A MOUTHFUL OF PEACE AND JOY
Well many of you out there reading this are already much better. Than I am in this regard so I’m going to start with the part you may wish to take forward first, and then I’m going to converse with the straggling lumps like me. Okay in the last post I talked about the brain or put up a very good link and I’m going to. Build on that today in a fairly unexpected way for many. Your brain is an electrochemical machine. It’s. Complicated, it keeps you alive, and unfortunately most people are not given, nor force fed if needed, enough knowledge about this body part to use it to provide control of your “everyday health” let alone peace and/or joy.
So where does your brain get it’s fuel? Well of course that’s simple you think what. You eat and you eat what you think (oh and feel, and see, and smell, and hear too). Some of you are disciplined eaters and understand how to fuel your body nd brain properly. I could easily learn and pay attention to such things...but I haven’t “yet”.
I assume you care about your health for a lot of reasons including such things as avoiding illnesses, preventing injuries etc. However, I am not going to go ballistic in praising you. For this wisdom just yet. You have discovered something that works for you, however in order to create an atmosphere where your peace and joy can be nourished along with the rest of us, I’m willing to ask you to go further.
First of all tell everyone of any mindfulness techniques you use to direct your food. Input. Yes, I’m saying help me and others eat. More slowly. If I come over or if you have others over serve one thing at a time or separate sweets from the regular table etc.. You can say things like ‘this corn tastes a little sweeter than usual don’t you think?’ Now everyone at your table will take a fraction more time paying attention to the corn they are eating live a starved squirrel. The point is. To ask questions that will people to be aware of what they are eating and how quickly without. Having to say ‘Man are shooting for the North American corn-eating speed record?’ This is an internal conversation I plan to begin having with myself daily.
But it’s not just the food we pick or the speed at which we eat it that. Is really messed up when it comes to seeking. Peace and joy. Let me explain...
What are. The reported favorite meals of the year? They are. Thanksgiving Dinner, Christmas or Winter and other Holiday meals depending upon your faith, and Holiday Picnics. Why? Because these meals don’t have a timer on them or as strict a timer. And most meals. There is no meal related. Anxiety aside for fighting Uncle Joe for that second. Turkey leg.
During “normal” days our western culture and other cultures. Have created expectations about what and when we will be eating. If you don’t think so...when is the last time you were presented with a jumbo hot-buttered” tub of popcorn during a religious ceremony? You. See we have created this mess with regard to food and here’s the real kicker. We have bought into the fact that food has to be fast... but not only fast to eat, fast to pick up in your car so you don’t even have to. Get out of your car ever or at least to eat. Of course you don’t know what they put in the “food” and. That’s okay because neither do they. I heard a food wholesaler advertise that their frozen, ready to microwave meatballs well made with all natural preservatives. Were they feeding the cows all natural preservatives? I’m confused—oh well. In addition to this we used to have neighborhood grocery stores that were not also. Your drugstore, your tire store, your eyeglasses outlet and your bank. The grocer <whether or not they slipped their.thumb open the scale occasionally, used to care about the quality of food they brought. To their neighborhood. We all know the names of the big box stores that do food and everything. I could. Write. For days on how this type of resource allocation and provision provides little peace and joy, but I’ll leave it at this and it’s not the fault of the store. We have placed suc a premium on the speed of our food that. We. Go to these store as that also sell the3 paint we might need and a 12 pack of Bud because it is kfast and convenient. We are. In the “let’s get in and out of here” frame of mind when it comes time to shop for. Our groceries in these places, so we buy things without considering whether they are part of a leisurely eating experience. We stress to get through the check out lanes and self-serve aisles as quick as we can. We even do more shopping online than ever so that it’s fast and convenient. So we have created a NASCAR Pit Stop mentality surrounding. Food for the most part.
You could argue that food. Companies are forced to put ingredients and nutritional value labels on food and you would be correct. UUnfortunately nobody is taught what f grams of protein does for various parts of your. Body and brain. As far as you know. 4 grams of protein is equal to the amount of energy it takes. For a small monkey to. Ride a bicycle around the block counter clockwise. So the fuel for our brain/mind body is being treated rather casually and is allowed to create anxiety nearly everyday. So even those of you who eat well could help the rest of us rethink the whole food chain so to speak...
Okay if Lee eat slower and a lot more different stuff it is likely we will enjoy it more and create less anxiety around. The choosing and using of food. We need to learn more about. What foods do what to our brain and what our. Brain/mind does in modifying our body. Maybe video games where we battle. Enemies could include battles.of picking the right menu items to make warriors smarter, stronger, and faster?
I don’t know we can increase our. Peace by removing health consequences of. Crappy food behaviors and we can gain joy by reclaiming meals as a nourishing social interchange rather than a NASCAR event.
Do a google search for “brain building foods...and see how many. You might like. That’s on my pre-New Year’s list. I for one am going to absolutely draw the line at eating a whole bowl of Frosted Flakes in Five Hour Energy Drink every morning just to start.
More tomorrow on your. Mind and body ... This is enough food for thought for one day.
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