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Re: What to eat when you are going away????
Veebee and Bruce,
Ilanit's article is excellent - may be not all applies, but there's a lot of good suggestions that can be applied. I especially loved the comment about the sushi rolls stimulating discussions with others - I find that's true with all the mb food and I really do love sharing the knowledge with others - just seems to me those doing meditation might be open to it.
Also Ilanit writes about doing other kinds of exercises along with the meditation.
What hasn't been mentioned yet, and you veebee kind of refer to it, if one does end up eating foods not the best, you still have the choice, one, to chew it very very well, and two, the amount you take in. (and you could scrape off the sauce off the fish and perhaps ask for parsley or lemon or both) You do NOT have to eat alot - I'm sure there's a quote somewhere that eating "bad" foods in small amounts is better than eating large amounts of "good" foods, quantity does affect quality. (that doesn't mean you'd eat alot of good food, just it's still possible to get something even out of bad food)
Veebee, the whole yin/yang concept takes time and experience. I like to describe myself not as mb but as practicing mb - forever practicing. otoh, some say everyone is mb, that the universe has laws of balance, and whether people know it or not they are always aiming for balance, tho sometimes with extremes and sometimes it's disease that comes in to assist.
So, I've been practicing for 13 years, come this May - and I truly can't remember if at the beginning yin/yang was a concept that was introduced - perhaps it was and it just went right over me - it's taken alot of time, experience and repetition of ideas from many sources to get an idea and there's still much much to learn. If it helps, think in other terms, like yin is light, expansive, airy - things like that, yang is concentrated, heavy, contractive - then when you see charts in books see how that fits.
Anyway, it's truly not the most crucial element I feel for beginners - it comes with the eating and the learning - just keep at it and it will come.
Klara
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