Autumn Qi Chats | Week 13
How’s the ole cooker?
This week we discuss nutritional wellness as we transition from Autumn into the Winter season.
Interested in keeping that flame burning?
What you drink and eat can affect your body. We know that. But have you though of the temperature of the foods you’re eating this Winter season? All too often we forget that nutrition is about flow of Qi. There is a connection between flow and digestion. In Chinese Medicine, the Spleen is connected to digestion by transporting and transforming food into Qi (aka Gu Qi). That flow is part of the HEAT in your ‘warm cooker’ knowns as your stomach. How you consume your food (cooked vs raw) will have an affect on that flow due to the warm cooker losing it’s heat. Since it’s cold outside, we want to be sure to keep our insides warm.
Shifting how you eat this winter.
I often get put on the ‘mean Angi’ list around the holiday season when I begin suggesting to clients and students to stop drinking liquids with ice in them. A chilled drink cools your ‘warm cooker’ and slows the digestion. So… now it’s time to drink more lukewarm temperatures and consider more warming teas. Just the shift in what you drink can alter your digestion. Many of you will thank me and some of you may not even miss the iced drinks!
Neuro-Qi Tip o’the day!
Heat it up!
Put an X over your ice machine!
Consider warming drinks like Ginger Tea
Yang-Yin Water is a great balance. Boil water and then let it sit til cool. Have this as your water throughout the day.
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