Hooray! It’s sweet and succulent Summertime. Sweet scented flowers are attracting the bees. The bees are doing their honey thing. Ripening fruits are bursting forth with sweetness day by delicious day.

Did you know that SWEET is one of the five essential flavors according to Chinese medicine? The others are salty, pungent/sharp, bitter, and sour. To create truly balanced meals and to feel satisfied, it is important to incorporate all the flavors into your daily meal plan. Too much or too little of any flavor throws everything else out of balance – including your organ and endocrine systems, emotions, and cell constituents.

Are you savoring sweetness these days? This is the perfect time to wake up and smell the flowers and taste the juiciness of nature’s pantry, rather than be tempted by those self-defeating cravings for candy and sugar-laden desserts.

Taking your sweet tooth down a notch can have lasting benefits. Think of the range of available sweet tastes as a continuum from intense to gentle. When we allow our palate to become accustomed to the hyper-sweetness of high fructose sweeteners or overly sugared desserts or intense artificial flavors, it becomes difficult to appreciate the subtle deliciousness of nature’s offerings. But we can retrain our palate by savoring the tart crunchiness of an apple or the juicy succulence of a cherry or the luscious slurpiness of a just-opened watermelon.

A few simple tips:

• Start each day with some fresh fruit. This practice can be both satisfying and cleansing to your system.
• Take time to chew each bite thoroughly.
• To really take the time to taste, sit down and pay attention to what you are eating rather than to the news or your To Do list.

Vibrant Woman is brought to you by Minx Boren

From the forthcoming book, The Authentic Woman® Playbook – Daily Discoverings of Your Divine Feminine by the Authentic Woman® Coaching Collaborative

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