Table of contents for Gluten-Free Living
- Tips for Gluten-Free Survival
- How to Love Eating Gluten-Free: Introduction
- Discovering New Clarity on a Restricted Diet.
- Become Smarter by Web-Searching for a Few Minutes a Day
Many people discover that following an extended period of often ill health due to an undiscovered and undiagnosed food allergy/ sensitivity/ intolerance, they discover a greatly improved level and quality of mental clarity.
Often, the unwitting sufferer struggles through symptoms such as fatigue, poor sleep, inflammation, irritability, and brain fog (to name a few of the most common and most relevant ones), which drastically decreases or disappears, often to the shock of the newly diagnosed patient, who may have normalized a large part of the negative effects to the point of not consciously appreciating the difference compared with an unhindered mind and body.
When the offending foods are carefully eliminated, such as in the case of gluten intolerance, the is frequently a profound reduction in irritability, brain fog, and an improved sleep pattern. More benefit accrues as the digestive tract heals over time, in cases where there was long period of undiagnosed suffering.
What is essential is to not squander this gift. Sure, tasty foods have been taken away from you, the very ones that where creating the pain, but they were also replaced with something. This clarity and improved mental functioning, and reduced body stress provides a tremendous opportunity to think clearly about how you feel on a daily basis, and to reassert your control over your thinking and negative thought patterns. You will have a chance to experience far more effective meditation. You will discover deeper and more fruitful contemplation. You may find that with more mind and body now more aligned with the reduction or elimination of an acute state of illness and suffering that you will be able to sustain a peaceful mindful balance if you wish much more successfully, bringing your wandering thoughts back more quickly, and growing in skill at a quicker pace than ever.
Be careful, though. Just as you may have normalized the effect of your condition on your mental, psychological, and spiritual development, perhaps calling your “rut” pure procrastination (which some of it likely would have been), quickly the feeling of improved mental condition will fade and the din of the world will once more take its place. One can even more easily normalize the improvement to an “usual” state of health. While the ability to impose change in your life thoughtfully is still present, you must focus on being present. You must now learn how to take time out to develop mindfulness, to appreciate stillness, and to feel the infinity and the depth of calmness. We are all capable of forgetting for a very long time of what we are truly capable.
