Eating for Health & Happiness

Our Universe is one of abundance, beauty, goodness, and expansion. Inner peace is a key contributor to our health and beauty, which play a role in our sense of security and happiness. Inner peace comes from “within” and is impacted by the “intake” of thoughts in our minds and food into our bodies. There is a direct relationship between your intake choices and your outcome results.

How do we go astray and off a healthy course? A life-time of stress, nutritional deficiencies, and lack of skills can begin to erode our sense of self. Doubt, confusion, and deep psychic pain may gradually begin to eclipse our natural instincts of love and bliss. Eventually, we may be reduced to knee-jerk reactions of anger, depression, and fear. It is at this point that the self-medicating merry-go-round of addictions, over-work, consumerism, materialism, debt, and disease kick in. Being chronically ill becomes an unconscious and therefore acceptable form of suicide.

I believe food is the primary starting point to prevent or correct the detrimental downward spiral. Most are familiar with the adage, “we are what we eat”, but do we fully appreciate its meaning? Think about the food available to us. Curiously, much of the food we eat today did not even exist a generation or two ago. Our entire system of warfare agriculture and mass produced ‘processed’ foods is an unnatural recent phenomenon with disastrous results. Many couples are fertility challenged. Obesity, diabetes, cancer and even heart disease are becoming alarmingly prevalent in our children. These diseases were rare in our grandparent’s generation, where they ate whole, organic foods.

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Raw food, food in its un-cooked natural state, has all the life-giving nutrition we need to survive and thrive. Unfortunately, many are not eating this way in our fast-paced society with easy access to convenient packaged, processed, and cooked ‘foodstuffs’. There are healthy solutions. Even though modern life can be busy and it is not always easy to eat right, technologies in the nutrition field such as juicing, blending, and superfood supplements (such as protein-packed Spirulina) can be used as good health strategies. Eating food in its natural state gives you more bang for the buck in more ways than one, and more places are offering these healthy choices.

Proper nutrition is the fuel needed for both vibrant health and quality decision making. Most of us overlook or are not even aware of how critical this is to our happiness and overall satisfaction in life. Food affects our health, emotions and moods, which in turn influences our ability to make choices, including recognizing the choices available to us. What we eat affects how we think, which leads to how we feel, and that leads to how we act. We can choose to numb ourselves out with junk food, or rather blossom in a life carved around our dreams. The difference in quality of life largely depends on our nutrition choices! You are in control of what goes in your body and if you choose wisely, there will be a positive snowball effect on every other facet of your life. Good nutrition is an indispensable ingredient in the recipe of happiness.

Dare to Dream Again

What are your dreams, goals and passionate desires? What excites, stirs and inspires you? When we are so numbed and gummed up on the inside from unhealthy food residues, we have difficulty accessing this side of ourselves. Children naturally live in innocence and bliss. When we adults start to cleanse out some of the toxins in our bloodstream and fogging up our brain, clarity and purpose is awakened within us and we begin to get back in touch with our zest and child-like enthusiasm for life. We feel happy for no apparent reason.

Allow yourself to be released from all fear, worry, doubt and despair. Be bold and accept your birthright of vibrant health and happiness by paying more attention to what you are eating.

Opt for fresh fruit over traditional dessert, salads over cooked veggies, and juices freshly juiced at a ‘juice bar’ instead of bottled juices or sodas.

Drink only water the first hour after waking and every 2 hours thereafter throughout the day.

Little changes like these will lead to big results. You will start to access your joy, creativity, power, and energy in every precious moment. We are all special and our dreams are both possible and necessary. When you eat right, you feel right. That empowering sense of your uniqueness and the gifts you have to share really can come into focus and be expressed in your life.