A Raw Food Lover’s Secret
Dedicated to my loving husband.
I really want you to get how cool living on raw and live foods is so; I’m going to go out on a limb here. I live in a very small town and one is usually wise to keep the intimate details of their life at a tight reign, for as long as they can anyway! But here it goes…my sex life is great. Yup, we’re going there. I want you to know about this very special, direct benefit of the raw/live food lifestyle because in all my reading and listening to experts on raw food it rarely gets mentioned: better sex.
Eating raw and live foods will not automatically make you a better communicator with your partner, or change their capacity for intimacy…but the effects of a live diet are profound when it comes to your ability to access higher levels of pleasure and energy.
Directed appropriately, this access to life-force can be used for a lot of good. The sexual experience is the alchemical prototype of any creative experience. When we feel access to all our creative energy, many dreams that lay dormant rise to our call.
Furthermore, what you already do and enjoy can become a whole new endeavor when the body’s systems are clean and clear. For me, mediation, dance and singing all bring me into a highly energized and clear state. I know now that my capacity for sitting, for dancing and for singing are transformed when enjoying the raw-life. I can move my body more freely, feel my body more intimately, I resonate from a clearer place in my voice and can breathe with greater ease. My mind is calm, more inclined toward clear thinking. When I switch back to a cooked food diet – these sensations dramatically decrease. These benefits that make my daily activities more “alive” apply to my original point… I also enjoy a more passionate and connected sex life.
There are many wonderful books to guide you into the luminous experience of the “bodyelectric”. There are manuals galore for better sex techniques. There are toy stores and workshops…There is also very important healing work to help transform ones past experiences with sex and relationship into a healthy, happy present.
But I ask you…to what degree can you enjoy sexual intimacy if you do not have the capacity to deeply and fully feel your energy body and your physical body; to feel the energy around you, moving through you and to move and raise that energy so you experience the sweet, spiritual alchemy that is our birth-right!?
Food has the ability to numb us, so does sex. They also have the ability to enliven us, bring us to greater consciousness. In my experience, the path of eating a clean, vitality building diet and the path of sacred sexual experience are parts of the same path. They belong to the greater path of knowing spirit through self. Eating and making love are both opportunities to deepen your relationship with Life.
We experience the worlds of matter and spirit through our senses, and sensation through our finely attuned body. We make meaning of this incoming information through our sensuality, and our sensuality is deeply rooted in our perception and experience of self. Self is understood through the world, and so it turns.
When I eat live foods I am open to more sensation. I am at home in my body. I feel less physical, mental, emotional resistance to opportunities and experiences. I have broken my habitual patterns of knowing and I feel newly connected to life.
For those wondering about the science of all this, here’s a taster: A diet (or live-it as it is often called) that is primarily or wholly live and raw is known to “reduce micro- inflammation in soft tissue and improve circulation as well as improve the oxygen saturation within the blood to increase the respiration and the health of very cell in the body.” In addition, high vitality foods with their enzymes intact contribute to optimal mineral and nutrient assimilation. This results in increased stamina and energy. Our sensitivity shifts from protective to inquisitive. If one is open to sexual energy at all, the desire to make love often increases dramatically. It’s as if the life-force within us wants to express and keep moving all the love it contains.
Eating well is also an act of self-love. By choosing the foods that feed my body best, I increase my ability to feel love and then to share it. Sex becomes an expression of my well loved and nourished physical body experiencing the spiritual ecstasy of life’s unity through and with another being. We experience the pure life-force that is eternally available. We expand into the magnificence of life.
And yes, in all likelihood, we are more flexible too.
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So, here’s a challenge:
You’ve got about a week until V-day …. Get a book at the co-op on raw/live food; go to our website for further guidance, a Valentines Day Menu and other basic recipes and reading…and run this little experiment: go raw until the 15th! Remember how you feel after a big, decadent meal out? Not much like a Don Juan or Goddess of Love, eh? Instead, prepare your body, mind and spirit with organic, fresh, live and raw foods all week. Then prepare the live Valentines meal together or for your paramour savor every live bite and notice how much more energy you have left to let the flames of love rise high! (and if you don’t have a special someone to try this with – you’ll be glowing and a lot more likely to have a serendipitous encounter of love!) Enjoy! And let me know how it goes!
Here’s a recipe to get you excited:
Lover’s Chocolate Pudding
1 ½ c raw chocolate (or raw carob) powder 4 ripe Hass Avocado 2 T vanilla flavoring 1 large frozen banana, chopped 1 T Omnibalance stevia, or 2 t sweet leaf stevia Agave to taste
In a bowl, mash and combine avocado and carob powder and vanilla. This does not have to be perfectly blended, just get all the powder moistened - it will likely be lumpy. Add to blender the frozen banana, ½ c water or date soak water and the stevia and blend. Add about 2/3 c of avo/carob mixture to the blender and continue adding more as it becomes smooth. Add agave any time during this last step. Taste to see if you want it sweeter. Serve immediately or chilled.
*if you have any major medical issues, please be advised to consult your physician.