Eat It

Eat It

There are few topics outside of politics and religion that are as frothy with opinions as what we should and shouldn’t consume. We have rules galore. We have dictums. We have medical professionals declaiming with great pomp. Nutritionists contradict each other, Major corporations want to do things to it, Governments like to regulate it. Gluttons chew it, Breatharians eschew it. Heh.

Our nourishment comes more from our minds than our outside.

This is not a popular opinion.

I don’t expect you to just say, “ok,” but rather, I want you to think about what you think about food.

Victor Frankl, the psychologist and concentration camp survivor, talks about his bread and water diet, and how amazed he was that people didn’t get sicker because of it.

Some people can drink alcohol and never be affected.

Some people eat tiny portions and gain weight, other eat huge portions and stay slim.

What do you think about what you think about food and drink?

Do you think some food is good and some food is bad? Or maybe some things to drink are wholesome and others toxic? Do you think that your nourishment is contingent on what you get around? Or could something else be going on?

Breatharians claim to obtain all their nourishment through breath. Taoist masters of documented great age are observed consuming a few herbs and maybe some tea in a day. Religions have a wide variety of rules and restrictions.

“You are what you eat” is an old saw, but it might be more accurately stated as, “You are what you think about what you eat.” It’s not as pithy.

We all have stuff. Some of us have stuff around food or drink. Bringing those topics to the surface can be profoundly life changing for us.

Imagine how your life would feel if everything you consumed was for the sheer joy of it.

How do you feel when you feel beautiful and attractive right now?

How do you feel when you feel healthy and clean right now?

How do you feel when you transmute all you consume to nourishment?

If we think of all food and drink as neutral, what happens to our beliefs. So much else in the world is all about our attitude, our beliefs, our judgments, it’s easy to see how food and drink can fit in here, too.

How have I changed from feeling rigid in my ideas about consumption to knowing I am always sustained?

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