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Plant Based Essentials: Nuts - Plenum - 04-04-2016
part of switching to a Plant Based Diet is finding a balance in terms of nutrition and style that works for you. Some people eat more frequent meals, others less (like me). And so aside from the very essential nutritive aspect, is also the way that one chooses to go about it.
For me, I'm a big fan of nuts. I use them every day, and they are a great source of proteins and fats (in my view).
The only thing is ... nuts are pricey. Especially if you choose to go the Organic route. And because it's an international market: nuts move from Vietnam, Australia, Turkey, the USA, etc etc, the prices are relatively fixed. It only depends on your local currency exchange rate that determines if you are paying a higher amount, or a slightly lesser one. But be warned: if you ever want to buy nuts in bulk quantities, your eyes might just explode at the market rates. Nuts are power packed and dense, but their pricing is equally dense.
My go-to nut mix in the last 6 months has been what is called the 'ABC nut mix'. It's basically an equal parts combo of Almonds (A), Brazil Nuts (B), and Cashews ©. I use a small handful in my green smoothies. It blends superbly, and just seeing the ABC mix is enough to make my heart skip a little. There's something so beautifully rich in this particular combo.
As an aside, I had a long standing Almond allergy before I used this mix on a regular basis. It goes back many years: I'm not sure quite exactly how many, but I'm guessing back to teenage years at least. Surprisingly, it was not actually the almond inside which caused the issues; it was the skin. I don't know how I know, but when I used to look at almonds, it was the exterior which set off warning signals - this is bad to eat! Don't eat!
So when I started with this ABC nut mix in my smoothies, I used a very small amount. Just 2 almonds (organic, raw), because I knew it would set off the adverse bodily reaction. And lo and behold, after my first experience, I had the physical symptoms. There were small, isolated red welts which would appear. No rhyme or reason. The chest, the thighs, down around the chin. They would also swell sometimes, and then break the skin, sort of like a linear pimple. It would be sore to touch, like it was 'angry' and 'fiery'.
I had known that this reaction would appear - I knew that this was a food to avoid for me. But as Ra also mentioned, food allergies are just catalyst. And there is a deeper signal being indicated. So I had decided that I was willing to work through it this time, rather than leaving out this one food from my diet for this lifetime because I was unwilling to face what it was trying to tell me.
So discomfort and temporary disfiguring aside, I said yes to Almonds. And sat with them as the allergic response kicked in and stayed kicked in as I repeated the small dosage each day.
After the third day, some part of me questioned - are you crazy dude? This food *obviously* is causing this reaction. It hurts, it's breaking the skin, it's disfiguring - what are you trying to do? go against painful signals? Like seriously man, stop retriggering this allergic reaction.
But I stuck with it. I asked myself and kept trying to 'hear' what the allergy was pointing to. Even though I started having doubts on the third day, I was still gaining awareness, even after the initial outbreak on the first day. I knew that it was yellow-ray related (solar plexus). It was to do with social interactions.
Things started coming together. I recalled dreams that I had had when I was about 12. Persecution type dreams. Where I was running away from the law. I felt I had done something bad, and I was being chased down for 'punishment'. Trial by the law (society). Those dreams had repeated over a six month period, but I had never made use of them as a teenager. I didn't know how to. I was just so shaken when I woke up, that I was glad that it was over. But obviously they were signifiers of something.
Those dreams, and the sense of persecution, of having 'trespassed' on some societal law, and then the subsequent fear of being reined in ... these were the areas of mental exploration and balancing.
After about a week, the symptoms started dying down. And then vanished. I was gobsmacked. I, of course, am a true believer in the power of balancing and it's physical effects. This has been my path for many a year now. But each new example and experience of it always leaves me in some kind of wonder.
With some trepidation, I increased the almond levels, just to see what would happen. Nada. Nothing. Problem solved!
Of course, some people could say that is was just a matter of exposure, and letting my body get acculturated to this particular substance. I'm happy for you to explain my experience that way.
And my particular allergy is quite mild compared to what others experience. I didn't go into convulsions or have my airways close up, like some people do with certain nut allergies.
I could also have tried to balance the allergy without exposing myself to the substance. But I found it quite helpful - paradoxically - to be in the discomfort, and trying to enter into it authentically, to see what it was trying to point to. And through that feedback, I found my way to those teenage-level dreams, and it offered the key to this particular understanding. No need to run away, or overactivate the body for flight. There is no danger *right here*. It is just a perceived sense of persecution made real.
So that is just an aside on the main topic of Nuts. It's kinda relevant, as nut allergies are not uncommon these days.
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as for other nuts:
pistachios: so dreamy, so succulent. Out of this world color!
pine nuts: not a fan
Walnuts: awesome and crunchy
peanuts: pass
cashews: a real mainstay, totally reliable
pecans:
macadamias:
Hazelnuts:
RE: Plant Based Essentials: Nuts - Parsons - 04-04-2016
The most common thing in my diet are raw, unseasoned almonds. Virtually every morning my breakfast consists of a measured portion of almonds, an apple, a banana, and a small handful of dried apricots. I will also snack on them occasionally if I need something very quick / healthy. I buy almonds by the pound since it cuts out the cost of the packaging and advertising. It's a bit pricey ($6-8 / a pound, US), but I think it's well worth it. I wouldn't mind having a variety of different nuts to buy in bulk, but the other varieties are either much more expensive ($10+ / pound) or have seasoning.
I'm not on a plant based diet (although I have reduced my meat consumption), but thought I would share because it works for me.
PS: A tip for eating raw almonds: if you eat them with some other type of fruit, its much more delicious than eating either alone. If you take a bite of a banana and eat an almond at the same time, it tastes like banana-nut bread (but much healthier). Dried apricots and almonds also go extremely well together. If you like sour apples, the bland-ish taste of the almond will take some of the rough edges off the tartness of the apple.
RE: Plant Based Essentials: Nuts - anagogy - 04-04-2016
Thanks for sharing Plenum. And I was just wondering what you thought of this section of the Ra material in light of your allergy situation:
Quote:Ra: [...] As allergies are quite misunderstood by your orthodox healers, it would be inappropriate to subject the instrument to the services of your medical doctors which find the amelioration of allergic effects to be connected with the intake of these same toxins in milder form. This, shall we say, treats, the symptom. However, the changes offered to the body complex are quite inadvisable. The allergy may be seen to be the rejection upon a deep level of the mind complex of the environment of the mind/body/spirit complex. Thus the allergy may be seen in its pure form as the mental/emotional distortion of the deeper self.
RE: Plant Based Essentials: Nuts - Plenum - 04-04-2016
oh, I definitely agree with that quote. Subjecting oneself to catalyst in the hope of 'desensitization' without working on deeper levels does little to address the root of the problem, as Ra quite aptly identified.
For my own sake, I was doing it in a knowing and conscious fashion, trying to engage the physical effects, and find the deeper cause.
as for the homeopathic effect being the true reason for the changed condition. That is entirely possible. I would say, however:
1) the allergy was totally eradicated in a short period of time. So I experienced zero adverse effects since that initial period.
2) the positive balancing effects in the solar plexus; irrespective of the change in allergy or not.
The difficulty I found, in this case, was since the 'running away' was the root problem, it was almost as though I needed to subject myself to the almonds (and the triggered conditions) to be able to be still with them, and feel the fury of the storm, and not flee from that.
So part of the Balancing, in this case, was about accepting discomfort for it's own nature.
So by all means, aggravating catalyst in the hopes of desensitization is not a complete solution in itself; and treats the issue as purely a mechanical, chemical one; when, in fact, it's more about a particular reason why chemical keys (in the form of food and substances) are being rejected, and an exaggerated response on the cellular level is being provoked.
RE: Plant Based Essentials: Nuts - GreatSpirit - 04-05-2016
Walnuts pretty much have the best ratio of Omega 6/3. I always make sure I have a stash
I used to eat almonds all the time but their Omega 6/3 ration isn't that great.
RE: Plant Based Essentials: Nuts - Parsons - 04-05-2016
I never noticed that quote before about allergies. I somewhat recently found out I have Celiac's Disease (gluten intolerance). The white blood cells in my body attack the gluten protein as though it were a harmful foreign invader. Since becoming consciously aware of that, I have been working on seeing the gluten as not something foreign that will be bad for my body. I cut most of the gluten out of my diet after being diagnosed. I've noticed the reaction to the gluten has lessened or disappeared in most cases.
If I had to pick a food to symbolize 3rd density civilization on this planet, wheat would be at the top of the list. It has played such a critical role in recorded and current history. I wonder if my yellow ray issues are related to that? I am thinking that it could be the manifestation into the body complex of improperly processed yellow ray catalyst.
RE: Plant Based Essentials: Nuts - Jade - 04-06-2016
I think I hate pistachios. Is something wrong with me? I had a grandpa who would eat them all the time. Then my grandma (my other grandma) used to keep bags of grass clippings in her garage long enough to rot. The sweet smell of the rotten grass clippings in paper bags in the garage reminds me of the taste of pistachios. I'm crazy.
RE: Plant Based Essentials: Nuts - tamaryn - 04-07-2016
Now if I can just figure out the unconscious mind-rejection pattern with the intake of sugar.... hmm
Isn't sugar all-around unhealthy? I suppose my protective mind rejects my emotional body allowing the emotions associated with being extremely ineberated and having a physical energy drain to be integrated.
It's about time to experientially have my gut burn sugar under intensive emotional freedom...
RE: Plant Based Essentials: Nuts - isis - 04-07-2016
(04-06-2016, 01:59 PM)Bring4th_Jade Wrote: I think I hate pistachios. Is something wrong with me? I had a grandpa who would eat them all the time. Then my grandma (my other grandma) used to keep bags of grass clippings in her garage long enough to rot. The sweet smell of the rotten grass clippings in paper bags in the garage reminds me of the taste of pistachios. I'm crazy.
I'm crazy, too. I don't like to eat them just bc of the color.
"Nuts are defined as a simple, dry fruit with one seed (very occasionally two) in which the seed case wall becomes very hard at maturity. True nuts include pecan, sweet chestnut, beech, acorns, hazel, hornbeam and alder. Peanuts, almonds, pistachios, cashews, horse chestnuts and pine nuts are not nuts. So the health warning on a packet of peanuts (“may contain nuts”) is, strictly speaking, untrue."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/the-filter/qi/8434868/QI-Quite-interesting-facts-about-nuts.html
EDIT: I GOT OVER THE COLOR THING. NUTS DON'T HAVE TO BE BEIGE . . .
I LOVE PISTACHIOS NOW.
RE: Plant Based Essentials: Nuts - Nía - 12-14-2016
Nuts in your diet may help you live longer, study finds