The Relationship Between Diet And Happiness

Diet is one of the pillars of your happiness.

“What you eat affects how you feel.”

When I eat chocolate, my mood lifts up, I feel content and nurtured.
When I drink alcohol, I feel exhilarated at first, but in the long run, my tolerance for life diminishes, and I become irritable.
Eating salads cools my system down, and I feel light.
Drinking plenty of water makes me feel relaxed, hydrated and abundant.
Heated oils strain my liver and make me angry.
Eating refined sugar makes me feel weak, and I get anxious. I get a sugar high, and then I crash and am tired.
Drinking coffee makes me jumpy.
Overeating makes me tired.
Etc…

Ever since meeting my wife, I have listened to her describe how eating different foods affected the way she felt in her body. She would even show me how my moods fluctuated after eating certain foods. I never really liked hearing any of it, because I wanted to believe that I was free and that my emotions were self-generated.

Three years ago, I experienced a health crisis that forced me to increase my food consciousness, and radically change my diet. I truly healed through what I ate. It was an amazing revelation. What no medication could do, proper diet did.
Now, that I had cleaned up my act, I started noticing the effects of food on my mood. My system was so clean and my energy was so completely stable, that I could track any “distortion” and link it to the specific food that caused the distortion to arise.

Ironically, a side effect of my healthy diet was the loss of 20 pounds in 5 weeks. (And I wasn’t even overweight!)

The BIG KEY for health is balancing the pH in the body. The American diet is often so acidic that our bodies are constantly reaching for alkalizing substances (such as calcium) in our muscles, organs, and bones to buffer the dangerous acids, and thus depleting our systems. Our bodies hold onto fats and create cholesterol to protect our tissues from the dangerous acids that would otherwise burn through these tissues. Once we begin eating plenty of alkaline foods, our bodies shed the excess weight and cholesterol levels balance out.


Here are a few tips:

What to eat:

• Eat non-genetically modified, organic food.
• Eat plenty of green stuff like salad, spinach, arugula, sprouts, cucumber, kale, chard, broccoli, and so on to alkalize and bring wholesome nutrients to your body.
• Quinoa is a complete protein and contains all the essential amino acids.
• Healthy fats: coconut oil, flax seed oil, olive oil….
• Eat “super foods” to get all the nutrients that can be difficult to get solely through “regular food” since our soils are typically so depleted. You can find information and order them on: www.noblelifeelements.com/green

Foods to avoid:

• Avoid animal proteins like meats and dairy. Those foods are highly acidic.
• Heated oils. Most oils turn into carcinogens when cooked.
• Refined sugar. One teaspoon reduces the power of the immune system by 50% for up to 48 hours.
• Eat very little sweet stuff. If it’s sweet, it’s probably acidic.
• Wheat and gluten. They feed Candida, thus throwing off the balance of microorganisms in the guts. They also feed tons of other undesired bacteria that can lead to symptoms such as bloating, gas, diarrhea, fatigue, depression….

How to eat:

• Choose about 80% fresh, live foods, which still contain their natural enzymes that will help with digestion. Otherwise, our bodies look to our organs for digestive enzymes, and thus deplete our organs.
• When cooking, use water rather than oils. However, some oils, such as coconut oil, are okay for cooking.
• Do not use Teflon coated cookware.
• Soak/wash your (organic) veggies in the sink (or a big bowl) in a bath of water containing 10-15 drops of Grapefruit Seed Extract to rid the produce of harmful bacteria and chemicals.

A wonderful place to look for “enlightened” health information is:
www.articlesofhealth.blogspot.com
www.phmiracleliving.com

As my French homeopath grandfather always told me, “Un esprit sain dans un corps sain.” “A healthy mind/spirit in a healthy body.”
I see our human bodies as potential vehicles for the divine. Our bodies are temples.
When we treat our bodies well, our bodies flow better, we have less emotional agitation, and we have a foundation for spiritual growth and a happy life.
Our bodies become a clear space for Spirit to shine through!

Ask yourself:

“What needs to change in my diet?”
“Why is this important?”
“What will I do today?”

Blessings to you, my friend.

How to be happy now without having to change the world

This morning, my wife and I went on a walk along a path we LOVE! It’s called the Pixie Trail. At some point on our way back, we stopped to look at a beautiful yard and Christi said, “I wonder what happened here?” I looked and wondered what she meant, and then asked, ”Where?” She was pointing right in front of us. I looked really hard for another half a minute, and all I could see was the same beautiful yard. “Where?” “Right here — the fence.” Then, my eyes adjusted to the fence, which was only six feet in front of us, and I saw that it was broken.

The broken fence was right in front of me, and yet, I couldn’t see it.

I realized something:
- We create our life experience, by choosing where we focus our attention.


“We create our life experience, by choosing where we focus our attention.”

We can look at ourselves as a Physical Body. We all know people who are so attached to their body image that they are constantly experiencing ups and downs, and dramatic mood shifts as a result of the contrast between how they think they should look and how they perceive themselves as actually looking. Their evaluation is so subjective, that one moment they feel great about “themselves” (their body), and the next moment feel awful.

We can look at ourselves as a Soul. Whatever happens to this body or mind doesn’t ultimately hurt ME, as I am here in this form as an educational experiment — to learn about Love.

We can look at ourselves as Consciousness, and know that whatever happens in our lives is simply another experience of a “Now-moment” in the dance of time.

It is similar as we focus our attention on the outside world.

When we identify people with their actions, we judge them when they fail, our hearts close down, and we experience the world as a harsh place.

If we can celebrate failures, because we see them as part of a path of initiation into wisdom, we will feel more elated, and the world will seem like a much friendlier and lighter place!

When we look for how alike we all are, rather than focusing on our differences, we will feel more connected.

We all have the capability to adapt our perspective, and consciously choose the life experience we wish to have.

Ask yourself three questions:
1) Where do I focus most of my attention?
2) What do I really want?
3) Where do I need to focus my attention from now on to have the life experience that I am longing for?

Bottom line:
We live in a multidimensional World, and we have the capacity to choose our life experience by consciously focusing our attention wherever we want.

Am I looking for love and learning, or am I looking for drama?