WHOLISM
Food for Thought: Digesting Life
By Vaishāli
Source:
http://www.townsendletter.com/Oct2009/foodthought1009.html
Most people think of the digestive process as something limited to the foods and liquids that we stuff into our mouths daily. However, digestion is best understood as a metaphor for life.
According to Eastern systems of self-healing, the entire body is an aggregate of different types of digestive intelligences. For example, our eyes digest light waves, so that we can make perceptual sense of our world. Our ears digest sound waves so that we may enjoy our favorite music (or get indigestion from listening to our windows vibrate from the secondhand rap blaring from a car three blocks away).
When we touch one another, our hands digest intimate contact through the tactile feeling feedback system.
There is a reason for this conglomerate of digestive efforts, and it is, as Eastern philosophies say, that everything we encounter is a form of food.
Divine Love and Wisdom have accessorized our human experience with a myriad of assorted digestive skills, so that we might get the most from the nurturing sustenance of life as it is offered to us in its entirety. We are literally digesting our lives.
For the full article:
http://www.townsendletter.com/Oct2009/foodthought1009.html
© 1983-2010 Townsend Letter for Doctors & Patients. All Rights Reserved.
Food for Thought: Digesting Life
By Vaishāli
Source:
http://www.townsendletter.com/Oct2009/foodthought1009.html
Most people think of the digestive process as something limited to the foods and liquids that we stuff into our mouths daily. However, digestion is best understood as a metaphor for life.
According to Eastern systems of self-healing, the entire body is an aggregate of different types of digestive intelligences. For example, our eyes digest light waves, so that we can make perceptual sense of our world. Our ears digest sound waves so that we may enjoy our favorite music (or get indigestion from listening to our windows vibrate from the secondhand rap blaring from a car three blocks away).
When we touch one another, our hands digest intimate contact through the tactile feeling feedback system.
There is a reason for this conglomerate of digestive efforts, and it is, as Eastern philosophies say, that everything we encounter is a form of food.
Divine Love and Wisdom have accessorized our human experience with a myriad of assorted digestive skills, so that we might get the most from the nurturing sustenance of life as it is offered to us in its entirety. We are literally digesting our lives.
For the full article:
http://www.townsendletter.com/Oct2009/foodthought1009.html
© 1983-2010 Townsend Letter for Doctors & Patients. All Rights Reserved.
