Karen Knowler * The Raw Food Coach

The Importance Of Having A BIG WHY

Last night saw the Preview Call of the second 30 Days To Raw group (Only 1 day left to sign up if you're interested...)

To say it gives me a buzz sharing my information with people is a massive understatement. I love to remind people how awesome they are and how much more magnificent they can show up in this world when they feed themselves on increasing amounts of live food.

In fact, so super-charged was I by the 90 minutes we spent together on the phone, that I ended up staying up til 2am recording a couple of podcasts, one of which I'm posting here.

The theme of this one is, as the title suggests, the importance of having your BIG WHY.

Why?

You'll have to listen to my midnight ramblings to find out!

Heart To Mouth

It's been a while since I posted an "Inspired Insight", but it appears that tonight's the night for the next one, so here goes....

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Running the Get Set for 2007 Support Program has been a joy. We still have two of our six sessions left to go, but already it has proved invaluable both to me and to the participants.

Tonight, while “in the flow”, I had a major “insight moment”. I wanted to share it with you. It’s all about emotional eating and the desire to overeat for comfort and suppression reasons. As I know this is so common among people of all ages, backgrounds, eating habits etc., I thought you might be interested. See what you think.

Heart to Mouth

One of the major things that “raw” calls us to do is to step into our power, our energy and our truth. No mean feat at the best of times!

As all of us know, our eating habits have served not only as our source of nourishment and sustenance over our lifetime but also have taken on the role of being our comfort blanket, our sedative, our mood enhancer, our stimulant… and there’s plenty more where those came from!

How Much Energy Can Your Body Hold?

Now and again, in the quieter moments (rare these days!) sudden flashes of insight come along when I least expect them, reminding me of one of the main reasons I choose raw (one of my BIG WHYS).

Today the insight was about how much “energy” the body can hold - and how and why raw and living foods make it possible for us to feel energetically “bigger” and more able to experience life in a more profound and enriching way; to take more on (both the good and the not-so-good) because of the energy they impart to us and enable from within us.

To be clear though - by “energy” I don’t mean the “jump-up-and-down-all-day like a maniac” kind of energy, but the deeper, sustained, electric kind of energy that it takes to hold a thought, an idea, a philosophy or a concept and to hold its promise and its power, and to explore its depth and potential to the max no matter where it may lead – all without recoiling, being distracted, dismissing it or simply not being able to “go there” in the first place.

I read in a book once that it takes 12 times the energy to hold a spiritual thought than a normal everyday “what shall I have for dinner?” kind of thought. While I’m not sure how on earth this could possibly be measured, I’m sure that all of us can appreciate that different levels of thought require different amounts of energy, as we all know how poor our mental faculties can be when we are ill or run down – we simply don’t have the energy available to us to read a book, let alone ponder on the bigger issues of life.