Day 220: Does Your Body Like What You Eat?

We have a lot of strange relationships to the food we eat. And the food we don't eat. In this recent google hangout Is it Possible to be Addicted to Eating Healthy?, perspectives are shared from individuals about various food/health addictions, including June, who had spent years being vegan and a raw foodist and even experimenting with 'breatharianism' – the idea that you can survive almost entirely off of air alone.

Now, in simplicity, food is nourishment for the body, but we've gone and complicated or warped this, through developing some strange relationships to food. So, when we take a step back and look at what are the underlying motives for how and what we eat or don't eat, that is where we find the relationships that were the starting point of our decisions. So, like in the google hangout, when June investigated her starting point for having become vegan, for example, what she found was that that decision was actually based in fear, because she'd seen and heard information that said that eating animals is 'bad' and the people who were proponents of various healthy diets looked so 'healthy' and 'glowing' that she wanted to stop eating animals out of fear and the desire to look good and healthy too.

In my life, I also went through some similar relationships to food just in a lesser degree. I went through a brief time of trying to be vegetarian, and a time of experimenting with raw foods, and 'organic' foods. And I found the same thing within my starting point, was that it was actually fear based, based on videos I had watched which said that eating meat was bad for you, or that eating organic foods or raw foods was good for you.

What's interesting about ideas or diet mentalities such as 'veganism' and vegetarianism' or 'raw foodism', is how we can live these as a 'lifestyle', where it becomes like a self definition of 'who we are', where it's based on the information one has come across and the presentation of a certain diet, and it's like we thought 'yeah that sounds so right', and then from there, we decide to try and put ourself and our body into this diet idea. Which is, interestingly, quite backwards, because what we're doing is trying to impose an idea onto our physical that sounded good to us, but yet we really actually have very little effective understanding of how our body functions and operates in any kind of detail. When really you've got to cross-reference things with the physical, and observe the actual physical feedback. The physical body is a complex thing, and diets tend to be presented as 'absolutes', as if the information applies to everyone/will work for everyone, yet there's no way they can take into account each and every person's individual human body, which aren't all exactly the same.

What's so often missing from the information presented out there, is that point of cross-referencing/testing the information for yourself, to see if it actually works for you. And on top of that, what's taken for granted is if one has been eating a certain way for a long time, if you make sudden dramatic changes to your diet it can be quite problematic, and the feedback you get will not be so accurate while the body is going through such extreme changes, until it manages to finally balance things out. So, that is a very important point to take into consideration, that I hardly ever see mentioned/discussed by proponents of various diets.

Like as June mentioned in the google hangout about her experiences with fasting in trying to live the idea of breatharianism, we tend to even ignore the suffering that we are putting our own physical body through. Breatharianism is really a great example of all of this because it is so extreme, and therefore seems a little more obvious, because we really do need food to live and function. So from looking at that example, we can use that to see what we are doing when we take an idea and try to live it, and disregard the actual physical needs or what is actually best for the physical, or even the state of the physical based on it's entire history/life and what it has been through/exposed to or conditions that it has developed, which can all effect how and with what the body requires to be nourished now.

So we'll go up to here for now, and in the next post, I'll continue and share about how, with the tools provided in DIP, I sorted out the relationships I was living toward food/eating to take a more holistic and supportive approach with food as nourishment.

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Day 50: Stepping Out of Character: 'I am Vegan / Vegetarian'

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to believe that when I live the character of ‘Vegan/Vegetarian’ that this means I am ‘doing my part’ to stop animal abuse, and that I am living a lifestyle that is actually going to lead to the end of animal abuse.

 I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to not realize the extent of how unaware I am of the entirety of the situation in existence as to how/why animal abuse is taking place and all the dimensions that is involved, that I could come to believe that I am actually able to not take part in animal abuse, in believing that it’s possible to end the abuse by simply buying products that do not involve the abuse of animals, not considering that no matter what I buy, the very system I am buying it within the very system that is driving the animal abuse that takes place in this world – and thus I am still supporting animal abuse, still participating in animal abuse, and still responsible for animal abuse. Therefore-

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to ignore the fact that my participation in and living as the character of Vegan or Vegetarian was to feed and perpetuate an idea of myself as ‘caring’ and ‘making a difference’ and not actually having the result that I am apparently standing for of ending animal abuse, as I am not taking the necessary action that could possibly actually lead to the end of animal abuse, as no longer supporting the current system and standing up to establish and create a new system which will enable us to actually stop animal abuse, as within the current system that is based on profit and inequality it is impossible to stop animal abuse. See the Equal Money System as the equality based system busy being developed within the starting point of supporting life and ending all abuse.

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to not consider how I took on the character of Vegan / Vegetarian so I could have the ‘feeling’ like I am having a positive impact on the world, so I could ‘feel good’ about myself – which shows that it was simply a character as an act I put on with the starting point and focus being myself – and having a positive experience/feeling about/toward myself, and not actually about stopping animal abuse.

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to imagine in my mind all the animal lives I was ‘saving’ by no longer apparently consuming animal products, and using this picture to create the idea of myself for myself that I am having some kind of impact on animal abuse, within this, focusing on the lives I believed I was saving and ignoring all the rest of the animal abuse that was still taking place and that I’d had no impact on whatsoever, within the justification that I am doing ‘what I can’ and that in, according to my mind, having apparently ‘saved’ a few animals that that was all that really could be expected of me, and all the possible impact I could have, as I can’t control/effect everyone else that is still using products made from animals. Within this not considering that I can in fact have an impact on others, as we all already do impact each other through the examples that we live as the actions we take and the words we speak, and through accepting and allowing the current money system which keeps the majority of the earth’s population enslaved in wage-slavery with little or no choice in what one has access to as one’s needs to be able to choose products that are not made from animals. Thus – 

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to not realize that the characters of Vegan and Vegetarian are elitist lifestyles created and perpetuated to serve consumerism, as those who are poor/in poverty have little to no choice in what they consume and whether it is of animal or not.

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to not consider that in living the character of Vegan or Vegetarian, I am creating and participating in a polarity of plants vs animals, wherein I am placing animals as more important than plants, and not considering that abuse that is done to plants as well, wherein I have decided within myself that something/someone has to suffer/pay the price for me to live, and it will be the plants, and thus within this there is no equality and oneness as consideration for all live equally as all life is of the same substance and all forms are part of this earth and this existence.

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to not consider how I act when I am living as the character of Vegan or Vegetarian, as how I experience myself when I tell others that I am vegan/vegetarian, where I feel a positive charge/feeling for being a ‘good person’ who is ‘doing the right thing’ and used this definition in comparison to others who are not vegan/vegetarian and felt superior toward them, like I am better than them because they are abusing animals, while ignoring that I am still abusing animals, as animals have been and are abused within everything that is made from this earth, as in no way are we actually taking into consideration and caring for the animals, or nature/the environment or ourselves, as all equal parts of existence here, and in no way are living in such a way that is supporting life, but are rather accepting destruction of the earth to take place on a massive scale, where there is only a tiny fraction of area on the land of the earth where animals live unmolested, as we’ve literally taken over the whole planet within the overconsumption driven by the current system by those who seek to profit off of the earth, in total disregard for the immense destruction being done to the earth, animals, nature, and humans.

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to not consider that I decided to become and live as the character of the vegan/vegetarian due to memories, wherein I had seen pictures of animals being abused and felt bad and powerless to stop the abuse that had already taken place within the image/picture, and when the idea of becoming vegan/vegetarian was presented I took it on in order to feel like I was doing something and was not powerless after all - within this showing that I lived this character as a way of directing how I was experiencing myself within myself, to make myself feel better, so in essence I became the vegan/vegetarian character in order to experience myself a certain way, and thus the starting point is not to become a force that can influence the world to actually make a change like ending abuse.

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to not realize that I am wreaking havoc on my physical body and the physical reality by living as characters as information that I’ve taken on and lived as myself that is based on ideas /opinions/beliefs that I learned/read/heard from somewhere, without ensuring that the information is valid as that which if lived will lead to a world where life is supported.

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to not realize that to live as/according to the mind as my beliefs/thoughts/perceptions/feelings/emotions/opinions, I am harming the physical, as I am not living as the physical and thus according to what the physical requires and what actually supports the physical.

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to not realize that the character I live as is a personality suit that I put on in order to make myself feel like/believe that I am something I’m not in actuality.

I commit myself to no longer living as a character for the sake of thinking/believing I am making a difference/having an impact in the world, and commit myself to ensure that who I am will actually have an impact on the earth.

I commit myself to realizing that to end abuse, we must change the money system, as the money system stands as our acceptance of abuse to be done to life as ourselves, nature, the animals, and it’s through the current system that animal abuse is perpetuated, and thus I commit myself to supporting the Equal Money System, as a system where life is valued as the only real value, and thus abuse will not be allowed, and we can begin to reform the balance of nature that should be existing here.

I commit myself to realizing that to live as a character is a criminal act, as I will defend my character no matter whether such character accepts and allows abuse to exist in the world, as a character must be defended because it isn’t real, and thus I commit myself to investigating and finding every way that I live as a character, so that I can stop and become a real being that lives in consideration of life – not as an ego that seeks to be validated and feel good about itself no matter the cost to life.

Day 49 - Character Creation - Food, Diet & Nutrition

Here we’ll begin to look at and take apart the characters we’ve formed and lived as in relation to food/diet/nutrition, through which we’ve programmed our bodies to support our desires of the mind to support the current system and consumerism. 

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to not realize if I can form and train my body in accordance with habits that support consumerism, then I can train my body according to what is best/most effective that causes the least harm and put the least pressure on the environment, nature, the animals.

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to not realize that I cannot trust the feedback that I get from my body as I have trained my body according to my mind, and it is under the control of my mind and thus the feedback will support the mind.

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to not realize how we support each other in developing characters, so that we are actually creating another supporter of the character we are participating in, who will validate us as that character and we will likewise validate them, and within this we'll keep each other locked into characters and not really here living as real beings that exist and live in reality and not as made up characters in our minds.

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to not realize that any information, diet plan, scientific view points, that focuses on which foods to eat from the perspective of what foods are ‘good’ or ‘bad’ for the body, is missing/neglecting the point that we are able to affect and determine the relationship of our body to food, within the relationships we create, participate, and live as toward food/diet/nutrition/health.

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to not consider that I have from a very early age been trained/learned to eat as the mind, wherein I was supported to create relationships to food within attaching feelings, emotions, beliefs, ideas, to food/nutrition for consumerism, to become a consumer for the system as early in one’s life as possible, so that my body becomes trained to seem to want certain foods that are marketed, and thus I must investigate and remove these relationships I have formed toward food so that I can begin to retrain the body toward a diet that actually supports my human physical body.

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to not consider that through/by forming relationships to/toward food I have separated myself from my body and blamed the ‘food’, and thus within putting the focus on the food, I am not focusing on the relationship I have formed to/toward food.

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to not realize the effect I have had through forming relationships toward what is here in this reality, to not realize that within forming relationships, I am separating myself from what is here as myself, and removing my self responsibility to direct what is here as myself, within defining it and holding it in a relationship.

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to not consider that in forming relationships to what is here I’ve formed myself as a character toward what is here, wherein I live as this character as a fake identity toward someone/something in my reality, wherein I define who I am, what I say, what I do toward that form/manifestation.

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to not realize that this forming of and living as characters is utilized within the current system to support consumerism, where in terms of food, diet & nutrition you have characters such as the ‘vegan’, the ‘vegetarian’, the ‘I’m too fat – I must diet to lose weight’ character, the ‘I love to hunt and eat meat’ character, the ‘processed foods is bad character’, the ‘raw food’ character, the ‘fruitarian’ character, the ‘superfoods’ character, the‘I’m so cool because I drink wheatgrass’ character, the ‘I love to bake character, the ’Martha Stewart’ character who always makes the ‘perfect meals’ for every occasion, the ‘I don’t care what I eat, whatever’s fastest to prepare’ character,  and many more.

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to not consider the consequences that I am creating and manifesting in the physical reality by participating in these characters and validating others to live as these characters as well, wherein I am living as a character that is not designed in consideration of and in harmony with the physical reality, but in separation from the physical reality, wherein the physical reality and our part and responsibility in creating it has not been considered, which has led to a world where abuse is taking place all over the world in each and every single moment.

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to not consider that my approach to food/diet/nutrition has always been one of separation, wherein I only looked at myself and my life and my diet, in separation from the whole of this physical reality, wherein I only considered my diet and relationship to food in terms of what is available to me within my immediate environment, and not considered how does it get there, where does it come from, what is the process in which it is produced, what abuse was involved in the process, and within not being aware of the full/total big picture of how we are creating what is here, I have not considered how best to direct my relationship toward food, in a way that will be best for life, as I have not considered all the factors involved.

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to accept a society in which we are not aware of exactly what happens within how food is produced and distributed, and within this, to think I don’t want to know, not realizing that the aversion to being interested in how what we consume is produced, is the result of brainwashing and propaganda to support you as a consumer to not ask questions that will cost businesses profits, so that they can profit off your accepted ignorance and blindness by convincing you that what you really want is to ignore that which has an important role in your life and experience of existence as a physical being in physical reality.

I commit myself to investigating and exposing every character that we’ve created and allowed to exist to/toward food, so to correct our relationship to/toward food, so that effective communication with/as the physical body can be established and approach food as fuel/physical support for the body, not as fuel for the mind in abuse of the body.

I commit myself to do common sense research into how the physical operate to understand how best to support the human physical body with what is here, within understanding the nutritional requirements and how to effectively provide them to all beings.

I commit myself to exposing how we develop and support these characters within the children through parenting where we pass on our relationships to food to our children and teach them by example to eat for the mind and not for and in consideration of life.

I commit myself to investigating all relationships I’ve formed to/toward food, so that I can correct myself to live in support of the body and myself as all life here, and no longer live as  relationships within the mind in separation from what is here as thoughts/beliefs/perceptions/opinions/wants/desires to create energy for the mind’s existence at the cost of the physical as my human physical body and the physical reality as a whole.

I commit myself to establishing a society in which the physical is actually considered and the human is supported to be aware of what is taking place in the world and how we are utilizing the earth’s resources, and the disparaging differences that exist where many of the earth’s population that are in poverty do not have access to adequate food or nutrition, and those in elite countries who have access to a wide variety of foods yet are not supporting the body with effective nutrition even though they actually have food available to them, due to eating from/as the mind through relationships formed to/toward food as characters that serve to support consumerism and profit for a few at the cost of life. Within this, I commit myself to support and establish the Equal Money System, as the economic system through which it will be possible to consider life and do what we find is best for life.

In the post to come we’ll look at in more detail the characters we’ve formed and participated in and the consequences that we have created through living as characters within relationships to/toward food/diet/nutrition.

To get an understanding of how we have manifested the current reality and current nature of ourselves through the relationships we’ve created/formed/lived as to/toward what is here, it is suggested to read Heaven’s Journey to Life blog  from the very beginning.

For more context on Character creation read:

Day 79: Stepping out of Character with LOVED ONES

Day 78: Stepping out of Character

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