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Our Long Term Relationship with Our Food
The holiday’s are one of the most difficult times of the year to maintain a healthy diet. It is a time of year when we tend to take a leave of absence from wellness to indulge in decadent holiday treats. The strange thing is that even when we know how to create incredibly healthy alternatives that are just as delicious, we can’t seem to get past our traditional holiday favorites.
What’s peculiar is that these great tasting healthy alternatives are more than sufficient 11 months out of the year, however, during this holiday season they just can’t stack up against the traditional competition. If this is true, can it really be just the food?
The explanation for this phenomena lies in our relationships to our food. Think about relationships in general. Our relationships tend to be bonded by our emotions. We associate others with the emotions that are brought about while we are with them. The dynamic of the relationship is based upon our experiences with that person and how they make us FEEL. It is no different in terms of the relationships we form with our food.
There is however a very important distinction between how the relationship makes us feel, and how beneficial the relationship is for both parties involved. The only way to maintain a healthy functional relationship, is to learn to separate the way we feel about the actual subject of the relationship from the emotional experiences we have arbitrarily attached to the subject of the relationship.
When you are in a relationship for a long period of time you will inevitably go through a great deal of strong emotional experiences. Some of these experiences will be good, some will be unpleasant, and some may even be life changing. When we attach these experiences to the relationship, we create the illusion that these experiences are dependent upon the existence of that relationship.
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Healing Addiction Naturally
Anyone who becomes “addicted” to something is trying to fill a void within themselves. We feel incomplete and we are provided with very few options to become whole. If we use only will and logic to quit something then we are not filling that void and the addiction will resurface in new ways until eventually we find what we were looking for.
There is no sense in trying to “beat addiction”. Addiction means that we know what we want and we will do whatever we can to have it. Anyone who has ever tried to beat an addiction has experienced the incredible power of the forces of addiction. I call this force the “addiction energy”. If we honor the purpose of our “addiction energy”, and find out what we are truly missing or craving, than we can harness that power and use it to achieve personal health, happiness, and abundance. The key is to be very clear about what we are truly searching for physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. If we address all 4 of those aspects we are sure to find exactly what we are craving.
My point is that if we find out what we are truly addicted to we can find out how to get what we crave naturally without hurting ourselves or anyone else. Addictions and craving are just indications that we are lacking something that, deep inside, we know we need. It only becomes dangerous when we seek to fulfill such cravings in spite of our health/safety, our planet’s health/safety, or the health/safety of those around us. Due to the fact that we have been taken so far from our nature, often times there are cravings that we do not understand and so there seems to be no safe natural way to fulfill those desires. (more…)
