guest]

Caron,

 

You write:

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These days, and for the last 8 years, it seems to have been asking me to

sleep, but no amount of sleep has helped. Also to stop eating, and drink

more water - both of which have been discouraged by everyone who hears of

it. I know, I'm no longer listening to them, but 8 years of scare tactics

are hard to overcome in a day ;o)

___

 

Yes, yes!!! There is name for this ... it is " fasting " :) The basic rule

of biology is this: If you CAN sleep, then you NEED to sleep.

 

The way you have lived for many years has indeed exhausted your entire being

.... physically, mentally, emotionally. The need for rest that you perceive

is indeed real. Perhaps begin thinking of ways to honor your own system ...

???

 

Best,

Elchanan

_____

 

rawfood [rawfood ] On Behalf Of

Caron

Sunday, July 01, 2007 5:26 PM

rawfood

Re: [Raw Food] Interpreting your stomach ache (Caron) (WAS: Fast)

 

 

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[Guest guest]

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Elchanan

>Yes, yes!!! There is name for this ... it is " fasting " :) The basic rule

of biology is this: If you CAN sleep, then you NEED to sleep.

 

Unless you have a toddler in the house... ;o)

 

>The way you have lived for many years has indeed exhausted your entire

>being

.... physically, mentally, emotionally. The need for rest that you perceive

is indeed real. Perhaps begin thinking of ways to honor your own system ...

???

 

 

Very true, all of it. Short of finding the peak of a mountian in Tibet

though, I'm not sure how to get that rest though. I'm still having to get

the boy up twice a night to pee, so usually don't go to bed till after

midnight, and he has a rather unpleasant habit of following the sun, so he's

up at the crack of dawn. I did notice a dramatic improvement in his

nighttime peeing after being raw for about a week, so I'm going to try for

that again, and see if I can let him go all night without a wet bed, then

will start training myself to go to bed earlier. He learned to go to bed

when it gets dark, he even tells me when it's bedtime, so surely I can do it

too.

 

Caron