Does Your Eating Honor You?
Question for you: Would you take a hard hammer and hit yourself in the head with it? Repeatedly? Daily? You wouldn’t right? Ok. Are you super sure about that?
You might haughtily claim you wouldn’t do something so glaringly stupid and harmful to yourself but a lot of us do activity like this everyday––you just do it in slow motion. You don’t believe me do you?
Granted, you might not be using a hammer to pound yourself in the head, injuring yourself on the outside daily, but are you using your fork to completely destroy and injure yourself on the inside? And like...daily? I once heard a very, very wise man say that we dig our own graves with our teeth. And he might be right.
Warning: If you’re not an awakened (CONSCIOUS) eater, your dinner plate might be a weapon of mass destruction to you and your future well-being. You might be eating plates and plates of slow suicide because you never stopped to inspect what the world is dumping down your throats––and I don’t know about you, but I don’t trust “this” world like that. If you haven’t noticed, it’s a bit nefarious and occasionally “extraordinarily” idiotic. Did that sound too judgy?
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A CONSCIOUS EATER & UNCONSCIOUS EATER
What is the difference between a “CONSCIOUS EATER” and an “UNCONSCIOUS EATER“? A conscious eater is EXTREMELY AWAKE to every substance that enters their system. A conscious eater is discerning about what they put into their mouths to digest, to become their body.
On the other hand, an unconscious eater (in a sleep state) grabs anything and everything to quench the (real or phantom) sensation of hunger nagging their belly and mind. Like a garbage can dumpster, they're completely open to receiving anything an industrial food product marketer wants to shove into them. It only needs to be shiny, glossy and tasty––and come with a pretty commercial––poison or not.
In our defense, we do grow up in a way that conditions us for this. As soon as we are born, people are shoving things in our mouths to feed us and we just trust that what they are shoving down our throats is actually healthy.
We grow up like little bird-hatchlings, mouths open, waiting for our mothers to pop out a sore mammary gland (and we don’t know where that thing has been), or plop food onto our plates (which could be 7-Eleven’s finest frozen fare right from the microwave), or buy bags of hot slop from the closest fast-food joint, to eat burgers and tacos prepped by a 15-year-old with bad acne oozing and dripping out of their pores (Yay! Tasty and sanitary! Thanks Mom!).
No matter what our mom’s did, at least they halfway loved us and (somewhat) did the best jobs they could by choosing what to shove in our willing mouths. After all, we were driving them certifiably crazy. Slowly killing us could be justified and likely an act of self-defense. But now that we’ve left our moms, are we still little dumb hatchlings with our naive little mouths open? Should we just openly trust the food industrialists in the same way we trusted our mothers––knowing they only care about quarterly profit and not your quarterly health check-up from the doctor?
HONORING THYSELF THROUGH EATING
How often do you turn a food product around to read the ingredients of the faux food before you take it into your body to become your future health output? If your answer is, "not often," you may want to desperately RSVP this invitation to fully awaken yourself––as in awaken yourself to a new HONOR OF YOURSELF and HONOR OF YOUR HEALTH. You may not want to hear this, but, I can tell your level of self-esteem just by looking at what's on your plate.
When it comes to honoring yourself and honoring your health through food, it's not a complicated practice. Input will always equal output. It’s a simple metric to follow. What you eat today creates the output of your health tomorrow. It's really that simple.
The substances you consume today are literally becoming your community of cells––i.e. your body. Your body will be a community of vibrant, alive cells, or sick, beleaguered and deteriorating cells, completely based on what you are feeding them. But, what are you feeding them?
Truthfully, some of you feed your dogs with more careful discernment than you feed your own cells. Did I just step on some toes? (Well are those toes healthy and vibrant, or sickly and deteriorating?) Don’t hate me because I love you enough to take a stand for your health and am encouraging you to do the same. Don’t let the food industrialists train you into being a human garbage dumpster for their heartless (cancer causing) profiteering. Just because it’s edible doesn’t mean it’s food.
Stand up for yourself. Show yourself that you love you. If you are eating only to satiate your tongue and belly, I’d advise you bring your brains to the table as well. The latter is a better dinner companion than the former two. Make your eating an act of enlightenment, not an event of self-sabotage.
Now, who loves you?
Clearly, I do.
Be a conscious, awake, enlightened eater.
Doing anything other than that makes as much sense as hitting yourself in the head with a hammer––daily.
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