How digestion relates to purpose flow

Taking my own medicine

I am detoxing. I am in the process of breaking on a long streak of bad eating habits these past few months. And while I have been busy this week, focused on starving to death the bad bacteria and parasites accumulated in my digestive system, I started thinking about this process of inner cleaning as somewhat related to the process of Regenerative Purpose.

How so?

I have been giving a lot these last months — healing, counseling, teaching, supporting friends who are going through things. It’s all stuff that I love doing, and also, if I am honest, I have been giving more to others than I have been giving to myself.

This imbalance of giving versus receiving becomes obvious, pathologically, in two ways: (1) It leads to consuming unconsciously, instead of receiving real nourishment. (2) And it leads to congestion of the system, instead of releasing old energy efficiently.

When we are not balanced in giving and receiving, our purpose alignment is going to be thrown off track, the same way our digestion is thrown off track.

Consuming, versus truly receiving

For starters, I notice that I tend to eat junk food when I am in the energy of over-giving. It’s a symptom of self neglect. Because I am not focused on taking care of myself, what happens is I eat to feel full, instead of eating to be deeply nourished. I am ingesting calories, but not savoring my food, or enjoying the process of eating. In other words, I am consuming, but not really receiving. 

Now I am receiving a lot of detox support, with herbal extracts and healing sessions (acupuncture, abdominal massage). I am taking a time-out from holding space for others and turning all this attention to rebooting my digestive system. I need to rebalance my receiving with giving, in order to get back to being healthy. 

Congestion, versus healthy release

Secondly, being in this over-giving energy also makes my system backed up. This is another effect of not enough effort in self-care with respect to nutrition. I eat plenty, but when I eat quickly and mindlessly, I do not fully digest my food. This negatively impacts the processing of life — everything slows down and gets congested.

This backup causes discomfort, and eventually disease. For me it shows up physically as low energy, low mood, and skin issues. I need to work on the timely elimination of old stuff to make space for new things. Being healthy means keeping things moving, instead of holding onto an excessive amount of expired energy.

So here I am, taking my own medicine.

I continue to evolve and re-commit to the practice of purpose. In this, I am doing my best to live by the principles of Regenerative Purpose — receiving, and releasing — to bring my purpose back into flow again.

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