“If bad food doesn’t cause disease and if good food doesn’t cure it, why should anybody make an effort to eat well?”
Conscious eating is a beautiful example of conscious living...
And conscious living is what a life well lived is made of.
Eating well is a form of self-love and self-care that nourishes the mind and spirit as much as it does the body.
Self-love is a natural byproduct of self-confidence...
And both self-confidence and high self-value are common key characteristics of people who are able to quickly resolve and prevent biological conflicts possess.
Many people experience major health changes when they intentionally change their diet and adopt healthy lifestyle habits.
It can seem like the diet and exercise are what caused the change and “reversed disease”...
But what else was happening in the psyche of the person making the changes?
All changes in outward behavior are ultimately manifestations of changes that a person makes within themselves:
Changes in their Self-Concept, their values, their patterns of mental focus and emotional experience, etc.
In other words, no change in behavior occurs in a vacuum and therefore, when behavior changes, behavior is never the only variable that has changed.
When someone adopts a new pattern of behavior that seems to do them good, it’s worthwhile wondering whether the benefits occur as a result of the physical behavior itself, the internal changes that generated it, or a synergistic interplay between the two.
For example, when someone adopts a healing regimen that seems to “work”:
Were they believing in themselves and their protocols?
Were they increasing their confidence?
Were they convinced by their coach/doctor that they were doing all the right things?
Were they feeling supported and maintaining a positive outlook?
If so, for some people this process will lead them to resolving the root Conflict which initiated their diagnosis in the first place.
For others, the process doesn’t get to the root Conflict.
It’s often in cases like this that people experience the seeming paradox I mentioned in a previous post:
“I didn’t everything right and I still got sick...”
“I did everything they did to heal that worked for them but it didn’t work for me...”
When a particular diet or intervention seems to fail to heal someone, it didn’t really fail because the whole mechanistic concept of “curing” an errant/diseased body is based upon a flawed premise.
A lack of a healing regimen wasn’t the cause of the biological process that most people think of as disease...
And therefore such a regimen could never in and of itself constitute a cure.
In conclusion, I encourage you to learn about the 5 Biological Laws and to discover for yourself whether and to what extent they are consistent with your own personal and health experiences.
When you understand the connection between your psyche, your brain, and your organs and as you begin to appreciate the central role that your perception and your subjective experience plays in your body’s adaptive processes, you tend naturally to develop a deeper and intuitive understanding of how nutrition and mindful eating fits into this approach to health and healing.
Conscious eating is a beautiful example of conscious living...
And conscious living is what a life well lived is made of.
Eating well is a form of self-love and self-care that nourishes the mind and spirit as much as it does the body.
Self-love is a natural byproduct of self-confidence...
And both self-confidence and high self-value are common key characteristics of people who are able to quickly resolve and prevent biological conflicts possess.
Many people experience major health changes when they intentionally change their diet and adopt healthy lifestyle habits.
It can seem like the diet and exercise are what caused the change and “reversed disease”...
But what else was happening in the psyche of the person making the changes?
All changes in outward behavior are ultimately manifestations of changes that a person makes within themselves:
Changes in their Self-Concept, their values, their patterns of mental focus and emotional experience, etc.
In other words, no change in behavior occurs in a vacuum and therefore, when behavior changes, behavior is never the only variable that has changed.
When someone adopts a new pattern of behavior that seems to do them good, it’s worthwhile wondering whether the benefits occur as a result of the physical behavior itself, the internal changes that generated it, or a synergistic interplay between the two.
For example, when someone adopts a healing regimen that seems to “work”:
Were they believing in themselves and their protocols?
Were they increasing their confidence?
Were they convinced by their coach/doctor that they were doing all the right things?
Were they feeling supported and maintaining a positive outlook?
If so, for some people this process will lead them to resolving the root Conflict which initiated their diagnosis in the first place.
For others, the process doesn’t get to the root Conflict.
It’s often in cases like this that people experience the seeming paradox I mentioned in a previous post:
“I didn’t everything right and I still got sick...”
“I did everything they did to heal that worked for them but it didn’t work for me...”
When a particular diet or intervention seems to fail to heal someone, it didn’t really fail because the whole mechanistic concept of “curing” an errant/diseased body is based upon a flawed premise.
A lack of a healing regimen wasn’t the cause of the biological process that most people think of as disease...
And therefore such a regimen could never in and of itself constitute a cure.
In conclusion, I encourage you to learn about the 5 Biological Laws and to discover for yourself whether and to what extent they are consistent with your own personal and health experiences.
When you understand the connection between your psyche, your brain, and your organs and as you begin to appreciate the central role that your perception and your subjective experience plays in your body’s adaptive processes, you tend naturally to develop a deeper and intuitive understanding of how nutrition and mindful eating fits into this approach to health and healing.
A major source of men’s earned guilt in regard to philosophy—as well as in regard to their own minds and lives—is failure of introspection.
Specifically, it is the failure to identify the nature and causes of their emotions.
An emotion as such tells you nothing about reality, beyond the fact that something makes you feel something.
Without a ruthlessly honest commitment to introspection—to the conceptual identification of your inner states—you will not discover what you feel, what arouses the feeling, and whether your feeling is an appropriate response to the facts of reality, or a mistaken response, or a vicious illusion produced by years of self-deception.
The men who scorn or dread introspection take their inner states for granted, as an irreducible and irresistible primary, and let their emotions determine their actions.
This means that they choose to act without knowing the context (reality), the causes (motives), and the consequences (goals) of their actions.
The field of extrospection is based on two cardinal questions: “What do I know?” and “How do I know it?” In the field of introspection, the two guiding questions are: “What do I feel?” and “Why do I feel it?”
—Ayn Rand
#AwarenessSchool
Specifically, it is the failure to identify the nature and causes of their emotions.
An emotion as such tells you nothing about reality, beyond the fact that something makes you feel something.
Without a ruthlessly honest commitment to introspection—to the conceptual identification of your inner states—you will not discover what you feel, what arouses the feeling, and whether your feeling is an appropriate response to the facts of reality, or a mistaken response, or a vicious illusion produced by years of self-deception.
The men who scorn or dread introspection take their inner states for granted, as an irreducible and irresistible primary, and let their emotions determine their actions.
This means that they choose to act without knowing the context (reality), the causes (motives), and the consequences (goals) of their actions.
The field of extrospection is based on two cardinal questions: “What do I know?” and “How do I know it?” In the field of introspection, the two guiding questions are: “What do I feel?” and “Why do I feel it?”
—Ayn Rand
#AwarenessSchool