頤 (yí) - Harmonious Nourishment

 

 頤 (yí) - “Swallowing” - “Providing nourishment”

 “Jaws” - “Comfort and security”

The hexagram 27 resembles an open mouth.

Through the mouth will you comprehend the universe, harmonize yourself and the whole world will transform!

 Harmonious nourishment suggests harmony in all the necessities of life, including spiritual food. Sexual relations, as an authentic act of energy interchange, belongs to this plane as well. According to tantric teachings, the subtle vibrations our bodies produce when eating and when having sex, are identical.

There is hardly any other sphere of life so closely connected to our daily routine that produces so much controversy and debate.

Level 4. Hexagrams №№17-24.
Heart Chakra – Anahata
Color: green. 
Location: chest.
Purpose: love, compassion.
Properties: to love and to be loved, balance in love.
Love, forgiveness, compassion. Ability to have self-control. Acceptance of oneself.
Love truly rules the heart. When this chakra is activated, desires begin to be fulfilled.

Disharmony: all kinds of love dependence.

Dominant: the Anahata chakra is a transition from the animal aspirations of man to his spiritual evolution. When this chakra is activated, desires begin to be fulfilled.

Positions to consider:

1. To reach harmony in nourishment, you should calculate your calories intake and your energy consumption. Self-discipline, calculation, and balance make nutrition harmonious.
2. The calories theory doesn’t stand any serious test. Numerous real-life examples of people leading a happy fulfilled life on a very low calories intake suggest and scientific research (for example, by Shatalova) proves that a human being is part of the universal energy exchange chain. Harmonious nutrition, including spiritual food and material well-being, means being in harmony with nature, Cosmos, and God, which is feasible only for highly spiritual people.
3. It doesn’t matter much what we eat, consume, or enjoy in terms of spirituality. This is our intake. What matters is what we produce, which vibrations we project to the Universe. That is why nutrition is a negligible issue of secondary importance.
4. Ethically, completely harmonious nutrition is not possible. All the cruelty of the world is reflected in the way we eat. From the depth of our soul, we hear a question: “Why do I have to kill somebody in order to stay alive?” the only thing we can do is minimize our harmful influence on nature. Harmonious nutrition means doing the least possible harm.
5. We are all permanently feeling under pressure, stressed by the birth, by future death, by numerous everyday challenges. Whoever is happy and beaming, must be a very brave man. Nutrition is far from being simply an act of energy replenishment, its primary purpose is to release stress by feeling safe and cared for. The same applies to sexual relations, the accumulation of material comforts, and safety provisions. “Look how abundant your life is, with that much food, numerous sexual partners, and all the material values! Relax, life is safe! You have nothing to be afraid of, you are so rich!” that’s what we say to ourselves subconsciously. The more fears we have, the more we eat, worry about our safety, look out for sex, accumulate varied goods that are of no real need. Thus, harmonious nutrition can only be reached by overcoming all the fears, easing off all the stresses at the deepest levels.
6. Most luckily for us, life presents a chance for genuinely deep transformations through a major challenge of the nutrition plane. We encounter a highly demanding situation of surviving by eating other beings, literally devouring their lives. The emotional response is inescapable. Absolutely everybody reacts emotionally in this way or another, ignoring the issue for the sake of emotional comfort is also a decision. The tougher a challenge, the more it tends to result in a breakthrough! For some people, even such circumstances trigger a shift toward universal love and the Absolute. Were you to design the rules for the game called LIFE, would you ever be able to think of anything better or at least comparable to the plane of nutrition?
7. Love is the main source of energy.
8. We are what we eat.
9. As Jesus Christ said, “Man does not live by bread alone.” [The Holy Bible, Matthew 4:4]
10. “ Eat to Live ” or “ Live to Eat ”.
11. “What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child?” Lin Yutang.
12. “I want to cook you a soup that warms your soul,” Sade – King of Sorrow.
13. “Food is good for the soul.” Paris Can Wait.
14. “Love comes and goes, but you always want to eat,” unknown author.
15. You want to eat more than anything when you lack love.
16. “God made food; the devil the cooks,” James Joyce.
17. “There is no love sincerer than the love of food,” ― George Bernard Shaw, ‘Man and Superman’.
18. “While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth,” George Bernard Shaw.
19. “We should effect a radical reform in the character of the food,” Nikola Tesla, ‘My Inventions and Other Writings’.
20. “You don’t get ulcers from what you eat. You get them from what’s eating you,” Vicki Baum.
21. “You lose weight when food becomes not the most important joy in your life, ”- Inna Goff.
22. “All the doctors who tortured me, claiming that I could not live without meat, had already died,” George Bernard Shaw.

Sources:

 ChangeBeing.com
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