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Reset Your Life Holistic nutritionist, Elissa Goodman, has teamed up with M Café to create a meal plan based on Macrobiotics just for you! The 5-day program is geared to RESET your body, mind and metabolism to help you function at your peak. R E S E T stands for Renew, Energize, Support, Empower, and Transform, and reflects the essence of the Macrobiotic “5 Transformations” of Energy: Spring (Renewing), Summer (Energizing), Late Summer (Supporting), Fall (Empowering) and Winter (Transforming). These energetic tendencies resonate throughout all natural cycles, governing our energy levels from day to day and season to season. Macrobiotics is ancient wisdom that helps us to harness the natural flow of energy in our daily lives.
At the moment, we are entering into the heart of Spring. Spring marks a miraculous bursting of energy and carries with it the energy of a tree. Are you free within your own body? Do you feel a connection to Nature? Do you experience your own creativity? Do you feel good about your relationships? Spring is a time where we can grow all the things that feel missing in our lives. We become like the tree, building new life from the depths of the earth, surrounded by a bright sense of renewal and creativity. Spring offers us a fantastic opportunity to detox, heal, and, of course, RESET our lives.
RESET Your Life is rooted in the fundamentals of macrobiotics. The term macrobiotic means “Great Life”, and its philosophy proclaims that your best, most glowing life will be achieved by eating balanced, nourishing foods. What you put in your mouth has a direct impact on your freedom—physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually. The foods you eat can undermine your well-being, causing chronic problems in the body and disease, or they can nurture and uplift you to function at your very best! What you eat impacts your happiness, so it’s important to eat intelligently and lovingly. The RESET Your Life menu is designed to help you do just that. Its format fuses traditional macrobiotic wisdom, including yin /yang philosophy, the Great Life pyramid, and mindful self-care with contemporary nutritional science. Your five day program will teach you the essentials to help you kick sugar, gluten, dairy, and meats as well as increase the amount of greens to help you achieve a balanced well-being. With RESET Your Life you get to eat fresh, rejuvenating foods provided exclusively by M Café, including raw and cooked vegetables, nourishing grains, and easy to assimilate protein, as well as drink an assortment of tasty and vitamin and mineral-packed vegetable juices. You’ll feel energized and cleansed, as well as grounded and nourished. Don’t waste another minute continuing old toxic food patterns— RESET your life today!
*Please consult with your doctor or nutritionist before you start the RESET Your Life With M Cafe program. M Cafe is not responsible for any known food allergies, intolerances or health issues that may arise during the program. If you aren’t sure if you should be cleansing and do not have a nutritionist, you can make an appointment with Elissa before starting the RESET program by calling 323-596-0003 or emailing [email protected]. **Please inform M Café and/or Elissa about any extreme allergies, food intolerances or health concerns PRIOR to beginning the program; additional charges will be applied to any adjustments to the menu. All other minor modifications/substitutions for the RESET menu will be politely declined.
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PICK-UP & DELIVERY INSTRUCTIONS
· Start the RESET Your Life program any day of the week.
· The best pick up times are 8 am-12 pm and 2-7 pm. - Please call at least 30 minutes prior to pick up, to make sure your RESET Your Life day is
ready. - If you are picking up at 8 am, please let the restaurant know by 5 pm the DAY BEFORE.
· M Café offers FREE delivery within a 2-mile radius from both M Café locations.
Please call the café at (323) 525-0588 to schedule your delivery. *Additional fees and delivery time restrictions apply to locations beyond the delivery zone.
· If you have any questions regarding health concerns before, during, and after the RESET Your Life, I am
available to support you at an additional cost. You will find that the individualized attention, support, and troubleshooting one gets from using me as his/her nutritionist makes for an extra effective RESET. Let me be your guide and reap the benefits! Email me at [email protected] or call me at 323.596.0003.
PREPARING FOR RESET Your Life An important pillar of the RESET Your Life program is to teach you how to live with more balance on a daily basis. Most of us are unbalanced. We work too hard, don’t get enough rest, have too much stress in our lives, and don’t take adequate time to really care for ourselves. When we were young, our bodies managed to correct imbalances with incredible ease. But when we continuously to push the limits, ignoring our body’s signals for rest and care, we lose our ability to self regulate. The food we eat translates into energy, and has a profound impact on our internal healing mechanisms. You will learn that Macrobiotic theory defines very clear energy patterns. Before you embark on the RESET Your Life program, I want to make you aware of the “balanced” foods you can enjoy in abundance and the “unbalanced” foods you should consume on a limited basis. As you’ll find later on in this program, this food list is suggested but not required. Each person controls his/her own eating habits and it is their personal awareness that should lead them to discovering their best diet equilibrium. In the meantime, the list below can act as a helpful guideline if you’d like to prepare for the program by eating healthy and energetically balanced foods:
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Enjoy:
· Cold-pressed extra virgin olive oil, and flax, safflower, sesame, almond sunflower, and walnut oil. · Temperate fruits · Nuts · Leafy greens · Ground and root vegetables: squash, pumpkin, zucchini, broccoli, cauliflower, artichoke, beans, peas,
celery, corn, carrot, parsnip, turnips, radish, beetroot, onion, garlic, yam sweet potato. · Sea vegetables: nori, dulse, kelp, wakame, chlorella, spirulina · Non-gluten grains: brown rice, millet, amaranth, tiff, buckwheat, potato flour, quinoa and gluten-free
oats · Seeds · Pickles and natural condiments · Fresh caught fish · Sweeteners: 100% stevia, brown rice syrup, amasake and barley syrup (barley syrup isn’t
recommended during the RESET, because it’s not gluten-free)
Limit:
· Processed foods · Alcohol, coffee, sodas · White and brown sugar, high-fructose corn syrup, and evaporated cane juice · Tropical fruits · Cheese, dairy, butter, and mayonnaise · Shortening, processed oils, commercial salad dressings · Nightshade vegetables: tomato, potato, peppers, and eggplant* · Gluten grains: wheat, barley, spelt, kamut, rye, and most oats** · Shellfish and frozen fish · Salty and hard cheeses · Eggs and poultry · Pork, beef, veal, lamb, sausage, cold cuts, canned meats · Peanuts and peanut butter
*Nightshade vegetables have a very yin effect on the body and contain a substance that can damage nerve function. For most people, eating nightshades is fine, but for RESET Your Life, limit your consumption preceding the program.**Oats are a naturally gluten-free cereal grain. However, due to storage and transport issues, most oats contain gluten contamination. Unless the oats you buy specify “gluten-free”, you should avoid them.
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A FEW MORE HELPFUL TIPS Here are my tips for truly thriving and enjoying this RESET Your Life program:
Join in my online community! There you will find additional information and support. When you Like my Facebook page (www.fb.com/elissa.goodman.holistic.nutritionist) and subscribe to my blog (http://articles.elissagoodman.com/) you can stay up to date with tips, recipes, and new health-related findings!
Add a strong probiotic to your supplement regime. My favorites are Garden of Life RAW Colon Care and Dr. Ohhira’s Professional Formula. Every day, but especially during a cleanse or detox program, it is crucial to make sure your gut is in good health. This is the core of all health, digestion and nutrient absorption. Probiotics clean out bad bacteria and bring in good strains of bacteria, which is necessary to be able to treat and prevent disease as well as allowing your system to properly and efficiently release toxins. Take one capsule first thing in the AM on an empty stomach.
Take a few moments each day and brush your body with a natural-bristle dry body brush. Dry brushing removes dead skin, allowing your skin to breath fresh oxygen into the tissues and encourages your lymphatic system to push out waste. It also brushes away lactic acid, improves circulation, targets and diminishes cellulite and will leave you feeling fresh and energized.
Don’t forget to get at least 8 hrs. of sleep during you RESET Your Life. Try not to take on stressful activities during your cleanse. If you need to, pick up a journal to write down your feelings and thoughts while on your cleanse. In can be a helpful tool to self-discovery and better health.
Drink water when you feel thirsty. It’s important to hydrate, so when you get a signal to quench your thirst, do so. On the other hand, drinking too much water will upset your digestion, so wait to you feel like you need to drink water, rather than arbitrarily hydrating all day.
On top of drinking water, drink Detox Tea throughout the day, which helps promote digestion, clear the liver and stimulate bile secretion. It also acts to reinforce your organs while detoxing, especially the liver and kidney.
Take some time to relax in a detox bath. Run the water as hot as you can stand it and mix in one cup of Epsom salts, one cup apple cider vinegar and essential oils of choice (I love lavender). Sit and soak for at least 20 minutes. This process helps draw toxins out of your body and is a great way to boost the detoxification process. Use this time to clear your mind, release any stress and cleanse your skin & body.
Make sure to take advantage of your FREE infared session & discount to go for a sweat at least once this week. Infrared saunas are the perfect accompaniment to cleansing. This energy is a special kind of heat that penetrates beyond the skin and into your fat to heat it from within. In order to cool you down, your body then produces sweat. The combination of your body heating while it tries to cool burns energy and calories, but most importantly pushes toxins out of your skin. Infrared sweating removes the build-up of heavy metals, corrects metabolic imbalances, aids in digestion, and decreases the toxins in our fat, which makes it easier to lose weight. The quickest way for toxins to leave the body is through sweat- it can effectively eliminate 30% of all the toxins built-up in our body. My favorite LA place to sweat is The Shape House, a highly advanced sweat house offering an exclusive discount just for RESET clients. www.shapehousela.com
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PREPARING TO TRANSITION OFF OF RESET Your Life
Five days on the RESET Your Life program fly by quickly! The food is so enjoyable and nourishing, you may even choose to do RESET Your Life again right away. For those of you who’d rather choose your own meals than have a pre-set designed meal plan, you will be able to incorporate the nutritional and macrobiotic principles of RESET Your Life. Refer to the list of Yin and Yang foods on Day One, and to “Your Great Life Pyramid” on Day Four. You should also reacquaint yourself with the principles discussed throughout the program.
The goal of RESET Your Life is for your eating to become intuitive. Just like you don’t ask your mom if you can go to parties anymore, you don’t want to have to ask what foods you can eat and what foods you can’t. Your eating should reflect your personal needs as understood by YOU! That said, when you decide to incorporate foods that are very yang or very yin, do so SLOWLY. If you haven’t spent much time listening to your body’s messages, and most of us haven’t, these extreme foods can cloud the signal and you won’t be able to respond to your body’s true needs. Whatever you eat, make sure it’s organic, fresh, and non-processed. You deserve that much goodness. If you follow these guidelines post-RESET Your Life as much as possible, you’ll do wonders for yourself and establish real habits that bring about long-lasting health, beauty, and wellness. Happiness and health! Elissa
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DAY 1 DAY 2 DAY 3 DAY 4 DAY 5 8 AM
Super Green Tea 8 AM
Kukicha Tea 8 AM
Super Green Tea
8 AM
Kukicha Tea 8 AM
Super Green Tea
10 AM
Detox Juice w/ Chia Boost (kale, spinach, celery, ginger, lemon, cilantro)
10 AM
Lotus Lift w/ Chia Boost (lotus, celery cucumber, romaine, lemon, parsley)
10 AM
Bloodroot Tonic w/ Chia Boost (apples, beets, carrots, ginger)
10 AM
Lotus Lift w/ Chia Boost (lotus, celery, cucumber, romaine, lemon, parsley)
10 AM
Detox Juice w/ Chia Boost (kale, spinach, celery, ginger, lemon, cilantro)
12 PM
Raw Kale Salad w/ Avocado & Quinoa w/ Lemon Dressing (kale, carrot, green apple, parsley, dried cranberries, pumpkin seeds, flax seed, sea salt, avocado, quinoa)
12 PM
Spring Seaweed Salad w/ Rainbow Roll (wakame, kelp noodle, hijiki with daikon, celery, napa cabbage with toasted sesame dressing & almond sushi “rice” with assorted veggies)
12 PM
M Chopped Salad (greens, avocado, cucumber, chickpeas, scallions, umeboshi pickled radishes, carrots, beets, tamari-roasted almonds, crumbled tempeh bacon and lemon vinaigrette dressing)
12 PM
Spring Seaweed Salad w/ Rainbow Roll (wakame, kelp noodle, hijiki with daikon, celery, napa cabbage with toasted sesame dressing & almond sushi “rice” with assorted veggies)
12 PM
Raw Kale Salad w/ Avocado & Quinoa w/ Lemon Dressing (kale, carrot, green apple, parsley, dried cranberries, pumpkin seeds, flax seed, sea salt, avocado, quinoa)
2 PM
Refresh Juice (cucumber, pineapple, lemon)
2 PM
Kinpira Kick (burdock root, carrot, ginger)
2 PM
Green Day (kale, parsley, cucumber, celery w/ lemon)
2 PM
Kinpira Kick (burdock root, carrot, ginger)
2 PM
Refresh Juice (cucumber, pineapple, lemon)
5 PM
Classic Miracle Bowl w/ Salmon or Tofu (spicy yuzu-miso broth with baby bok choy, shiitake mushrooms, carrot, wakame, shiso leaf, daikon sprouts & scallion)
5 PM
Tuscan Bean & Kale Soup w/ Broccolini Pepperoncini (cannellini beans, onion, celery, carrot, garlic, rosemary, veggie stock, olive oil, kale, almond flaxseed sprinkle/ broccolini, olive oil, garlic, red chili flakes, sea salt)
5 PM
Kale Ohitashii Salad w/ Quinoa & Teriyaki Tempeh or Salmon (steamed kale with braised shiitake mushrooms and ponzu dressing)
5 PM
Gado-Gado w/ Tempeh Salad (baked tempeh, cucumber, carrot, bean sprouts, red onion, cilantro, roasted peanuts & frizzled onions over mixed baby greens with crisp hearts of romaine with spicy peanut dressing)
5 PM
Chickpea & Dandelion Salad w/ Carrot-Ginger Soup (no soy butter) (chickpeas, red Bhutanese rice, fresh dandelion leaves with tahini-lemon dressing & carrot, celery, onion, ginger, garlic, veggie stock, fennel seed, salt, white miso, rice syrup)
7 PM House-made Almond Milk (almonds, water, sea salt, vanilla extract, cinnamon, nutmeg)
7 PM House-made Almond Milk (almonds, water, sea salt, vanilla extract, cinnamon, nutmeg)
7 PM House-made Almond Milk (almonds, water, sea salt, vanilla extract, cinnamon, nutmeg)
7 PM House-made Almond Milk (almonds, water, sea salt, vanilla extract, cinnamon, nutmeg)
7 PM House-made Almond Milk (almonds, water, sea salt, vanilla extract, cinnamon, nutmeg)
*Menu items subject to change*
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Day 1 -Your Great Life Pyramid
For the beginning macrobiotic practitioner, Michio Kushi, the grandfather of traditional macrobiotics, codified dietary recommendations in a chart now called The Great Life Pyramid. The Great Life Pyramid suggests that 40-60% of a person’s daily diet should consist of whole grains, 20-30% should consist of cooked and raw vegetables, and 5-10% should consist of beans and sea vegetables. Miso, fermented condiments, and soy sauces should be used sparingly throughout the day. Fish, fruits, seeds, nuts, can be eaten on a weekly, occasional basis. And dairy, egg, poultry, and red meat can be consumed monthly and should be considered an infrequent menu item.
Michio Kushi designed that menu to reflect the energetic needs of people in temperate climates. Temperate climates experience all four seasons equally. Los Angeles, though it lies within the Temperate zone, actually exhibits characteristics more similar to semi-arid subtropical climates. For southern California, a slightly yang climate, the Great Life Pyramid doesn’t truly reflect our dietary needs.
In Los Angeles, to balance our mostly warm, yang environment, a person’s diet should include more greens than grains. Greens fall into the “slightly-yin” category, so they can help hot climate dwellers cool off mildly without jumping into the yin deep end! Furthermore, dark green foods are the key to vibrant health. They heal wounds, promote intestinal regularity, deodorize the body, and create shiny, glossy hair and skin. They increase endurance and stamina, lift and balance mood, and reduce stress. They even detox the body at a cellular level, leaving you feeling fresh and happy. If you wanted to quantify it, a contemporary diet would include: 35% dark greens, 20% other vegetables, 20% grains, and 15% variety of proteins. Putting greens first will promote detoxification and body alkalinity. Rounding that out with other vegetables, such as ground and root vegetables, a light amount of grains, and a variety of vegetarian or animal proteins, ensures that your body receives the other nutrients it requires. Because eggs, fish, and grass-fed meat deliver important omegas and B vitamins, should you choose to include them in your diet 1-2 times a week, you can enjoy them without encountering imbalance. Michio Kushi said, “Man can eat anything.” He didn’t expect anyone to strictly adhere to The Great Life Pyramid. Rather, he intended each individual to find personal balance. Something we could call, Your Great Life Pyramid!
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Day 2 - Yin and Yang
The yin-yang symbol represents how seemingly contrary forces are interconnected and interdependent in the natural world. In macrobiotic nutrition, harmony and balance between these two tendencies is the objective. With food, every food has its own distinct energy and can fall into a yin, yang, or balanced group. By determining if a food is yin or yang, we can know how that food will affect out bodies and learn to balance our diet for optimal health, energy and beauty.
Foods that fall into the balanced category include natural sweeteners, good fats and oils, temperate fruits, nuts, leafy green vegetables, ground and root vegetables, sea vegetables, whole grains, seeds, fermented foods, miso, and fish. Eating foods within the balanced realm ensures energetic and physical health. Balanced foods also have yin or yang tendencies, but eating a variety of the foods will create an energetic stabilization.
Foods that fall into the high yin category include packaged/processed foods, refined sugars, alcohols,
chemicals, medications, soft cheeses and dairy, tropical fruits, and nightshade vegetables. It’s best to avoid very yin foods. Yin represents loose, expanding energy, and foods with too much yin will not make you very relaxed, but actually very weak and disconnected.
Foods that fall into the high yang category include steroids, barbiturates, refined salt, pork, red meat,
eggs, and salty and hard cheese. A diet high in very yang foods will encourage tightening, constriction, and aches in the body- especially in the blood vessels. Ever heard of a heart attack from too much meat? It’s the blood vessels constricting from too much yang foods. For your best health, limit high yang foods in the diet.
From a contemporary nutritional perspective, you’ll want to avoid eating foods from the heavy yin/yang categories for more than philosophical reasons. Our goal in this diet plan is to restore our ability feel and look great. High yin and high yang foods acidify the body and inhibit efficient digestion. We’ll cover the deep importance of alkalinity and digestion to personal health over the next two days. For now, it’s important to know that an acidic body with poor digestion impairs our ability to manifest our best selves, and you deserve to feel great! So even if you at first felt perplexed by the yin/yang theory, by now you can see that eating according to balanced yin and yang principals will not only energetically stabilize you, it will also propel you into a healthier, more vibrant, gorgeous way of living.
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Day 3 - Digestion and Digestive Health
You can have the best body, the healthiest immunity, and the happiest feelings of well being when you simply take care of your digestive health.
When you eat an apple, say, or a salad, your digestive system breaks down the food to extract vitamins and minerals. This is the digestive process of nourishing your cells. However, you also need your digestive system to remove the unused food materials - the waste.
Chronically disrupted digestion keeps waste in the body. The modern adage is waste=weight, and any stale material in the body will not only lead to weight gain, but also to skin deterioration, and a wide range of diseases including diabetes, obesity, arthritis, autism disorder, depression, and chronic fatigue syndrome. Most people live with severely impaired digestion. Diets high in refined carbohydrates, sugar, processed foods, and low in fermentable fibers contribute to the depletion of healthy gut bacteria. Chronic stress keeps us from chewing our food properly and wreaks havoc on any internal life. And antibiotics kill all bacteria in the body, including the friendly bugs.
Though common, a week digestive system isn’t desirable. Especially because a strong digestive system brightens the skin, restores energy, sheds weight easily, and guards against sickness and infection. Sound better? To restore our digestive health, we need to eat proper foods, cultivate a healthy mindset, and take care of our gut bacteria. Eating well means drinking enough water and limiting harmful foods like carbohydrates and processed meats. Hydration assists your body in passing material from the body and processed foods don’t digest well for anybody! When your digestive system gets back on track, you’ll feel lighter, more peaceful, and more resilient.
A corner stone of Reset Your Life is restoring digestive health. The menu contains only balanced yin and yang foods that create energetic equilibrium in the body. The more balanced foods you eat, the less you crave foods at either yin or yang extreme that impair your digestive health. Additionally, the juices on the menu provide deep hydration to every part of your body, but especially your intestines. Say goodbye to digestive stupor! And the miso soup on the menu strengthens your constitution while delivering healthy microflora to your intestines. Bacteria in the gut can easily deplete, so it’s important to regularly eat fermented foods, like miso.
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Day 4: Kicking Sugar, Gluten, Dairy, and Meat
Eating meals that contain sugar, gluten, dairy, and meat infrequently and in small amounts won’t hurt the system in a significantly terrible way. In high amounts, however, these foods wreck health. They are the most addictive foods and the hardest to kick. Here’s the low-down on our “favorite” culprits: Sugar: What’s so bad about the sweet stuff? White sugar alters gene expression, promotes inflammation, leaches minerals, drastically ages the skin, and promotes weight gain around the abdomen. Even “natural sugars” like brown sugar, organic raw cane sugar, palm sugar, maple syrup, agave, and honey ravage the body and create yin imbalances. So, to manifest your best health, it’s time to go sugar-free. Gluten: Recent studies show that over the past 50 years, gluten sensitivity has increased by 400%. Most people have gluten sensitivity and it often manifests itself as bloating, constipation or diarrhea, migraines, and fatigue. Gluten can negatively affect even your brain and nervous system. Gluten sensitivity is cumulative: the more we eat of it, the more it hurts our health. Though gluten grains might be fine in moderation, it’s important to limit them in your diet so they don’t create greater problems for you down the road. M Café is dedicated to keeping you healthy so make sure you choose the following gluten free items: brown rice tortilla, kelp noodles, quinoa, brown rice and specified desserts. Dairy: Milk creates mucus in the body, inhibits digestion, and creates stubborn weight. Think you need milk to combat osteoporosis? Neither China nor Japan has ever used dairy food in their diets, and they experience very little osteoporosis. Additionally, obesity in those regions is a downright rarity! A small amount of dairy can be compatible with a healthy diet, but consumption in the U.S. is enormous and way beyond what is optimally healthy. Today, there are so many yummy organic dairy free alternatives that will quench your thirst like almond, cashew, hemp, rice, coconut and soy. Meat: Eating small amounts (6 oz. or less) of organic, grass fed, free-range meats can provide B vitamins, omegas, zinc, iron nutrients that your body needs but doesn’t produce on its own. Also, moderate amounts of lean* animal protein can work equally well in lowering LDL and keeping type 2 diabetes risk factors in check. All of these foods can certainly exist as part of a healthy diet. For instance, in the case of Inuit peoples eating a diet high in meat gives them the necessary yang energy to maintain themselves in an extremely cold, yin climate. It’s important to let your intuition guide you, and to listen to what your body really needs. More often than not, if you listen closely, you’ll hear your body shying away from these extreme foods. Your “Great Life” awaits you; don’t let health damaging foods obstruct you any longer! * Lean cuts of animal protein = 3.5 oz. serving should contain less than 10 grams total fat, 4.5 grams saturated fat and 95 milligrams cholesterol
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Day 5 - Positive Self-Care
We’ve reset our diets and the ways in which we choose what food goes into those diets. Now, it’s time to hit the reset button on the way we take care of ourselves. Positive self-care is an important tenet in the macrobiotic way of life. Like the diet and food philosophy, positive self-care restores the spring in your step and the heartiness of your physical, mental, and spiritual being. Macrobiotic positive self-care suggests spending generous amounts of time outdoors. This is meant to ground and restore you. From a contemporary nutritional perspective, the outdoors re-alkalizes the body, encourages cellular detox, and restores chemical balance in the brain. Regular exercise, such as light jogging, yoga, martial arts, and dance, is also important to the macrobiotic view of positive self-care. Exercise will flush toxins out of the body, cleanse the blood, and keep your muscles strong and beautiful. So get outside, enjoy the greenery, and get moving! “Reset-ing” your physical body is enhanced by “reset-ing” your living space. A cluttered, disorganized living space creates a cluttered, disorganized mind, heart, and emotional space. To create a healthy, more peaceful environment, organize and clean your home, office, and car. Putting these important areas in order will energetically benefit you more simple diet alone. Use indoor plants to improve air quality and feelings of bounty and peace. Open up your house daily to fresh air, and keep windows open unless the temperature is too hot or cold. Make your home a revitalizing sanctuary.
Lastly, relaxation is one of the most important things we can do for ourselves. One of the favorite macrobiotic ways to relax is to stimulate the body with a hot towel scrub. To do it, fill your bathroom sink with hot water- as hot as you can get it- and add a few drops of calming essential oil, like lavender. Wet and wring out a clean wash-cloth and, with the towel hot and steamy, begin to scrub your skin gently. Scrub one section of your body at a time, gently, until the skin becomes slightly pink and each part is warm. Reheat the towel often by dipping it in the sink as soon as it begins to cool. This tremendously calming technique will bliss you out and stimulate your lymphatic system to push out waste, remove dead skin, oxygenate the body, and reduce cellulite.
When your life is peaceful, practical, and mindful, overall health will greatly improve. Exercise increases circulation and detoxing. Arranging your external environment to reflect your inner state of health assists in sustaining your new life changes. Muscularly and cerebrally unwinding aids both digestion and mental well-being. Nothing wrecks our internal balance, creates unhappiness, and encourages premature degeneration like stress, so we need to learn and implement proper relaxation techniques.