Watch people eat and you will get some idea of how their digestion is. Whether it’s in the car, at a well set table, in a restaurant or at a desk, it should always be a conscious act. When food is simply the unconscious act of putting in food as fast as can be accomplished, it is a mix for disease. If that is what children memorize as mealtime we are setting the next generation up for indigestion and illness.
The human body is energy, something like 99.999 formless and the rest is apparent form. Choosing food should be with that fact in mind. Eating food with consciousness and gratitude assists our bodies to incorporate the energy of the foods we are eating.
Although meals are usually is a social time, the time can be planned as quiet, relaxing and mutually supportive. The dinner table is not the time for interrogation or reprimand. The more relaxing the meal, the more true interest and love shown around the table, the better the digestion will be for children for their lifetime.
Foods easily ingested by one child cause allergic reactions in their sibling. Lack of consideration in this area has resulted in at least a few children with chronic indigestion and bad eating habits for a lifetime. Food preferences go beyond likes and dislikes, being picky or being a so called good eater. It involves blood types and what is termed in Eastern Indian Cultures dosha types. Every person is unique and varied in what they are designed to digest.
So how does all of this relate to losing weight and being healthy? Foods not digested take more energy to move through the system than they lend to building the body. Foods not fully digested, move through the body slowly, use up precious energy, putrefy in the stomach and small intestine, and over years, line the colon walls. Over the years allergies come on board as well as pounds. A t this point it takes concentrated and disciplined effort to change the tides, that is lose weight and feel better about self.
Is it possible to change eating habits after years of abuse? Of course it is possible and it’s never too late. Will you have to give up everything you have a taste for? No, you will make some changes and simply eat more consciously, according to who you are and your body type. You will seek balance.
Your game plan will be to give yourself leverage. Youll never have to starve, maybe eat smaller and more consciously arranged meals, get a juicer and perhaps eat 75% raw or lightly cooked foods. Your food combining will be to eat fruits alone, perhaps in the morning, to eat proteins with vegetables, vegetables with carbohydrates, bread alone or with raw vegetables. You’ll simply make new choices.
Conscious food choices, gratitude, relaxing meals and pure water all lend to the health and radiant look we feel good wearing, no matter what age we are. Every choice for health and more discipline will empower you in every aspect of life. Every self-enhancing choice will also add to the environment and give a great example to the next generation. You will have the mind and body you want at all stages in your life. That’s really healthy aging.
Be Happy, Ellen Valentine, CNC
