The Spiritual Implications of Fad Diets
Lot's of weight-loss diets promise to "beat the street," so to speak, in terms of taking off the weight. Shine from Yahoo! has identified five diets that don't perform as advertised.
Fads like grapefruit, maple syrup, apple vinegar, juice and cabbage soup diets will always be around so long as people seek to defy the conventional wisdom that weight loss results from eating less and exercising more.
Application of this conventional wisdom will yield time-honored results, but when we find ourselves with unwanted pounds, why not take the opportunity to explore the spiritual implications of the situation? It might just aid us in our efforts to turn back the dial on the scale and change our lives for the better at the same time.
Some would even argue that spiritual awakening is our body's soul function. Indeed, there's no better example of a "come to Jesus" moment than the struggle to lose weight.
Scientists tell us that our bodies operate, from the molecular and cellular level on up, with an intelligence that is independent of our conscious awareness. They breath, circulate blood, eliminate, maintain temperature and perform myriad other internal functions all without any decision-making on our part.
Some functions, however, our consciousness has the power to override. The body sleeps, for example, when it's tired, unless we consciously veto that decision and stay awake.
Eating fits into this over-ridable category. Like other animals, the bodies of humans know what to eat and what not to eat, when and how much. If this function is out of whack, it's because we have for some reason decided to over-ride that caloric intake system. Discovering that reason is the first step toward solving the problem.
Rhonda Byrne, author of The Secret, suggests that the reason may be simply a lack of awareness as you eat. She writes: "I am convinced that if we can eat our food in the present, entirely focused on the pleasurable experience of eating, the food is assimilated into our bodies perfectly, and the result in our bodies must be perfection." [italics original]
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