More, more, more. This is the mantra of our day. In my former life, I used to work in advertising and we didn’t refer to people as, well, people, we called them consumers. Something that takes something in. The description is apt, albeit a bit insulting. We are taking in something all the time, whether it’s food, news, email, sounds, lights, demands-modern life has turned on the fire hose.
All of this needs to be processed in some way. If not, the undigested food and experiences cause stagnation in the gross or subtle body and get stuck, leading to mental or physical illness. Nature is all about flow, as in the movement of consciousness through the cycle of creation, maintenance, destruction. Yet with this bombardment, our minds and bodies naturally cannot digest it all. If you ever played that computer game Tetris, where the puzzle pieces are falling and you have to place them in the right place, there was always that point when the pieces fell too fast and the whole thing got overwhelmed. This is where we are. So, what do we do about it? How do we process it all?
We could be eating the highest quality food and enjoying the most lovely day in nature, but if we are unable to digest them, they don’t become assimilated or leave our system. They become toxic. In the West, we focus on the qualities of the food itself and don’t really consider the consumption of experiences as…
