More on the Macro Plan

I sit here after finishing my first book and wonder how I finally got it done, where has all this "focus" and "razor sharp mind" come from? It's the "food" and only the "food", - it gives you the power "to do what you have to do" and "be when you want to be" - and I find most people who have working lives in the city may have all the drive, but they run on empty (cylinders); and keep pushing themselves more and more. Also, they have forgotten what it is "to be" - to relax into the moment. Hell they don't have any time to even talk to a friend. Isn't life about living to your fullest? about loving yourself so much that you love everyone and everything that's a part of it, and knowing that they are all there because you love them and want them to be there? Following the macrobiotic approach gives you that. It is "inherent" in the way the foods work. That's why, when I took up Vipassana meditation 15 years ago, my life's calling had to "tie in" with the larger purpose of "just existing" and this approach "ties in" like the knot of a perfect tie (it fits). The approach says one of the tenets of good health is "An Endless Appreciation of Life" and I live like that 24x7.

One of my friends recently said "You are one of my poorest friends" - and though that comment bought out my so called "pain body" - I couldn't help but think how rich I am with all the people in my life, the family I have, my dogs, the earth below me, the sky above me, the foods I eat, the lovely house I live in, the time I get to meditate, do my yoga practice, spend quality time with friends, my niece and nephew, my mom - how the hell can I be poor. I knew he used a "material" yardstick to pass a comment like that. I could say "how poor is he", but no he is a part of my life and I love him in whatever capacity he is there. But I know his foods don't give him the power to look beyond that material world of his, and so I forgive him. That's the power of "how you eat and what it can do for you" -- make you "human(e)" in a away you can only experience!!