Healthy life... what does it mean?
Because of my work as a TCM therapist, I have yo ask people about their life-style. Many of them proudly tell me that they 'eat very healthy, do lots of sport, never get cold'. My question is: why do all these people seek a treatment if they live so healthy?
Our TCM teacher, Dr. Li Jie once told us that, compared with the old times when people mostly suffered and died from 'hot and cold deseases', now it happens from the stress and impurity.
Stress is something what you probably can understand. It's a heavy reaction on problems and especially a habit of keeping the ill thoughts about it on your head for a very long time. Such thoughts would poison your system and spoil your happiness with their bitterness. But also too much joy can be a stress. It is well known that people can die from a very big unexpected joy. I heard that this happens because we borrow the energy for expressing such a joy from our future. If there no enefgy left, the life ends.
The impurity: what did Dr. Li mean? He said: 'Monodern people wash and clean themselves from top till toes very good, but inside, they pollute themselves with chemicals, artificial food, hormones etc. And they don't cleanse their blody from inside'.
Some people are busy with detoxing. The same people who tends to eat healthy. they would detox their intestines, liver, kidneys, lymphatic system. And it can work good for them. But one thing I noticed with such people: as a very eager and passionate houswife who cleans her house day and night but never fill it with love and warmth of her heart, these persons also don't feed themselves, they only detox.
To feed yourself doesn't mean giving yourself food. It means: giving attention, warmth, really feeling your body and appreciating it.
Once I received a message from a guy who tries to follow a spititual path in his life. He asked me if it was allowed to take one spoonful of honey with a herbal tea while detoxing. 'Why not?' I asked him.
'But... honey is food. When I do fasting, I have to avoid food...' (I have to explain: this guy is very merciless for himself and his body as well, he also works too much, still doesn't have much money because he gives excellent massages almost for free, has serious helth problems and doesn't have a partner). Again, I asked him: why do you have to avoid food? His answer was: 'If I eat, food draws too much attention to my body and takes away my energy which I need to reach the enlightness'.
What can I say? I know the guy for a long time and I see where his ideas have brought him. He tries to avoid food, sex and all the kinds of pleasures on the Earth, trying to get enlighted. The history tells about some people who were able to reach the state of samadhi. But... how can you reach it if you are hungry, angry, unhappy and hate yourself???
That's why I try to tell the most eager followers of the 'healthy path': learn how to celebrate the life, give attention to your body AND to your soul, and please don't do any extremal things if you don't have enought energy and can't maintain your energy level for some time. Be kind to yourself. Small steps are the most useful ones!
