The Best Cleansing Diet - The Kabalarian Cleansing Diet
The Kabalarian Cleansing Diet is considered the best cleansing diet because
it combines right eating, right breathing, and right thinking. The body, mind,
and spirit are interconnected and balance between these three leads to good
health.
Balance is created by understanding and eating the foods that build physical
health, incorporating breathing exercises that strengthen one’s inner
core, and gaining relaxation and peace of mind that comes from understanding
the power of relaxation and what constitutes balanced thinking and living.
The Kabalarian Philosophy stresses and teaches how a balanced mind may be acquired
with its attendant peace of mind, health, and happiness. Fear plays one of the
greatest parts in the drama of health versus sickness. Remember that happy thoughts
are healthy thoughts.
To understand the spiritual power that came with your first breath of life
and to express those qualities can lead to joyful living and fulfilment. Constructive
thought energies of happiness and contentment serve to strengthen the body and
increase the potential for lifetime good health.
Right Eating - Organic Vegetables and Fruit
The high-speed pace of life often means that we do not take the time consistently
to prepare nourishing meals. We rely upon fast or quick energy foods. In youth,
we get away with eating improperly. Over time, however, these foods contribute
to the failure of the body to maintain lifetime good health because they do
not provide the essential nutrients.
The Kabalarian Cleansing Diet is composed mainly of vegetables and fruits.
In adopting the Kabalarian Cleansing Diet, it is important to look for organic
foods, to avoid genetically modified foods, and to ensure that a variety of
vegetables and fruits are incorporated into your new diet. Both booklets, written
by Alfred J. Parker, the founder of the Kabalarian Philosophy, The Right Way
to Health and The Kabalarian
Cleansing Diet are available and outline foods that will build
good health. After a few days of effort, you will begin to see a new you! Your
skin will take on a fresh glow, your eyes will sparkle, and you will feel greater
energy and buoyancy.
Right Breathing
Breathing exercises are essential for a clear mind and a healthy body. Health
and balance are maintained through different forms of breathing. Various breathing
exercises lead to physical and mental development, but deep and rhythmic breathing
is essential to personal growth in all areas. Breath is life, so live life to
the fullest with closer contact with the life power contained in the breath.
Spend some time each day practicing deep rhythmic breathing.
• Sit upright in a comfortable chair and focus on relaxing your entire
body. Put aside the day’s activities and focus on a nature scene, for
example, or anything that does not disturb your emotions.
• Inhale the breath gently through your nose focusing on the breath
going to the back of your throat and feel it filling the lower part of your
lungs as it pushes the diaphragm outward and downward.
• Then fill the middle part of your lungs pushing out your lower ribs,
breastbone, and chest.
• Then fill the upper portion of your lungs forcing your upper chest
outward and lifting the whole chest while completely expanding your ribs.
• While you retain the breath, make sure the muscles at the base of
your neck and shoulders are relaxed. Make your shoulders droop so that you
do not create tension.
• Then gently exhale the breath.
• Try to inhale the breath to the count of six, hold for the count of
three or six, and exhale to the count of six. Start with five minutes a day
and increase the time as you are able to keep your mind and body relaxed.
This is only one of the many powerful breathing exercises taught in the Healthy
Living course program that builds bodily strength and vitality and produces
anti-aging effects. Breathing is the elixir of life. Without breath, there is
no life. Greater use of the breath brings life-long energy and freedom from
aches and pains.
Right Thinking - Relaxation
“Full throttle” and “extreme” are words we often hear
today. Less and less time is given to the power of relaxation to create health
in the body. Relaxation should not be confused with inactivity. Relaxation is
a method of withdrawing consciously from the active states of existence. The
demands of modern life are intense. Living to those demands is exhausting, weakening,
and devitalizing. Relaxation, on the other hand, is invigorating, recharging,
and vitalizing. After a day of physical hard work or mental concentration, it
is important to withdraw, detach—to separate oneself from the work, and
to relax.
Try this simple Relaxation Exercise:
• Sit on a chair with both feet flat on the floor or ground, hands
on your knees, with head, neck, and spine straight. The fingers should be
well apart.
• In this position, let yourself go; i.e., relax completely all over,
without a single muscle in tension in the entire body.
• Keep the thought of peace in your mind; push away any other thoughts
that will tend to disrupt your relaxation time.
• From five to fifteen minutes of this relaxation will bring unexpected
results in the process of recharging a devitalized body.
• Do not fall asleep.
• If you can, practise relaxation two or three times a day. It will
keep you from being unnecessarily irritable or angry.
The Relaxation Exercise is one of many techniques and approaches to good health
taught in the Healthy Living philosophical study program.
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