Instead of steering a crash-course, why not have a crack at an easy exercise that will show you, for a start, that your taste buds well and truly respond to satiability. (satiability = altered perception)
Here, in a nutshell, is what you can do to get off on the right road to success.
1) Purchase favored fruit as follows:
_1 or 2 pineapples flown in ripe,
_or 2 pounds of kiwis, homegrown if possible (foreign kiwis usually
being puffed up with fertilizers),
_or 2 pounds of homegrown strawberries, preferably organic,
_or 2 pounds of non_standardized white peaches,
_or 2 pounds of small fresh figs.
2) At dinner (evening meal), keep to your usual fare, but don’t go all out. Leave the table feeling slightly hungry (and don’t eat anything more that evening)
3) The next morning, instead of breakfast, put the 2 pounds of fresh fruit, you bought the previous day, on the table.
4) Then eat several properly chewed mouthfuls uninterruptedly and without eating anything else in the process.
5) See how your tastebuds react or how your stomach feels.
one of two things may occur:
_either you’ll begin to feel sated and won’t carry the
experiment through,
_or else, you will find the taste of the fruit abruptly changing
after a few mouthfuls, with sweet fruitiness turning unpleasant,
i.e. bland, tart, bitter, acrid, pungent, astringent, and so on.
6) Carry on for a few mouthfuls and you will taste the unpleasant ingredient heightening to the point of tearing your mouth out. Make sure you don’t take things too far, otherwise your mouth may feel seared, which will preclude you eating anything else for the rest of the day.
That’s none too pleasant, but at least you will know for a fact that satiability of taste buds is a part of reality you can taste. You must bear in mind that it may happen that the fruit you choose will taste bad or even put you off at the first mouthful. That is proof positive that that particular fruit does not fulfill the needs of your body or that you are unable to digest it.
It must be remembered that applying instinctotherapy has nothing
to do with this first experiment.
This experiment is intended to allow for maximal displeasure in
order to explore the instinctive mechanisms. Instinctotherapy,
on the contrary, insolves bringing out maximal pleasure, since
pleasure signals the call of instinct and the most urgent call
tallies with the food best adapted to one’s needs.
Pathways necessarily meander through detoxification phases, heralded by any number of outward signs that one will have to know how to read and properly keep under control in order to avoid things going off the rails with too much discomfort or any danger involved. Instincts, inasmuch as you can decipher their language, will stand by your side and guide you faithfully. Yet, it goes without saying that any language requires prior learning.
As a matter of fact, instinctotherapy requires more than learning. A full-blooded conversion has to take place in one’s inner attitude towards food; one has to trace back to some kind of original innocence, a deep release from guilt feelings about pleasure, a different relationship to food and other people in a general way, even an openness to subtle energies that pass through live food. Only then will the joy of eating take on its crucially vital meaning. After twenty years of work, in the course of which my research team and myself have regularly been called on to explain the principles of such a lifestyle, we have been made aware, through our failures, of the overwhelming obstacles that separate present-day man from what must have been his original state. The physiological and psychological conditions that one finds oneself in after years of daily cooking, plus thousands of years of promethean culture, makes the return route to nature long and heart-rending. There are innumerable pitfalls, no end of surprises, discouragement always nearby, and impelling forces almost irresistible.
Confidence in instincts, that have not been integrated through proper learning in early infancy, are necessarily tenuous and difficult to recover. Without that kind of confidence, it is impossible to open up to and really be in tune with one’s body and let pleasure take up its lead position again.
If I may venture a word of advice, do not embark on instinctotherapy haphazardly, lest you do yourself more harm than good; you would be wasting your time and money. Do not follow the example of numerous heedless people who believed in the method and whose failures were a smear on the reputation of instinctotherapy. Remember this principle: Instinctotherapy applied 95% does not make for 95% results. On the contrary, such application never comes up to the mark, and can spell reactions getting out of hand to the point of becoming dangerous. Dietary problems, like those of health, must be given serious consideration. You have one body only for your entire life!
Author: Guy_Claude Burger