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A must-read blog exploring Chinese herbal medicine, yoga, healing practices, food, and integrative approaches to wellbeing and medication. Discover how traditional wisdom and modern health insights come together to support balance, recovery, and everyday vitality through natural and holistic care.


Thoughts on Eating
Ask yourself ?why did I stop eating?; was it really because you had eaten enough? In the book ?Eating the Moment? you are encouraged to keep a 2 week journal considering the following as a list of reasons for stopping eating: Hunger relief: you relieved the sensation of hunger (the next 2 stages are pleasant fullness and unpleasant fullness) Pleasant fullness: you reached a point of pleasant fullness Unpleasant fullness: you reached a point of unpleasant fullness Ran out of f
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Bhoj Kriya. A lecture by Yogi Bhajan
How to Bless and Eat Your Food: Bhoj KriyaiKundalini Yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan?August 30, 1992 Copyright ? The Teachings of Yogi Bhajan I have to teach you how to eat. You do not know how to eat; so I have to start alphabetically [from the beginning], all right? Now please, sit calmly and fold your hands. Bring your hands into Prayer Pose and close your eyes and feel that you are going to be blessed. You are going to be blessed. Calm down and empty yourself to receive the
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Favourite recipies
The following books and recipes have been used frequently by me over the years; River Cottage – light and easy – Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall. This is a wheat and milk free cook book. I've found some that are also gluten and sugar free and many that are egg free and that also follow food combining principles. Here are some excellent recipes; Breads – Carrot cornbread p67, Socca p74, Soups – Chickpea soup p114, Roasted fennel & lemon soup p122, Creamy roasted tomato soup p12,
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Detoxing. The Kundalini Yoga Perspective
There is a modern fashion with ‘going on a detox’, which normally implies restricting certain foods, a mono diet or even fasting on water and herbal teas or juices. It is counter-intuitive to think that if you have less you feel more – more energised and more light! The protein myth, in particular, perpetuates the idea that we need lots of protein and the meat and dairy industry obviously have a vested interest in perpetuating this myth. Actually, excess protein just pushes t
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