Dec '25 • General discussion
Right Choices
Taikokyu-ka
Hello I wanted to thank everybody for putting such a great effort in for the whole year. We are a couple classes away from finishing 52 weeks of Taikokyu Live. You should be proud of your commitment. I’m certainly proud of you. Especially those of you that I’ve gotten to know over the last months by tuning in on Fridays directly so I could have a chance to meet you all.
I know some of the most exciting times of the year have been taking my Taikokyu on the road with me wherever I go and elucidating that to all of you. Actually, I’ve always made time for movement so that my body doesn’t stiffen up, either through Travel itself, or sitting around, or after getting sick, or having an accident of some kind.
Our bodies demand to move and it is pretty loud at times. If we simply ignore signs our body gives us, bits and pieces will just fall into disuse and at times disrepair.
I know that sounds kind of glum.
I don’t mean it that way really but I am saying that wherever you go and wherever you are, our bodies are there serving us so it’s a darn good idea to take care of every aspect of our movement and enhanced movement and over all Health. Now it sounds cliché but whatever it takes for us to switch on to the altruism of health then so be it.
I have talked about the notion of eating well many times, this too cannot be overstated. In many parts of the world, but especially the west, the winter solstice and Christmas holidays beckon our attention and are calling us to eat foods we wouldn’t normally eat and drink things we wouldn’t normally drink, or at least not in the quantities we get exposed to at this time of year.
Our fortitude to moderate the intake of the “questionable”is at peak attentiveness right now!
Even though it might not seem like it, our diet and mental health are directly proportional to one another. If you can’t trust that just remember a time that you ate something that you later either regretted or it made you ill in someway. This is a great place to feel that out.
Much of the classic education that I’ve received around properly taking care of oneself, was not just from western education, but it was also the eastern Education of natural methods. For example, in the orient, especially Japan, when a patient has some kind of symptoms of mental or emotional stress, like panic, paranoia, etc. the best kind of natural healer in the east will first try to cure these things by food. That said the healer will look at modifying the patient’s diet, first. Food once again is critical medicine and medicine is food. That’s why it’s so critically important that we try to put the right foods into our system so that our system can truly absorb the goodness elements contained within the food and create a healthy viable and sustainable being.
The whole notion of psychoanalysis as its practiced in the western medical system does not actually exist in the traditional eastern medical or Healing methodologies. The first thing that is looked at is diet and how does a particular body have a relationship with the food and nutrients it’s getting. Pretty smart isn’t it when you think of it.
There’s an old expression: “you are what you eat“. Seems pretty simple and makes total sense to me.
Having said this, the eastern healing person would take care of their patient by carefully analyzing the dietary habits of the person. What is usually found out through doing so is that there is a critical deficiency somewhere along the line of nutrition as an extreme imbalance, especially in the the way, the food is interacting energetically with the person‘s body. As I’ve just said, Food is medicine and medicine is our food.
You see its often found that there are things that are contained in the foods that we consume that are at times actually either mildly toxic, severely toxic, or haven’t the nutritional support that the person is needing.
The eastern healing specialist would then proceed to tone any deficiencies and take a hard look at any of the said imbalances. Then with strict dietary guidelines, and often supplementation like herbal therapy, the person can regain hormonal health balance.
It comes as no real surprise that most European and western countries have a deplorable dietary regime and are often very unbalanced. It’s also comes as no surprise that modern fields of medicine like psychotherapy evolved from these western nations as well as other formal branchs of medicine that have completely divorced themselves from fundamental physiology. Many modern fields of medicine are using occidental medicine which all to often erodes health and well-ness.
I call this a simple medical dichotomy and it’s typical of the dualism that we find in our core western thought. Kind of sad really but fixable with attentiveness and knowledge gathering.
Completely aside of this dualistic, thinking that we often find in the west there are still a handful of very dedicated nutritional specialist in all the countries of the west because there’s been a great opportunity to fuse with eastern ideologies, and eastern medicines. So it’s not to say that it doesn’t exist here in the west, it just has to be found out.
If we are truly on the search to rediscover these missing links between body mind and spirit especially where our physical and mental health are concerned we have to turn our attention to nutrition and dedicated movement that doesn’t simply work in contraction, but enjoys extension as well.
So beyond wishing you all well through this solstice season Christmas holidays and New Year’s, please know that the emphasis on enzyme and proper nutrition is particularly significant. Especially in the light of the enzyme, dead diets that we often find in western societies, that not only help produce ill-health but mental disturbances, physical breakdown, cancer, and early suffering.
The opportunity to eat well and be well surround us really, so we don’t simply have to involve ourselves in malfunctioning bad choices.
Here’s to all of us making great choices in the coming days.
Go ahead open your gifts early and don’t wait for after Hanukkah, or after solstice, or after Christmas, or after New Year’s, to truly wake up to your potential. The Power to take charge of your health is NOW.
Happy discovering that you have the power to be real, be respectful to yourself and say no when you’ve wish is to lean into what your body needs,as this is a positive yes to yourself.
Even in the face of grandma‘s shortbread cookies.
Jay Sensei
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