Feng Shui can show you to prepare your meals by teaching you how everything you do with food can affect the natural energies that surround you at meal time.
You probably understand by now that balance in your kitchen can be enhanced through the use of shapes, materials, colours and directions but you can also further enhance your families balance by ensuring the foods you each and prepare are balanced as well.
Everything in life is balanced through two energies - Yin and Yang. Your body and your optimum health should be balanced as well by ensuring that your food intake has been balanced as well. When your diet is balanced your body feels satisfied, warm, healthy. When your body is unbalanced it will let you know!
Yin and Yang foods have a different effect on your body. Different foods can have a different effect on your mental , spiritual, physical and emotional nature. Ying foods are cooling to the system while Yang foods are warming. Balance chi or energy that moves through your body is considered healthy but if your balance is blocked because of poor eating choices this can lead to illness.
Too much Yang foods can make you feel restless, anxious, wired, hot, dry and full of too much energy. You may notice yourself sweating a great deal and feel tense. Adding a balance of Yin Food can calm you down and help to refresh your chi!
Too much Yin food can make you feel chilled, tired and lethargic. Depression and bloating can also result from too much Yin Food. Adding a balance of Yang foods can help to nourish your chi and warm you up!
A good balance of Yin and Yang Foods is key. Use the following list to achieve a balanced diet. The key of course is to understand your body, what the signs are telling you about your inbalance and try to correct it accordingly.
YIN FOODS
Milk
Alcohol
Honey
Sugar
Oil
Fruit juices
Spices
Stimulants
Most drugs - such as aspirin
Tropical vegetables and fruits
Refined foods
Most food additives of a chemical nature.
Including:
Bean curd and sprouts, all bland or boiled foods, the cabbage family, carrots and celery, cucumber, duck, some fish and fruits, American ginseng, most greens, honey, melons, milk, pears, pork, potatoes, seaweed and soybean products, white turnips, water and watercress, winter squash, most white foods.
YANG FOODS
Poultry
Seafood
Eggs
Meat
Salt
Fish
Cheese
Including:
Bamboo, beef, broiled meats, catfish, chicken and chicken soup, eggs and eggplant, fatty meats and fried foods, garlic and ginger, Korean ginseng, glutinous rice, green peppers, hot and spicy foods, leeks and onions, liquor, mushrooms, peanuts, persimmons, pig's knuckles and pork liver, red foods (beans, peppers, tomatoes, etc.) sesame oil, shellfish, sour foods, tangerines, vinegar and wine.
BALANCED (NEUTRAL FOODS)
Seeds
Nuts
Vegetables (carrots, cauliflower, peas)
Cereal grains
Steamed while rice
Brown Rice
Non Fat Milk
Beans
Sea vegetables
Temperate fruits (such as apples and pears, cherries, rasins, plums, peaches)
2008 Fay Chapple
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Fay Chapple is an International Feng Shui Expert, award winning Interior Decorator and Life Coach, and is Principal of the award winning Home & Life Design Firm Blue Avalon.
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