Ruth Allen

I am 54...... been raw for 7 odd months.... previously was vegan for several years and veggie for ages.....
I have explored raw foods before - but never with a sense of embracing them as a 'way of life' - My excursions into raw food have always been part of an expression of Yoga for me.... and its only recently that I have connected with a larger fraternity of people who 'live raw' ......
On this recent occasion I had just taken to fruit a few days before my reiki two attunement and it never stopped......!
I am still here....
I feel left to my own evolutionary unfolding - I would most probably have been back to rice and steamed veggies by now.... but having connected with a few groups I have been interested as to how this eating of living foods can be an ongoing expression.

Previous occasions of raw eating have always been great... never really knowing much about it... I had not questionned ......
Now my mind is going bananas as I study the lifestyle more fully.... I am in inundated with so many differing opinions and seeming 'camps of raw foodists)
These last couple of months I have not felt quite so gungho energised - so have been questionning a bit more..... not so much the non cooking as such.... I can't perceive how we cannot get all our nutrients from uncooked foods....
I have not been into junk foods for years.. so I am not troubled by cravings or yearnings for certain foods......
I miss the occasional bit of bread.. but even before this 7 month stretch bread always through my body and mind come to that.....
for me the journey into food has always been about how it affects my conscious awareness......
But - and a big but for me! - I had a bone density reading about a couple of years back and it was lowish .. not drastic - they called it osteopenic.... (border line).... but I found myself under the cascading patriarchal medical profession insisting I went on HRT and taking the opportunity to challenge me about vegan diet etc....
Well I escaped somewhat terrorised in mind but WITHOUT my HRT - I remember as I left the office the irate doctor was cursing me with broken hips and the like....
Now although I feel pretty good within.... I couldn't help but be somewhat tainted by his pressurising predictions.... and started to take calcium supplements.....
Now since reading and studying more fully - it seems that my staple of rice might in fact have been leaching my bones! - I have now stopped taking the supplements....
and am taking a lot of greens.. (although I can't say I love them!) I have allowed an element of apprehension to disrupt my life.....
Now that I am not feeling so gungho energised as I was on raw. I am seriously questionning some of the stuff I am reading.. but equally reminding myself that choices are mine and my responsibility.....
I celebrate the concept (and most of the time the experience) of eating living foods..... but I am certainly don't want to be part of a 'movement' - I don't perceive all coooked food is poison.....
I am sure that some steamed greens must be better than an all raw recipe with all sorts of wiered combinations of this and that ........
I am sure that a baked yam must be better than dehydrated crackers with blended spreads?? - I don't know! - but my body doesn't much go for these recipe things.. although my mind has enjoyed one or two!! smile So I have much appreciated the mails I have read to date.. sorry I took a while to intro........
For me Living Foods is about an expression of deepening my relationship with body, mind, emotions and expession of Spirit - however that manifests....... I naturally want to share with others anything that 'works for me' - it just feels a natural progression..... but I would not say that I was a campaigner of raw foods......
I am just exploring the journey... and using a discipline to stay 100% during this cold weather!! - I am sure it would do no harm to have some steamed veg or something.. but I am determined to see through a year.. to live through all the years seasons before I finally let my body guide me as to whether to stay 100% raw or not.....
My husband joined me after about a month.. and although at the time it made little difference...... as my passion was sustaining me..... During these past two months I have been very grateful to have him eating raw too....
He is feeling wonderful - no lack of energies at all - and he works outside most of the time too........
We both did the ejuva cleanse..... about two months back.... Is that the same as the Rise and Shine cleanse? - I did a gall/liver flush and got out about two dozen stones!? - and did a three day water over christmas......
So thats me really..... is that enough........ I should imagine so....

Natural Therapeutic Counselling is an expression of my life's work in Yoga, Conscious Eating and many Complementary Therapies.

I live in Cornwall, England with my husband Roger and have two grown children and six grandchildren.

At present I am exploring the course on Natural Hygiene offered by the Transformation Institute of USA.

visit my webpage at www.harmonious-living.com

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