Mama Hummingbird

Mama hummingbird in her nest 2 feet from the reiki room window.

Raw food

My purpose in providing a few pages on raw food is just to inspire others to educate themselves on raw food eating. I am fairly new to it, starting eating mostly raw in October of 2009.

I was mostly vegetarian for about 20 years. I did eat seafood as well. In working with reiki the last few years & raising my vibrational level, I realized that cooked food was not agreeing with me very much any more. After a very powerful attunement in August 2009, given to me by some of my reiki master students, I had a complete change in diet.

I realized cooked food was not agreeing with me at all. I bought an amazing new juicer, an Omega juicer, and had juices & shakes all day. Then 1/2 cooked vegetarian food & 1/2 raw dinner. Its been a slow progression to mostly raw. And doing a lot of cleansing as well. Sometimes the cleansing symptoms - such as low grade germy feeling, and skin breakouts, get to be a bit much, so I slow down the process by eating some steamed veggies.

Its not about a race to get healthy, its about slowly & safely shedding years & years worth of toxic stuff from the body. I have lost a lot of weight & 8 years of pain from a back injury is slowly become less & less. I am gardening again which is great!

Knowledge of herbs is really helpful for cleansing the body, especially during the first couple years of eating more or mostly raw. I do have my Cleansing Workshop info available for download on my website.

Start slowly, read lots of books on the subject, look on the internet & youtube to find lots of info on raw food eating. Especially depending on your current level of health you may want to start slow & just add raw foods to what you eat now. Your body will slowly wake up & you will become more aware the natural wisdom we all have to eat what we need, no longer crave foods that are unhealthy to us.

A word about the health of your teeth. It is so important to read some book by knowledgable writers such as David Wolfe, so you understand the detoxification process your body undergoes when switching to raw food. I see many comments out there about those who've switched to raw food & have tooth & gum problems. Please buy & read David's Wolfe's Sunfood Success book, read his chapter on teeth. Basically you need to be eating a ton of leafy greens, both juiced & whole. You need to concentrate on your intake of minerals: whole food mineral supplements such as spirulina, chlorella, wheat grass, barley grass. I make huge containers of a powdered whole food vitamin & mineral supplement. Stick with your supplements as long as you need them, take a good calcium magnesium supplement, take other minerals as well. Use high quality salt, such as himalayan salts, and sole (a liquid mineral supplement).

If your body goes through too much of a cleansing & you experience health problems, cut back a bit by eating some steamed food. There's lots of herbs that can help with this. (Take my herb course).

The body is a self sustaining, wonderfully regenerating organism

that wears out due to high levels of physical, mental, emotional & spiritual toxicity.

This toxicity comes through

diet

negative thinking

poor quality relationships

and disempowering belief systems.

Detoxification (letting go) at all levels heals all things.

by David Wolfe

Sunfood Diet Sucess System

David Wolfe's Sunfood Success book is one of my favorites right now.