Personal Trainer
In a previous blog MOVE we talked about many nutritional things that we can do for the overweight condition or the PK imbalance
My friend Sue came by today and we were talking about a great way to build momentum behind the inertia which is present in all us to one degree or another
She was ecstatic at having found a personal trainer in the Bay area who would come by the condo and for an hour would put her hubby and herself through the paces 3 days per week
Personal trainers are becoming more and more prominent and can be a huge adjunct in our seeking of balance that is created by the Pitta Kapha mindbody constitutional makeup
Inertia is a big problem for the Kapha energy pattern but once this inertia is overcome LOOK OUT! Katie bar the door!
And the powerful insight here is that since Kapha is a true mindbody concept when we activate the body we motivate the mind Awesome!
What does that look like? The mind becomes more creative, excited, and enthused regarding the body's workout And due to the rewards of increased activity the mind gets into a positive feedback loop
Expense? Can we afford not to?
And this simple insight because we are operating from an energy science medical level of understanding not a matter science medical model
Do you notice that when you're in a mental funk it's hard to overcome the inertia and get out and do? Have you noticed foods do this to you? Have you ever thought about a personal trainer to just point you in the right direction and then ask for refreshers after that?
Until tomorrow To health as a Skill Love DrBill
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Cheap Medicine
He who takes medicine and neglects diet, wastes the skill of the physician Chinese Proverb
It is said the the supplement industry is presently a $3 billion business and that's probably an underestimation
This movement is a natural progression from our present consciousness that says that the improvement in health is delivered by a pill
If I have leg cramping and I take magnesium and my cramps get better it is even more convincing to me that the pill is just the right antidote for my problem
If I take a "potent" multivitamin and I feel great the next day guess what? "That multivitamin rocks," I gleefully and gratefully react.
Have we heard of the placebo effect? It's when we take or do something and then psychologically assign the response to what we took even though there is no causal relation Not surprisingly there is a 30% placebo response in pharmaceutical studies done in matter science medicine today
The bottom line is this: did the magnesium or the multivit "do it" or is it a placebo response? No one will convince us one way or another but I would propose that there is a cheaper way
Food that we buy in the grocery store has the potential to make us sicker or healthier And we eat everyday so it seems like a no brainer that the cheapest medicine that we have available to us on a daily basis is the food we ingest
Sooooo….. when we go the grocery store let's reframe it and say we're going to the pharmacy to get some medicine just as we would if we were going to our favorite drugstore
This is the new paradigm in nutrition and the food selection begins with choices that are appropriate for our unique mindbody constitution See foodsheal.com
Until tomorrow To health as a Skill Love DrBill
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Twenty Minutes to Nutritional Nirvana
Probably the easily and most digestible meal or food on the planet is kitchari
The value is that it is inexpensive nutrition and made of simple ingredients that nourish the GI tract
Here's how to do it
1 Bringing about 1.5 quarts of water to near boiling add 1cup of split mung dal
2 Begin cooking 2 cups of rice in a rice cooker
3 As the dal is cooking at medium temperature cut up
Green beans Leeks Carrots Asparagus (these veggies can be used by anyone)
Put the veggies into cook with the dal
4 In a different burner melt 2 T of ghee(clarified butter) or regular butter(ghee is best)
In the melted ghee place 1-2T of fennel seeds
Then offer ground cumin coriander and tumeric 1T each
Be careful not to burn the spices(all cooling but ramp up digestive fire)
5 Offer the spice mixture to the cooking dal and veggies (it will spatter when hot oil hits the water!)
6 Food process fresh ginger (stores well in glass jar and kept in fridge for 4-5 days)
Cut some fresh cilantro(keep the leaves attached the stalks)
Get out some lime juice(juice containers in the grocery store work well)
Dish up the rice, put the dal/veggie mixture(how soupy your call) over the rice, garnish with ginger, cilantro, and lime to your own taste With a little sea salt Awesome!
With practice and ingredients easily accessible this can be done in 20 minutes
An incredible nourishing meal that is easily digestible and leaves you fresh and satisfied because it gives you all six tastes
Have you ever made kitchari? What do you think of the spice mixture? If you are having digestive issues this can be the ticket to help
Bon Appetit Until tomorrow To health as a Skill Love DrBill
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The Story of Two Kittens
There were once two kittens One lived in a very protected safe environment where everything in her world was horizontal
Another kitty lived in another house where all her world was vertical No horizontal lines
When these kittys grew up and became big cats they came out from their protected environment, each one only saw their world One vertical and one horizontal So there was a lot of bumping into things for each Each had developed the perception of the world being vertical and the other the world as being horizontal
Similar events have occurred through human history 500 years ago people thought the world was flat but then boats didn't fall off the table In the last 100 years people thought that Newtonian physics was the view of the universe and now no one believes that mechanistic way of viewing the world
I believe that presently we live in a horizontal world when it comes to understanding the human biology It's one way – a matter science medical model way All our thinking is very biased and convincing This is the way we think and deal with the human biology And people were very convinced that the world was flat
But there is a vertical way – an energy science medical model way
And the best of all worlds as we learned from the grown up cats is that we see both vertical and horizontal That's the way we can really negotiate in the world easily and without difficulty
Sooo….. to see the human biology as both matter and energy fields allows us to drop our preconceived notions as to what it means to have a mindbody We are not just vertical, not just horizontal We are both
What do kittens have to do with human nutrition? When we change our worldview of the human biology we will have to change our nutrition
See you tomorrow To health as a Skill Love DrBill
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The Energetic Mindbody Connection
Isn't it fun to notice that getting out and playing with friends changes our mood? That just the simple movement to be with others changes a shift in our mental attitude
The physical mobility and the lightness associated with joviality changes our psychological demeanor
But there also seems to be a relation between inflammation or hot in the stomach and prostate and impatience and mental irritability
So this relationship between body and mental symptoms clinically seems to go to and fro Mind shifts with body changes and vice versa
Known as the mindbody connection clinicians are aware of this relationship but it is very difficult to understand it from a matter science medical model view
The reason for this is quite simple The mind is not a matter field We can identify the location of the process of thinking but not the thoughts themselves
The mind is nonlocal and defies molecular position But the mind is an energy field and the body is a both a matter and an energy field so at the energy level a merging of the mind and body is possible
The energy patterns of Vata Pitta and Kapha as we have discussed earlier at true psychophysiologic(mindbody) principles that is energy patterns which typify the physical characteristics of the body and at the same time gives us the capability of knowing how the mind will act and react in settings
So in energy science nutrition we now can see how foods can create a turbulent mind as well as a turbulent body, that is one that is in distress or imbalance
Have you ever made any observations about a mind and body connection? Have foods ever produced anxiety or inertia for you? Have you experienced being depressed after eating foods?
Until tomorrow To health as a Skill Love DrBill
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