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Getting Started

What is Macrobiotics? Foods to Avoid or       Reduce     How Can I Get Started?   How Can Macrobiotics                Help Me?   Macrobiotics Takes       Time   The Standard Diet   Way of Life Suggestions   What is the Basis of a       Macrobiotic Diet?   Why We Embrace       Macrobiotics

 

Kitchen Tips

Compost   Cooking With Intuition   Kitchen Management   Light Summer Cooking   Must We Eat Japanese      Foods?   Relaxed Pressure      Cooking   The Macrobiotic      Traveler   Why Cook?

 

Health Related Issues

Degeneration   Healing Stories   Home Remedies   Hot Flashes   Macrobiotics for      Healing     Michio Kushi on Illness

 

Macrobiotic Philosophy

A Balanced Life   Five Transformations   The Foundation of      Absolute Happiness   The Seven Levels of      Natural Order   The Spiritual      Connection Feeling Better

 

Macrobiotic Friends

Consultation with Miso      Sushi--Fun Skit   In Defense of Cruises   Interviews With      Macrobiotic Friends   Macrobiotics In Israel

 

 

How Can Macrobiotics Help Me?

 

In Western medicine, health is the apparent absence of symptoms and disease.    According to macrobiotic thought, health is the positive image of a vibrant, thriving person.    Health and disease are not static states.   They are paths we follow throughout our lives.

 

It's Creative,  Aesthetic,  Delicious, and Healthy

 

At any time of life, whether you consider yourself well or have a life-threatening illness, you can expand your state of health. The proper adjustment of our diet and lifestyle coalesce in a healthy condition.

 

My Experience

When I developed cancer after 20 years of dedicated macrobiotic practice:

• I wanted to understand what had happened.
• I wanted to know why I got sick and what to do about it
• I wanted to know if my practice was off or if macrobiotics was false
• I really wanted to understand health and healing

I knew that the answers were present for me to uncover in the questions

I had been faithfully following the macrobiotic way of life to the best of my ability for 20 years, teaching, counseling and practicing

"The best of my ability" always means my finest effort, yet the results were not what I consciously sought; was my best good enough?

Nevertheless, the results were what I needed for my life

I had no teachers of macrobiotics in my life, although we did sponsor a European macrobiotic counselor in Israel

I explored the meaning of healing:

• When I could say that my cancer was the natural order of the universe, I could begin to heal.

• When I could say that had I to do it again, I would choose the same path, then I considered myself healthy.

• When I no longer judged illness as bad, but rather as interesting, I considered my whole

Benefits of My Illness

My appreciation, gratitude and love for the macrobiotic way of life has expanded infinitely

I have progressed one hundred-fold in my understanding and application of life according to natural order

Vibration is what we carry with us in our next life; I am clear that my illness has raised my vibrational level

Macrobiotics has given me:

• My life

• My health

• My true education

• A world view and cosmology

• Belief in myself and in something bigger than myself

• Friends beyond measure

• A husband

• A purpose

• A career

• A goal

• A teacher

• A diet

• A way of life

• Life skills

• An understanding of life

• A method of living

• Hope for a peaceful death

• A vision

• Confidence that there are many more wonderful lifetimes of joy