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Self Healing Australia
Autumn Newsletter 2010

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Autumn Foods & Cooking Styles

Autumn is the season in which you can often feel a little depressed, lethargic, and indecisive.

The ancient Chinese discovered that autumn relates to the lungs and large intestine. You can regulate the intestines, tone the lungs, cleanse the blood, and increase stamina by emphasising the following foods in your diet during the season:

Brown rice, miso, lentils,tofu, tempeh, sturdy greens & root vegetables, varied seaweed vegetables, cooked seasonal fruits, ginger, onions, and garlic.

As the lungs and large intestine are nourished, you’ll notice that your thinking becomes clearer, you have more energy, and feel more optimistic.

Autumn Cooking Styles

With the seasonal change from late summer to autumn, we tend towards heartier and richer dishes. A little more sea salt and oil, which warms the body, is used, along with fewer raw foods. Salads are lightly boiled, and vegetables are cut into larger chunks for longer cooking.

Rice, which is harvested around this time, is the most suitable grain. Stews, deep-fried vegetables, soups, and longer sauteeing dishes are all ideal ways to get in tune with the season.

If you're living in the northern hemisphere, Spring foods and cooking styles are available free online in the
Macrobiotic Handbook for All Seasons.
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Millet Pancakes with Tofu Cream Dressing
  • 2 cups millet
  • 1 medium cauliflower, broken into 4 cups of small flowerets
  • 1 medium onion chopped
  • 5 cups water
  • 1/4 teaspoon sea salt
  • light or dark sesame oil for oiling baking pan

Tofu cream dressing

  • 250g tofu
  • 1 umeboshiplum, pitted
  • pinch sea salt
  • 1 tablespoon olive oil
  • 6-8 tablespoons water
  • 1 teaspoon rice vinegar

 

Bring millet, cauliflowerets, onion, water, and sea salt to boil in a medium-sized saucepan.

Lower heat, cover, and simmer for 30 minutes.

While millet is simmering, prepare tofu cream dressing.

Boil tofu for 1 minute, drain, and place in blender with remaining dressing ingredients. Puree until creamy. Refrigerate.

Puree cooked millet mixture in a food mill placed over a large mixing bowl.

Form millet mixture into patties using about 2 tablespoons of mixture for each.

Pan fry pancakes until light brown on both sides.

Serve garnished with 1 tablespoon of tofu cream on each one.

Serves 4-6.

More recipes are available free online
in the Macrobiotic Handbook for All Seasons.

    Bach Flowers - Oak

    "For those who are struggling and fighting strongly in connection with the affairs of their daily life." - Dr. Bach
    Oak can be helpful when stuck in the stress of high achievement.

    Oak personalities often display perserverance, determination, strong will power, devotion to a cause or duty and high ideals.

    However, these attributes when taken to the extreme cause us to become rigid, inflexible and unable to ask others for help or support. This can lead to chronic exhaustion through overwork.

    The trick is to allow ourselves to move with the flow and become more flexible instead of battling on against the odds.

    General dosage is 4 - 5 drops under the tongue at least 3 times a day.

     

Large Intestine Meridian
Meditation

Close your eyes and start to breathe deeply. Make the exhalation longer than the inhalation. Imagine your arms spread palms open to receive whatever the Universe may have to offer you.

As you breathe in, imagine the energy entering your body through the palms of your hands. Feel as though there is a doorway in the middle of your palms. Breathe in the energy through this doorway allowing it fill you up, and then when you breathe out feel the energy flow effortlessly and without strain back into the world.

Continue breathing in and out feeling the energy becoming stronger. Smile to yourself as you realise that you never ever again have to hold on to anything because nothing can ever be taken away from you. Continue breathing in the energy. And now as you breathe out let go of something that you cherish dearly. Watch it go with the breath and then like the tide return with greater strength to you.

Understand that the cycle of life is not static. It is ever-flowing and forever renewing itself.

Allow yourself to let go of the past with all its regrets and limitations, and feel yourself rising up from the ground as the things that have tied you down are released.

Enjoy the freedom of flight. Then allow yourself in your own time to slowly come back into your body.

Links of the Season

online wellbeing magazine.

PureCalma collates a broad range of knowledge in the holistic, fitness and wellbeing field presenting it in an easy to understand and personal format.

If you too have a passion to search out complementary ways to re-energise your body and distance yourself from everyday stresses you have come to the right place.

Take the time, relax and explore the site that is PureCalma.

PureCalma.com online wellbeing magazine.

 

A transformational experience that can show you how to improve the quality of your life in simple and practical ways. For additional information please visit: www.beinginheaven.com

 


On The Fence

© Issi Aaron


Shiatsu Point Therapy for Sinusitis

In the 5-Element Theory, Autumn relates to the element of Metal. It is a time when energy is contracting and letting go. Autumn is associated with the Large Intestine and Lung meridians.

Like the tree that sheds it leaves, the Large Intestine meridian can help us take leave of old sorrows and grieving; learn to absorb new experiences; and become clearer about what is appropriate for us.

When the meridian is functioning well, we feel more optimistic, decisive as well as trusting of our ourselves and our judgement.

LI 20 is located in the grooves on either side of the nostrils. The point can offer symptomatic relief from:

sinusitis * nasal congestion * nosebleeds * loss of sense of smell

Treatment

Using your forefingers, apply pressure until you feel the soreness in the point.

Taking deep breaths and maintaining the pressure, breathe slowly in and out of the point until you feel the tension and pain disappear

To find out more about Shiatsu points please click here.

Yoga Pose for Autumn

    This pose helps relieve stiffness in back, sciatica, lumbago, as well as opening the chest and pelvic regions.

    Lie face down on floor. Inhale extend legs keeping feet together. Rest palms beside chest.

    Exhale press palms to floor and raise upper torso keeping hips on the floor Maintain pose for 20 seconds breathing normally.

    Exhale bend elbows and lower torso to floor.

    Repeat 2-3 times.

    Book of the Season

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    Modalities and You
    Chi Nei Tsang
    What is Chi Nei Tsang?

    Chi Nei Tsang literally means “working the energy of the internal organs” or “internal organs chi transformation”. It uses all the principles of kung fu and tai chi chuan known as chi kung. It is a form of applied chi kung.

    It was generated in time immemorial in the mountain ranges of Taoist China. It was used by monks in monasteries to help detoxify, strengthen and refine their bodies in order to carry the high energy required to perform the highest levels of spiritual practices.

    Chi Nei Tsang is an integral part of the Universal Tao System created by Taoist chi kung master and author Mantak Chia.

    It uses all the wisdom and skills cultivated in ancient Chinese disciplines such as tai chi chuan, chi kung and Taoist esoteric meditations of “awakening” and “enlightenment”.

    As such it is a complete system of physical, mental, and spiritual development that emphasizes teaching clients to work on themselves and practitioners to raise their spirit,recycle negative energies from treatments and increase the capacity to carry healing power.

    What is Khadro Chi Nei Tsang?

    Khadro Chi Nei Tsang is a holistic approach to massage therapy of ancient Taoist Chinese origin. It integrates the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual aspects of oneself and goes to the very origin of health problems, including psychosomatic responses.

    Khadro Chi Nei Tsang practitioners are trained in chi kung and work mainly on the abdomen with deep, soft and gentle touch, to train internal organs to work more efficiently and also address unprocessed emotional charges.

    All of the body systems are addressed: digestion, respiration, lymph, nervous, endocrine, urinary, reproductive, skeleto-muscular and the acupuncture energy system (Chi).

    Love is giving somebody something


    they never knew they were missing.

    Shiatsu gift vouchers are a wonderful gift

    to give and receive.

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    issi@self-healing.com.au

    tel: (02) 9558 8111

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