Microwave cooking dangers from the view of macrobiotic
What are the dangers of the microwave heating/cooking from the point of macrobiotic theory, the energetic (yin/yang) explanation of the microwave cooking dangers.
Macrobiotics are known for cooking their grains and beans for a long time in the pressure cookers. Usually people are satisfied with 20 minutes cooked rice, but macrobiotic diet suggests to cook the brown rice for 45 minutes and even in the pressure cooker, if you are not using pressure cooker, you should prolong the cooking time to 60-90 minutes. It’s very different to other diets. But it has all its reasons. You should try to view at all aspects of the macrobiotic diet from the energetic point of view, from the yin/yang theory, because the macrobiotic is based on the ancient Taoism teachings.
Heat is considered as the yang aspect. Cold is the opposite - yin. Because the uncooked grains are a little bit yin from the view of the digested energy, the energy that would they give if eaten, we should balance their yin state with a good quality yang energy - and that is the heating. But you can use many kinds of heating styles and techniques and the modern age is bringing you even the new, modern styles. But it seems, that the science is not thinking about the well being of the Humanity at the first place. It seems like the money business overpowers it, especially with the microwave ovens fast spread all over the world. It was a very good selling product, because it will attack the most needed aspects of every man - speed and easiness. People want fast results and very easy use of their tools. This is what microwave cooker does the best. But if you look at the Nature, there’s nothing long term, that is based on these principles. The Nature is supported/based on the quite opposite - patience, slowness, persistence, slow growth. But back to the energetic view over the different heating styles.
The most natural heating energy is achieved by the most natural heating fuel - the wood. It’s providing the best quality - it means balanced - form of the yang heating energy, hence the food will be the most balanced too if heated with the wooden fire. But nearly anybody could practicaly use the wood for cooking of their foods, so we have to choose the best compromises. And the closest heating fuel (again from the energetic view) that we can use in our kitchens in this modern age is the gas.
The electric cooking is completely different style. There’s no flame, the heat is product of the high intensity electric waves - it’s nothing you could find in Nature to cook your food. It’s very unnatural form of heating and it delivers very chaotic energy to your body. Because the high intensity waves are chaotic, they are very yin and the food is missing the yang aspect to be well balanced. And if electric cookers are chaotic and the electric cooking is very yin, consider the microwave cookers - they are much father on the yin scale of cooking. The yin energy is very extreme, there’s no heat used to cook your food, the heating is achieved by completely alien way to us - by very high intensity wave vibrations. It’s so high, that it breaks the atomic structure of the foods - it’s giving total energetic chaos to your foods. And what you eat, is what you become - you will accumulate this chaos to your body, to your thinking. It doesn’t need to show immediately if you are balancing this chaos with another form of energies in your life, but in the long term, it’s making a big impact on you and our bodies are not able to maintain the healthy balance with this style of cooking.
At best, try to cook/heat your foods with the gas cookers or if you are lucky with the wooden fire (maybe in your mountain cottages). If your kitchen has only electric cookers, try to use portable gas cooker, it’s well worth the hassle.
Tags: cooking, energy, Macrobiotic, microwave, yin