The Taoist Diet

Poison or Medicine

Correct and harmonious nutrition will be a medicine for us. Unsuitable or excess food can become a poison.

It is necessary to take seriously your diet. Any food can both benefit and health, and take it away. All newfangled mono-diets with the predominance of one or several products can cause a strong imbalance in the body and disrupt its primary – the primary health and homeostasis of the body, with all the ensuing consequences.

Correctly selected food can become not only an excellent preventive remedy for many diseases, but also a medicine in case of their occurrence. There is no common diet for all, nor are two identical people. It should always be guided by intuition and choose an individual diet recipe for everyone. Nobody except us knows how to restore this natural thread again – our connection with the surrounding space. Nobody except us will be able to choose a suitable diet for this.

In order not to lose the right path, one must follow the desires of one’s heart. But not distorted and perverted thirst, but by the imperceptible prompts that the body itself gives, indicating the right direction. One of these intuitive tips is the muscle response and energy level for various foods. So taking in hand, and preferably on the chosen food, we immediately feel either strength, feel how the muscles are filled with energy and the body comes alive, or we feel a decline and weakness. Such a simple test when choosing a meal will get rid of all the unsuitable, spoiled and poisonous products for us with which the shelves of modern supermarkets are crowded. He will save our lives from a variety of diseases caused by improper and inappropriate food.

The medicine can become a meal for those who do not listen to their body, and for whom food is just a dead ritual and a thirst for taste excesses.

In the East, unlike the West, food was always taken seriously, with all honors and respect. The rituals of eating were a mystery of contact with the surrounding world, a sacred act of unity. Therefore, there still do not know the many ailments and diseases that have swallowed the entire Western world.

It should be remembered that any excess as well as a defect, as well as unsuitable products, can be a poison for us, which slowly and surely will deprive us of our strength and energy, and with them life. Therefore, a disparaging attitude toward one’s food is tantamount to not accepting oneself, your life and the world around you.

The same who values himself and his life must remember: The world and we are inextricably linked, and this connection is as strong as the natural and suitable environment for us, and with it air, water and food.

Tao of Eating