While researching the qualities of chia seeds today, I came across the following quote from William Anderson, writing for Living and Raw Foods. Com:

...the last twenty five years, there has been a resurrection in the definition of medicine, a resurrection that amplifies the significance of our eating habits and our lifestyle. Medicine is not only defined as a treatment for illness and disease, it is now understood to be for the prevention of illness and disease. That would mean, for example, laughter is a medicine because research found it to boost the immune system. Exercise is good medicine for its cardio-vascular stimulation, muscle toning, flexibility, and expelling toxins and for giving you a feeling of well-being, all immune boosters. To express a positive attitude towards life is not only good medicine for you, it is good medicine for those in contact with you. But the most important medicine, especially for the prevention of illness and disease, is our diet. It only needs our cooperation in supplying proper hydration and the needed nutrients to effectively maintain a state of well-being.

Fourteen hundred American’s are dying of cancer every day. In the prestigious Advances in Cancer Research, they concluded, Research has revealed that more than two thirds of all deaths in the United States are diet related. More than 50% of all deaths are caused from coronary occlusion, blockage of the blood flow to the heart and/or the brain. These are all preventable deaths.

CANCER & HEART DISEASE are preventable by diet ... according to the WESTERN MEDICAL ESTABLISHMENT ... I am going to let that stand as is. Nuff Said!

BUT ON THAT NOTE...

Our primary essence is spiritual; the primary essence of ALL THINGS is spiritual. That is to say...our core, our beginning, our seed, is spiritual NOT physical. There is no difference between spiritual matter & physical matter. It is all the same, with the same root, the same properties, the same causes & effects.  Our body is an outgrowth of our spiritual essence, the essence grows the body much like a peach tree grows from a peach seed...the seed grows the tree.

If you plant something in an area of low light, the plant itself reaches for the light, it will grow towards the light.  Something planted in an area of low moisture reaches for moisture with it roots.  We as humans begin our lives reaching for those elements which will sustain our growth from our spiritual seed...EVERY baby born roots for its mothers breast...EVERY baby...we are genetically predisposed to do so, the spiritual seed from which we sprout programs us in this way.

If it appears that the breast is not available the body will survive on what food it is offered by continuously repairing cells that are damaged by less than perfect foods ... this repair is what we have been taught to identify as sickness, as illness, as disease ... it is actually the BODY - our spiritual vessel, working very consciously to correct itself ... in this analogy, it explains why breastfed babies are not sick as often as babies who eat other things.  Their little bodies are not constantly struggling to correct damage done by improper feeding.

Once we are old enough, we have the choice of putting things into or upon this spirit derived body that are designed to enhance and improve our physical journey or those things designed to begin the process of ending this journey.  Our body is naturally going to fight anything that tries to end the journey early, because we have a destiny to fulfill in this lifetime and this body is the product of your spirit choosing to fulfill this destiny - it does not give up easily. Again the fight between this body and those elements which seek to destroy it, we have been taught to see as disease, as illness, as sickness.

Our choice is and has always been do we stay & fulfill this destiny or do we not.
In the tradition of the Anago (Yoruba) people, when baby is born we beseech it to stay on this plane through Esentaiye (name ceremony) because we KNOW that spirit has a CHOICE and every day you have that same choice.  Are you assisting your body in staying on this plane and fulfilling your destiny?  Or are you assisting it in the process of leaving this plane as quickly as possible?

Are you helping your body to repair and renew itself?  Or are you continuously damaging your cells, thereby giving it more work to do which you experience as disease which gets progressively worse until your body decides that you must not want to continue physical life and therefore stops,

Life is ALWAYS a choice, would you like to continue to live or are you ready to stop? That is the question you are answering with each bite you take, with each click of the remote, as you begin conversations, as you pop your earplugs in.

The question is always life or death? And the choice is always yours as it always has been.

I am not suggesting that death is bad, or that it is to be avoided...I am saying that we should clear when we are hastening towards it and we should stop and ask ourselves why we choose to do so...

In the tradition of the Anago (Yoruba) people we pray to reach an age so old that all of our hair is completely white and that death will feel to us like lying against a cool pot of water in a hot courtyard.  That is not a description of an untimely death or of death by a debilitating disease.  That is a leaving of the physical plane after fulfillment of our destiny here.

Iyalosa OlaOmi Amoloku has been a devotee of the Orisa for 17 years. She has been an initiate of the Great Mother Osun for 16 years. She has studied the spiritual system of the Yoruba people in Nigeria, the United States and the Caribbean. She is the co-founder of Onitoju Ona Agbani Temple, and a sought after diviner and spiritual counselor.

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