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Originally Posted by Klara
So Andy,
Did you get through 10 days?
How did it feel?
And now?
Klara
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So Klara,
Felt so good as I was doing it that I extended the 10 days into 14.
I can sincerely say in fact that I did feel subtle chages take place inside me.
Let me Klarafy lol. I'm aware...how many people become influenced by the need to have something work to the point they fool themselves into believing. Like forming a placebo in their minds. For me, I try and keep it as real as possible. Honesty is the root to inner freedom, not self brainwashing.
I also see in others a sort of rough house effect one can cause themselves.
Too ridgid. Unaware of the subtilties that lie beneath your ego. Ego, not in the negative sense but rather in the realistic sense. Our facades if you will.
I used my fortnight as gently yet typically as possible. As if I were in a two week meditation within my daily routine...or even a mind expanding sort of psychotropic trip. Thats exactly how I tried experiancing it.
First few daze...were composed of getting my regimine together. Getting used to it. Cooking my rice the way that fit me. Tried collecting a routine that fit my daily life in a comfortable way. That took me about three days till I felt like I was on my way comfortably. I think it was closing in on a week when I started experiancing a calm that was most different than my usual which pretty much only comes after I sit (my meditation practice) at night in my med room.
I was getting that all day. I really could tell with all sincerity. Wasn't like a wham bam feeling...like dropping a fistful of acid...lol. It was subtle but definatly there.
OK so now I'm over a week and really digging this whole thing...just over a week I'm feeling "lighter"...inside and out. Like a load was removed. It really wassss interesting. I'm like a dozen days into this now and I deciede to weigh myself because I can see in the mirror within this short time I'm loosing a lot of weight. I dropped fifteen pounds!!! And let me tell you..I was far from starving myself. Three nice sized bowls of br rice a day and three cups of bancha. One cup of dry rice cooked w/2 1/4 cups of spring water.
On the 14th morning I treated myself with some gomazio on the rice...lol. That night...I added some steamed collards and carrots.
Fifteenth day I had peraled Barley w/ shitake shroomers for breakfast. And the rest of last week I did br and veggies and a lil' seaweed. Friday I had Bita come over and give me a cooking class and man can she cook!!! Fantastic way to end that week.
And now?
I'm fully involved again and very happy about it. No desire for any foods that have eyes although never say never about fish but who knows? Hey, I even stopped to buy a big fruit custard pie for my wife Katrina and daughter Jolie to celebrate and no.....I had absolutly no desire to have any.
I've bought some great blue/green antique canning jars offa ebay and they're all loaded with different grains, seeds and nuts displayed on my kitchen counter and let me tell you...."Thats" what I love looking at. It has a warmth about it vs your traditional foods. Something so much more intimate about it. Something that feels like its simply, "just the right thing to do".
I've read and reread a lot of books on MB and I do have to say in all sincerity the biggest, most positive, and influencial book has
been, "You All Are Sanpaku".
The most difficult part I'm finding is understanding the Yin/Yang practice. It can really be confusing if your get serious about it and I don't see how you can't, being that its the backbone if you will of macrobiotic living. Yin/Yang sort of reminds me of paintings by "Estcher" (sp?). Look at it one way and analyze it long enough...it comes out the other way...lol. I need to get a better handle on it but like everything...it'll come in time.
I can go on and on about the subject but sometimes......
Have a great day
Namaste'
andy aka avi dass