You may have seen Disney's Oscar Nominated feature about a small cleaner robot called Wall-E. It starts in a bleak and silent looking future of rubbish and early 20th century musical nostalgia, and swiftly moves onto a mobile yet bed ridden society taking their sustenance in liquidised form. I didn't find it very cheery, and I've no doubt the kids didn't either. Come on Disney, what happened to Bambi and Snow White? Has everyone lost hope?
We've all seen the tabloid horror stories about children who weigh more in stones than their age, or people who are so obese that they are bed ridden for life. While such examples are extreme, most people believe that our junk food culture and sedentary lifestyle is to blame. They try to demonise the foods we eat, and warn us that these foods are killing us. In fact the truth is that their well-meaning advice is doing rather more damage.
Most people have got things the wrong way round. They see the world around them, they see their bodies, they read the newspapers, they listen to other peoples stories, and from these influences they form their beliefs about what makes things happen. A belief is just a thought that you think long enough that it becomes a dominant thought that is readily accessed, and which the world in turn responds to.
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.
But the same family might have a very different attitude to relationships, and your parents may teach you other beliefs, which do not serve you very well on that, or other subjects.
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.
What is certain is that if you believe that something is not good for you, and you still participate, then that activity and the belief behind will ensure that it is will not be good for you. For example, if you have bought into the belief that eating junk food makes you fat, then it surely will, because you always get what you expect in life. Yet as you look around you, you see many people who not only eat junk food, but also thrive at the same time. How can this be? It seems they do not hold similar beliefs to you on the subject of diet.
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.
People get fat because they eating the types of food that they believe will make them fat. They look at their bodies and feel bad, and feel fat, and the situation gets worse. Also, in feeling bad about eating these foods, they are attracted to more of the comfort foods which they know are bad for them, which just exacerbates the situation.
Disease, we are told, is caused by bad diet and poor lifestyle choices such as smoking and drinking excessively and lack of exercise. In fact these are merely indicators of a greater underlying problem, namely how the person feels. Negative emotion or dis-ease is what lies at the root of disease. The external attributes such as smoking, drinking and eating so called 'unhealthy' foods is just a symptom, yet even so smoking and drinking and poor diet is blamed for disease. This is missing the point entirely. It would be like saying the car stopped because the fuel gauge reached empty, where the fuel gauge is just an indicator. The real problem was the lack of fuel in the tank.
Not one other person can tell you what is going to work for you. You alone hold the key to what you want in your life. The more you read about the evils of food and their harmful effects, the more you limit your choices. If you didn't know this stuff, you would have been better off. As you find activities, foods and thoughts about your body which feel better and practice them instead, you are on the right track. Your emotions are very finely tuned guidance that will take you in the right direction, and if you contemplate doing something that goes against your beliefs, then you will feel it is your gut. What you eat is far less important that what you think, and therefore how you feel about it. Get happy and make your choices from there.
We've all seen the tabloid horror stories about children who weigh more in stones than their age, or people who are so obese that they are bed ridden for life. While such examples are extreme, most people believe that our junk food culture and sedentary lifestyle is to blame. They try to demonise the foods we eat, and warn us that these foods are killing us. In fact the truth is that their well-meaning advice is doing rather more damage.
Most people have got things the wrong way round. They see the world around them, they see their bodies, they read the newspapers, they listen to other peoples stories, and from these influences they form their beliefs about what makes things happen. A belief is just a thought that you think long enough that it becomes a dominant thought that is readily accessed, and which the world in turn responds to.
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.
But the same family might have a very different attitude to relationships, and your parents may teach you other beliefs, which do not serve you very well on that, or other subjects.
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.
What is certain is that if you believe that something is not good for you, and you still participate, then that activity and the belief behind will ensure that it is will not be good for you. For example, if you have bought into the belief that eating junk food makes you fat, then it surely will, because you always get what you expect in life. Yet as you look around you, you see many people who not only eat junk food, but also thrive at the same time. How can this be? It seems they do not hold similar beliefs to you on the subject of diet.
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.
People get fat because they eating the types of food that they believe will make them fat. They look at their bodies and feel bad, and feel fat, and the situation gets worse. Also, in feeling bad about eating these foods, they are attracted to more of the comfort foods which they know are bad for them, which just exacerbates the situation.
Disease, we are told, is caused by bad diet and poor lifestyle choices such as smoking and drinking excessively and lack of exercise. In fact these are merely indicators of a greater underlying problem, namely how the person feels. Negative emotion or dis-ease is what lies at the root of disease. The external attributes such as smoking, drinking and eating so called 'unhealthy' foods is just a symptom, yet even so smoking and drinking and poor diet is blamed for disease. This is missing the point entirely. It would be like saying the car stopped because the fuel gauge reached empty, where the fuel gauge is just an indicator. The real problem was the lack of fuel in the tank.
Not one other person can tell you what is going to work for you. You alone hold the key to what you want in your life. The more you read about the evils of food and their harmful effects, the more you limit your choices. If you didn't know this stuff, you would have been better off. As you find activities, foods and thoughts about your body which feel better and practice them instead, you are on the right track. Your emotions are very finely tuned guidance that will take you in the right direction, and if you contemplate doing something that goes against your beliefs, then you will feel it is your gut. What you eat is far less important that what you think, and therefore how you feel about it. Get happy and make your choices from there.
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The Author is a teacher of law of attraction and regularly contributes to HappyHappyHappyNews, the place on the web for positive news stories. Visit the site for Top Tips to survive the Credit Crunch.
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