Quote:Dietary Guidelines for Nourishing Your Energy Centers

When you think about your chakra system you probably aren't considering the types of foods that you consume. Because our chakras are energy vortexes and invisible to most of us one might well imagine that chakras would thrive on energy, prayer, or other such spiritual stuff... you know, those things that we can't see with the human eye. However, the chakras cannot sustain our human body without our help. It is important to feed and nourish the flesh in order to help support and fuel our chakras. Whenever one or more of your chakras is misaligned you might do well to look and see if you are not eating or possibly overeating the foods that fuel that particular chakra.

Chakra Foods

Check out the foods under each of the seven primary chakras below to help you determine how your current diet might be deficient or over-indulgent. We can do our part in helping bring balance to our chakras by eating a balanced diet.

Feeding Your Root Chakra
Grounding
•Root vegetables: carrots, potatoes, parsnips, radishes, beets, onions, garlic, etc.
•Protein-rich foods: eggs, meats, beans, tofu, soy products, peanut butter
•Spices: horseradish, hot paprika, chives, cayenne, pepper

Feeding Your Sacral Center
Nourishing the Sexual/Creativity Center
•Sweet fruits: melons, mangos, strawberries, passion fruit, oranges, coconut, etc.
•Honey
•Nuts: almonds, walnuts, etc.
•Spices: cinnamon, vanilla, carob, sweet paprika, sesame seeds, caraway seeds

Feeding Your Solar Plexus Chakra
Boosting Self-Esteem and Encouraging Self-Love
•Granola and Grains: pastas, breads, cereal, rices, flax seed, sunflower seeds, etc.
•Dairy: milk, cheeses, yogurt
•Spices: ginger, mints (peppermint, spearmint, etc.), melissa, chamomile, turmeric, cumin, fennel

Feeding Your Heart Chakra
Healing Emotional Hurts
•Leafy vegetables: spinach, kale, dandelion greens, etc.
•Air vegetables: broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, celery, squash, etc.
•Liquids: green teas
•Spices: basil, sage, thyme, cilantro, parsley

Feeding Your Throat Chakra
Speaking One's Truth
•Liquids in general: water, fruit juices, herbal teas
•Tart or tangy fruits: lemons, limes, grapefruit, kiwi
•Other tree growing fruits: apples, pears, plums, peaches, apricots, etc.
•Spices: salt, lemon grass

Feeding Your Brow Chakra
Awakening Third Eye Senses
•Dark bluish colored fruits: blueberries, red grapes, black berries, raspberries, etc.
•Liquids: red wines and grape juice
•Spices: lavender, poppy seed, mugwort

Feeding Your Crown Chakra
Opening and Clearing the Spiritual Communication Center
•Air: fasting / detoxing
•Incense and Smudging Herbs: sage, copal, myrrh, frankincense, and juniper
Incense and smudging herbs are not to be eaten but are ritually inhaled through the nostrils or can be smoked through a ceremony pipe for purification purposes.

Quote:Feeding Your Heart Chakra
Healing Emotional Hurts
•Leafy vegetables: spinach, kale, dandelion greens, etc.
•Air vegetables: broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, celery, squash, etc.
•Liquids: green teas
•Spices: basil, sage, thyme, cilantro, parsley

(07-15-2012, 12:47 AM)Pickle Wrote: http://healing.about.com/od/spiritualdiets/a/chakrafoods.htm

(07-15-2012, 12:55 AM)Bring4th_Monica Wrote: Eat plants of all the different colors each day, including flowers.

For example:

Beet
Orange
Yellow Bell Pepper
Spinach
Blueberries
Blackberries (contain indigo)
Nopalea cactus fruit (violet)

You can always add edible flowers too, in the needed color.

(07-15-2012, 01:06 AM)Pickle Wrote: It appears that removing meat from my diet may not have been the cause of change in compassion, but rather the large increase of greens intake. Interesting.

(07-15-2012, 01:37 AM)zenmaster Wrote: For what it's worth, I call total bullshit on this. If anything, body nourishment is related to root chakra. What we experience in the higher chakras is not the results of these foods, but our mental/spiritual awareness/balance irrespective of what types of food we've ingested.

(07-15-2012, 09:36 AM)Bring4th_Monica Wrote: Zen, have you ever done a juice fast?

(07-15-2012, 01:37 AM)zenmaster Wrote:

(07-15-2012, 12:47 AM)Pickle Wrote: http://healing.about.com/od/spiritualdiets/a/chakrafoods.htm

For what it's worth, I call total bullshit on this. If anything, body nourishment is related to root chakra. What we experience in the higher chakras is not the results of these foods, but our mental/spiritual awareness/balance irrespective of what types of food we've ingested.

(07-15-2012, 10:47 AM)zenmaster Wrote: No. Sounds extreme. What is it indicated for?

(07-15-2012, 10:58 AM)Pickle Wrote:

(07-15-2012, 01:37 AM)zenmaster Wrote:

(07-15-2012, 12:47 AM)Pickle Wrote: http://healing.about.com/od/spiritualdiets/a/chakrafoods.htm

For what it's worth, I call total bullshit on this. If anything, body nourishment is related to root chakra. What we experience in the higher chakras is not the results of these foods, but our mental/spiritual awareness/balance irrespective of what types of food we've ingested.

Seems to me that it is a two way street. Foods can affect the glands which affect the chakras, while changes to the chakras can also affect the glands.

(07-15-2012, 11:19 AM)zenmaster Wrote: OK, to me the primary chakras are completely non-local indicators of balance. There is time/space change due to mental/emotional/spiritual disposition and then this (eventually) effects space/time body (associated gland). You may affect a heightened sensitivity (conscious relationship) or reorientation to a center by fasting or eating, and that new attention may then cause activity. However, in all cases it was not actually the food/drug, but work in consciousness which the new attention possibly afforded.

Quote:According to Cayce, these glands are the point of contact among all our three bodies; in these glands, we can experience the soul and spirit, and through them, these elements can exercise influence the physical vehicle...The glands...allow not only the production of the potential physical energy needed by the body for its metabolic functions, but also cooperate in the production of energy to be directed to the mental and the spiritual bodies. Cayce believed that the endocrine system was a pathway to reach and understand God.

The idea of thinking about the glands as connective points that link us with our spirit is not really a novelty. For the philosopher Plato, the thymus was an organ that was part of the soul...It is through these amazing mini-powerhouse-chakras that our physical body receives the energy to perform healing inside of itself. Our mental attitudes are not detached from our physical behavior... everything is influenced by our endocrine system because they act directly over our sensorial system.

...In the Hindu tradition, there are other important organs pertaining of all the human bodies; the chakras. The chakras are the keys for the human personality, and they act just as a gland, with precise function to process, and metabolize energy and keep it distributed through the entire system. Each one of these centers detains a colorful vibration, one of the four elements, an astrological sign and the influence of one planet...The Pituitary and Pineal glands are the highest glands located inside our bodies. They are related to the Light that can develop only though silence.

(07-15-2012, 11:19 AM)zenmaster Wrote: OK, to me the primary chakras are completely non-local indicators of balance. There is time/space change due to mental/emotional/spiritual disposition and then this (eventually) effects space/time body (associated gland). You may affect a heightened sensitivity (conscious relationship) or reorientation to a center by fasting or eating, and that new attention may then cause activity. However, in all cases it was not actually the food/drug, but work in consciousness which the new attention possibly afforded.

(07-15-2012, 11:03 AM)Bring4th_Monica Wrote:

(07-15-2012, 10:47 AM)zenmaster Wrote: No. Sounds extreme. What is it indicated for?

For learning firsthand that concentrated plant foods do indeed affect the chakras.

(07-15-2012, 11:33 AM)zenmaster Wrote: Monica, I have fasted and also know that food and drugs reorient our patterning - mainly on a mental level. This new disposition allows access to (what is indicated by) chakras where a previous pattern possibly did not. In all cases, it is not the food that is primary but our awareness. It's like shining light in a dark area in order to reveal something for investigation.

(07-15-2012, 12:01 PM)Bring4th_Monica Wrote: So you're acknowledging that food affects our mental disposition but you just consider that secondary? Is that what you are saying?

(07-15-2012, 11:19 AM)zenmaster Wrote: You may affect a heightened sensitivity (conscious relationship) or reorientation to a center by fasting or eating, and that new attention may then cause activity. However, in all cases it was not actually the food/drug, but work in consciousness which the new attention possibly afforded.

(07-15-2012, 12:19 PM)Pickle Wrote:

(07-15-2012, 11:19 AM)zenmaster Wrote: You may affect a heightened sensitivity (conscious relationship) or reorientation to a center by fasting or eating, and that new attention may then cause activity. However, in all cases it was not actually the food/drug, but work in consciousness which the new attention possibly afforded.

So you are saying there is a secondary effect, or side effect. That is fine. Food happened to cause a shift in myself, as it has for many people. Some people use stones for this, some use colors. What you may be more comfortable with is saying that these are "aids".

(07-15-2012, 12:42 PM)zenmaster Wrote: Colors, sounds, smells, massage, yoga, reiki, psychotherapy, qigong, acupuncture, etc - same thing - recognition of (some aspect of) self through reorientation. Regardless of catalyst used, the chakras will simply reflect the state of one's current balance and conscious orientation (and crown/violet chakra reflecting non-circumstantial orientation from all prior work).

(07-16-2012, 01:09 PM)Bring4th_Monica Wrote:

(07-15-2012, 12:42 PM)zenmaster Wrote: Colors, sounds, smells, massage, yoga, reiki, psychotherapy, qigong, acupuncture, etc - same thing - recognition of (some aspect of) self through reorientation. Regardless of catalyst used, the chakras will simply reflect the state of one's current balance and conscious orientation (and crown/violet chakra reflecting non-circumstantial orientation from all prior work).

I agree but I also think it's more than that. I think the physical can affect the spiritual also. I think it works both ways.

(07-16-2012, 11:59 PM)Pickle Wrote: Adding/removing from the "loop" should change the whole loop.

(07-31-2012, 07:15 PM)Pickle Wrote: Ergh, either that is a piece of cheese or bread in the pie shape cut.

(07-31-2012, 07:15 PM)Pickle Wrote: At least no meat lmao!

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Yup, no drumstick in there.