The Sixth Sense
Post by: MaddiI live and train intuitively. Even with this transformation contest, my diet is a mixture of KNOWLEDGE and BODY INTUITION.
I have found through lifelong experience, that the more I listen to that small quiet voice on the inside, the happier I will be.
We learn fairly young to ignore our bodies. Depending upon parenting styles, it can begin as early as infancy. My inner psychologist/sociologist often wonders about the link/connection between enforced infant feeding schedules and obesity.
If our parents do not squash our natural born instincts, soon enough the institution of school will. What in the world can be the least bit natural about young, energetic 5 year olds sitting still at a desk all day? And if you get hungry at that desk, there is no freedom to get up and satiate that hunger. So you sit, and you wait. You sit and you wait a little longer. Until that hunger grawing at your stomache threatens to devour you.
This is the way of life for most of us. A life long process of learning to ignore the natural. A live long process of squashing our natural impulses. Until at last, we are so out of touch with our bodies, that we do not realize we are stiff until our muscles pinch and freeze. We do not realize we are fat until we can’t fit into the booth at Denny’s. We do not realize we are unhappy until we walk out of the psychiatrist office with a prescription in our hands.
I did LSD as a teenager.
Once, twice, perhaps three times.
One of the greatest, long lasting memories I received from that experience was my experience with FOOD under it’s psychedelic influence.
I have always had a thing for CHIPS. Crunchy, salty, full of flavor and MSG…what’s not to love? I remember reaching for a bag of chips under the influence of LSD and tasting….ICK. It was DEAD, LIFELESS, FOOD. I could taste the artificialness of it. The lack of nutrients, of quality, of anything which was real.
So I reached into the refrigerator, and after many years of not drinking milk, I reached for the carton.
Ahhhhhhhhhh…..LIFE. GOODNESS. BLISS AND GRACE. It was delightful, sweet,…nourishing.
I crunched into an apple. Again,…the ALIVENESS of it was what struck me. The inherent HEALTH. The RIGHTNESS of it.
It has been over 2 decades since I tripped the light fantastic. While I don’t recommend it, I certainly do not regret it.
For I learned something I will never forget, and which I still return to daily.
IF YOU LISTEN…..YOUR BODY WILL TELL YOU THE ANSWERS.
February 7, 2008 - 11:46 pm MST at 11:46 pm
Very good Maddi, this is practically small life philosophy. While I do not encourage drogue use, quite the opposite, I understand what you mean by it’s liberating effect. People do loose contact with their inner self or even better to say they never get into that contact. We are all products of someone else’s way of thinking (our friends, parents, people we meet), we are inevitably influenced by their thoughts and believes, and it’s not even their believes. The point is we hardly ever get to our own conclusions in life. They are just fragments of past experiences put together in a puzzle for which we believe to the truth.
Anyhow, your experience with LSD did only one thing for you. Brought you back to reality and made you stay there for a moment or two. This is actually why people use drugs. Everyone think they will escape to a different place, away from problems and horrible life they have, and they are actually put right there in the middle of reality and showing the simplicity of life and the way it is without any complications we create for our self.
As soon as we deal with this all our instincts follow and we live much happier life
February 8, 2008 - 5:55 am MST at 5:55 am
Listening to your body works well when you are close to your goal like you are. My body/mind signals can not be trusted at this time. There will come a time when I can but right now there are too many processes out of whack, blood sugar, insulin release, interactions with medications.
I can'’t wait to get to the place you are in and trust the signals given to me by my body.
February 8, 2008 - 6:11 am MST at 6:11 am
I agree with you wholeheartedly Maddi! Our natural instincts are crushed when we’re children. I’ve always thought it was cruel to confine children at such a young age to a desk. Or worse yet take an energetic young child who refuses to conform….label them ADHD and drug them into a stupor to get them to be like the rest of the good little children completely crushing their spirit! I too tried Acid as a teen but found everything I ate to be completely delicious. I could also have eaten my socks and thought they were great! LOL!! BTW watching Gilligan’s Island on Acid is an experience I shall always treasure! LOL!!