Who would ever want to be a raw food vegan!?! It’s so extreme! No cooked food?! No veggie burgers? No Soy Delicious, No Vegan Brownies, no
Daiya cheese, no bread, no crackers, and no fries? Who would want to live like that? Just the idea is abhorrent! The suffering! Oh, yes, very true. There is a lot of
suffering and I will get to that later; but who talks about the good things
that happen? Who talks about getting
away from medicines and high priced hospital visits? Imagine you could spend less than one ¼ of
the $20,000 hospital copay on a retreat in Costa Rica or a spa in San Diego? The extreme measures of the raw vegan
lifestyle, pale in comparison the outrageous schemes of industrialized medicine. Anyway, why suffer? As they say, “Pain is inevitable, Suffering
is optional.” Let’s surround ourselves with
loving people with sun in their cells, otherwise called: Biophotons! Let’s get
outside, eat some fruit and meet each other.
Let’s get the like-minded together and share this abundant planet.
Nine times out of ten, the salad they would bring would be be a terrible arrangement of white
iceberg lettuce with a bland tomato and maybe a sliver for onion or
carrot. The dressing would be some high
fructose corn syrup or MSG abomination.
I would rather go hungry!
Meanwhile my friends chowed down on greasy burgers and overly pink
salmon. You would think I would stop
going out to eat but I was determined. I have to say, I have been enjoying eating out less and less. The whole SAD way of life just
causes me distress. No one makes your food
with love unless you are at CafĂ© Gratitude or The Spiral Diner or Karyn’s.
I quickly saw that eating a cooked vegan diet was not a big change from the Standard American Diet (SAD). I was still eating burgers and fries and vegan ice cream and some greens. Correct, no animals were harmed but I was being harmed! My cholesterol was still not great. (Not that cholesterol is some great measure of anything but for this blog’s simplicity, I will use it.) I still had terrible headaches and neck pain and this did not go away with a vegan lifestyle. Contrary to popular belief, going vegan did not produce the wonderfully moving bowels that many had claimed it would either. In short, I did not see any major health benefits of being a cooked vegan. The joy of not contributing to the meat and dairy industry and single-handedly saving hundreds of sentients a year was still amazing but I was disappointed that I did not feel any better physically.
Lucky me, I met a wonderful health coach here in
John Rose recently came back into the health scene in 2016. His YouTube Channel extols the value of the
raw vegan lifestyle. He says we go raw vegan, not for the
animals, they will benefit, but we go raw vegan to get connected to nature, to boost our biophoton levels, to re-open our 6th Sense. He encourages us to, “Test an idea whose time
has come”, and do a juice fast so we can see for ourselves the joy of living on
plants. We are all suffering from a
disease he coined called: Hypoheliosis. We
are afflicted with this condition only when we cook our food, he says. The less live food we eat, the more “disconnected
from sun energy/nature and each other we become”; hence the term: Hypoheliosis. John Rose has many
videos on this topic, I would encourage you to watch them on his YouTube
Channel.
Seeing John Rose again on YouTube really helped me to see that I could
go let go of cooked food. Going raw vegan seemed so much easier than a juice feast.
(I don't think I can face the worms in the near future!) Also, I would be less disconnected from the general public. (I'm very social. I don't like not being able to share a meal and being tied to my juicer.) So, I decided on May 23rd 2016 to
go raw vegan, a feat I have never before pulled off. Believe it or not, going raw was a lot better
than doing a juice fast. I was
ready!
I made my mind up to do things a little differently than I did when I went vegan. I made some changes:
- No
whining! I have accepted the fact
that when I go out to eat with friends, there will not be a great
selection of foods to eat. I will be
appreciative for whatever is served. Best of all, I will eat ahead of time
or bring food with me.
- No
Boasting! People don’t want to hear
how I feel so good, nor about what I had to do to look so happy and feel so energetic. I would not
tell a soul. I will say nothing
unless someone shows genuine interest.
Even then, I will say very little and I will keep the raw vegan repartee
to a minimum.
- Accept the Detox – going raw is rough. I would
feel sick! Headaches, stomach
aches, diarrhea, constipation, blurry vision, toothaches, burning
urination, and a host of other delights await those who goes raw. It is The Hero’s Journey,
as John Rose puts it. It’s not for
everyone. My friends and family
will say and do things that could possibly throw me off course. I will have my resolve ready! I know the feelings of illness will
pass. (See No. 1!)
- John Robbins
or Tony Robbins suggest that we generate a list of five reasons why are
embarking on this new journey. Why
am I going raw? I have written them
down. I will have this anthem of my
resolve written and ready for the times when the SAD way of life calls my
name.
I really never thought this phenomenon of High Vibrational Living could really happen for me in such a big way but I am starting to see it may really be so. John Rose and Ralph Smart got me interested
in really experimenting with this.
Raw food could well be the way to higher
consciousness. If more of us would try
this way of life, the higher vibrations we all would have.
Since May 23rd I have noticed the following
changes:
- My sleep has improved.
- My skin felt great!
- I have food in the house all the time. Mainly it is fruit. Lots of it!
- I'm never hungry!
- My dentist tried to clean
my teeth but they were clean!
- My general physique looks
better. I have probably lost weight
but I don’t want to lose weight, I want to look good.