We are What we Eat and Think

We are what we think and eat. We act according to the foods and thoughts we put into our bodies and minds. The toxic foods we eat daily cause us all type of health issues, while the toxic thoughts we use to nourish our minds cause us all type of emotional pain and suffering. Even though we treat them separately, they are not. We are what we eat and think.

Regardless to how much we try to extricate what we eat from what we think, we experience over and over again the consequential results from our habits. When we eat uncontrollably, it effects how we think. Conversely, when we think uncontrollable thoughts, it effects what we eat.

Today, some of us are overweight from eating too much. Some of us are emotionally and psychological victimized from allowing too much dis- empowering information into our belief system. And to make matters even worse, many of us are doing both. That's why we find ourselves in the mess we are in today.

Whenever we find ourselves in a mess, overcome with physical and psychological problems,we want desperately to get out of it. Yet so many of us don't seem to know how to overcome difficult problems. We find that it's easier to try and ignore them rather than change our behavior. Perhaps we act in this manner because we are not quite ready to change our habits.

Nevertheless, some of us truly desire to change the way we are living, but we lack the commitment to follow through on our desires. In many instances, we engage in daydreaming, wishing, and hoping for blissful results without doing anything to change the thoughts and beliefs responsible for the problems.

The thought of true change is frightening to many of us. We like the idea, but not the work required to achieve the idea. We just can't seem to let go of the habitual activities causing the pain and suffering in lives. Oh, we know, at least intellectual, that empowerment is the correct word to use when we tell others about the work we are doing. Unfortunately, for some of us, it's just a word, an idea.

For some of us, we eschew the daily challenges to change what we think and eat. And, instead of doing something different, we continue to reach for the chocolate cake, potato chips, cheeseburger and foods contaminated by oils and other fatty substances.

Many of us watch too much television, play too many games with people and gadgets to truly understand how this behavior contributes to our actions. Whenever we compare ourselves to someone, whenever we feel powerless, angry, jealous or fearful, we place ourselves in victimized positions. This is what causes us to become overcome with pain and suffering.

Similarly, it is only when the toxic foods and beliefs have sicken us, weaken our resolve to commit to empowerment, that we search for diets or workshops to reign in our reckless behavior. Unfortunately at this point, we want instant results.

When we have eaten too much over time, we expect every diet or exercise program to bring us immediate weight loss, with toned, well-chiseled muscles. We also expect the workshops to immediately remove the anger, jealousy, lack, limitation and struggle from our lives and give us the peace and compassion we long for.

Meanwhile, when we don't get instant results from diets and workshops, we quickly discard the practices and return to our old eating and thinking habits. We rationalize away any benefits we derived from them. This type of reasoning permits us to return to our old habits of overeating and saturating our minds with deleterious information.

Whenever we stop and examine our lives, we discover things we would like to change. In most instances, we can imagine that the murderer, thief, or addict would like to change. What's stopping them? In nearly all cases, it's their beliefs and judgments about themselves and what people think about what they have done.

While many of us might not be murderers, thieves, or addicts, we have similar challenges just as daunting for us to overcome. We become hesitant to change because of what we think about being unemployed, bankrupt, or suffering from the distress of divorce, personal loss, and so forth. And like the prisoners, addicts, and failures, we must decide whether to change or remain as victims.

Well, some of us of are willing to change what we eat and think. And for us, having healthy diets, with regular exercise, and thinking positive thoughts of empowerment are fulfilling. We reach for an apple instead of chips. We read a book, affirmation or meditate instead of complaining about being unhappy with victim lifestyles. This is not a judgment, but an explanation of how we can change whatever we want to change.

There's a great quote in "Seeds from the Ashes" that reminds us of the importance of having healthy thoughts: "To envision yourself as a new person, you first must stop thinking of yourself as a victim."

"Seeds from the Ashes" is available online from http://www.amazon.com/