A common mistake people make, is to assume that if someone is vegetarian, fruitarian, pescatarian (see yesterdays blog) or any other -tarian, that they automatically are healthy, but that’s not necessarily true. Someone who eats popcorn and drinks coke could be a vegan. Someone who eats doughnuts and drinks coffee all day is an ovo-vegetarian, or if you drink fruit juices and nothing else you would be a fruitarian.
None of them are, in my view eating a healthy diet. When I have a choice, and I do 90% of the times, I choose to eat natural food from plants. Why? Because it is healthy, I don’t want to kill, or pay the killers and the animal keepers, and I don’t want to pollute the world more than necessary by my mere existence. I choose natural food because of the same reasons. It is healthier to eat the whole orange than to make the juice as I then miss out on the fiber. If I don’t process the food I pollute less as I need less kitchen utensils and I use less electricity.
If I eat the peel I leave less garbage, and I could go on and on. I believe being a minimalistic consumer is better for ones health, others health and the whole world’s health, so I want to be one. It is an active choice. I eat, like most of us, at least 3 times a day. As a conscious eater I make a huge impact. Oh, and yes, I try to only eat food! That’s very important to me. I don’t call pesticides, additives and other chemicals food. And I don’t want to support that industry either. To start thinking in these terms is detoxing, and something we recommend everyone to try. It can be tough at first but as you learn you get more aware, and make choices that give you Prana (vitality and energy). There is a whole movement called Conscious Consumerism about this type of detox. Google it and find out more!
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Naturopaths who deeply believe Natural Immunity is still the best, and therefore we work in defense of it.
Since 20+ years we have successfully been consultants in the natural health sector to support individuals and we are in particular working with entrepreneurs and professionals. Our mission is to defend natural health, the only one that really works so far. We mainly but not entirely use Eastern philosophy such as Ayurveda, TCM, Yoga, Thai chi, Falun Gong, and only honest modern science.
Everyone can heal naturally, it's what bodies and (free) minds want. Our O• Method is based on physics, chemistry and biology with emphasis on the first one as the rest often follow naturally. We divide our work in three parts: Body-Mind-Soul. To allow them all to detox and let go we work with energy (Prana, Xi, Vitality, Spirit, Pneuma or whatever you call the life force, it's the same force mentioned in ancient texts) to heal on all levels, i.e. from chronic disease, toxicity, depression and traumas using our own method, reaching 96% success rate which is unheard of by others in our sector. Would you know of anyone with that result, let us know.
Considering that we invented and dumped >120.000 (petro)chemically derived substances since 1945, of which many are very toxic, getting healthy will most likely include a good old body detox sooner or later.
My love for Ayurveda started in 1993 with Deepak Chopra and after a few turns in life I quit my job as a Nordic Brand Manager and BI strategist at the largest Nordic telecom operator and re-schooled in natural medicine. Besides Dr. Chopra I have studied Dr. Lad, Dr. Siva (Pune, India) and other prominent teachers in their field, but the real difference comes with a practiced. I added nutrition, Orthomolecular Medicine with Dr. Nielsen (USA/Spain) and herbalism.
Today we teach those whom want to continue our work and we love to dig down in etymology and the original (mainly Avestan, Pali and Sanskrit) scripts to understand the words fully and I fall in love with the concepts over and over again for every sutra. This love affair that created a few books (Amazon), presentations, essayes and many events and consultations, is still giving us Yang-Yin balance and inspiration. I guess with that we are recognizing the value of Dao De Ching 💚🌿💜
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