03-26-2010, 12:49 PM
I just want to say I really appreciate those opening up to others about personal diets and personal reasoning's. Discussing our paths and reasoning's is important for us as a unit and I believe we truly are a unit somehow someway.
I can only offer my own experiences with food and spiritual things.
A few years back when I really began my personal path of seeking...a inner need to watch and observe what I ate was important. I listened to this inner need...and practiced my first fast from meat. That few weeks that I practiced my first fast was one of the most humble times of my life and it was a eye opener to me of the spiritual world around me. It was as if the Earth and Universe were talking with me daily. I learned to respect the cycle of life....and there was no way of getting around the cycle and the order of....LIFE MUST CONSUME LIFE TO HAVE LIFE....this is true for all creatures on this sphere.
For me, the power was in the awareness of the life. The giving of thanks for the life that gave me life. This naturally drew me into eating more plants over meat outside of my times of fasting (which I do once a year following the spring equinox, on my 3rd yr now of the practice). For me, its for spiritual discipline to show I can overcome my Earthly desires of things I like in my Earthly body. I dont fret that I dont do this more then a few weeks out of the year. I also think that awareness of live meat can be when we do the hunt and cleaning and preparing ourselves. Im not sure why but I have less trouble eating meat that someone in my family has hunted themselves and cleaned themselves then I do eating meat from the market. Mabey its because I feel that in the moment of taking that life of lets say the fish....I know there is thanks being giving to nature in that very moment for the life being providing to us.
With saying that...anything you make for a meal...you can add love right into the food. You are life, you are aware, and the Universe is aware when your thoughts of love are put forth....therefor a natural blessing upon the food you prepare is like a pinch of love placed right into the food. I believe that awareness and thanks alone can be added to all foods and in a way, a blessing is then placed in that food and enters the bodies of the people that you cooked for.
Some bodies have a hard time mechanically without meat. Some people have high acid problems and get alto of heart burn on meatless diets. I have heard that people with 'o' blood types may have a hard time eating meatless diets.
Just being aware and always giving thanks to life itself, for here, in this vessel and on this sphere....life sustains life.
Oddly enough...we need Earthly things for our Earthly life...we need spiritual things for our spiritual life. Just be aware which is which so we can observe what life we are feeding.
I can only offer my own experiences with food and spiritual things.
A few years back when I really began my personal path of seeking...a inner need to watch and observe what I ate was important. I listened to this inner need...and practiced my first fast from meat. That few weeks that I practiced my first fast was one of the most humble times of my life and it was a eye opener to me of the spiritual world around me. It was as if the Earth and Universe were talking with me daily. I learned to respect the cycle of life....and there was no way of getting around the cycle and the order of....LIFE MUST CONSUME LIFE TO HAVE LIFE....this is true for all creatures on this sphere.
For me, the power was in the awareness of the life. The giving of thanks for the life that gave me life. This naturally drew me into eating more plants over meat outside of my times of fasting (which I do once a year following the spring equinox, on my 3rd yr now of the practice). For me, its for spiritual discipline to show I can overcome my Earthly desires of things I like in my Earthly body. I dont fret that I dont do this more then a few weeks out of the year. I also think that awareness of live meat can be when we do the hunt and cleaning and preparing ourselves. Im not sure why but I have less trouble eating meat that someone in my family has hunted themselves and cleaned themselves then I do eating meat from the market. Mabey its because I feel that in the moment of taking that life of lets say the fish....I know there is thanks being giving to nature in that very moment for the life being providing to us.
With saying that...anything you make for a meal...you can add love right into the food. You are life, you are aware, and the Universe is aware when your thoughts of love are put forth....therefor a natural blessing upon the food you prepare is like a pinch of love placed right into the food. I believe that awareness and thanks alone can be added to all foods and in a way, a blessing is then placed in that food and enters the bodies of the people that you cooked for.
Some bodies have a hard time mechanically without meat. Some people have high acid problems and get alto of heart burn on meatless diets. I have heard that people with 'o' blood types may have a hard time eating meatless diets.
Just being aware and always giving thanks to life itself, for here, in this vessel and on this sphere....life sustains life.
Oddly enough...we need Earthly things for our Earthly life...we need spiritual things for our spiritual life. Just be aware which is which so we can observe what life we are feeding.