Paul’s Update & Vegetarian Diet
Well Hello Everyone!
Thank you for visiting my blog.
Well, I’m busy traveling and teaching again. I ‘m off to teach functional exercise at Muscle Up Symposium in Montreal tomorrow morning and then over to UK to teach PPS Lesson 1 and to present at FitPro. I’m looking forward to meeting my students and friends and of course meeting new people!
I’ve been busy writing, making slide shows, consulting clients, coaching PPS students and taking care of my inner-needs with morning and evening “sun” meditations, Vidya’s nourishing tasty food, and regular visits to the gym. I will offer a “Dynamic Metabolic Typing” webinar next month, April 22, so look for the announcement on the PPS website! or in our newsletter announcements.
During my travels many people have asked me (with concern) why I’ve lost so much weight… The answer is that I follow my own system of Dynamic Metabolic Typing. As the stressors in one’s life change, expand and contract, we too must adapt to the environment or old habits become today’s pains and problems. I spend time loving my food and inviting it into a new home before I eat at each meal. This helps me develop a spiritual relationship with all the loving beings that have been sacrificed for my half. I find that as my heart and mind have learned to see and feel the nature spirits over the many years of my spiritual practice, it has taken less and less food to meet my needs and that my body no longer desires animal foods. I have had no intention to drop meat or anything else, I’ve simply listened to my body and taken guidance from my soul. I have found the progressive changes in my awareness very helpful when working with clients in person and for distance healing because my third eye is amazingly much more clear.
Many have expressed concern that I’ve campaigned against vegetarianism for so long and now I’m living as one – is that a double standard?. Well yes and no! I have to remind people that in more lectures than I can count, I’ve quoted Rudolph Steiner and Paramahansa Yogananda, who both said, “no man should become a vegetarian until it happens naturally”. I may eat a big chunk of meat tomorrow(!) if that’s what my soul directs me to do. For me, this has nothing to do with following anyone else’s dietary imperative and everything to do with “inner-listening”. I have no dogma and my practice is one of deep listening. I am healthy, fit and strong, and my mind works beautifully, just as it always has when I eat in accordance with my body and soul requests. I encourage everyone to stop reading diet books and start “listening”, developing a relationship with your biology and your inner-voice. That is the only way to create lasting well-being.
Join me to learn more about how to “fine-tune” your own personal diet through my Dynamic Metabolic Typing webinar April 22, 6pm! I’ll be presenting in the hour and half my perspective on metabolic typing as a dynamic not static system, how to fine tune for yourself and then opening the lines for Q&A.
Enjoy your food!
Paul
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Comments
wow these news are fantastic. no need for animal sources. although i must admit that you have lost so much weight. i do hope some day i understand.
Hey Paul …your article made me go Hmmmmmmmm BIG TIME:)
About 6 months ago i was mostly eating a plant based diet with Meat on the Weekends….but always feeling hungry eating nut butters avocados etc to fill me up.. ..but since listening to you speak on diff. Podcasts and reading how to eat move and be healthy and Wolcotts Metabolic Diet i happily changed my Diet and feel great..im a fast oxidizer living in switzerland and love it …raw butter ..nitrate free wursts..raw goat sheep and cows milk etc.
Actually im interested in knowing what your thoughts are on the Fat soluble Vitamins that you are missing now that you are on a more plant based diet. And you are a fast oxidizer also correct? so food high in purine is also good for you right?
From what i learned from bill timmins audios concerning Parasites ” just because you dont have symptoms doesnt mean that everything is ok”
So just because you feel great..your body might still require nutrition from Animals.
Im still a newbie on these topics.. love everything about it ..learning every day
Have fun
Paul G. from Switzerland
Dear Marlos,
Much of the reason I’ve lost so much weight is that I’ve had a lot of challenges with a very serious neck injury I got about 5 years ago doing a lifting stunt. I had a guy get scared while being lifted overhead and he fell full force on my head, blowing my C6 disc out and pinching my spinal cord and nerve roots. The road back has been painful and rocky, even with my skill at rehab…The result is that I’ve not been able to do any heavy lifting at all. My natural walking around weight is actually 164 pounds. As a boxer I was a welterweight (147 Lbs.). I worked very hard to keep my body at the 189 pounds I was at when I got hurt. Additionally, the stress of traveling 8 months a year has added up and now that I’m approaching 50 years of age, I don’t feel the need to be a boy any more! There is life beyond muscles…I’m growing my heart with the time I’m saving and the world needs more heart and less brawn as I see it.
Lots of Love,
Paul Chek
Dear Paul G from Switzerland,
There are a number of factors involved here:
1. People’s MT DOES change and can change through all MT’s in one day! This is well explained in my upcoming seminar on Dynamic MT. I’ve seen this happen a lot with people recovering from diseases or who are under a lot of stress; this may be physical, emotional, mental or spiritual stress.
2. The body has needs at the physical, etheric, astral and mental levels of energetic reality. Most people are only conscious of their physical reality/needs and only come to know their other layers through crisis and pain; some with a committed spiritual practice and usually under the guidance of a skilled teacher, come to know them sooner. MT should include all these levels, but can’t for most because unless the teacher of MT has these skills, how can they teach them?
3. There is MORE WE DON’T KNOW THAN WE DO KNOW about the human construct. When we evolve, our DNA tuning changes and we can access different programs, allowing us to perform a new level of cellular alchemy. This takes us out of the “box” of the average individual’s reality. You may want to study Cindi Dayle’s Encyclopedia of Energy Anatomy to learn more…
4. For me as a teacher, it has always been important to have “experience” as much as possible before defining opinion. When I was a child, my mother was a practicing yogi, which went on for 24 years. I lived as a vegetarian when I was 13 and became anemic. I had to go back to eating meat for health reasons then, but show no signs of such challenges now. I’m not one to suggest things to people with out due process-knowledge guiding me. My suggestion is none other than developing a healthy relationship with one’s body-mind and letting that, alone with the fine-tuning diagram in my book “How To Eat, Move and Be Healthy!” be your guide.
Much chi,
Paul Chek
dear Paul,
I feel so deeply amazed about your injuries . I thought i was left behind because of my own injuries like surgery of anterior ligament, mental and physical imbalances .
Yes there is life beyond muscles.
I understand and feel great you are fine after all.
With Qi
Marios
Thanks for your response
I do need some time to “digest” your response..for me it comes from a depth where im not used to get responses:) . Dynamic MT sounds super interesting.
Thanks for tickling my brain:)
Peace
Paul G. from Switzerland
Wow Paul, this is shocking! You have stated proudly about your track record in converting vegeterians who refused to eat animals for spiritual reasons into meat eaters for the sake of their health, doing a great deed for each of them. You have also stated that muscle tissue is the most important tissue throughout the body and now you are okay with losing lots of muscle?! How can you keep muscle without adequate daily protein intake? Are you using more dairy?
This sounds and feels more like a spiritual thing, than a scientific thing. Am I wrong?
Paul, I am very happy to hear you have move towards a more plant based diet…even if it is only a temporary shift. I, for most part, have based my diet on animal products, but sometimes it just feels right to take a break and eat vegetarian for a while. It is always sound advice to listen to what your own body is telling you. The only thing I would ask would be what vegetarian foods are you consuming predominately? At first fruits worked great for me, but eventually I felt more stable eating mostly greens and root vegetables. Do you still exclude grain?
Paul, I had no idea that you had suffered such a serious injury and have experienced challenges as you heal.
This really resonates with me because as a devoted Chekkie, I spend my days educating others on health and wellness, yet I sometimes struggle with my own health due to chronic fatigue.
Of course I know what I need to do to get well, but some days are better than others and frustration often sets in. I too have had to give up heavy lifting and martial arts (my two passions in life) and it’s been humbling to make the adjustment.
I truly respect you and consider you a great mentor becasue you are not married to one dogmatic philosophy or technique.
I hope that you heal and become stronger than you were before the injury and I send you much love and chi.
Jason
Paul, I’m just wondering what your thoughts are on the book The Vegetarian Myth by Lierre Keith?
I just finished reading it and she makes some compelling arguments for not going vegetarian or vegan.
Cheers,
Jason
Paul is still a machine. I watched him bust out a 1 arm pull up at seminar in November.
Interesting to see how the vegi thing unfolds.
i tried once 1 arm pull up and my neck hurts ever since. What is the proper way to execute it safely?
Thanks for the post Paul, I promote a metabolically typed diet to my clients, which mainly to me means that after your testing you use that information to decide how you want to eat and do it successfully, knowing the macro nutrient level that works for you.
I wish you the very best in your journey
This is outstanding!
Paul I have followed your work since way back when you were kicking around in New Zealand in the 90′s. I was a young boxer with a spondi and you sent me to train with Fem.
Anyway congrats on this blog. I knew you would come to this point once you followed a more spiritual path. I myself eat meat. But I used to follow Sri Chimnoy manny years ago, when he was still alive. And I have followed Anthony Robbins campaign against eating meat. And now you! Mr “you have to eat meat!” going vegetarian! It’s brilliant! hahaha
You’ve always taught that which you were learning yourself. And you’ve always been way ahead of the field. You may be doing a bit of a U-turn here but I respect your pioneering passion and drive. You speak your truth. Years and years from now I think more and more of us will be vegetarian. I still eat meat myself. But deep down I know I would be better off without it.
Nice work Paul.
Paul , I just read your blog my friend , no one will rise from any adversity more successful than you ! ” When you follow your bliss doors will open where you would not have thought there would not have thought there would be doors and where there wouldnt be a door for anyone else …..Joseph Campbell
Hi Paul,
Wo I Knee!
This is worth having a look into. For now I was thinking of the short book named “The Ideal food”.
Martinus Thomsen really has something to tell the world.
While landing on this post was a surprise, I have to say that I hope your practitioners glom on to your “flexibility” on this matter. At the time I attended a workshop by a high level CHEK practitioner, I was a vegetarian. The practitioner said that no CHEK practitioner would work with a veg, Paul Chek had lots to say against being a veg, blah, blah… Basically, he blasted me. I’m an omni now because that feels right. I remember being very disappointed, however. Thus my interest in this post…
I have always wanted to become a vegetarian but was confused on how to start. I decided to do some research online to find some free online newsletters. I found some really informative websites;
1) The Vegetarian Society http://www.vegsoc.org/
2) Savvy Vegetarian http://www.savvyvegetarian.com
3) Vegetarian Newbie http://www.vegetariannewbie.com
4) Vegetarian Secrets http://www.vegetarain-secrets.com
But one of my favorites is Vegetarian Newbie http://www.vegetariannewbie.com which is really helpful for new vegetarians. I realized the best way to understand the vegetarian lifestyle and what it has to offer is to learn and educate yourself
Paul,
Thank you for your constant care and re-evaluation of your bodies and self. I’ve kept Rudolf Steiner’s message about vegetarianism close to my heart for quite some time. He said, “It is better to eat meat than to think meat.”
I’ve been a vegetarian for 18 years (since I was 15 – and vegan for 12 of those years, from ages 19-31) and have recently decided to eat meat again. My body is out-of-whack and feels unhealthy – with constant digestive distress, fatigue, and a roaming restlessness and anxiety. I haven’t “thought” meat in over a decade, but after reconsidering my body’s needs (and after reading Eat, Move, and be Healthy!) something about my make up is asking for it.
It’s courageous for you to publicly state the change in your diet while advocating the importance of seeing each person individually. I’m not sure why my case is the exact opposite of yours.
Would you say that engaging with meat in a healthy way will eventually lead a person back to a thoughtful and calm vegetarianism, just as cleansing and detoxifying the body with responsible vegetarianism will lead a person back to respnosible meat-eating?
In other words, does the diet function on a rhythmic, rather than static principle – the plant world assisting the function of the etheric and the animal world assisting the astral in a sort of dietary breathing?
Thank you
Andre
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EXCELLENT work my friend!
While i am not a vegetarian
sometimes that is exactly what my body wants
and so it shall have
Beautiful teaching
The body knows best
Not the guru
The perfect program is not in front of you
It is within you!