Mantak Chia Instagram – 🤔How can you improve your digestion with Taoist practices?
As the festive season approaches, our attentions turn to Christmas dinner 🍴
❗️Here are top 6 Taoist tips to help your digestion:
1️⃣The saying in the Tao is, “You drink your foods and chew your liquids and do it separately”.
In other words, you chew the food to such a point where it is actually a liquid and then you swallow it. Your mouth is your first digestive process. The liquid you take in you should wash around into your mouth and activate the saliva.
As you break down the food you need to chew it slowly and well, which reduces the work for your stomach and your intestines, which eliminates fear that would lead to contraction in your liver and impatience pattern deficiency in your bladder.
2️⃣You should Eat Simply, not too many ingredients, which create harder work for your spleen that governs your digestive process. The Simple Foods will give support by making your digestion easy as well as giving you an inner sense of clarity.
3️⃣Eat Lightly. The art is to stop eating before you are actually full which is the 70% Rule (only eating to 70% of your compacity). If you can do this then you will find you will have much more energy.
4️⃣You should Separate your Foods. This gets into Food Combining, how you mix your starches, proteins and carbohydrates. The key is to eat simply and the more you eat individual foods by themselves the easier it is to digest.
5️⃣When you drink with your meals the water or liquid dilutes the digestive process, which impairs the spleen and its function. It is generally better to limit the intake of a cup of water or tea at meals than to over dilute your digestive juices.
6️⃣Avoid too many cold foods, because cold foods overwhelm the digestive fire and can slow down the digestive process.
☯️Follow these rules and you will live a longer, healthier and happier life!
And remember – burping is good. Just do not do it at the restaurant!
✨If you want to learn this and other Tao practices to improve your digestion, join our Winter Retreat 2024.
The retreat will take place both online 💻and in Tao Garden⛩️
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