Spiritual Nutrition: Six Foundations for Spiritual Life and the Awakening of Kundalini

By Gabriel Cousens, M.D.

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Principles of Ayurveda, the Indian Way of Healing

• Kapha people have a slow digestion, made even slower by oily or fatty foods. They do well with pungent, bitter, and astringent foods, which often help to bring them into balance. They are especially thrown out of balance by sweet (which they often crave), sour, and salty foods. Excessively sweet fruits may also cause a derangement. The one exception to this is raw honey, which is considered a main dietary antidote to a kapha imbalance. All dairy products, with the exception of some goat milk products, tend to cause derangement in kapha.
• Foods that aggravate vata include: cold foods, carbonated drinks, ice water, an excess of dehydrated foods, salads with light salad dressings, but vata may have the full range of vegetables and salad, particularly if they are combined with high-oil-content food such as avocados, soaked nuts and seeds, or seed and nut salad dressings. Moderate- and low-glycemic fruits, including berries, avocados, tomatoes, pears, and a little applesauce, are helpful for balancing because they have a certain amount of sweetness. Excess dry fruits tend to be imbalancing because they are too sweet and because their dryness aggravates vata. Fruits that seem most balancing for vata seem to be apricots, avocados, berries, cherries, coconut, figs, citrus, melons, nectarines, and plums.
• Too much pungent, acid, salty, and dry food; too much mustard seed, sesame and linseed oil, fish, mutton, stems of green leafy vegetables, and wine are not good for Pitta. Sweet, astringent, and bitter tasting foods help to rebalance pitta, as do moonlight and cold baths.

Live foods not only build prana and tejas (the inner fire, the fire of the Divine or Kundalini). but must also be used to build and sustain ojas.

Part of sustaining ojas is to avoid depleting the ojas with drugs or excessive practices or activity.

Live foods are highest in prana, tejas, and ojas.

Rainbow Diet

• Different-color foods are specific for energizing, balancing, and healing their corresponding color-related charkas.   For example, a red apple may be particularly powerful for the red base chakra.   And broccoli may particularly benefit the green heart chakra.
• Each food, according to its outer color, which is its reflecting surface, can be related to the specific color and energy of a particular chakra.
• Each color food energizes, cleanses, builds, heals, and rebalances the glands, organs, and nerve centers associated with its color-related chakra.
• The purpose of the Rainbow Diet is to help balance, on a regular daily cycle, each individual chakra, its associated organs, glands, and nerve plexus, and the chakra system as a whole.

Here is an overview of how the rainbow diet works:

The first, second, and third charkas are red, orange, and yellow-golden   These chakras should be stimulated in the morning, so foods of these colors are eaten. These includes fruits such as apples, oranges, and bananas.

Yellow-golden, green, and blue foods are eaten at miday for enhancing the third, fourth, and fifth chakras. The predominant color for the midday meal is green, the color of the fourth heart chakra. This is the time for eating salads and other vegetable dishes -sprouts, avocados, lettuce, and dark greens.

Blue, indigo, purple, gold, and white foods enhance the fifth, sixth, and seventh chakras, which are stimulated in the evening. Gold is included in the evening because purple and gold are complements, and the crown chakra is associated with golden, as well as purple, These may include blueberries, grapes, strawberries or plums.

The Rainbow Diet is not a technique for Enlightenment. It is simply a support system to aid in a harmonious and centered spiritual unfolding.

Low Glycemic Eating

Hypoglycemia is epidemic and is a result of our cultural living, which consists of a disharmonious, stressful lifestyle, and eating a tamasic diet with excessive amounts of white sugar.

Hypoglycemia can adversely affect the flow of Kundalini and the maintenance of a steady meditation state

Minerals

There are approximately 23 key minerals, including 16 major minerals and 7 minor trace minerals.

Manna is the ultimate alchemical mineral; it is the Philosopher's Stone. It is the most powerful mineral for transforming consciousness.

 

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