Cold Showers and Nutrition
Emphasizing the cold quality to the mindbody can have long range health repercussions
Toughing it out during the winter, jumping into snow banks nude after a sauna, and the proverbial "awakening cold shower" is simply not nurturing to the mindbody physiologic system
Matter Science Understanding of the Cold Quality
The cold primordial vibrational frequency enhances vasoconstriction Think about it If cold is applied to the skin the mindbody contracts and tries to preserve its hot quality because of the cold environment One of the ways the mindbody contracts is by vasoconstriction
Vasoconstriction is an effect of the sympathetic nervous system activity, the fight or flight response The opposite of fight or flight is calming which is what the parasympathetic nervous system does
Hence applying the cold quality to the mindbody enhances sympathetic or fight or flight response
The Energy Science Understanding of Cold
In the end the cold quality provokes both energy patterns of Vata and Kapha and a consistent cold provocation particularly during the winter can lead to more sympathetic activity(Vata)
The cold vibrational frequency effects Kapha if the mindbody energy field is predisposed by producing more vibrational frequencies of static(lethargy), liquid(mucous), heavy(weight), slow/dull(fatigue), and slimy/smooth(nasal and chest congestion) Sound familiar? Like many symptoms experienced during the winter
Nutrition and the Cold Quality
Nutrition that emphasizes the cold quality is deleterious to your health!
Raw vegetable nutrition is not the best even though the "raw fooders" are insistent otherwise
Cold drinks are NOT good The worst is iced milk
Ice is NOT nice Everything at room temperature
Defer on the ice in water at restaraunts in drinking water
Cold interferes with digestion by cooling off our enzyme systems that operate best at body temperature slow/dull our absorption and assimilation of poorly digested foods ingested
From an energy science nutritional model there is much more to nutrition than offered by the current molecular or matter science nutritional model
Until tomorrow To Health as a Skill Love DrBill
