Important and less important macrobiotic mistakes
Mistakes that do happen to many practicing macrobiotic people around us
Satisfaction of the sweet taste by using of simple refined sugar or honey or excessive quantity of malts. Usually it’s enough to not oversalt and maximally restrict the consumption of bread (it’s oversalt and the flour does harm too). To this belongs also the art of making sweet vegetables really sweet and to consume daily not more than 1-2 teaspoons of barley or rice malt with the tea. Also the patience to chew well. It will come alone with a little of persistence.
Very common mistake is lack of discipline in the fruit consumption. Relatively good eating macrobiotic will be ok with 3 apples (fruits) per week.
Everyday sweet gruels for breakfast are not only mistake, but they slowly lead to the incapability to recognize what’s right and what’s wrong and to inability to remain with macrobiotic or to do it harmonically.
After some time, as the worst consequence will arise some of these obstacles of the successful growth:
- the need for risky excessive consumption of salty umeboshi plums or umepasta
- aversion to follow-up successful macrobiotic practice even if the healing process was started and verified
- and also seeking of some new ways (each time with failure)
Very risky is distraction from macrobiotic in the case, when you were bring to macrobiotic because of some serious illness. Because it will always come back after leaving macrobiotic and while consuming ordinary (or even for example vegetarian) diet.
It’s usually forgotten, that so called macrobiotic desserts, that are either baked or from flour or with creams or with accumulated condiments, are very unsuitable even if there’s used no sugar in them.
It’s also forgotten, that every oil, even the best prepared sesame oil, is concentrate. With very expansive (yin) energy. Hence it’s in the macrobiotic, especially in its healing variant, used moderately.
And finally: it’s often forgotten on the most suitable form of the raw vegetables. Pressed salads. They are not present in some cookbooks at all or are undervalued.
Useless death of these, that diverted with serious illness from macrobiotic because they started to feel better. Because it doesn’t mean yet, they are totally healed.
The food alone will help very much, but the most effect will bring the proper breathing, sufficiency of physical movement (at least walking) - and if we have desire and ability to keep learning.
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