Eternal change, or entropy, is the fundamental law of the universe. From the appearance of galaxies to subatomic particles, form the rise and fall of civilizations to the lives of individuals and families, from the structure of body organs and systems to the functioning of tissues and cells, everything unfolds in an orderly pattern of change.
Everything changes. Nothing remains the same. Everything is in motion. Nothing remains in one place. Electrons spin around the central nucleus in the atom; the earth on its axis while orbiting the sun; the solar system revolves around the center of the galaxy; and clusters of galaxies move away from one another with enormous velocity, as the universe continues to expand. Opposites attract each other to achieve harmony; similars repel each other to avoid disharmony. One tendency changes into its opposite, which shall return to the previous state.
In Eastern traditions, the two complementary opposite tendencies that govern all phenomena are known as yin and yang (traditionally pronounced "een" and "eeyong"). On Earth, we experience yang as centripetal energy (force that makes a body follow a curved path) coming from the sun, the planets, the stars, distant galaxies, and cosmic space. This incoming, downward-moving force pushes everything toward the core of the earth and causes the planet to spin on its axis and orbit around the sun. Modern science calls this primary force gravity, mistaking it for a universal force of attraction that pulls things toward the center.
Simultaneously, the Earth generates an opposite, upward, expanding force because of the rotation on its axis. This rising, centrifugal energy (an inertial force directed away from the axis of rotation that appears to act on all objects when viewed in a rotating frame of reference) from the center of the planet is known as the Earth's force. The interplay between these two forces creates all manifestations on our planet and throughout the cosmos
Everything changes. Nothing remains the same. Everything is in motion. Nothing remains in one place. Electrons spin around the central nucleus in the atom; the earth on its axis while orbiting the sun; the solar system revolves around the center of the galaxy; and clusters of galaxies move away from one another with enormous velocity, as the universe continues to expand. Opposites attract each other to achieve harmony; similars repel each other to avoid disharmony. One tendency changes into its opposite, which shall return to the previous state.
In Eastern traditions, the two complementary opposite tendencies that govern all phenomena are known as yin and yang (traditionally pronounced "een" and "eeyong"). On Earth, we experience yang as centripetal energy (force that makes a body follow a curved path) coming from the sun, the planets, the stars, distant galaxies, and cosmic space. This incoming, downward-moving force pushes everything toward the core of the earth and causes the planet to spin on its axis and orbit around the sun. Modern science calls this primary force gravity, mistaking it for a universal force of attraction that pulls things toward the center.
Simultaneously, the Earth generates an opposite, upward, expanding force because of the rotation on its axis. This rising, centrifugal energy (an inertial force directed away from the axis of rotation that appears to act on all objects when viewed in a rotating frame of reference) from the center of the planet is known as the Earth's force. The interplay between these two forces creates all manifestations on our planet and throughout the cosmos
Yin
Centrifugal Force Expansion Diffusion Dispersion Separation Decomposition Inactive, slower Shorter wave and higher frequency Ascent and vertical More outward and peripheral Lighter Colder Darker Wetter Thinner Larger More expansive and fragile Longer Softer Electron Nitrogen, Oxygen, Phosphorus, Calcium Vibration, Air, Water Tropical climate Vegetable-quality Female Estrogenic More hollow and expansive More peripheral, orthosympathetic Gentle, negative, defensive More aesthetic and mental More universal Future-oriented Spiritually oriented Space Ahrimanic Major organs: Colon Gallbladder Bladder Small intestine Stomach Uterus/prostate Structures: Upper body Right side Front Outside (periphery) Soft parts Expanded parts Digestive and respiratory systems Lymph White blood cells B cells Suppressor T cells Head hair Growth-enhancing genes Cell membranes Elastin Estrogen Inhibiting neurotransmitters RNA Potassium ions Hollow organs Functions: Bioenergetic Inhalation Inhibition Dilation Hydration Discharging Divergence Relaxation Decay Response Oxygenation Catablism Ascending movement Mental activities Slower movement |
Yang
Centripetal Force Contraction Fusion Assimilation Gathering Organization Active, faster Longer wave and lower frequency Descent and horizontal More inward and central Heavier Hotter Lighter Drier Thicker Smaller More contractive and harder Shorter Harder Proton Hydrogen, Carbon, Sodium, Magnesium Earth Colder climate Animal-quality Male Androgenic More compacted and condensed More central, parasympathetic Active, positive, aggresive More physical and social More specific Past-oriented Materially oriented Time Luciferic Major organs: Lungs Liver Kidney Heart Spleen-pancreas Brain Structures: Lower body Left side Back Inside (center) Hard parts Contracted parts Nervous and skeletal systems Blood Red blood cells T cells Helper T cells Body hair Growth-suppressing genes Cell nuclues Collagen Testorsterone Activating neurotransmitters DNA Sodium ions Solid organs Functions: Biochemical Exhalation Activation Contraction Dehydration Taking in Convergence Tension Genesis Stimulus Deoxygenation Anabolism Descending movement Physical activities Rapid movement |
Balancing the forces
The thread running through creation is yin and yang, the endless dance of opposites. Each movement creates respective tendencies. At their extremes each force changes into its opposite. For example, high temperature (fire) causes expansion and low temperature (ice) causes contraction.
Yin and yang are not static, fixed conditions or elements, but tendencies that cycle continuously, each changing into the other. Neither force is completely one or the other, and the ratio between the two forces is subject to constant fluctuation and change. Males are physically stronger, heavier, and more active, but women are often more spiritual and more intuitive than men. Similarly, women are outwardly more gentle, kind, and loving then men, but men are often shyer, more sentimental, and more accepting than women. Yin and yang manifest is infinite forms, ultimately merging and returning to their common source. The laws of yin and yang govern all phenomena, from the movements of subatomic particles to the composition or blood and tissue, from the formation of planets and moons to the relationship between the sexes. By knowing how to balance these forces on our own lives, we can turn sickness into health, conflict into peace, and sadness into joy.
Yin and yang are not static, fixed conditions or elements, but tendencies that cycle continuously, each changing into the other. Neither force is completely one or the other, and the ratio between the two forces is subject to constant fluctuation and change. Males are physically stronger, heavier, and more active, but women are often more spiritual and more intuitive than men. Similarly, women are outwardly more gentle, kind, and loving then men, but men are often shyer, more sentimental, and more accepting than women. Yin and yang manifest is infinite forms, ultimately merging and returning to their common source. The laws of yin and yang govern all phenomena, from the movements of subatomic particles to the composition or blood and tissue, from the formation of planets and moons to the relationship between the sexes. By knowing how to balance these forces on our own lives, we can turn sickness into health, conflict into peace, and sadness into joy.
Yin and Yang in the Human Body
The human body exists in a complementary/antagonistic relationship. Generally speaking, cosmic forces create more compact, solid structures and moves in a downward, inward direction. Earthly forces create expanded, hollow structures and moves in a upward, outward direction. The dynamic relationship between structures and functions within the human body contributes to overall balance and harmony.
Overall, energy moves in a spiral. Phases of contraction alternate with phases of expansion. Expanding spirals reach a limit and turn into contracting spirals and vice versa. Up and down, in and out, right and left, back and front, and other polarities are actually all manifestations of one continuous flow of energy. Created and nourished by cosmic and earthly forces, the human constitution is a wondrous replica of the entire universe. Balance and equilibrium are its natural state.
Overall, energy moves in a spiral. Phases of contraction alternate with phases of expansion. Expanding spirals reach a limit and turn into contracting spirals and vice versa. Up and down, in and out, right and left, back and front, and other polarities are actually all manifestations of one continuous flow of energy. Created and nourished by cosmic and earthly forces, the human constitution is a wondrous replica of the entire universe. Balance and equilibrium are its natural state.
Food, Health, and Consciousness
In the womb, the fetus receives nourishment from the mother's blood and other nutrients through the placenta. Beyond the original strength and quality of the sperm and ovum, the mother's way of eating during pregnancy has the greatest influence on the developing baby's constitution and future health. After birth, the newborn is nourished by colostrum and breast milk, representing the condensed energy of the animal kingdom. After the teeth come in and the child is weaned, the principle food is predominantly vegetable-quality to ensure proper growth and development.
As children grow up and mature, the main source of chi, prana, or life energy, is the foods that we eat daily. Food transmutes directly into mind, body, and spirit. Through proper food selection and preparation, we take in the condensed essence of cosmic and earthly forces to create our day-to-day health and happiness. The quality and functioning of our organs and tissues depend largely on our diet. Of course, we continue to receive chi directly from nature and the cosmos, but this energy serves to activate and charge the organs and functions, cells and tissues. Relative to each other, the chi energy we receive from the outside world is more yin, while the energy coming from inside as a result of our daily way of eating is more yang. Food changes directly into blood, lymph, and other bodily fluids that nourish our systems and functions. Energy channels are therefore open to receive the full force of the waves and vibrations coming from the celestial and terrestrial cycles and rhythms around us.
In addition to physical health and vitality, food creates our mind and spirit, determining the quality of our consciousness. Waves the universe are channeled through the brain and nervous system, which are constructed in the form of a spiral. Each of the trillions of cells is also a receptor and attracts vibrations from the atmosphere and our surrounding environment. Our intellectual and spiritual capabilities are determined by the degrees to which our cells are charged with energy. Waves with lower frequency and longer wavelengths create our bodily activity. Higher-frequency, shorter waves create our thoughts, images, and dreams. By eating certain foods, such as vegetables, as the cornerstone or our diet, we are able to manipulate the vibrations that we are able to receive. Consuming strong yin foods such as sugar, spices, alcohol, or drugs, the spirals within our mid-brain, nervous system and each cell become over-expanded and cannot catch short waves. Conversely, consuming strong yang foods such as meat, eggs, poultry, or fatty fish, the spirals become overactive, and we receive and interpret chaotically.Our high spirit and refined consciousness are lost. We start to think erratically, violently, or in a small fragmented way. The power of should not be underestimated.
As children grow up and mature, the main source of chi, prana, or life energy, is the foods that we eat daily. Food transmutes directly into mind, body, and spirit. Through proper food selection and preparation, we take in the condensed essence of cosmic and earthly forces to create our day-to-day health and happiness. The quality and functioning of our organs and tissues depend largely on our diet. Of course, we continue to receive chi directly from nature and the cosmos, but this energy serves to activate and charge the organs and functions, cells and tissues. Relative to each other, the chi energy we receive from the outside world is more yin, while the energy coming from inside as a result of our daily way of eating is more yang. Food changes directly into blood, lymph, and other bodily fluids that nourish our systems and functions. Energy channels are therefore open to receive the full force of the waves and vibrations coming from the celestial and terrestrial cycles and rhythms around us.
In addition to physical health and vitality, food creates our mind and spirit, determining the quality of our consciousness. Waves the universe are channeled through the brain and nervous system, which are constructed in the form of a spiral. Each of the trillions of cells is also a receptor and attracts vibrations from the atmosphere and our surrounding environment. Our intellectual and spiritual capabilities are determined by the degrees to which our cells are charged with energy. Waves with lower frequency and longer wavelengths create our bodily activity. Higher-frequency, shorter waves create our thoughts, images, and dreams. By eating certain foods, such as vegetables, as the cornerstone or our diet, we are able to manipulate the vibrations that we are able to receive. Consuming strong yin foods such as sugar, spices, alcohol, or drugs, the spirals within our mid-brain, nervous system and each cell become over-expanded and cannot catch short waves. Conversely, consuming strong yang foods such as meat, eggs, poultry, or fatty fish, the spirals become overactive, and we receive and interpret chaotically.Our high spirit and refined consciousness are lost. We start to think erratically, violently, or in a small fragmented way. The power of should not be underestimated.
Correcting Imbalances: 3 choices
Balance and equilibrium are the natural state of the universe. This concept can be extrapolated and scaled down to the Earth, it's underlying communities, and the individuals that composed those communities, which includes you. Whether it is consuming certain foods, or acting of certain thoughts, feelings, or behaviors, balance is key.
Once, and only when, the concept of balance is fully realized, it can then be taken one step further. If balance permeates the universe, from macrocosm to microcosm, this implies that there exists a balance between what happens inside of what and what you experience in the physical world. In other words, you create your reality, with your thoughts, feelings, emotions, actions, and behaviors. The universe is not happening to you, it is responding to you - it is responding to your energetic frequency. This means that you have power; you get to stop every time you get knocked down, you get to stop running back to the things that knocked you down. This means letting go of the old patterns that no longer serve your highest potential. When you take full responsibility and get that your vibration frequency, that who you be, matters in the world, and that your life is being created moment after moment after moment, based on your frequency, you will stop selling yourself short. If you want to create what you truly desire, you must first take responsibility for your actions, your choices.
Whether you realize it or not, you are powerful, beautiful, and amazing human being, capable of creating anything that you can imagine. You are so powerful that you are creating even when you do not know you. Look around, you are living in results of what you have created. The universe is responding to your conversation about finances and relationships. The universe is not happening to you, it happening through you, your choices, your vibrational frequency that you are sending out into the cosmos. You are not a victim your you life circumstances, you have the power to choose what you wish to create.
As Paul Chek says, there are 3 choices we all have in relationship to any person, place, or thing.
Once, and only when, the concept of balance is fully realized, it can then be taken one step further. If balance permeates the universe, from macrocosm to microcosm, this implies that there exists a balance between what happens inside of what and what you experience in the physical world. In other words, you create your reality, with your thoughts, feelings, emotions, actions, and behaviors. The universe is not happening to you, it is responding to you - it is responding to your energetic frequency. This means that you have power; you get to stop every time you get knocked down, you get to stop running back to the things that knocked you down. This means letting go of the old patterns that no longer serve your highest potential. When you take full responsibility and get that your vibration frequency, that who you be, matters in the world, and that your life is being created moment after moment after moment, based on your frequency, you will stop selling yourself short. If you want to create what you truly desire, you must first take responsibility for your actions, your choices.
Whether you realize it or not, you are powerful, beautiful, and amazing human being, capable of creating anything that you can imagine. You are so powerful that you are creating even when you do not know you. Look around, you are living in results of what you have created. The universe is responding to your conversation about finances and relationships. The universe is not happening to you, it happening through you, your choices, your vibrational frequency that you are sending out into the cosmos. You are not a victim your you life circumstances, you have the power to choose what you wish to create.
As Paul Chek says, there are 3 choices we all have in relationship to any person, place, or thing.
- The Optimal Choice (Win-Win): The one that’s best for everyone on your family, friends, and peers.
- The Suboptimal Choice (Win-Lose): The choice that usually offers instant gratification, but often creates challenges among family, friends, and peers.
- Do Nothing (Lose-Lose); There are two “Do Nothing” options:
A. Positive Use: To “do nothing” when you need more time to gather information, or compose yourself so you can contribute to a situation or discussion intelligently.
B. Negative Use: To “do nothing” when all relationships regularly call for “doing something”, also known as apathy, which essentially means "I don't care".
Core Pillars
If you are seeking balance, health, and purpose; If you are seeking your optimal potential; If wish to create the reality you desire, you must begin to make the appropriate choices so that the universe responds to you accordingly. The choices that you must make that are needed to manifest your vision, must be in relation to the core pillars of health.
"healing requires you to acknowledge that you are an energetic being whose thoughts, feelings and emotions create the world that you encounter."
Unknown
The evolution of Consciousness
Even though one undergoes untold millions of individual experiences in one's life, only a few lessons are usually ever learned. The attainment of wisdom is slow and painful, and few are willing to relinquish views (even if they are inaccurate); resistance to change or growth is considerable. It would seem that most people would rather die than alter those belief systems that confine them to lower levels of consciousness. What does this mean for the evolution of consciousness?
Despite the self-propagating levels of consciousness that have become the status quo, there remains free choice and therefore considerable potential for individual mobility and variety of experience, which makes alternate options available. Choice is not only possible, but inevitable.
Growth and development are irregular and nonlinear. As is commonly observed, growth - both individual and collective - can take place either slowly or suddenly. It isn't limited by restraints, but by tendencies. Innumerable options are open to everyone all the time, bu they're relatively infrequently chosen, because people want the context that would make such options attractive. One's range of choice is ordinarily limited only by one's vision.
The most important element in facilitating an upward movement in consciousness is an attitude of willingness, which opens up the mind through new means of appraisal to the possible validity of new hypotheses. Although motives for change are as multitudinous as the innumerable facets of the human condition, they're most often found to arise spontaneously when the mind is challenged in the face of a puzzle or a paradox.
On the scale of consciousness, there are two critical points that allow for major advancement. The first is at the initial level of empowerment: Here, the willingness to stop blaming and accept responsibility for one's own actions, feelings, and beliefs arises - as long as cause and responsibility are projected outside of oneself, one will remain in the powerless mode of victimhood. The second is reached by accepting love and nonjudgmental forgiveness as a lifestyle, exercising unconditional kindness to all persons, things, and events without exception. Once one makes this commitment, one begins to experience a different, more benign world as their perceptions evolve.
Despite the self-propagating levels of consciousness that have become the status quo, there remains free choice and therefore considerable potential for individual mobility and variety of experience, which makes alternate options available. Choice is not only possible, but inevitable.
Growth and development are irregular and nonlinear. As is commonly observed, growth - both individual and collective - can take place either slowly or suddenly. It isn't limited by restraints, but by tendencies. Innumerable options are open to everyone all the time, bu they're relatively infrequently chosen, because people want the context that would make such options attractive. One's range of choice is ordinarily limited only by one's vision.
The most important element in facilitating an upward movement in consciousness is an attitude of willingness, which opens up the mind through new means of appraisal to the possible validity of new hypotheses. Although motives for change are as multitudinous as the innumerable facets of the human condition, they're most often found to arise spontaneously when the mind is challenged in the face of a puzzle or a paradox.
On the scale of consciousness, there are two critical points that allow for major advancement. The first is at the initial level of empowerment: Here, the willingness to stop blaming and accept responsibility for one's own actions, feelings, and beliefs arises - as long as cause and responsibility are projected outside of oneself, one will remain in the powerless mode of victimhood. The second is reached by accepting love and nonjudgmental forgiveness as a lifestyle, exercising unconditional kindness to all persons, things, and events without exception. Once one makes this commitment, one begins to experience a different, more benign world as their perceptions evolve.
The mechanics of Perceptions
It's frequently been acknowledged that man is unable to observe or recognize an event until there's prior context and language for naming the event. This inability, called paradigm blindness, is the direct consequence of a limitation of context.
It's initially very challenging to understand that attitudes can alter the world one experiences - and that there are numerous valid ways of experiencing it. But, as in viewing a hologram, what you see depends completely on the position that you view it from.
In fact, whether you acknowledge it or not, this is a holographic universe. Each point of view reflects a position that's defined by the viewer's unique level of consciousness. If you are on this side of the hologram, your perception will hardly agree with that of the observer on the other side.
How we react depends upon the world we're reacting to. Who we become, as well as what we see, is determined by perception - which can be said, simply, to create the world. The mechanism of perception is like a movie theater where the projector is consciousness itself. The forms on the film are the attractor energy patterns (organizing energies which define context, meaning and value for widespread patterns of human behavior), and the moving pictures on the screen are the world that we perceive and call "reality". This schema provides a model for a better understanding of the nature of causality, which occurs on the level of the film, not the level of the screen. Because the world routinely applies its efforts to the screen of life, these endeavors are ineffectual and costly.
The nature of the stream of consciousness - its pattern of thought, perception, feeling, and memory - is the consequence of entrainment of that which dominates. Keep in mind that this domination is voluntary - it isn't imposed, but the outcome of one's own choices, beliefs, and goals.
We synchronize with patterns that implies specific styles of processing and influences all of our decisions according to its accompanying set of values and meanings. What appears as an important and exciting piece of information from the perspective of one level might be boring or even repulsive at another level. Truth is subjective, and that can be frightening.
But in transcending the emotional distortions of perception, science itself creates another conceptual distortion due to the limitation of its parameters. Science must remove data from its context in order to study it - but in the end, it's only context that gives the data its whole significance or value. The more detailed one's analysis of the structure of "out there" is, the more one discovers that who one is examining is, in fact, the nature of the intricate processes of consciousness in here. There's nothing "out there", other than consciousness itself. The habitual tendency to believe otherwise is our fundamental illusion, a vanity of the human mind.
Thoughts really belong to the consciousness of the world.; the individual mind merely processes them in new combinations and permutations. The mind's very nature is to convince us that its unique view of experience is the genuine article. Each individual secretly feels that their particular experience of the world is accurate. Every mind engages in denial in order to protect its "correctness". Great leaps in levels of consciousness are always preceded by surrender of the illusion that "I know". The only way one can reach this willingness to change is when one "hits bottom," that is, by running out a course of action to its end in the defeat of a futile belief system. Light can't enter a closed box. If life is viewed as a teacher, then it becomes just that. But unless we become humble and transform them into gateways to growth and development, the painful life lessons that we deal ourselves are wasted.
We witness, observe, and record apparent processions of experience. But even in awareness itself, nothing actually happens. Awareness merely registers what's being experienced; it has no effect on it. There is nothing the mind believes that isn't erroneous at a higher level of consciousness.
The mind identifies with its content. It takes credit and blame for what it receives, for it would be humbling to the mind's vanity to admit that the only thing it's doing is experiencing. The mind doesn't even experience the world, just sensory reports of it. Even brilliant thoughts and deep feelings are only experience; ultimately, we have but one function - to experience experience.
Over the ages, it's been noted that merely observing the mind tends to increase one's level of consciousness. A mind that's being watched becomes more humble and begins to relinquish its claims to omniscience - a growth in awareness can then take place.
It's initially very challenging to understand that attitudes can alter the world one experiences - and that there are numerous valid ways of experiencing it. But, as in viewing a hologram, what you see depends completely on the position that you view it from.
In fact, whether you acknowledge it or not, this is a holographic universe. Each point of view reflects a position that's defined by the viewer's unique level of consciousness. If you are on this side of the hologram, your perception will hardly agree with that of the observer on the other side.
How we react depends upon the world we're reacting to. Who we become, as well as what we see, is determined by perception - which can be said, simply, to create the world. The mechanism of perception is like a movie theater where the projector is consciousness itself. The forms on the film are the attractor energy patterns (organizing energies which define context, meaning and value for widespread patterns of human behavior), and the moving pictures on the screen are the world that we perceive and call "reality". This schema provides a model for a better understanding of the nature of causality, which occurs on the level of the film, not the level of the screen. Because the world routinely applies its efforts to the screen of life, these endeavors are ineffectual and costly.
The nature of the stream of consciousness - its pattern of thought, perception, feeling, and memory - is the consequence of entrainment of that which dominates. Keep in mind that this domination is voluntary - it isn't imposed, but the outcome of one's own choices, beliefs, and goals.
We synchronize with patterns that implies specific styles of processing and influences all of our decisions according to its accompanying set of values and meanings. What appears as an important and exciting piece of information from the perspective of one level might be boring or even repulsive at another level. Truth is subjective, and that can be frightening.
But in transcending the emotional distortions of perception, science itself creates another conceptual distortion due to the limitation of its parameters. Science must remove data from its context in order to study it - but in the end, it's only context that gives the data its whole significance or value. The more detailed one's analysis of the structure of "out there" is, the more one discovers that who one is examining is, in fact, the nature of the intricate processes of consciousness in here. There's nothing "out there", other than consciousness itself. The habitual tendency to believe otherwise is our fundamental illusion, a vanity of the human mind.
Thoughts really belong to the consciousness of the world.; the individual mind merely processes them in new combinations and permutations. The mind's very nature is to convince us that its unique view of experience is the genuine article. Each individual secretly feels that their particular experience of the world is accurate. Every mind engages in denial in order to protect its "correctness". Great leaps in levels of consciousness are always preceded by surrender of the illusion that "I know". The only way one can reach this willingness to change is when one "hits bottom," that is, by running out a course of action to its end in the defeat of a futile belief system. Light can't enter a closed box. If life is viewed as a teacher, then it becomes just that. But unless we become humble and transform them into gateways to growth and development, the painful life lessons that we deal ourselves are wasted.
We witness, observe, and record apparent processions of experience. But even in awareness itself, nothing actually happens. Awareness merely registers what's being experienced; it has no effect on it. There is nothing the mind believes that isn't erroneous at a higher level of consciousness.
The mind identifies with its content. It takes credit and blame for what it receives, for it would be humbling to the mind's vanity to admit that the only thing it's doing is experiencing. The mind doesn't even experience the world, just sensory reports of it. Even brilliant thoughts and deep feelings are only experience; ultimately, we have but one function - to experience experience.
Over the ages, it's been noted that merely observing the mind tends to increase one's level of consciousness. A mind that's being watched becomes more humble and begins to relinquish its claims to omniscience - a growth in awareness can then take place.
References
Hawkins, D. (2014). Power vs. Force: the hidden determinants of human behavior. Carlsbad, CA: Hay House Inc.
Kushi, M. and Jack, A. (2003). The macrobiotic path to total health. New York: Ballantine Books.
Kushi, M. and Jack, A. (2003). The macrobiotic path to total health. New York: Ballantine Books.