LiberATE: How to Intuitively and Verbally Break Bad Food Habits
LiberATE:
How to Intuitively and Verbally
Break Bad Food Habits
Break Bad Food Habits
By Lisa Puzo Strickland
Why does an internal struggle ensue every time we pick up a cookie! Our taste buds crave the taste and our emotions want the happy high, yet our brain screams “Put it down!”. These clashes are often defused by convincing ourselves it’s 'just one cookie' and we’ll take the orange next time.
We instinctively know what is good for our bodies and what is not. Each time we are about to take a bite from our plate, our brain sends energetic signals throughout the entire body proclaiming whether or not that food item is beneficial or detrimental. Not shockingly, fruits, vegetables, and nuts (unless you’re allergic) almost always resonate naturally with our biorhythms, thus creating calm-yet-powerful flows of energy and thought. Sugar-based items, however, wreak havoc, resulting in chaotic turmoil within our systems.
In addition to our primal instinct having a say, we are also intuitively akin to our food choices. Dietary intuition tells us to
Unfortunately, it is also in our DNA to desire quick and easy satiation, thus the success of snack machines and the fast-food industry. Humans have gone from eating caveman-like meals to foods highly processed and high in sugar and trans fats. Corn syrup is now sadly the number one ingredient found in processed foods. Our gene structure wasn’t built for this massive dietary shift, and the global-wide results prove it.
In his book Low Carb, High Fat, Dr. Andreas Eenfeldt describes the role that sugar and flour have played in obesity and world health, reminding us that our ancestors had no such luxuries, and therefore didn’t have the accompanying heart disease, diabetes, cancer, and cavities.
Recognizing this food-linked downfall doesn’t make it any easier to resist the fried cheese balls and creme brulee. After all, when the stomach craves, the mouth caves.
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It’s time for war! Today we’re suiting up with our intuition and fighting back. Our swords in this food game will be our words.
By verbally affirming aloud what we instinctually and intuitively know, we can help regain the dietary control lost over centuries of bad habits. Thoughts spoken aloud several times a day possess far more power than thoughts alone. Something magical happens when we shift from merely thinking to actually hearing what our inner voice is screaming. This is why students will read their notes out loud rather than just reading them, because there is a cementing process that occurs when the brain is presented with auditory stimulus.
In addition, repetition is key. Florence Scovel Shinn once stated, “We can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.”
By verbally affirming aloud what we instinctually and intuitively know, we can help regain the dietary control lost over centuries of bad habits. Thoughts spoken aloud several times a day possess far more power than thoughts alone. Something magical happens when we shift from merely thinking to actually hearing what our inner voice is screaming. This is why students will read their notes out loud rather than just reading them, because there is a cementing process that occurs when the brain is presented with auditory stimulus.
In addition, repetition is key. Florence Scovel Shinn once stated, “We can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.”
So, by speaking 3 simple affirmations each time temptation appears, we can help reset all of our physical and energetic systems back in alignment with one another. The internal 'should I' or 'should I not' struggle dissipates as each intuitively-based affirmation is spoken, allowing us to more easily liberate from unhealthy cravings.
Every time you feel a culinary confliction, recite these affirmations out loud:
Every time you feel a culinary confliction, recite these affirmations out loud:
I logically and intuitively sense that unhealthy food choices will only make me happy for brief moments, yet cause my body harm for much longer periods of time.
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Food is energy. I am energy. And therefore, I welcome clear and abundant energy from the healthy foods I eat.
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I deserve to be healthy and strong. I deserve food that will nourish my physical, mental, emotional and intuitive health.
Thoughts register both physically and psychologically. But, when we take them a step further and verbalize what our inborn nutritionist is declaring, we boost the potency of these thoughts.
Verbal affirmations spoken out loud breed corresponding actions and habits, as well as aiding in the continuance of a healthy life.
It's time to liberATE!
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