Taoist Secrets of Eating for Balance

Explains how to use your Taoist astrology birth chart as a personal nutritional guide for health, longevity, and organ energy balance We are each born with a unique combination of heavenly and earthly energies defined by the Five Elements and dictated by the Universe at the moment you take your first breath. This “birth chi” can be calculated using the year, month, day, and time of your birth, and it reveals your personal profile of health and emotional strengths and weaknesses as well as the energy cycles you will encounter throughout your life. In this Inner Alchemy Astrology nutrition guide, Master Mantak Chia and Christine Harkness-Giles explore how to strengthen your birth chi through your eating habits, revealing which foods will address imbalances in your Five Element organ energy profile. The authors explain which organs are connected with each Element--Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, and Water--and provide detailed food lists based on ancient Taoist wisdom that reveal the Yin, Yang, hot, cold, and Five Element aspects of many common foods and superfoods. They emphasize the importance of local, seasonal, and fresh foods and of acid-alkaline balance for health. The authors illustrate the Five Elements’ characteristics through sample profiles for celebrities such as Paul McCartney and Meryl Streep, along with Taoist nutritional recommendations based on their charts. The authors also explore how your Inner Alchemy astrology profile determines your life and relationships and explain how inner alchemy practices and Five Element nutrition can improve all aspects of your life. By eating in line with your personal Five Element energetic profile, as part of ancient Inner Alchemy techniques, you can improve health and longevity and strengthen connections with your loved ones and the energies of the cosmos.

Mantak Chia, world-famous Inner Alchemy and Chi Kung master, founded the Universal Healing Tao System in 1979 and has taught tens of thousands of students and trained instructors all over the world. The founder of the Tao Garden Health Spa and Resort in Thailand, he is the author of more than 60 books, including Healing Light of the Tao. Christine Harkness-Giles is a certified Universal Healing Tao instructor, feng shui consultant, and astrologer. Coauthor with Master Chia of Inner Alchemy Astrology, she leads Inner Alchemy Astrology classes and trainings in London, France, Berlin, and Hawaii.

Acknowledgments Putting Five-Element Nutrition into Practice Introduction 1 • The Tao of Digestion 2 • The Tao of Food 3 • Applying Five-Element Nutrition Using Inner Alchemy Astrology 4 • Fire Element 5 • Earth Element 6 • Metal Element 7 • Water Element 8 • Wood Element Appendix A. General Reference Tables Appendix B. Tables for Your Own Birth Chart Analysis Appendix C. Element-Based Food Tables Appendix D. Organ-Based Food Tables Recommended Reading About the Authors The Universal Healing Tao System and Training Center Index