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Healthy Eating

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I used to teach a class on healthy eating for the Drug Abuse Alternatives Center in Santa Rosa. This morning, as I pondered the following questions:  What kind of information do people really need?  How can I contribute to greater health on the planet?  I was reminded of that class.

As I prepared to teach that class back in 2007, I realized that teaching people how to eat healthy seemed silly.  Everyone already knows how to eat “healthy”.  To test my hypothesis I started the class with a question.  Which one of these is healthier?
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As I suspected, everyone picked the apple.  While they both have an equivalent number of calories, the Coke has what we call empty calories and the apple gives us vitamins, minerals, fiber and natural compounds that prevent cancer and heart disease.  Similarly, when offered a choice between cookies and veggies, the class participants chose the veggies.  Once again I came smack up against the truth that more information isn’t really necessary.  Lack of knowledge isn’t a barrier to healthy eating. It is something else.

Some of the barriers are practical:
●    Can’t find the time.
●    Don’t have enough money.
●    Too much work.
●    I’m too tired.
●    The people around me don’t eat well either.
●    There is no good food in the house.

Other barriers to healthy eating are internal.  Sometimes people eat when their body doesn’t need food because they have specific triggers or have picked up habits that are hard to break.  Some of the reasons for inappropriate eating include:

●    Lack of awareness that we are eating.
●    Eating when we get home.
●    Eating when we get a break or during times of transition.
●    Treating ourselves with food.
●    Eating to calm down.
●    Eating because other people are eating.
●    Eating more because other people are eating.
●    Eating because we are cooking for others.
●    Buying food that others like even though it isn’t very healthy.
●    Depriving ourselves of food and getting too hungry.

The therapy for these type of blocks include a process of introspection and conscious behavior change.  It is all about making a choice and increasing awareness. Specific techniques for changing eating habits include my favorite ThetaHealing®.  Sometimes we are compelled to eat a certain way due to subconscious beliefs and programs.

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Provoking Pain

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I recently talked about false flag operations and how people ignore obvious discrepancies in the media’s reporting.  It is not uncommon for humans to shut down their awareness in the face of uncomfortable and/or unpleasant realities.  We simply cannot see what doesn’t fit into our world view or what we think is unbearable or undesirable. This is also apparent in our lifestyle choices.  Many people ignore or deny the awareness they have about their food choices, for instance.  Hence two thirds of the US is overweight and one third is obese.

One of the speakers at the Global Women’s Summit emphasized this point.  This neuroscientist/chiropractor pointed out that no one every came into his office saying, “I want to optimize my nervous system.  I want to make sure it is working at its best.”  Everyone that came into his office was motivated by pain.  They all wanted to alleviate pain. dorena-at-WINI am a little different. I am all about choosing today in a way that will create the highest amount of possibility.  People find themselves with high blood pressure or a heart attack in middle age and act as if it is not something that could have been prevented.  Instead of having an awareness of how they created it, they often attribute it to “old age”.  Other people in the same circumstances use the sudden decline in “imagined” health as an opportunity to choose differently.

At the Summit, I ran into the woman, Sandy,  I hired to promote my upcoming Women’s Health Workshop at the conference.  I mentioned to her that I had no sign-ups yet.  As the price was ridiculously low, she agreed with me that raising the price might help.  Still, at the end of the day not one woman had signed up for the class despite it being the last day at the low price.  Sandy looked at my flyer and said it seemed soft.  She suggested I get “outrageous”, along the veins of “DO THIS OR DIE”.

She was right.  Many of the speakers that day had talked about breast cancer as being a wake up call. Frightening people into acting was a sure fire way to get sign-ups.  It is easy to ignore the dangers of pharmaceuticals because they have the blessing of the government.  Here I was teaching a class on using alternative medicines to alleviate female complaints.  I was hoping for people to choose something that was for their health, but I was not providing them with any motivation.  With no pain they had no reason to choose something different.

If I wanted to fill that class I would need to remind them of the possible pain they would fall into in the future based on their choices today.  Unfortunately, that is just not my style.  I am trying to support people in being active, not reactive.  Still, I am curious, what am I judging to be so wrong about provoking people into taking a particular action that I am unwilling to employ that method to help them create more health in their life.  Hmmmm…. while I do judge being “sensational” as somewhat wrong, I also notice that do not feel that choosing to be healthy is such a rightness that I would want to use “skillful means” to recruit people.  I do not attribute inherent value to what I am teaching or to “creating more health in their life”.  Interesting.  What are your thoughts?