Food for thought

I recently had the very pleasurable, but also very rare experience of a trip to the grocery store with none of my children. With all the peace and quite I found it to be a wonderful opportunity to observe people and their cart loads. It was so interesting to notice that isle after isle people seemed to match the collection of items in their carts. I know this concept of "you are what you eat " is nothing new, but I saw it in a whole new way. Naturally the vibe of the buyer was the same as the vibe of the soon to be bought. I saw rushy type people with furrowed brows and tons of convenience foods. I saw beautiful, kind looking people with a cart full of fresh produce, better breads and less "junk". I saw a heavy woman putting no fat yogurt into her load. And that's when it hit me. Of course I'll never know what she was thinking, that doesn't matter. But if she thought that buying no fat foods was going to make her thin, the act alone of actually buying it, only confirms to her that she is overweight. And so at that point it doesn't matter what she eats because her intending thought is that she is overweight. Now, that may not have been the case at all, but the food for thought is there. The same is true for a person who believes him or herself to be fit and healthy. When that person buys food, whatever it is, it affirms that belief. Have you ever met somebody who eats and eats, all kinds of rich foods, but really enjoys them, and has a positive relationship with their body and looks amazing?  I have come to realize that, yes its true good healthy food is better for us, but more so is our attitude about the food we are about to ingest.

I come from a large family and I don't mean that their are a lot of us, I mean as a family we are bigger people. I remember as a child thinking that when I grew up I was going to be Big too, because all my grandparents were. That was something that just happens when you aged. A thing called Genetics.  Well imagine my freedom when I realized that it had nothing to do with genetics, that's just choosing to repeat familial thought patterns and habits. But that I actually could control my shape destiny by buy becoming aware of my relationship to food and self, and deciding what I wanted that to look like.

It is very difficult sometimes with a nutrition background to get away from thinking about ingredients, calories, even wholeness and so on, and only focus on the vibe of that food and the vibe of myself around that food. hmmm...

And of course there are the children. Check this out; a friend of mine was ill, and when I was telling my son of her illness, of course he wanted to know why. He asked if it was because she ate to much junk food. Oh no! my brain was spinning. We have to be so careful of what messages we send to these little ones about good and bad foods. I was stunned at the correlation he conjured in his mind so quickly, and I was even quicker to correct him. They need us so badly to bring awareness of food "feelings" into our normal lives, and to be conscious of the very intimate relationship we have with the food in our bellies.  Its not so much the Fruits and veggies making us happy and healthy, as it is the trust we give them to do so.

The choice is ours.