Harmonic Healing by Linda Lancaster

Author:Linda Lancaster [Lancaster, Linda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale
Published: 2019-04-16T00:00:00+00:00

Our Modern Conundrum

One of the first questions I ask every patient is “What are you eating for breakfast, lunch, and dinner?” In asking for a rundown of the average day, I am not trying to ascertain whether they are strictly sticking to a certain food doctrine or ideology. Nutrition is an individual matter and we can fine-tune almost any choice of diet and optimize it for each person’s body, be they vegetarian, meat eater, pescatarian, paleo, ketogenic, or Ayurvedic in philosophy—or something else entirely.

Rather, I am looking for the obvious things, such as whether they are eating processed foods, excessive sugar and heated oils, and hard-to-digest baked goods. I am also looking for the less obvious: Is their diet a vital one? Is their food organically raised with healing potential? And what is their body doing with the food they are eating?

The answers that come are diverse—a mirror of our collective eating habits. Some people are eating out three meals a day or grabbing food on the run; others are subsisting on supersmoothies or meal-replacement bars, plus supplements to replace food. Others may be committed to paleo or vegan or raw-food paths, at times going to extremes of excluding certain food groups, while some zip around from one new food trend to another. Some feel confident about their diet, many do not, and even while a good number are making conscious choices to ensure good nutrition—putting thought and care into most meals—they may still find it challenging to consistently cook food at home for themselves.

The commonality across the board? Unless they have already taken steps to buy organic food, most of their meals, drinks, and snacks have low vitality. Meanwhile, it is fairly standard to discover a glaring lack in their diet of enough fresh and cooked vegetables, fruits, and herbs—the foods that would most support their vital force.

As a practitioner of subtle medicine, my goal is to gently remind each person that nature has its own pattern that works in harmony with us. We do not have to try so hard to “raise” or “better” that pattern through radical programs or cocktails of excess superfoods.

But neither can we cheat or hack the pattern too much—say, by guzzling every good ingredient for the day in one blended drink or consuming our biggest meals late at night, when we finally sit down and stop moving. What is more helpful is to return to simplicity by honoring basic laws that have been a basis of healing for millennia and that exist to help us flourish through our food.

Natural laws are universal principles that govern how nature works and life grows. A natural law could be as simple as the fact that plants need a certain amount of water and sunlight, and that the stronger the sun, the more water is required. When it comes to caring for our bodies, there are similar basic principles guiding our body’s function. Over the years, my own understanding of natural laws of eating has come to include the consideration of food’s etheric energetic potential.

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