Nutrition is more than just about eating the right kind of foods. It’s about providing nourishment for the body and expanding consciousness. Nourishing the body is referred to as supporting the mountain. Traditional Chinese Medicine has known this for centuries.
Food and medication are synonymous in traditional Chinese medicine. Food should be taken not just for its taste, but also for its nutritional and medicinal value. Food in TCM boils down to the primary concept of emptying dampness.
Nutrition is emphasized heavily in traditional Chinese medicine and eating. A well-balanced diet, according to Oriental medicine, is one of the pillars that supports a healthy existence, in addition to the well-known phrase, “you are what you eat.”
Proper nutrition is essential for good health and living a full life, and it is a key part of Oriental Medicine (OM), despite the fact that it is commonly overlooked. Food’s primary job is to nourish the body and maintain health and energy. It’s a type of preventative medication. The vast majority of today’s illnesses are chronic and easily preventable. Approximately 75% of healthcare spending is spent on treating preventable illnesses, while approximately 12% of the adult population in the United States has chronic health problems. When it comes to promoting well-being or correcting body disharmonies, proper nutrition in the form of a lifestyle diet should be vital.
What is considered an imbalanced diet in Chinese medicine differs from what is considered an unbalanced diet in the West. People can modify their lifestyle with the advice of a TCM Holistic medicine doctor specialist and a nutritionist to include a range of foods, flavors, and herbs that will help them maintain optimal health. According to the Chinese diet concept, food options should be expanded to include all accessible sources of nutrients.
I want to share with you how intelligent the human frame is. I want to give you a different perspective of who you really are.
If the total transformation of the being is our aim, the transformation of the body must be apart of it, without that no full divine life on earth is possible. -Sri Aurobindo
Nutritional therapy treatments like IV therapy, and vitamin B12 injections are effective at treating common ailments based on an OM diagnosis, such as qi deficit or blood insufficiency, but it is not always enough. This is common in diagnoses such as Qi stagnation or blood stasis. Nutritional therapy, on the other hand, may be a beneficial supplementary therapy when paired with other OM treatments such as acupuncture or traditional Chinese medicine doctor-prescribed herbal formulas. The nutritional concepts discussed in this discussion can be applied to any lifestyle. Let me take you down a different way of looking at our human frame.
The consciousness within the human body is the space between the cells of the body and the space within the space is consciousness. If the body is functioning properly, it will know and produce the correct digestive enzymes in the correct amounts.
The body produces a protein, known as antibodies to fight against exogenous pathogenic factors that have invaded the body. The immune system automatically produces an army of cells to fight antigens that are in the body. This organized intelligence is the foundation of our daily existence. When we are in tune and listening to the rhythm of our own body and doing what the body tells us, our chance of becoming sick would be very small.
When we are conscious of our own bodies and our body’s needs, we shop and eat as healthily as possible. However, when we crave foods or drinks that are considered unhealthy, that can indicate there’s an emotional or mental issue that requires attention.
The quality of our physical vehicle plays an important role in the quality of our life. The quality of our life is more important than the length of our life. We take this seriously at ChiC Wellness.
Let’s look at this from a different perspective. If you purchased a high-performing car, would you put cheap fuel and low-quality oil into that car?
People with high-performance cars will never put cheap fuel into their vehicles. If you want to have your body perform like a high-performance vehicle throughout the course of your life then why would you put cheap food, fast food, and foods loaded with chemicals and other junk in your body?
If you want both qualities of life and length of life then it is imperative to only ingest high-performance food. Artificially preserved, contain chemicals, are genetically modified, irradiated, microwaved, canned, sprayed, or altered from its natural fresh state.
These foods put stress on your body’s system. Everything you put into your body and on your body affects your physical cells and the emotional and mental realms. Any health coach or wellness coach would agree that we must become aware of all the responsibilities in all aspects of our life. They would also agree that we must seek a natural approach to balancing our body’s system. That approach requires us to reevaluate our food intake and our daily routine.
These foods put stress on your body’s system. Everything you put into your body and on your body affects your physical cells and the emotional and mental realms. Any health coach or wellness coach would agree that we must become aware of all the responsibilities in all aspects of our life. The would also agree that we must seek natural approach to balancing our body’s system. That approach requires us to reevaluate our food intake and our daily routine.
Are you living on a conscious level?
Your food choices indicate your consciousness level. Consciousness is not the same as how intelligent someone is. A person can be very academically advanced but unaware of how food or drinks affect the physical body. When we consciously take care of our body we 10x the complementary care like acupuncture therapy and touch therapy when used in conjunction with contemporary health practices.
Strive to find your center, your inner flow of frequencies that pave the way to your higher self. Consume foods that resonate with your internal flow, and you will simultaneously accomplish your physical goals.
ChiC Wellness Lifestyle Concierge is a collaboration of health care practitioners dedicated to integrating the highest standard of conventional, complementary, and alternative medicine, nurturing intrinsic healing in the whole person, body, mind, and spirit. It is our mission to serve, empower and partner with our patients and our community on the path to wellness, transformation, and wholeness.
We will serve as a model for the new paradigm of patient-centered health care dedicated to furthering evidenced based research and education in Integrative Medicine.
Dr. Antonika Chanel is a board certified Chinese medicine doctor. She has traveled the world speaking on the topic of Chinese medicine and lifestyle. Her mission and vision is to advance high performing individuals into high functioning beings using TCM by developing a tailor-made lifestyle that up levels your commitment to optimal health restoring optimal health, preventing chronic illness and undiagnosed health patterns, while developing transformative paradigm shifts in wellness.
