(03-09-2010, 06:29 PM)ahktu Wrote: When I do eat it has become a spiritual exercise for me.
Now, I’m not complaining. I’ve been wanting to do this for a long time, but it’s always been so hard, and now suddenly it’s like someone re-routed all the wires in my head. The little voices in my head have been urging me (somewhat vehemently sometimes), to become vegetarian for a good while now, and now I get the sense that they’re saying: “Okay, it’s time now. Time to get serious. You’ve had time to adjust and now you need to take this seriously because big stuff is coming up and this will help you.” It almost feels like someone else is controlling my mind in the area of food, but not in a bad way.
Has anyone else experienced stuff like this?
This is exactly what is happening to me now too, ahktu! I've been a vegetarian on and off since I was 14. I received a lot of criticism and pressure from my family (very avid meat lovers) to stop. I gave in to that at the time, but when I went to college, I switched back and was even vegan for a while. My boyfriend and I both changed our diets (for him reading The China Study was a catalyst) and I had chosen to do so because of a feeling in my heart---it felt wrong and I described it as "barbaric" to my family when I was much younger.
After another short period of meat-eating chosen simply because my partner had chosen to (he's a competitive athlete and found that he was not getting enough iron and suffered a particular condition because of this), I've chosen to go back to being a vegetarian. This time it stems from a deeper spiritual place. I've noticed that my subtle vibration changed when I made this choice and that eating meat brings a heaviness to my consciousness. I do not feel good physically, mentally and spiritually. Between switches in diet before, I never noticed this difference, but more recently I have become much more sensitive to my vibration and how my choices of sustenance alter it. I am also very conscious now (and I never was before) of saying a prayer over anything I eat or drink. Somehow, a shift inside occurs and it just ripples through everything.
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