Humans need—physical, emotional and spiritual—sustenance to thrive. The majority of people need healing in all three. While food provides sustenance to the body, it also provides immediate psychological gratification, thus becoming a substitute for spiritual/emotional sustenance. Subsequently, without proper spiritual/emotional sustenance the psyche deteriorates and ultimately the body deteriorates; because the body is dependent on the psyche. Pharmaceuticals and medical practices have created a false belief that a pill or surgery will sustain/restore emotional/physical functions.
Many people recite the Lord’s Prayer—“Give us this day our daily bread”—to create spiritual sustenance and connectedness. Daily bread, not only refers to the daily intake of calories from our favorite foods—pizza, hamburgers, meat, potatoes, and too often junk food—it also includes the intake of heavy-duty negative conscious calories, the kind that makes us sick.
It is a little known fact that we can actually add physical weight because of the volume of heavy emotional molecules that we ingest and that surround us and affects our health. These ‘weighty’ molecules penetrate our entire beings—consumed through a diet of negativity—pessimistic thinking and non-supportive, dysfunctional relationships.
Given the tradition of viewing the New Year as a new beginning, what better time to put on a new hat and adopt a healthy perspective, for good? Aside from clarly being more fun, having positive self-talk is good for your health, both physically and mentally.
Examine the selections of ‘thinking and words’ you are putting onto your platter of ‘daily bread’ that do not nurture you or support your life in a healthy productive way. What kind of ‘words’ are you eating/chewing on? What words are eating at you that result in your being sick, feeling disempowered, feeling less than or a victim of someone or something?
If the words you hear or the words you say to yourself about yourself are not providing you with the sustenance to nourish you daily, then stop putting them into your daily intake of consciousness. Get rid of the junk food of consciousness that is eating you alive. Stop serving yourself daily emotional and spiritual junk food. Stop Immediately.
Start nurturing yourself with upbeat self-talk, with positive daily affirmations, with productive relationships that enhance and uplift your life. Begin each day with a renewed appetite, hungry for an inspiring feast of daily bread which will provide you with a food pyramid that offers a healthy foundation for living each day to the fullest. Feed yourself from a harvest of healthy thoughts and ideas that lets your life flow and your light shine. Feast and enjoy—bon appetite!
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