What is the Raw Glow?
Yesterday I saw some relatives at a cousin’s birthday party. When I arrived my aunt and her mom ran over to me telling me how fantastic I looked and that they barely recognized me. Even my aunt’s stepfather told me I was looking good and he’s not somebody who throws around compliments about another man’s appearance.
Last time I saw those relatives was about 11 months ago and except for having longer hair I don’t look much different. After thinking it over I remembered other people reacting similarly seeing me for the first time in a few months. It made me wonder why people were telling me I look good and different when I look the same.
I’ve been eating raw vegan for just over a year now. Maybe I’ve got the glow.
The Raw Glow
I’ve read about the raw glow before, but never an explanation of what it was, just that it happens to people. Some people like Philip McClusky and Angela Stokes have lost over 150lbs eating raw and look great. As far as I know they don’t glow in the dark. That’s because the raw glow isn’t something you see, it’s something you feel.
The raw glow is actually non-physical energy. People around you subconsciously sense positive energy in your presence. They have no other way to reciprocate feeling your energy than saying “you look fantastic!” even though you look the same.
The energy doesn’t come from raw food. The energy exists within you, but when you eat unhealthy food you block it. Instead of radiating outward, the energy is absorbed by other processes like heavy digestion and toxin elimination. These processes use up your energy when you eat toxic food. Cleaning up your diet allows your energy to flow freely, unblocked.
When you eat toxic food you take in toxic energy too. Negative energy coming from the suffering, the mercilessness, and the human indifference of animal production and the negative effects on the planet as whole. This negative energy blocks your natural positive energy, canceling it out or even producing a net-negative energy. Could that be why it seems like we live in such a negative angry world? 
So are you wondering what makes people compliment you? They’re simply reciprocating the positive energy you’re broadcasting to them. Your lifestyle change causes you to become a beacon of positive energy. Others receive your positive energy and wish to reciprocate it, so they compliment you, telling you you look fantastic.
It has nothing to do with looks. I look almost the same as I did last time I saw my relatives. I was wearing sweatpants and a hoody when I saw them yesterday. Not exactly fantastic by traditional standards, right?
Other people sense that you are fantastic, even though it has nothing to do with the way you look. They feel the positive energy. They feel it so much it makes them think they see it, and that’s what the raw glow is all about.
This might sound a little hokey to you close-minded folk and I understand your skepticism, but I’ve heard and experienced this phenomenon too often lately to not at least consider it possible.
So what’s your experience with The Raw Glow? Does it exist? Comments?
My partner and I have been going towards more and more Raw for about a year.
I got the compliments right away, but since I rarely look in the mirror I have no comment.
However, My partner has just started to glow and I swear it it s physical change. He appears younger, is more fit, has more energy, needs less sleep, even his hands and feet look younger! Now he is getting the compliments. Well maybe it is both internal and external glow?
http://flourishingincrisis.wordpress.com/
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Love the look and feel of your blog.
One year raw! That’s amazing.
Would love to see more posts about it. Like how you got into it, the stuff you had to deal with, positive and negative experiences, the whole shebang!
Thanks.
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Hi there, I found your blog via Google while searching for raw food recipes and your post looks very interesting for me.
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This is a truly great article Tom. The Raw Glow is positive energy. Perfectly put!!!!
jason and pia
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Too good dude! I enjoyed!!
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