Louise Fisichella...
Louise Fisichella has studied Comparitive Religions,Yoga, nutrition and health for over 30 years
Yoga Made Weezie
Your Brain On Yoga
When we imagine what a Yogi is we usually come up with a “Gandhi” type image of a half-starved older man wearing a sheet. And if you have been following along, you already know that this is just a stereotype. There are many different kinds of people practicing yoga in different forms throughout the World. Different countries, ages, devotion, experiences are all practicing at their own levels. One thing they share in common, which might be a deal killer for many, is that they don’t eat meat.
We could go on for pages about why that is, but I believe it is best to get right to the point. No Yogi would want the dead, rotting carcass of an animal slowly making its way through their system. The animal emits chemicals from the brain just prior to its death that you wouldn’t want in your body if you had the choice, and you do have a choice! Remember no matter how “humanly” the animal is slaughtered it is frightened and sad at the time of its death. Those fear chemicals travel through the animal body and remain in the flesh. It is dead when you eat it, which means that you are depriving yourself of live food. Yogi’s like their food live.
Before I became a vegetarian, I thought it was a pretty far fetched lifestyle, based on inconvenient junk science. It seemed to go against everything I had learned in school about how to feed myself properly. Fortunately since then I have thoroughly educated myself about nutrition and what the body requires to survive, grow, and stay healthy. Like most Westerners I resisted until I just couldn’t keep denying that eating meat is bad for me. Hormones, steroids, pesticides are all a part of raising animals for slaughter. None of these chemicals would I willingly put in my body. And everything you put in your system affects the entire system, right down to the way you think. Recent studies suggest that Alzheimer’s disease may be related to eating meat. You can bet these studies aren’t being done with funding from the meat industry!
Since quitting meat some of my unpleasant personality traits have subsided, diminished, or mellowed. Anger, thoughts of violence (road rage), depression, and low energy have slowly subsided. Guilty feelings in the back of my mind about the way animals are treated used to take away from my eating experience. My sensitivity to energies has increased, as well as the levels of taste. In fact, I am still amazed how much I have changed on the inside.
About 14 months ago, I started incorporating the Vegan lifestyle and have found even more benefits to my life and my outlook. Ridding my body of animal by-products has hastened my elimination process. The sluggish way that cheese and animal fat used to slow down the flow of blood through out my system is gone for good. Fresh, nutrient rich blood flows freely to all parts of my body. You feel lighter, quicker and guilt free. It is hard to imagine how different I would feel now if I had started sooner. The younger the better! And, the proof is in the quitting. Until you do, it can’t be described to you the difference you will feel about your inner-self, and your inner-life.
As always you can e-mail me and I will help guide you towards more learning and exploration of alternatives to traditional Western eating!
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