Nutritional Fun
No one wants to feel confined and restricted
We all want our freedom and want to have fun in life This was a scenario I recently painted for an audience talking about energy science nutrition We talked about this before but bears repeating because this very point resonated so much with the audience and was articulated eloquently by one of the members of the audience
"I'm taking one thing away from your talk tonight," she related "It's that we're not restricted to this format, that these formats that you've shown us are guidelines and not rules That to me is very freeing and takes the pressure off."
Think about it If we restrict ourselves the mind eventually begins thinking "reward" for a job well done Celebrate is the response and usually it's foods that are problematic The boomerang effect is in effect
But what if we don't restrict, but simply choose different foods
And then we reintroduce those foods that are in the no list in the format, for example, PK
And we witness, how do we feel? If we don't feel well, then we have a choice, don't we? We didn't have a choice before, but when we feel bad we have a choice to do it again and not feel as well or make a different choice the next time
Now I think this may sound like a "nutritional Pollyanna" but patients tell me that they notice differences when they eat out of the no column after they have been off those foods for a while There are those who even before they see the nutritional format say they intentionally stay away from certain foods because they make them feel bad
Perhaps we try too hard with this whole nutritional thing Perhaps we should lighten up and have some fun with our mindbodies and ask how them how they feel rather than telling it what we're going to do to them
In this way nutrition becomes something not that we fear but what we enjoy, that is, enjoying our freedom to choose and explore
Have you found that there are certain foods that you naturally avoid? Are they on the no list? Have you ever purposefully ingested those foods to see if you could reproduce those sensations again?
Until tomorrow To health as a Skill Love DrBill
