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The Tao of Health
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Five Steps To Creating The Life You Want To Live
1. Recognize what’s important. So many of the strains and stresses we struggle to cope with come from overspending our limited physical, mental and financial resources. Ask yourself: If buying all of the things we buy is so satisfying, then why are there so many garage and yard sales going on?
2. Breathe Deeply. Slow, deep breathing calms the mind and enables your personal creativity to flow into awareness where it can become what you want in your life.
3. Simplify how you go about things. Once you know how to create calmness in your life, reassess what you need and want. Make “satisfying your needs” your top priority; then decide how much of your energy you want to spend on those things you want. It’s important to distinguish clearly between needs and wants.
4. Clarify the direction you want to go in. After recognizing what’s most important to you, use the simple power of conscious breathing to create the clarity that enables you to …
5. Begin creating the rest of your life …
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Kitty offers consultations—in-person, online, and via telephone—for you to better understand the process for creating and maintaining a feeling of health and well-being.
Feeling Hungry
Starting to feel hungry
A subtle feeling
tugging at my attention
Half in my stomach ... half in my head.
Early stage hunger
brings with it
a clear, focused feeling
reminding me ...
I want to eat.
Wait too long
the clear, focused feeling
of gentle hunger
begins to gnaw;
my focus narrows
anxiousness awakens
wanting to eat becomes ...
needing to eat.
Meditation
early stage hunger
are companions ...
on the ‘razor’s edge’
the balance point
where care-free
becomes
care-full.
Eat small portions
when hunger
begins
to gently call
for my attention.
My body becomes lighter;
My mind remains clear;
Digestion vigorous.
Key Points
Learn more about Healthy Eating—the Five Element Way: How to balance meals in a way that improves digestion; provides more energy; helps you sleep better and think more clearly; and generally feel better.
Being Consistent—Being Healthy
When it comes to healthy living, consistency is an important habit to cultivate.
Your body requires consistency just to stay alive:
And then there are illness-preventing habits you can develop through consistency that help you thrive—a few of them are:
(Traditionally, in the West we have not had a specific way of keeping the body’s energy strong and flowing, but we do now that acupuncture, Five Element diet & nutrition, Chinese medicinal herbs and Chi Kung are readily available in many places.)
Consistency is the Way
Practicing consistency is what the Japanese call ‘Do’ and the Chinese call ‘Tao’; both meaning “The Way.” And from an Oriental Medicine point of view, practicing consistency is “The Way of Health.”
Healthy Consistency Prevents Illness
When you treat your body with healthy consistency you’re putting yourself in a position where you can better prevent illness. This is the opposite of the mindset that says—implicitly or explicitly—”I’ll just deal with whatever comes up when it happens.”—a health plan fraught with potential surprises.
Once we establish a consistent rhythm of healthy habits and attitudes we set a momentum in motion which carries us into a healthier, happier life.