Reading this book may have contrived the delusion that instinctotherapy
was an easy course to steer...
Could anything be more straightforward than eating natural
food the way one pleases?
Experience has, however, shown that reinstating our dietary instincts requires being cautious and sticking to rules that can’t be rustled up overnight. The pioneers of instinctotherapy had to grope around for years before they understood the main processes regulating nutrition and brought them under control.
It should be remembered that we have schooled our body and digestive tract from a very early age on modified foods that do not allow us to experience any feeling of satiability; the flavor of a feeding bottleful of sweetened milk or of porridge barely changes while it is being drunk or eaten. That is as good as saying that we have deeply embedded in our psyche a body image bereft of any dietary instinct!
All we could go by was nausea or digestive distress, which occurred haphazardly on account of addiction. Foods that seem most potent for detoxicating the body either put us off most or the most potentially nefarious ones appeal to us. Drawing that line is the devil’s own job. Moreover, there is no knowing ad hoc whether an intervening disorder follows from misapplied instinctotherapy or the body intentionally trying for detoxification.
Experience has shown, with some thirty years’ hindsight, that it is incautious to venture out into such a stark departure from typical dietary practice without both being well-grounded and assisted. Countless snares are in store, under medical pressure, or even under the effect of subconscious forces that anchor us in our mother’s food. The foregoing are strewn all along the combat course on a thorny and hazardous road that forever threatens to doom you to failure. There should be no messing around with raw food. Being put through one’s paces can’t be done on one’s own. Trusting one’s instinct is truly great, provided it hasn’t somehow or other been stumped be it by a single factor, else you’re on the slippery slope. One, therefore, needs to know how to identify and sidestep any cause apt to jam our instincts. That calls for reasonable, practical, and theoretical training. In the early days, you need guidance, support, and advice from a seasoned practitioner in suitable surroundings. More of that in the coming pages.