Elemental Poems - Metal, The Season of Autumn

Metal – Not Much To Say, Just This

Letting go

Taking in

Letting go

Opening, closing, opening, closing

How to refine crystal?

What discerns gold from brass?

Difficult when stuck in the mud

Of sleepiness.

Original sin, only a game.

Toxic sewers, full to the brim.

Attachments glued on self.

Desires choking colons,

Breathing shallow, like immature minds.

Not noticing the true Father,

Turned away from grace.

Is metal more dense than you?

Is there a common link?

What becomes metals?

What does metal become?

It finally makes Itself known

As the one watching,

And the One

Living the question,

“What Am I?”

Juicing With Your Mouth

This story begins with a simple vegetable called celery.  The point to make is that juice is the easiest way to extract energy and nutrients from food.  You could say this is my opinion, but the evidence is just too much for me to say otherwise.  AND there is a downside to too much fresh raw juice.

I will digress slightly.

I had always had a sensitive digestive system, and saw more and more as I aged that I also was sensitive to people’s “energies.”  On the other hand, I also had/have a very scientific, “show me the proof” kinda mind.  My woo woo Energy Magician, and my Science mind spent much of my life in conflict.  Until one day early in my long college career, I saw “flames of green” shooting out of a teacher’s body while lecturing for a very large class.  You know, the ones in the lecture halls with at least 100 people?  I was far near the back of the class, smug in my position of observation of everyone I chose.  But this!  I tried to re-focus my eyes, and it did disappear.  Thank God!  That was weird, my mind said.  But then I got drowsy, (I had narcolepsy real bad due to severe digestive issues from very poor diet – could not extract much energy from my food), and the “aura” re-appeared.  This was when I knew I had integration work to do, to bring forth my rational, and intuitive parts.

Fast-forward…

Years of study in health led me to see I needed nerve nourishing foods.  Of which two common ones are lettuce and celery.  My quandary was this:  I had read a book by Bernard Jensen stating celery’s value for nerve nourishing nutrients, yet the fiber could be very irritating to a sensitive and leaky gut.  It almost always felt awful inside my tummy.  But how to get at what I needed without spending the time and the money to juice it?

Revelation one day!

I knew I had to overcome the social aspect of this, but I went forward.  I decided to simply chew up the celery, swallow the juice, then spit out the fiber.  Hmmm, where to put it?  As I chewed up every last morsel, and swallowed the liquid, pondering each and every time, I could bring plastic baggies, bowls, even old paper bags, on my bike simply spit it into the gutter or in  the bushes.  Free compost was my rationalization!

To end this short piece, keep in mind that if you do not have a juicer, and cannot afford one, then simply take whatever food you wish to juice, chew well, swallow, chew slowly, swallow some more, then spit out the fiber when satisfied!  This will save prep time, cleaning time, money, and stress.

Anything works well.  Try carrots, celery, kale, cabbage, fruits, anything at all when your tummy is upset or if you have sensitive digestion, as this is going to keep getting worse.  The IBS family of gut issues has gotten seemingly 300 times worse in the last twenty years.  I get more digestive complaints than almost any other.  AND we MUST treat and care for digestion, as this is the backbone of our health.

Remember this statement, “What we do not digest, digests us.”

We are mostly microbes, and they must eat and poop also.  Ponder this and seek out more of my articles for more information about this.

Truly,

Craig Lane

www.healthalkemy.com