Paula Wilson writes
Brought up by my father, my diet oscillated between tinned/packeted food in the winter and an abundance of home-grown veg and local fruit in the summer. As a teenager at boarding school, the vegetarian option was lifeless, over-cooked veg so I insisted on salads. Had I known where I was going with my diet, I might have got there a lot quicker but I effortlessly ditched eggs and all dairy products one by one. On turning vegan, I had a brief six month fling with a high raw food diet in 1983 after reading
Raw Energy by Leslie Kenton but was still including bread, margarine and nut butters.
About 11 years ago, I would go raw on our 2-3 week summer camping holidays. On about the third year, my first ‘normal’ (i.e. cooked) meal on returning home knocked me sideways with exhaustion. From that moment on I just completely stopped cooking!
My aim is to inspire you to try a short period raw so that you can feel how life could (and should?) be: so that having experienced the increase in energy, clarity and general health, you will have an incentive to kick the cooked food habit. The body will heal itself from a lifetime of less than ideal dietary choices remarkably quickly and what seem like ingrained habits and addictions can be changed within days or weeks. My own transition to a raw diet was so immediate and dramatic that I wanted to tell everyone I met. However, over the years I found that quietly doing my own thing generates far more interest.
Eating a raw plant-based diet thins the blood, allowing years of built up waste material resulting from ingesting acidic foods to pass from the lymph fluid surrounding every cell into the blood stream to be excreted. This detoxification can only occur in the absence of continuing toxification. Man is the only living creature to cook his food (and that of the animals he has domesticated). The results of this aberration in the form of minor to major illness and behavioural abnormalities (e.g. obesity, aggression, hyperactivity) are everywhere to be seen, making it appear normal when it is so far from what nature intended.
For the past 11 years, I have worked as a builder/carpenter. I enjoy doing practical stuff and love working outside all year round. In my long friendship with Helen, I have unofficially catered at many of her workshops, providing a banquet of delicious salads which have inspired many people to increase their raw food consumption.
Combining the Physical and Emotional
Come and experience the delicious, nutritious, energizing, revitalizing physical and emotional healing effects of a raw plant-based diet. After a gradual transition from a reluctant meat-eating childhood via a vegetarian adolescence to a vegan adulthood, it was only on changing to a raw diet eight years ago that I have come closer to nutrition as nature intended it—life enhancing.
Eating a raw plant-based diet can be as simple or as complicated as you want to make it. If you love following recipes, there are websites and books galore on raw food diets. Or if you like grabbing food out of the fridge, or better still, straight out of your garden, then you can keep it very simple. It is easy to acquire an intuitive feel of what goes with what so you can make something appetizing out of whatever you have lying around.
The food we eat often has more to do with tradition, habit, cravings, addictions, comfort, and so forth than actual nutrition and energy. We are unable to digest food and process emotions at the same time. Eating a lighter diet can be emotionally as well as physically healing. Therefore the workshop is about the mental, physical and spiritual, as we are all complete beings. Every aspect influences the other.
The emotional work will be done in the mornings and there will be some simple yoga exercises as well. There needs to be time for food prep before lunch. Afternoons wil involve some form of exercise, swimming or walking or both. Evenings we’ll do a short review of what came up in the day to prepare for the next day’s work followed by a short (not compulsory) relaxation meditation.
This electrical hand blender makes small servings and is very robust and inexpensive (around €70). It's portable (you can take it on holiday with you), easy to clean and to use, unlike splashy hand-held blenders. I will be bringing mine to use here so you’ll get to see this useful gadget in operation.
Contact Information
Contact Dr. Helen Ford and Paula Wilson at
9 Redhill
Stourbridge
W. Midlands DY8 1NA
Telephone: +44 (0) 1384 379740
Mobile: +44 (0)1766 762559
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Dr Helen Ford, Holistic Physician
My work is about helping people align with their own truth and their own right path. The work inevitably leads us into looking at the beliefs and fears we have acquired that shift us out of our natural alignment and letting go of any habitual patterns that arise from these beliefs which are no longer serving us.
It is much easier to change these habitual patterns if you change your environment and the normal patterns of your daily life. My experience is that whenever I also do a physical detox the negative patterns loosen their grip and are easier to remove. So as well as feeling physically better and losing physical weight you will get a chance to unburden yourself of some unnecessary emotional weights as well!
Exercise and sea and sunshine, which is what we have here naturally in Greece, is also a great way to assist a detox.
About Myself
I qualified as a doctor in 1970 after studying at Cambridge University and the Middlesex Hospital Medical School (London). After working for some years in conventional medicine in Britain and Canada, I began to take an interest in other types of healing and therapies out of the desire to find ways to deal with those illnesses and symptoms which did not respond to conventional medical treatment. I now work privately as a holistic physician specialising in the access and treatment of the underlying causes of unhappiness-disease by gathering information directly from the aura and using appropriate vibrational remedies and therapeutic techniques that support the individual’s truth to expand from the inside outwards.
It is from my own now extensive experiences of doing this work that I have developed my own systems of healing and self-healing, which I will share with the participants in this workshop as deeply (or as lightly!) as they wish.
