How Sweet It Is

The sweet taste is cold, heavy, slow/dull, static, oily, smooth, gross, and cloudy; hence it enhances these vibrational frequencies and therefore balances the mobility of Vata and hot of Pitta but increases and unbalances Kapha due to adding to all of its cold, heavy, slow/dull, static, oily, smooth, gross, and cloudy primordial vibrational frequencies.

The sweet taste is found in natural sweeteners such as turbinado, sucanat, maple syrup, fruit juice concentrates, honey, and dates. It is predominant in grains, milk, and meats. This energetic way of viewing sweet is quite different in the way our culture sees this complex vibrational frequency and underscores value of the energetic approach. Pitta does not have to look for refined sugar in the form of candy bars to assauge its hot and sharp/penetrating appetite. And for Kapha understanding the energetic complexity of the sweet taste will lead to more appropriate food choices that promote balance.

Sweet builds up all tissues of the mindbody and therefore is called anabolic and thereby promotes healing of emaciation seen in anorexia. Proper use provides strength and longevity, improves complexion, promotes healthy skin and hair, and gifts a melodious voice.

Sweet brings stability and grants energy, vigor, and vitality. Excessive use of this vibrational frequency pattern brings on excessive imbalanced Kapha traits causing congestion, cough (liquid, slimy/smooth, dense, sticky/cloudy), heaviness, slow/dullness, lethargy (static), and passivity (static). Ultimately obesity with metabolic syndrome (obesity, diabetes, hyperlipidemia, hypertension, vessel dis-ease) is the result.

Psychologically in the energy mindbody, the sweet vibrational frequency nourishes love, relationship, bonding, joy, and happiness. But too much sweet energy induces attachment, greed, possessiveness, cloyingness, stickiness, and feeding addictive behaviors.

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