Cooked freight follow up

[darkemeralds]

Yesterday's educational encounter with low-grade restaurant food laced with MSG has had some interesting outcomes.

• I had a panic attack this morning--my first since I really cleaned up my food act several weeks ago, possibly supporting my suspicion of a causal link between MSG and the attacks
• I've had a developing migraine all day--oh joy
• I've started reading In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan
• I've put the documentary "The Future of Food" into my Netflix queue, thanks to a rec from serenity_valley

"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." That's the first sentence in Chapter 1 of In Defense of Food, entitled "An Eater's Manifesto". Pollan goes on to define food in ways that shouldn't surprise any thinking person: the stuff you buy from farmers or the edge of the supermarket, the stuff without much, or any, packaging. The stuff that's no more than a simple processing step or two away from its original state. The stuff that can't be advertised, patented, trademarked.

He spends a lot of the book defining "food" by what it is not. He examines the history of the food manufacturing industry, which increasingly produces what he calls "edible foodlike substances," what I call cooked freight.

I guess Project Empty has entered a new chapter.

Comments

[emeraldsedai.livejournal.com]

I know the feeling of slight freak out while decluttering. I've had many, many thoughts along those same lines. I don't think the urge to declutter means some deep part of you senses imminent death. I think the healthy, natural urge to live in clear surroundings gives rise to the decluttering urge, and the very significant change decluttering represents is a kind of new life. You have to leave the old one for it, and it's a kind of spiritual death. That's what I think you may be experiencing.

It took me AGES to get used to my first laptop keyboard, but now I don't notice the difference. Stick with it! Your fingers are pretty smart.

I believe that in giving up diet soda, you've taken the single biggest step most Americans can take away from the cliff-edge of dietary catastrophe. Good for you!

That said, let me just add that Velveeta is EEEEEEEEEVIL! Back away from the Velveeta! Delicious cheese sauce is easy to make, and all the fine folks in Real Dairyland will thank you. As will your gallbladder.

I've said before and will say again that you are far advanced beyond Reiki 1st Level Attunement. However, those subtle sensations the DVD mentions (and which you are probably immersed in all day long) are imperceptible to anyone in a freaked-out state. If I were you, the only thing I'd do in that state is take Rescue Remedy, do some deep breathing, and rediscover my "ground state," the bodily condition where things feel calm and well-resourced.

THEN you'll easily get back to noticing the subtle emanations, like you always do.

I'm so glad to hear from you!