At 03:41 26/02/1999 -0800, you wrote:
>. could you elaborate on this? i find it interesting. what
>>foods trigger what, for example? i know certain things are in general more
>>addictive than others, but have not heard you line of thinking before.
>>
>>axel
>HEllo  Axel
>I can't tell you much because i am starting to make those connections in my
>life and was in fact interested to bring others in that quest, so we can
>share.
>And  i  don't  want to make rigid connections like phytotherapie did with
>the medicinals properties.This herb do that .
>I am eating instinctively and know first hand ,that relationships between
>foods and me are ever fluctuating and never establish forever.
>THis being said, i am going to talk about my relationship with  animal
>products.
>I have been vegetarian for 12 years before my switch to instinctive eating
>and used the abstinence from meat as a means to repress my anger ( by
>overeating carbonhydrates)
>I was not ready at that time to get in touch with the intense life energy
>that is behind anger.
>NOw i am, and meat eating doesn't scare me anymore ( and i droole when i
>smell ripe meat)
>    when i eat meat,  it have a very calming and soothing effect at the same
>time that he makes me more alert and aware, able to focus. Exess fruits in
>the other hand can make me very agitated and anxious to the point that i get
>very irritated with my family members ( iwant to kill them... It could be a
>joke if  there were not some truth in it)
>I told you : life is full of paradox and the  linden tree flowers can make
>you sleepy or insomniac depending of the quantity absorbed.
>Meat can make one more peacefull or more violent depending of the reason
>behind the consumption or abstinence of it.
>Attitude of acceptance towards one owns feelings will bring forth positives
>emotions like "agressivity"( express in working or encouraging others for
>example)
>Attitude of fear toward one owns feeling  can bring forth negatives emotions
>like anger (expressed in arguing and fighting for example)
>And 2 peoples can "use" the same food to trigger 2 opposites emotions .
>I used grains in the past to stuff down the life energy  that was coming out
>in the form of repressed anger( so distorted that i could be very violent
>thru my silence)
>I could blame by getting immobilised and unresponding and pretend to myself
>and others to be peacefull.
>IT almost kill me by shutting down my adrenals glands, glad that i am
>changing.
>Just an appetiser about the subject.
>Your turn
>Jean-claude


hello jean-claude. it seems that i will have to do some reading in
connection to food and emotions. i am not familiar with what you say above,
but i find it pretty interesting.

will report back,

axel