Qualities and the Five Senses
Let's consider this Can we hear, see, feel, taste, and smell the hot quality?
The Qualities of Opposites
Yes I think we can As a matter of fact all 10 pairs of primordial vibrational frequencies can be sensed in this way Hot/cold, heavy/light, dull/sharp, dry/oily, rough/smooth, dense/liquid, mobile/static, cloudy/clear, gross/subtle, hard/soft are expressions of the universe manifested through our nervous systems in the objects that we experience in our environment
That experience could be sensed as a hot angry relationship with another fellow becoming, such as a person expressing road rage The trick is to try to not only see the hot angry in the mannerisms of the person, but to hear, feel, taste, and smell it
Why Bother?
"Why should I?", you ask I know the person's angry Why carry it any further than that?
The simplest explanation is to be attentive
Why? Well first,because it allows more complete digestion of the emotional experience But secondly, it's fun The latter reason is perhaps more important because it's what makes life interesting and engaging
Attention and Digestion
So to fully digest an experience is to be attentive to the qualities in the experience This may sound like a terrible chore but we do it anyway so why not bring it up to being conscious about it
We do it anyway? Sure, think about it When we eat a salsa and experience the hot quality we become engaged, right ? We can extend that to the experience of drinking a glass of milk that gives us the oily, cold, dull, smooth, cloudy, heavy, static sensory experience
And we can do it with all 5 senses since we hear(milk being poured or moved in the mouth), see, taste, touch and smell these qualities as compared to the same experience we would have with water
Foods as a Mindbody Experience
But here's the amazing insight that we can have when eating food As we do more of these sense experiences with food we begin noting what foods do to our mindbodies
Yes, we can experience milk as we drink it but what's even better is to begin noting how it impacts our mindbody with the 5 senses as well Does it bring a heavy feeling? Is the mindbody more quiet without as much mental turbullence(static)? Is there more mucous(liquid, smooth, dull, cold, and cloudy) in the nasal passages and throat?
When we pay attention like this, we clearly digest better
Digestion: Lost in the Molecules
We have become so mesmerized by molecular study of matter science nutrition that we have intellectually tuned out of the sensory experience of nourishment
And as we have talked about earlier from an energy science nutritional point of view is the heart of being able to digest the foods that we take in
The foundation of good nutrition starts with digestion, absorption, and assimilation NOT with the molecule
When we pay attention with all 5 senses we begin to be engaged Then we digest better
Until tomorrow To health as a Skill Love DrBill
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