Let's start with: What's Macro? I usually get a response from people "Macro like Big?"Yes! I'm talking Big, Great, Larger than Life. How about a GREAT-LIFE! How about we talk about Macrobiotics, in standard definition meaning "Living a Great Life."I had the pleasure of meeting Marisa a few years ago at a macro event, and the energy and enthusiasm in her posts was definitely reflected in the person! :) I think that when you start healing, you have to start getting bigger than physical health. Food is the foundation of the macrobiotic lifestyle, but I've learned this year that diet is the minor leagues, and healing is the game. I realized that healing my life and healing my health were related. May I present...
Three Ways to Live MACRO!! That Have Nothing To Do With Cooking
1. Practice acts of charity.
I always thought that by practicing charity and helping others, God would be somehow "coaxed" closer to me. It was as though serving the disadvantaged and giving financially were somehow currency by which I could purchase healing and closeness from God.
I had it backwards. Christ doesn't come to know you when you do good works... You don't somehow begin to beep louder on the Righteousness Radar when you pony up and serve a few meals at the soup kitchen. You come to know Christ through your good works. Good works are the only way to make out the sort of person who Christ is. In the same way that you can share closeness and understanding by learning things your friends like to do, you can share closeness to God when you show interest in his interests. And Christ's interest is service and charity.
I think charity can take lots of forms... I understand that many of you are sick and weak and bogged down by medical bills. I'd just like to share a quick experience I had recently.
I took my formerly bloated Starbucks budget and donated a (probably embarrassingly small) percentage of it to a non-profit I didn't know much about. As I began to follow the good works of this organization, I felt an incredible sense of peace and happiness knowing that I was doing something to help them. That's organic free-range chicken soup for the soul.
2. Be Good: Nobody's Watching
This is about all the dumb little things that nobody sees that make you a person of integrity. I confess... I've rung up French Horn mushrooms as Shiitake mushrooms about 100 times. I've done it before. I'll probably do it again. I do it because they're expensive, tasty, the machine doesn't know any better, and because the CEO of Whole Foods probably sleeps on a mattress made of money. Don't lie... you do it too. Don't tell me there hasn't been that one time you rang up that organic lemon as conventional because it would knock $3 off your total purchase.
Today, I rang my lemons up full price. Nobody was watching. I did it because I would know I rang it up as conventional. So here's my logic. Guilt = Weight. Weight = Mass. Mass = Bloating. Bloating = Looking like a Whale in my Bikini. I feel fitter already.
3. Speak your truth
This is a phrase I had never heard before entering the healing community, where I hear it all the time. A lot of life-long macrobiotic (or even, as I'm reading in a Seventh Day Adventist guide to healing, faith-based healing) practitioners say that the root of illness is often based in our inability to speak our own truths. It's something between "Don't lie" with "Don't conceal your truth or identity."
I'm going to be real-- this isn't exactly second nature to me. I come from a long line of pro-fibbers and skillful exaggerators. It's looking like my baby's going to come out of the womb telling me some whopper about how they received adequate TV reception through the uterine wall and are disappointed in the creative direction in which this season of Desperate Housewives is heading.
Best of luck to you in your truthfulness!
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