[Klara]

Lulu,

Super important question - and I feel like a heel that I don't know!!!!

This is a lifelong search for getting in touch with our intuition, and improving on it always. I sense you are very uncomfortable doing what your counselor advises, so I would guess that is your intuition. Such a balancing act, if we are not ready to take on what others advise, what to do????

I resisted for the very longest time re not using oil in my cooking. I can't remember why I accepted it, but it was after many classes with this wonderful counselor that comes to visit us every few months. I feel things take me a long time, and now her latest advise to someone else in our group, that people need to realize change does take time and it isn't good to change fast.

Otoh, those who have a serious condition? I would think would want to try changing, but I'm not in your shoes and can't answer what is comfortable for you.

We just had Jessica Porter of The Hip Chick's Guide to Macrobiotics fame on the chat here this week. Throughout her book she talks about her adventure in experimenting things for herself - the good and the bad. And she highly advises all to try to find out for themselves also. At the end of each of the chapters she has a section called "Exercising Your Inner Compass."

We all go at different speeds and when someone is suffering it must be very difficult to try to balance what you feel inside with new information from someone else.

And just to make it more confusing for you (sorry) please be aware, that however you've been eating/living is what got you to your condition, so trying something new might help.

Whether it will harm? I don't know. and how long to give it? I don't know. There are so many personal factors involved, how deep and how long you have had your condition, and how many other areas are helping you besides food (lifestyle and mental, spiritual).

And the biggest obstacle to health, in my opinion, is fear, but how to get rid of it, I don't know.

I got a feeling I may have muddled it up for you, but again, if you feel a good connection with your counselor, go and talk to him about all these things. Again, in my opinion, once a counselor does a consultation, it shouldn't stop there. That's my opinion. Sure hope it's your counselor's too.

Klara