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The "Raw-Drobe"

From Successfully Raw eZine published today:

It's no secret that eating raw changes more than your blood chemistry, but have you yet had any weird goings ons with your clothes choices since being raw?

If you've been into raw food to a high degree for six months or more chances are the answer is a resounding "yes" - although you may or may not have any clue as to why.

Sure, you may be leaner than you were six months ago and that invariably means buying a size or two smaller, but I'm not talking size here, I'm talking everything but size, in fact.

Before I get into my own stuff around clothes I want to share with you a real life case study of how this first showed up for a client a year or two ago. This is what she had to say:

"I've got something to share but it feels really odd to say it and I don't know how it can be connected to going raw, but deep down I feel that it probably is..."

"Go on..."

"Well, usually when I go to get ready for work in the morning I just go to my closet, pull out a sweater, blouse and trousers and get dressed. I don't think anything about it, I just pick whatever's there and put it on. But this past week I have found myself standing in front of my clothes feeling really particular about what I choose. Certain colours feel very wrong or very right. I can't just pull anything anymore, it's like suddenly my clothes mean more but I don't know why. It has to feel right or I can't put it on. Am I going crazy?!"

Now, while there's a whole lot going on here I'm going to keep it really simple. When we eat live food we eat higher vibrational food, and generally more colourful food. We come alive from the cellular level out, we become more conscious, more aware, more sensitive. Knowing that everything in the Universe is comprised of energy, by making different energy choices in the food we bring into our body, we become more sensitive to other things we bring into our world, but especially in or around our body. This is where clothes come in. Clothes also have their own energy. There's the colours for starters, and then there's associations and memories, or the feelings they evoke in us. We get to play out who we are through our choice of clothing, but when we're "asleep" they just don't seem to matter so much, we don't know who or what we are playing out as we are typically unconscious of it.

The Seven Stages of Raw Transformation

From Successfully Raw Issue 107:

I first "downloaded" (as I like to call it) "The 5 Stages of Raw Transformation" around three years ago. At the time it made complete sense and seemed perfectly complete, however, early this year it seemed like there was a little something missing. I knew that the 5 stage cycle went around again over and over, but what I wasn't bringing into the equation is: What goes on between blossoming (embodying our aspirations) and waking up again at a newer, higher and more refined level? And was it just one stage missing or more? I thought no more of it and trusted it would come to me when it was time, and so it did on a flight home from the US at the end of May - just when I least expected it, of course!

I realised that, in nature, once a flower or tree or even an animal has blossomed or grown to its potential it drops petals/ leaves/ skin/ antlers or whatever is appropriate for that creation. Unless it does so it cannot move on to the next season or phase of its life. It is actually no different for us, and you will already have experienced some of this yourself, possibly without even knowing it.

For us, and specifically for those on a raw food journey or any journey of growth, we do the same thing, namely:

Step 6) Release
Step 7) Retreat