Animal food in diet

[omcasey]

My father put me on my first diet when I was 6 years old. My mom tells people I came straight out of the womb eating ( lol ). In my baby book, under "favorite foods" it simply says "EVERYTHING". Food, and.....not just eating, but also feeding people has been a major theme in my life experience. In my almost 60 years, this is what I have learned.

1) We are all Masters. Learning how to live in a ( 3D ) physical body. - on a ( 3D ) physical planet.
2) Our world at present is highly toxic. The air, the water, the soil, the food, all to some degree depleted and toxic.
3) Those who are aware are doing their best to grow and sustain their health, and the health of the planet. This focus and effort does have an effect.
4) Focus is more beneficially placed on process/progress not perfection. This is important to individual as well as collective success. 
5) There is no right or wrong. There will always be those on the wave just behind us as well as those ahead.
6) Food choices will vary and be dependent upon a wide range things, including where one is in the growth process, and whether liberation is planned within the lifetime.
7) Our state of health and well-being is more important than our diet.....than what we do and do not eat.
8) While alive, maintaining a body with the capacity to digest all possible food sources is superior to maintaining any one particular diet. ( the only constant is change ).
9) The flora and fauna of the body, what we now call "the microbiome" in large part is what dictates the health of the physical system.
10) A diverse microbiome, needed for robust health includes a wide range of "good" and "bad" bacteria, viruses, fungus, etc..
11) Individual bodies, microbiomes, are the microcosm of the macrocosm. Just as our world thrives in diversity, so too does our personal system.

Our job is to keep the system alive and well. 
This requires only one thing. - achieving a state of equanimity, harmonious balance.

At present, for me, this means bringing into my system:

1) Liquid, semi-solid and solid food sources.
2) Raw and cooked foods.
3) A correct balance of alkaline and acid ash forming foods.
4) High fluid foods. *this means a diet of foods which contain minimally 45% of my daily required fluid.
5) Bitters and bitter herbs. *currently missing from contemporary diets **these keep the production of bile flowing, necessary for digestion and assimilation.
6) New foods, foods I otherwise do not normally consume, or possibly have never consumed.
7) Ferments. Foods I have fermented myself. Generally herbs/teas and vegetables.
8) A wide variety of foods.

My body at present does not require meat and/or meat by-products. As a child of the 60s I was raised on them, but in my early 40s these fell out of my diet without me even realizing. It was years before I realized. At the time I was having fun at California farmer's markets, entering the juicing and raw food craze. Learning what that was all about, experiencing it first hand through my system. As well as more formally integrating with my critical organs and glandular systems, understanding I was at the threshold of impending detoxification processes. This does NOT make me vegan, or even vegetarian, or anything else for that matter. It makes me someone who is able to see that there are a wide range of processes we go through as a living being, and that there are ways of eating that support ( and/or do not support ) these processes. I never want my body to lose its ability to process/digest meats, or fiber of any kind for that matter. This said, 98% of what is sold as meat, even in the best of markets is not what I would consider ever bringing into myself. When I have the opportunity for fresh game, when there is true WILD caught salmon, or eggs straight from my neighbor's chickens - these I will periodically combine with. It doesn't amount to much, but it keeps my body in a state of active remembering - strong, working, and in the game.

What I do not eat. - foods that are not foods but pure toxins:

1) White refined anything: sugar, salt, flour ( bread, crackers.. ), rice, pasta, etc..
2) Conventional anything, GMOs, glyphosate..
3) Fast food.

For the most part, 99.9% of the time,

I eat food I prepare myself.


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Casey