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.
The majority of people need to rethink the issue. When they observe the world and how it is changing, the cause and effect (according to the latest study), they think these thoughts chronically, form beliefs, and then end up living those beliefs, as the world responds to match their beliefs.
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 it is astonishing that in the 21st Century, so much attention is given to diet, to healthy lifestyle, to subjects such as smoking, obesity, pregnancy, the huge list of dos and don'ts which tends to change from one week to the next.
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.
Your feelings will guide to the most appropriate course of action. Consider them your internal guidance. They will tell you whether what you're thinking, and to a lesser extent doing, is in line with your beliefs, and therefore whether it will benefit you. You are living what you believe on all subjects in your life. While you may think that you formed these beliefs from observing the world around you, actually you formed your beliefs and then the world responded to match them. The same thing applies to your body and your relationship to food.
I am not advocating that a mars bar is better for you than an apple, but the demonising of the various food groups doesn't serve anyone, because what you think of the food is far more important than the food itself. Your body is very adaptable, and will make the most of whatever you give it, unless your beliefs get in the way, in which case the body struggles to process what you feed it.
We are told that foods contain too much salt, carbohydrate, protein, fat, saturated fat, wrong type of fat, etc. As this list includes most of the things that you enjoy eating, what happens? You eat them all anyway, and as you believe they are bad for you, they are bad for you. Their advice is well meaning, but based on flawed reasoning and extremely counter productive.
Obesity is running rampant because people have beliefs which say to them that as the eat this they will get fat, or as the drink this they will get fat, or as they reach this age they will get fat. Even though there are millions of examples to the contrary, the propaganda prevails, and people suffer the consequences of poor choices in what they give their attention to.
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.
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.
The majority of people need to rethink the issue. When they observe the world and how it is changing, the cause and effect (according to the latest study), they think these thoughts chronically, form beliefs, and then end up living those beliefs, as the world responds to match their beliefs.
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 it is astonishing that in the 21st Century, so much attention is given to diet, to healthy lifestyle, to subjects such as smoking, obesity, pregnancy, the huge list of dos and don'ts which tends to change from one week to the next.
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.
Your feelings will guide to the most appropriate course of action. Consider them your internal guidance. They will tell you whether what you're thinking, and to a lesser extent doing, is in line with your beliefs, and therefore whether it will benefit you. You are living what you believe on all subjects in your life. While you may think that you formed these beliefs from observing the world around you, actually you formed your beliefs and then the world responded to match them. The same thing applies to your body and your relationship to food.
I am not advocating that a mars bar is better for you than an apple, but the demonising of the various food groups doesn't serve anyone, because what you think of the food is far more important than the food itself. Your body is very adaptable, and will make the most of whatever you give it, unless your beliefs get in the way, in which case the body struggles to process what you feed it.
We are told that foods contain too much salt, carbohydrate, protein, fat, saturated fat, wrong type of fat, etc. As this list includes most of the things that you enjoy eating, what happens? You eat them all anyway, and as you believe they are bad for you, they are bad for you. Their advice is well meaning, but based on flawed reasoning and extremely counter productive.
Obesity is running rampant because people have beliefs which say to them that as the eat this they will get fat, or as the drink this they will get fat, or as they reach this age they will get fat. Even though there are millions of examples to the contrary, the propaganda prevails, and people suffer the consequences of poor choices in what they give their attention to.
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.
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