Diet - Thinking Off the Scale
The latest offering from Disney Pixar, Wall-E, paints a rather bleak portrait of the future. Piles of junk lay about waiting to be cleaned up, and society has fled the planet to live instead on giant spaceships, bed ridden and obese and drinking liquidised food through a straw. I found the whole thing so depressing; I had to switch it off. Snow White and the Seven Dwarves seem a million miles away.
We are, as a society, bombarded with pictures of fat people, told that obesity is going to accelerate and become a worldwide health disaster. Children are now becoming obese too, as news of poor food choices filters down into their world, and affects their thinking. So governments and health organisations lash out at junk food and refined sugar products, blaming them for the problem. The warnings increase and the situation gets worse and worse.
Most people have got things the wrong way round. They see the world around them, they see their bodies, they read the newspapers, they listen to other peoples stories, and from these influences they form their beliefs about what makes things happen. A belief is just a thought that you think long enough that it becomes a dominant thought that is readily accessed, and which the world in turn responds to.
When you were young, you may have known someone who grew up in a family whose parents never discussed money, always felt good about it, and didn’t worry about not having enough, even if they weren’t what you might call rich. A child in this situation will learn a good money vibration, which will serve them well for the rest of their life.
It may also be true that other subjects in the family were less beneficial. If your parents relationship was not good, or their feelings toward each other not good, you may find yourself unknowingly picking up those vibrations and carrying them into your adult life. The reason I suppose they say we marry people like our parents.
We take our cues from the world around us. Our caretakers, peers, friends, social circle, and the aspects of society to which we are exposed, all contribute to our beliefs. No two people have lived the same experience and hold exactly the same beliefs on all subjects.
So in the 21st Century it is amazing that so much attention is given to the contributory factors such as diet and lifestyle choices, when what matters far more is the beliefs of the person. What makes it worse is that the advice changes from year to year, leaving many people more confused than ever.
There is no great big manual in the sky to tell you how to live your life and get what you want. Every individual has lived a unique set of life circumstances, and therefore holds an individual set of beliefs. No one can tell you whether this diet, or that pill, or that treatment, or that religion will benefit you. Only you know whether it is good for you. Some people think Scientology is for quacks, but if it works for Mr Cruise, good for him.
What is certain is that if you believe that something is not good for you, and you still participate, then that activity and the belief behind will ensure that it is will not be good for you. For example, if you have bought into the belief that eating junk food makes you fat, then it surely will, because you always get what you expect in life. Yet as you look around you, you see many people who not only eat junk food, but also thrive at the same time. How can this be? It seems they do not hold similar beliefs to you on the subject of diet.
I would never say that eating a chocolate bar is better for you than say, an apple, but when society gives a dog a bad name, it serves no-one, especially when the food is something that people will want to eat, and most of the ‘bad’ foods fall into that category. You body will deal with anything you give it, unless your belief contravenes, in which case it will not process the food effectively.
Our health conscious times, and the many well meaning health practitioners out there have left us with is a long list of things that we shouldn’t eat for one reason of another. This thing has too much salt, that has too much saturated fat, or too much of the wrong type of fat. That food has too many carbohydrates, or too much protein, or too many preservatives. The list goes on and on. Our good food choices are reduced to a handful of things that don’t really appeal to anyone. What invariably happens is that people go ahead and eat those things anyway, and suffer as a result.
People get fat because they eating the types of food that they believe will make them fat. They look at their bodies and feel bad, and feel fat, and the situation gets worse. Also, in feeling bad about eating these foods, they are attracted to more of the comfort foods which they know are bad for them, which just exacerbates the situation.
We are told that disease is caused by lack of exercise, smoking, bad diet, and excessive drinking, all considered bad lifestyle choices. In fact these are indicators of a bigger issue which lies, ruminating, beneath the surface; namely how the person feels. People naturally want to feel good, have healthy good feeling, beautiful bodies, and when they don’t, they don’t feel good, and tend to gravitate towards activities such as these. The real cause is negative emotion, or dis-ease. That is what causes disease. The external factors are merely indicators.
No one else will ever be able to give you an answer of how to become the body shape you want. Only you can know. It begins with gravitating towards feeling good, and then following along with actions that keep you there. Eat food that makes you feel good, take actions that feel like a good idea. If it doesn’t feel good, then know that it will not be serving your body well, and it will likely get in the way of your body’s functions which, left to their own devices will thrive. What lies at the root is not the things you eat, but only how you feel about them. Make friends with your food.
Tags: diet, dieting, Food science, health, law of attraction, metaphysics, positive thinking, Weight Control, Weight Loss
