Eating and Finishing

Thanks giving
is a sweet
and wonderful
chance to see:

ah, I can stuff myself.

And then:
how do we sleep.

How do we feel
the next day?

A possible
switch:

do all stuffing before 2 or 3
in the afternoon

and then stop eating
until
the next morning.


Dali Llama does it
Ayuruvedic recommends it

when I do it:
I sleep better
wake up fresh
and untired

a nice shift of
habit
I'm looking forward
more and more

to making

The Essentials of Real Health and Healing:

My Take

1. Meditate Full Time
Not on your butt, though that twice a day 10-20 minutes
would be nice.
All the time, while living.

2. Spend a couple hours a day outside.
Do walks.
Talks.
Writing.
Gardening.
Thinking.
Commute on your bike or feet.
You figure out how.

Enjoy these minutes/ moments.
Meditate in them.

3. Re-learn to learn how to move
with ease, grace, pleasure,
creativity and awareness.
Deepen sensing, body comfort, skill
and learning.
Vitality and learning at center of life.

4. Eat only raw foods.
(If you want to stop getting sick
or heal something
or lose weight
or increase radically overall vitality.)

Raw fish, meat, cheese, milk, keffir, eggs
okay/ good.

This puts you way out of social norm.
Oh, well.
Doing morning and evening raw
is fine wonderful great, too.

And being present,
you can love
those around you,
even as they look at you
like you are some sort of scary freak.

When you start to glow,
lose huge amounts of weight,
stop getting sick,
and look ten to twenty years
younger,
they might get a little more interested
and respectful.

Then again,
they might not.

Their business: see Work of Byron
Katie, below as stress undoing
part of real health.)

5. Write three pages a day.
Dreams, wishes, ideas, wondering,
exploring, undoing, investigating,
letting go, diving in, loving, gratitude,
creative ideas.

6. Undo all grudges, resentments, regrets.
All of them
The Work of Byron Katie
is supreme for this.

7. Care for and be of use
to
Other People
and
the Earth.



This is a lot.
This will do almost anything.

Again:
my opinion.

Maybe Raw,
Maybe healthier,
Maybe more greens,
Maybe healthier

You can read
books
saying to eat this,
eat that.


One of the set of books you can read
is some fun stuff
that lets up
know about losing weight

or ending sickness

or even stopping heavy hitters
like cancer
and whatnot

by eating raw



me,
I don't know

think it's fun
easier

easier to digest
food tastes
better

simple

if I don't eat too much at night
have tons
of energy
even with little sleep

who knows

might work
for you

and if you do it
go
all raw

messing around
with "trying"
it

really isn't going
to give you the glow

so
go slow in your breathing
your eating

but,
make the shift
all the way

if you want to try
an amazing experiment

failing, learning, loving

What is Real HEALTH????

health
could mean:
never get sick

and a good path
toward that is two of
the things Mom should have told us:
get good
sleep
and
go outside and play

and the third
and this is to
NEVER
get sick:
eat raw
foods

Mom probably didn't tell us that,
though she hopefully pushed
bananas and carrots and celery our way


Anyway:
another version of health
is
a Feldenkrais definition:
springing back from setbacks

can be physical:
get sick
then get well fast

can be emotional:
get whacked by someone's unkindness
or insensitivity
or just plain forgetting that we
want to be as important as we want to be

and springing back


can be
life path:
setting out to do a business
or a project
and various
rejection/ failure along
the way:
and picking ourselves up and
going
do
with the show

good


and spiritual:
setting out to be present
or loving
or whatever
failing
and getting back to it
instead of trashing ourselves
for "failing" "again"

la,
la

easier
to write/ give
this advice

than
sometimes to remember it,
myself

see today's essay at
slowsonoma.com

love
and happy
ungradings
to
you,


Chris