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Diet
The Ideal Natural Foods Diet
The Ideal Natural Foods Diet is one where you (the reader) uses your own knowledge and intuition to decide what your body needs. I sincerely hope that you do not use the ideas below as rigid rules, but instead, use them as suggested guidelines as you develop your own personal inner feeling as to what food your body needs.
As your nutrition plan gradually improves, please practice deciding for yourself what food your body needs rather than relying on what I say or what a well-known author says. So, have fun and don't get too rigid using someone's dietary rules. In the long run, this usually provides the best nutrition for your body. Any regular practice that helps you get in touch with your own inner feelings and process can help develop the ability to know what foods your body needs. Practices such as meditation, yoga, tai chi/ qigong, etc. are practices that can be helpful in this regard and may someday be something you would like to experiment with by taking a class.
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Regular,Gradual Changes Without Obsessing
It is much easier for most people to change their diet over time at a comfortable pace. It is also important to not obsess constantly about improving your diet and to not beat yourself up if you don't have a "perfect" diet. Making dietetic changes too quickly may make you uptight and cause you to feel deprived. On the other hand, making no dietetic changes from a S.A.D. over time can slow you healing progress.
The following is a list of some of the problems that could occur if a person is too restrictive with their diet:
Causes feelings of deprivation and emotional stress which can actually make some health problems worse.
Tends to take focus away from other activities that can be extremely important in the complete healing process such as enjoyment and nurturing activities, fun, stress relief, and inner healing & transformation techniques.
Makes it easier to fall into the trap that a temporary reduction of symptoms through a restrictive diet is the equivalent to being on the road to complete healing.
May set you up for midnight binges and overeating.
There are cases where a very strict diet may be indicated. But this is usually where severe reactions cannot be eliminated any other way. Otherwise, please remember that these are lifestyle changes are best done gradually.
I like to eat a relatively healthy, natural foods diet, but I have fun with it by not being too restrictive. Please do not use any of the ideas below to make yourself feel guilty. The goal should be gradual progress not perfection.
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How To Move To Natural Foods Diet
There is an enormous amount of useful information in this article. But please do not be intimidated into thinking that everything has to be changed at once.
An excellent way to start the process is the perform the following steps:
Locate Natural Foods/Health Foods stores in your area.
Purchase Natural Foods cookbooks and begin experimenting. (See Holistic Healing Web Page/Amazon.Com bookstore.)
Purchase other books on Natural Foods Diet and Chinese/Ayurvedic Nutrition. (See Holistic Healing Web Page/Amazon.Com bookstore.)
Ask at local Natural Foods stores about cooking classes.
If you have difficulty making changes over time, don't worry about it. Try committing experimenting with one of the Inner Healing & Transformation techniques discussed on this web page. These techniques (especially the body-oriented and inner peace-oriented techniques) can be enormously helpful in reducing cravings and/or addressing eating disorders over time.
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