Cybermacro - Macrobiotics + Macrobiotic Food

June 5th is World Environment Day and so I celebrate it here by renewing my commitment to cleaning up my own act as a prelude to being of greater service to the planet. I began this blog as a leap of faith so that I could record my journey of healing from bipolar disorder. Manic depression, as bipolar illness used to be called, is considered incurable but treatable. In truth, conventional medicine does not even really control my symtoms. I still have severe depressions where all seems hopeless, as well as horrifying manias where my mind is lost somewhere in hyperspace.

Don't get me wrong. I still take medications and am very grateful for the help they provide. They do lessen some symptoms and I would be far, far worse without them. In truth, I am blessed that medications and modern psychiatry do not make me fully functional because I doubt if I would have searched and found macrobiotics if that had been the case. Undoubtedly I would have had some other life-threatening illness if I were stabilized on medications and had still continued my insane food consumption.

Macrobiotic practice has given me a whole new way of viewing the world situation. On this World Environment Day, I realize that the meat and sweets diet of most Americans is in part responsible for destroying Mother Earth. Why? Well, such a diet is highly energy and resource-intensive, as Michio Kushi and other macro-sages have said. By consuming a whole foods, plant-based diet we are helping Planet Earth in many ways, including by reducing our carbon footprint.

Most people would not find that reason enough to radically embrace a macrobiotic practice. Saving the Earth Body may not be motivating enough, but saving one's own temporal body may be just the wake-up call needed for a macro-change. It is one thing to consider the dense cloud of coal-fired pollutants fouling the skies of Chinese cities continents away, but it is quite another to realize that years of eating dense animal foods and sugar have made for a perfect acidic environment to grow cancer--and grow it has. Such are the stark realities many face.

For today, I desire to once again commit to write of my healing here. For quite some time, healing has seemed impossible, or at least very unlikely. That is why I've not blogged much in months past. The truth is, if I don't believe I can heal, then it is unlikely that I will because it takes effort and desire fired by steely resolve. I know that. As success guru Napoleon Hill said, "whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, the mind of man can achieve."

I conceived of a macro-healing. Now I must work on believing in that vision. In this case, blogging is believing. I can indeed write my way to a right mind, achieved by surrendering to a Power greater than myself: the Order of the Universe. It is the same Lawgiver who conceived the laws governing both humans and the Earth Body. On this, World Environment Day, I repeat, "the Earth is the LORD's and the fullness thereof!" I pray it be so always--and that I act accordingly, as well as eat macrobiotically--for the healing of the Planet Earth as well as myself.

MacroPeace on Earth,

Caroline V. Ritter