     | | ETTORE MAZZEI ~ CHEF, AUTHOR, AND WHOLE FOOD NUTRITIONIST Food Combining and Balancing Your pH What, When, and How to Eat? Exercise - Do What Feels Good! Experience All Five Senses Fully How Sex Can Emotionally and Physically Benefit Your Health And Much More ! |
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"You can learn more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation" ~ Plato This quote perfectly captures the essence of the book you are about to read. From the get-go, you'll see the word play pop up and recur throughout the chapters. I write about play as a way of getting to know yourself and strengthening your health. What do I mean by play? It's an attitude, a way of being in the world. We associate it with children because children play naturally. How? They connect with other children and if they lose this imaginative connection they move on and do something else. They do not spend days thinking or worrying: "Should I still be friends with so-and-so?" "What she said to me hurt," "I opened my big mouth and I screwed up again." Kids live in their bodies, not in their heads. When something does not feel right, they move on. They are direct and frank. Kids laugh thousands of times a week. Adults laugh less than a dozen times a week. Kids feel, they do not think. You did that at one point, when you were a kid, and then ... things happened and you stopped. As adults, our habit has become to look at the world through our past and our preconceived, acquired knowledge rather than our heart and our direct experience. It's time to bust this armor open, to reconnect with our instincts. What does sex have to do with fitness?Few people in this country are fully aware of their bodies, health and sexuality. Most of us become aware of our bodies' imbalances when we are dealt a severe blow, such as cancer, heart disease or diabetes. For those that have been dealt such a severe blow and possibly for some that have not been dealt with it yet, here is one fact to consider: YOUR BODY HAS BEEN SICK FOR YEARS, IF NOT DECADES! Warning signs that your body has been sick include: colds, fevers, being tired all the time, fatigue, acne, flatulence, indigestion, heartburn, acid reflux, fever sores, depression, chronic fatigue syndrome, aches and pain, to name a few. If you suffer from any of the above symptoms, your body has stored more poisons and toxins than it can release and needs to be cleansed. The good news is that your body is miraculous. But the bad news is that your body is miraculous. It is amazing how much abuse the human body can take without our even being aware of it. On the other hand; it is amazing how quickly the human body can heal itself. You get to choose the way it will be for you. Read this story, below, and see if you recognize yourself. A young and successful executive was traveling down a neighborhood street, going a bit too fast in his new Jaguar. He was watching for kids darting out from between parked cars and slowed down when he thought he saw something. As his car passed, no children appeared. Instead, a brick smashed into the Jag's side door! He slammed on the brakes and backed the Jag back to the spot where the brick had been thrown. The angry driver then jumped out of the car, grabbed the nearest kid and pushed him up against a parked car shouting, "What was that all about and who are you? Just what the heck are you doing? That's a new car and that brick you threw is going to cost a lot of money. Why did you do it?"Do not wait for the brick to hit you in the area of health... ...Or sex!!! Intimate communion with another is one of the greatest joys on this earth. When two people melt together as one during sex there is no better feeling. Unfortunately, many of us or, let me be bold and say most of us, have suppressed our sexual energies because of hurt that was caused by another or pain from our childhood. We shut down, we close our heart and most of us do not even know we are doing it. We are unconscious about what's happening just as we are unconscious of how we compromise our health by poor eating habits. It's probably easier to see how others shut down than to recognize it in yourself. Keep your head up today and look at people in the eyes and then tell me what you see. In my view, many people are shut down. If you have been suppressing your pain, hurt, sadness, happiness or love for years or decades, it will not be easy at first to feel again, and it might not feel very good. But it will get easier, as you start to feel and let yourself feel more. Let's look at a child again. A child is fully self-expressed, full of love, accepting of everything and uninhibited. Consider that this is our natural state and the state we should always be in, as children and as adults: Fully self-expressed, loving, accepting and uninhibited. As adults we are rarely in this state. CONSIDER THAT THIS IS A WARNING SIGN!! Let's focus on love. Consider that when we are not being loving, it is unnatural. Love is a natural expression of who we are. And we do not have to go looking for love; it is where we come from.  Ettore Mazzei |