Monthly Archives: March 2010 - Part 2
Expansive (Yin) and Contractive (Yang) Foods
Using Expansive and Contractive Foods to ModerateEnergy and Moods Foods and cooking strategies offer vast opportunities to alter our energy, our focus, and our moods. We can take corn, an expansive grain as illustrated below. Corn itself might make us a little on the spacey side. But, if we then grind it, add salt, and…
Chinese 5-Phase Foods and Moods
Click the image above to view the entire chart. Chinese 5-Phase Theory is my favorite food model because of its complexity and its potential for endless discovery and possibility. The 5-Phase model depicts foodeach with their own energy and relationship to specific organ systemswith the organ systems, parts of the body, and emotions and moods….