Daylight Savings Time sounds like a good thing, right? What could be bad about saving daylight? Well, it has messed up my life! I was walking every day, twice a day, for the last couple of months. I love it and look forward to it, especially my evening walk. Sometimes I am rushing Tina and Julie out the door so I can put the leashes on the dogs and head for the woods to detox and decompress from a day spent with three small boys. Not anymore! With daylight savings time it is dark when they leave. I wouldn't want to walk in the dark anyway, but they lock up the park. Poor Pippi and Scamp, poor me! We miss our walks. They are fussier and more hyper, I am grumpier. Poor Suzanne, Tasha, and Christopher. =(I keep trying to find the perfect way to eat. What is naked food? What food is it that insured survival for our species? It certainly is not the processed crap most humans are eating right now. It isn't animal food. It has to be plants. We were put on this earth with plants. We could not eat animals for ages afterward. We had to develop hunting skills and methods, tools, control of fire, etc. Naked food is the food were ate and thrived on. What exactly is that? There were no blenders, or dehydrators or freezers then, only plants. So do all these methods render our food not naked? What about honey? If early man found it wouldn't she have eaten it? My head begins to spin. How should I eat? What should I eat? When and where should I eat? What is the price of eating wrong? As I miss my walk and my time in nature my worries about my food seem to increase. I feel like a hibernating bear, growing fatter by the second. Why is that? I am not eating differently? Where is my feeling of leanness? My happiness and feeling of well being? What is going on?
Suddenly I feel a sharp crack on my skull bones, an AHA moment as the goddess/god/the universe reminds me once again, for the gazillionth time: It's not about the food! IT IS NOT ABOUT THE FOOD!!!! I hear it screaming in my head. Not about the food? What??!! It is all about the food, I remind her/him/it!! That is what I'm doing here, food, food, food, all the time! The right food in the right amounts, naked food, fresh food, ripe food, organic food, in the right percentages, at the right time of day, in a boat with a goat Sam I Am! Look at the the name of the blog and the community, NAKED FOOD CAFE, FOOD, FOOD, FOOD! Now you tell me it is not about the food??!! Then what the hell is it about??!!
Then it hits me, the answer is right there in front of my face, right on the front page at the cafe, at the end of every post here; love and sunshine. These are the two components we cannot survive without. I know it seems like many of us do survive without them, but most of us are getting just enough of each to hang on. We are surviving, not thriving. Why do you think fruits and veggies, nuts, and seeds are our ideal food? What draws us to them? It is the sunshine and love they possess and pass on to us. They are the fruit of the tree, the children and future of the plants. They have been offered to us with love, and sunshine. Yes, we can blend and freeze and dehydrate them, and dilute them a bit, but love and sunshine live on. It is not the food we need, it is the light, the love, we cannot thrive without it.
But what about animals? They eat plants so they must be filled with sunshine as well. True. When you eat an animal you are eating the sunshine that the animal consumed. But you are also eating the animal and all the pain and sadness that animal carried around with it. You are eating a side of darkness and sorrow with your love and sunshine. The poor animals try, and you can survive eating them and their milk and their ovum as they sacrifice themselves for you, but you cannot thrive. The love and sunshine they contain is too bogged down, too heavy. Remember how you felt after eating a big turkey dinner, or a hamburger extra value meal? Your poor body tried to rest and recover and forget the horror transmuted to you through the flesh of the animal you brought into your body. The fatigue you felt was a defense mechanism to keep you from feeling the full effect of the food. You tried to sleep off the nightmare. Your body stored those memories in the form of disease, cancer, a broken heart, trying its best to keep you alive.
Love and sunshine is what we thrive on. We are focusing on the wrong things. The next time you find yourself craving the wrong foods, food that you know from past experience will not serve you, food that has taken life from another animal, realize it is not hunger for junk food you are experiencing, it is hunger for love and sunshine. If you can get out in the sun, do it, as often as possible. If you can't, increase the amount of love in your life; learn to love love, to live and breathe love. Recall the loveliest moments of your life. Remember happy times. Build a folder in your head that you can whip out at a moment's notice and fill your heart and body with love. Share love with everyone you encounter. Send them rays of love, hug them, look people in the eyes, tell them you love them. Don't worry about what they think, they are just as hungry as you and will lap it up like a kitten at its mother's breast.
Having trouble with a naked diet? Having trouble with anything? Fill yourself with love. You don't get it from someone else, they barely have enough for themselves; you create it within yourself, in your body, in your mind. You have an endless supply and plenty to share if you would only cultivate it. Soon you will find yourself so full and overflowing that it will spill over to everyone around you. Our world will be covered in love and we will wake up to the fact that there are no borders, there are no races, and genders, and differences, we are all one, living in a single bubble of love. We would not dare hurt one another because to do so would break our hearts. We would sooner die than cause pain to someone else. We would remember who we are. Then we will achieve the health and happiness, wholeness and holiness we are all craving. Nirvana starts with you, right now, do you want it? Start loving, soak up all the sunshine you can find, everything else will take care of itself!
Namaste Y'all! :~D
Until Tomorrow!
Love & Sunshine!
Connie
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