Wisdom traditions include Traditional medicine and spirituality. Traditional medicine brings about balance and balance brings about health.

Traditional medicine works by following nature. It works by doing what nature does. It works by doing what nature does before She does it herself!

For example, as a metaphor: Too much accumulation of dry wood in a forest will naturally lead to a forest fire. This natural forest fire will burn up the excess accumulation of dry wood. So the balance was achieved naturally. According to traditional medicine, we humans can go out and gather up the dry wood from the forest and burn it in our fires, thereby also bringing the forest into balance. This balances the forest by reducing the accumulation of dry wood and thereby prevents the forest fire.

So to take it out of metaphor, if we have too much stuff, wisdom would have us reduce that accumulation by giving some of that stuff away or throwing some of it away. Because the excess accumulation is going to be brought into balance one way or another. Nature doesn't tolerate accumulation for long.

Same for being overweight, skipping meals occasionally is a way to bring things into balance because the other alternative is being forced to not eat due to lack of access to food.

There needs to be an ebb and flow. The pantry should get filled up and then the pantry should be eaten from and reduced. If the pantry is not eaten from and reduced then things will get old and go bad and be forgotten about and mice and rats and bugs will get it. Same thing happens in our bodies with yeast and parasites, etc.

Hope this helps! Thanks for reading.

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