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Re: Macrobiotics & Managing Stress
Macro Girl
I feel painful empathy with your described scenario. The business world seems to be glued together by stress. Business is for "making" money. Money is supposed to be a medium for the exchange of values. "My best time and effort for yours". This should be as holly an exchange as making love. This does not seem to be the rule, but more like a rare and allusive exception.
Your intuition about your situation is to be applauded. It is a sign of your connecting more to your own yang. Our culture is losing its yang, because people are losing their own core yang. The yang is on the outside now as expressed with BIG buildings, cars, houses and debt,etc., as opposed to being on the inside, in each of our own cores, as would be expressed by integrity, honor, honesty and respect,etc.
Money in the form of paper "promises to pay" notes have become a yangless end in themselves, rather than a means to an end, and reflection of substantial value. The yin and yang have become dis-integrated. This is the realm of sickness and disease. People generally seem to pursue money pathologically in order to compensate for the inherent yang missing at their own core. This makes relating to certain others difficult if not dangerous, without losing one's own best self. Your own growing intuition as fortified by this food could be your own best defense and salvation. It is a joy to witness your discovery!
I normally have a free flowing humor and agree with Andy that humor is great medicine.
The subject of money however taxes it, for me, to the point of depletion. There is little that is funny about the undermining of values that reach into the deepest center of our own cores. Makes life far less than the celebration it should be.
Two blonds (Scandinavian gentlemen) walked into the Federal Reserve Bank building while talking. One could expect that a least one of them would have seen it!
Good job
Manymoons
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