The question:
Have you ever noticed that during your evening meditation your mind is easier to quiet? Well I have, and I believe I’ve figured out why that is. At least, I think I’ve figured out the physical reasons but there are probably mental and emotional reasons as well.

The answer:
In Arnold Ehret’s, Mucusless Diet Healing System, he describes how mucus gets into the body and how the mucus gets out when the body detoxifies, as in an illness or an intentional fast. When we eat, nutrients, mucus, toxins, etc. go from our stomachs into our blood stream and then into our cells. While fasting and detoxifying, the process is reversed as the toxins, puss and mucus travel from the cells into the bloodstream before exiting through one of the body’s organs of elimination: respiration, skin, alimentary canal, etc. When the “food” is in the bloodstream you’ll taste it again. He states that that’s part of the reason why people get cravings when fasting or changing their diet: they “taste” it again as it exits the body.

Putting the answer together
What this means in that in the morning, before we have our break-fast (before we break our fast of the night), those foods, toxins, mucus and whatever else, are in our bloodstream from our intentional fast. They flow with the blood through our bodies and also through the brain, activating thoughts.

To prove the point
Just think about previous eating experiences you’ve had. Hmmm…. Here are some memory joggers: Have you ever had a highly processed meal or snack and then found it hard to focus? How about a lunch of pasta and then not being able to focus in that afternoon meeting? Here’s one of mine: I remember playing a memory game with my daughter a few years ago. I had won three games, then we had some organic cookies with organic flour and sugar. She won the following three games. ‘Nuf said.

My potential solutions
I can…
use this challenge as an opportunity to redouble my efforts to stay in the moment. Ooh, that will make the meditation even better since it’s all about being in the moment.
eat a mucusless diet and after I finish detoxifying there shouldn’t be as much in the blood stream. I guess that’s a very long-term solution, though.
drink water to flush it out of the bloodstream. This could work if it’s a short meditation otherwise I’ll have to get up and use the bathroom during my meditation or have the added distraction of a full bladder, huh?
learn some cleansing breath techniques. anyone know of any that purify the blood?
do some purifying yoga asanas. Yoga’s great to do in the morning.
do the energization exercises that are part of the spiritual study program from Self Realization Fellowship. Nah, this requires concentration as well and my mind definitely wanders the same way.

Conclusions
I haven’t found any sure-fire way for helping bring more peace to my first-morning meditation but I think it makes it easier to address now that I have some idea of why it’s occurring. Please let me know if you come up with some ways that work for you.

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