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It’s really all about choice. What we think we want in life and the life we actually live, all comes down to the choices we make every moment of the day. When we choose to put unhealthy substances into our bodies an energy shift occurs. Poor choices result in negative energies in our bodies and in turn result in disease and aging. When one decides to choose to live a life of vibrant health one needs to learn to make choices to change the energies from negative to positive. You need to choose to bring into the body the energies which will restore your body to a state of optimal health. If you want to have an ageless body you need to create an environment where positive energy forces are in control.

We need to learn how to manipulate these energies in our bodies and change them to positive energies. The choices we make in what we eat, drink and what we think about all have an effect on our bio-electric energy. When we learn what is good for our energy and what is not, and then choose to put the good energy into our bodies then and only then will we be able to create change in our bodies from the inside out.

More and more research is finding that disease is manifested by negative energies within our bodies. Vibrational Medicines can halt and even reverse aging, disease, and poor health. Since quantum physics has proven that everything in the universe is energy and all energy has a vibrational frequency, one need to realize that limiting the negative energies or vibrations in our body and increasing the positive vibrations will create and environment of healthy living.

When we realize that we are made up of energy and are more than a pile of flesh, blood and bones and that we are a part of the same energy that makes up the universe we must align ourselves with this source of energy and allow positive energies into our bodies to create a positive healthy environment. Just as when polluted places on this planet were given the time to replenish themselves by not allowing dumping of waste in rivers and streams, or setting up reserves to not allow vehicles and people to destroy and beat down the environment, the planet has actually been able to repair itself and come back to a place vibrant in energy and life. Learn to make the choices which will bring those positive energies back into your life and allow the energy to permeate your body and restore your heath to vibrant and positive energies.

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Emotion: a moving of the feelings: agitation of the mind: one of the three groups of the phenomena of the mind - feeling, distinguished from cognition and will.

Food: what one feeds on: that which, being digested, nourishes the body: whatever sustains or promotes growth.

No obvious connection there, is there?

My dictionary doesn’t make a distinction between emotions and feelings, but some psychologists do, so I’ll be more clear about the sort of thing I’m writing about here: hurt, upset, sadness, anger, grief, and maybe even boredom if it is accompanied by an irritation about the boredom. There are positive emotions, but they generally don’t cause problems - unless maybe you’re on a permanent high and can’t get down.

Let’s think about lions for a moment. They lounge around in the sun most of the time. When they get hungry, they go and kill something and eat it until they are full. Then they lounge around until they are hungry again and amuse themselves by fighting among themselves or driving off other lions. They don’t go out and kill something for something to do because they are bored. They don’t go out and kill something because they are angry, or sad. They eat when they need to eat, and they don’t even need to eat every day. Can you imagine a lioness going out and killing and eating every time her partner growled at her? Can you imagine a lioness going out and killing and eating every time her cubs became a little boisterous?

Ok. Lions probably don’t experience emotions and they are much more focused in the now, but they probably don’t get overweight and suffer heart and circulation problems either.

So why do people do those things?

Why do people head for the fridge when someone has done something they didn’t like? Why do people head for the fridge when they feel lonely?
Why do people head for the fridge when the commercial break starts or the clock says ’supper time’?

Why do they do those things regardless of whether or not they feel hungry. And it’s difficult to imagine how someone could feel hungry after eating breakfast, lunch, and dinner - isn’t it?

They do it because they don’t want to feel.
They do it because they are afraid of what will happen if they don’t.
They do it because it distracts them from being fully present with themselves.

And they do that because they don’t really like themselves, and they certainly don’t love themselves.

No one who loves themselves would mistreat their body in any way, because love doesn’t mistreat. Love and health are synonymous.

As children we naturally express how we feel from moment to moment. I feel sick, I don’t like that, I’ve got a headache, my tummy hurts, I’m bored and when we feel angry we shout and stamp our feet and walk away. But as we grow we are taught that good children don’t do those things. It’s not polite to tell aunty you don’t like her cakes when she’s spent all afternoon making them ’specially for you. If you shout at me I’ll give you a smack. Idle hands are the devil’s playthings. So we are taught to lie about how we feel, to not express when we are deeply unhappy, that anger is unacceptable, and that sitting contentedly, happy in our own mental world of fascination and creativity, is unacceptable.

And then after getting screwed up like that (because our parents feel pressure to socialise us and make us acceptable to others - because they understand loneliness and don’t want you to develop any traits that would cause you to be rejected by others) they feed you when you are no longer obviously expressing your unhappiness. They know something is wrong by your change of mood, and they don’t like seeing you unhappy so they feed you. Chocolate, sweets, ice cream, cream cakes are all foods that are used to entice you into a better mood state. Notice that apples, pears, oranges, nuts, tomatoes and such are never used to entice you to change your mood state.

When you are ill, you get treats, all the same foods filled with fat and sugar.

Now when we are little our parents and close relatives are Gods. They are all-wise. They can read our minds. They can work magic. And so what they teach us is stored deep within our minds and we call on it in times of trouble.

Times of trouble are usually when we feel low, or bored.

We have been taught that eating fat and sweet takes the pain away. At least that’s what we act as if we’ve been taught. But there was a processing error in our young minds. What we really got, and really wanted was love and attention and appreciation. The treat was just the medium that transported and expressed that feeling of being loved and cared for. But we mistook it.

The reason we go to the fridge is because it reminds us of being loved and cared for. It reminds us of loving arms around us; being tucked up in bed; having someone come up with ideas of how to have some fun together with them; having someone stroke your hair; and those are wonderful things to have experienced as a child. To know and to feel loved at any time during life is a wonderful experience.

You can change the pattern if you want to.

You just need to experience the emotion that has been buried. You need to let it out and let it go.

Writing is a wonderful medium for releasing emotion. Make a pact with yourself that every time you head for the fridge and you have no feelings of hunger that you will sit down for just five minutes and write. What you write is what you feel. Start off with ‘I feel right now’ and insert whatever you are feeling - bored, lonely, unloved, fed-up and so on. And then write ‘this feels like the time when’ and allow your mind to drift back into the past and write out whatever comes up. Write down who did what when and why. Write down who you’re angry at. Write down what you’d like to say now or what you should have said then and keep going until you get tears. Until you touch the emotional hot spot that causes tears to flow you will not bring about any significant change. Once the tears flow you can stop writing and rip up the paper. Language and grammar are unimportant; no one will read your words.

Make eating a conscious activity.

It’s ok to feel however you feel. No one has the right to deny you the full and natural expression of your emotions. But you do need to take responsibility for you. Expressing your emotions isn’t hitting, hurting, or seeking revenge on another. It is giving yourself permission to feel however you are feeling and giving yourself permission to express how you are feeling to anyone that you feel it’s important to express those feelings to. It is not an excuse to blame someone else for how you feel. Your feelings are yours, and why you are feeling them is your stuff. Others only fire off emotions so that you can identify a problem and heal it. They are not to blame for how you feel - and neither are you.

Michael J. Hadfield MBSCH is a registered clinical hypnotherapist. You can experience his unique style on a popular range of hypnosis CD’s and tapes at http://www.hypnosisiseasy.com Here you can also obtain treatment for a variety of problems and explore his approach to health, healing, and hypnosis.

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I read a lot about the
topics of health and especially diets. I have been experimenting with
diets since 1990 and keep journals about my
observations. Over time I tried several very different diets - ranging
from the politically correct ones to highly controversial, along with diets
of my own design. My general observation is that a healthy diet plays an essential
role in the overall scheme of well being.

Why eat healthy?

Eating the natural foods humans are well adapted at utilizing, enhances
ones ability to cope with the reality of every day life. This in essence
improves the probability of living a longer, healthier life. Quality food consumption becomes
especially important in the present world of high stress and pollution -
making a healthy diet an essential aspect of modern self health care.
(Although food is not the only aspect contributing to health or disease, it
is significant enough to consider it’s effects seriously.)

I think anybody who seriously tried living healthier through a better diet,
proper physical activity, adequate rest, and by addressing mental and
spiritual factors have experienced a vast range of natural health benefits.
Common benefits are overall better health and a sense of well being, better sleep,
improved physical endurance and strength, sharper mental abilities and lower
sleep requirements. Further more, no or little time and money and energy is
spend on doctors, hospitals and health insurance bills.

What is a healthy diet?

Since this article deals with healthy eating, a question remains
to be answered: what constitutes a healthy diet? Unfortunately, there are
more opinions about this than there are health experts. To further complicate
the matter, dietary concepts change over time, leaving most people confused and uncertain
about what or whom to trust. One solution to this problem is to become sufficiently
knowledgeable about the relevant subjects and rely on common sense to draw basic
conclusions. Along with personal experimentation, such an approach will
enable one to establish healthy eating habits. This takes time and energy, but considering
the long lasting benefits a healthy diet can provide, the effort is more then well worth it.

In order to determine the minimal basic requirements of a healthy diet, I
concluded that it is safe to start with the following two objectives:

1. examine human diet over time - the foods humans consumed since the arrival of our species.
2. examine diets of ethnical groups known for their good health.

Looking at the type of diets humans lived on through out pre-history, provides good
insights into the kind of foods human body should be well adapted at utilizing and dealing with.
Further, the diets of certain ethnical groups that are well known for good health -
the people of Okinawa(Japan), traditional cultures in the Mediterranean region and many hunter-gatherer
societies - suggest certain health promoting dietary habits. Upon closer examination, two main
denominators emerged:

• diets are based on natural, whole or minimally processed foods in accordance to heritage.
• diets are lower in calories compared to a typical western diet.

In the context of present time, one can therefore make two general assumptions in regard to
the question of what constitutes a healthy diet: 1) generally, the less a food is processed the better.
2) eat less - eat what is adequate, do not over eat.

Generally, the less a food is processed the better

The reason for this is simple. For 99.9% of human existence, our species
lived on foods that were either raw or minimally processed. The technology
needed to increase food processing did not exist until very recently.
It is therefore reasonable to assume that our bodies are best adapted at
utilizing and dealing with the raw or minimally processed foods which sustained
us for hundreds of thousands of years: fruits, vegetables, meats, nuts and seeds.

Often, the more recent the food is, the more likely it is to be less beneficial
or even directly harmful - possibly due to lack of full adaptation to such foods.
For example, it is estimated that food cooking started about
500 000 - 250 000 years ago (depending on the source, the range may vary). During
this time frame, it is likely that human species have at least adapted in some way to cooked
animal and vegetable foods. On the other hand, the beginnings of grain consumption
are much more recent. Evidence of earliest known, systematical collecting of grains
for food goes back to about 23 000 years ago - giving less time for
adaptation to grain based foods.

Now, let’s fast forward to recent times and consider all the new, human invented,
highly processed foods so common today: fast foods, pizza, sweets, chips, convenience
foods, canned foods, etc. along with the dramatic rise in heart attacks, high blood pressure,
stroke, cancers, diabetes, kidney problems (and all the complications that arose from these
conditions) during the past 100 years or so.

Considering the declining health of most western
nations as opposed to good health of the ethnical groups described above, it seems reasonable
that the most recent food inventions are directly harmful to human health.
Further, it has been repeatedly observed that as ethnical groups around the
world adopt the modern western diet, their health dramatically declines and they develop
the same diseases that are so common to westerners. Not to mention the fact that
the above mentioned diseases were far less common among westerners
themselves barely 100 years ago.

The more a food is processed - through excessive cooking, pasteurization,
homogenization, high heat, mechanical processing, etc, - the less natural and nutritious it becomes to a point
of becoming a harmful burden to the body, rather then a useful and health promoting food. Some
industrial processing practices deprive food of their nutrients to such a high degree that the food
has to be “enriched” by artificially adding some nutrients back into the food. This is especially
true of flours where vitamins are added back in after the processing is done.

A good diet is based on natural, whole or minimally processed foods. A large portion
of it should consist of foods that can be eaten raw, such as fruits and vegetables.
Fermented or cultured, unpasteurized foods such as kefir, yogurt, cheeses, miso, sauerkraut and pickles
are considered highly beneficial. Cooking should be minimal and only applied to foods that
must be cooked in order to be edible. Ancestral heritage also plays an important role
as certain foods may need to be excluded or emphasized.

Eat less - eat what is adequate, do not over eat

During the past several decades, food in the western and westernized nations became
increasingly affordable and more readily available then ever before in
human history. This very fact combined with the enjoyment food consumption brings,
results in all too frequent over eating. Which again leads to the above mentioned health
problems.

In the past, as in the traditional way of living among the ethnical groups mentioned
earlier, food consumption has always been significantly lower. Food quality, on the other
hand, has always been higher. Resulting in a lower food intake, but of nutrient dense foods.

Finally, as an interesting note, it has been repeatedly confirmed through laboratory experiments on animals,
including monkeys, that cutting down calories considerably lowers their susceptibility
to diseases and prolongs their life up to 50%. It is believed by many,
that life long caloric restriction can have similar effects on humans.

Health promoting eating habits

Over time, through reading and experimenting, I gradually arrived at several
basic health promoting habits that in my experience are the most important:

Avoid or minimize:

• Avoid all junk, sweets, canned and convenience foods - including
  all foods with added sugar: most commercial yogurts, kefirs and juices, fruit and soft drinks.
• Avoid all refined or overly heated fats: margarine, any oil that is not cold
  pressed, leftover fat from cooking, all foods that contain hydrogenated or
  partially hydrogenated fats and trans fatty acids (read the labels). Such
  fats are considered to be among the most health damaging foods.
• Avoid consumption of fish and water animals unless certain they came from unpolluted waters.
  Especially predators should be avoided as the toxins accumulate in them in
  far greater quantities.
• Keep the intake of foods high in polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) low - mainly
  nuts and seeds and any products made from them (mostly oils). PUFAs are unstable,
  they oxidize readily resulting in harmful free radicals. High PUFA intake have
  been repeatedly linked with cancer, heart and inflammatory diseases.
• Do not cook meat or fat at high temperatures while exposed to air. Such practice
  will avoid fat and cholesterol oxidation - believed to be responsible for build up
  of arterial plaque and injury to arterial cells. Grilling and frying is especially
  harmful. Boiling is probably the safest way of cooking meat.
• Minimize or eliminate consumption of foods frequently contaminated with mycotoxins: alcoholic beverages,
  wheat, rye, barley, corn and peanuts. Mycotoxins are poisonous substances produced
  by certain molds and fungi which cause a wide range of health problems including cancer,
  asthma, multiple sclerosis and diabetes.

Emphasize and do:

• The more natural and less processed the food the better. Emphasize whole, fresh foods.
  Replace white rice with brown rice; white bread with whole grain bread; sugar with
  small amounts of raw honey or dry fruit; pasta with millet or whole grain pasta; canned
  foods with fresh; candy and other sweets with dry or sweet fruit;
  etc. Organic foods are best as they are higher in nutrients and do not contain
  harmful pesticides, hormones or antibiotics found in conventional foods.
  Always choose fresh over frozen, dried or canned foods. Fresh foods taste better,
  have more nutrients in them, have no added salt, sugar or unhealthy additives.
• Enjoy simple meals. Generally, the
  simpler the food preparation the more nutrients are preserved and the easier it is to
  digest. Simple meals are easy and quick to prepare and use fewer
  resources like electricity and water - thus are more environmentally friendly and less costly.
• Only cook foods that need to be cooked in order to be edible (beans, grains and some vegetables).
  Foods that are edible in a raw state (fruits, most vegetables, sprouts, nuts and seeds)
  should be consumed on a daily basis and preferably with every meal. Raw foods are higher in nutrients,
  which to some degree get lost during cooking, and are easier to digest. At least 50% of
  the diet, by volume, should consist of raw foods.
• Steam vegetables that need to be cooked - steaming preserves more nutrients which
  when boiled leech into the water. Do not overcook. Cooked vegetables should be crunchy
  when you eat them, not soft.
• Chew food well (simply chew it longer) and eat at a comfortable pace. This improves
  digestion which already starts in the mouth while saliva gets mixed with the food.

• Variety in diet is very important - to prevent allergies, malnutrition and to lower
  exposure to natural and man-made toxins found in many natural foods.

• Always properly wash fruits and vegetables before consumption. This lowers the
  exposure to agricultural chemicals (used to cultivate conventional plants) and harmful microorganisms.
  Peel the skin if washing is not sufficient.

• Nuts and seeds should be soaked before consumption - to lower or eliminate natural
  anti nutrients like enzyme inhibitors. Soaking makes them much easier to digest.
  Do not eat more then a few handfuls a week as they are high in PUFAs and difficult
  to digest.
• Grains (except amaranth, millet and rice) and beans must be soaked before
  consumption. This lowers or eliminates anti nutrients like phytic acid which inhibits
  mineral absorption that can lead to mineral deficiency.
• Fruits are best eaten alone as a snack between meals. To improve digestion only eat
  one type of fruit at a time.
• Regularly consume unpasteurized fermented/cultured foods like sauerkraut, miso,
  pickles, kefir, yogurt, etc. These are pre-digested foods that are high in
  probiotics (friendly bacteria) and enzymes which provide numerous health benefits.
  Start with what your ancestors consumed and later experiment with other foods
  as well.
• Regularly consume enzyme rich foods: sprouts, raw honey, grapes, figs, avocados,
  bananas, papayas, pineapple, kiwi, mango and fermented/cultured
  foods (see above). Enzymes obtained from raw foods ease the digestion by reducing
  the body’s need to produce digestive enzymes.
• Consider the diet your ancestors ate for thousands of years - you will most likely
  do very well on such a diet due to the long period of adaptation to it.
  For example, the traditional Chinese diet is high in carbohydrates and low in fat and protein;
  Europeans, on the other hand, have been eating less carbs and more protein and fat;
  North American Indians did not eat grains.
• Drink adequate amounts of liquid through out the day. Water is best. Under normal conditions,
  most people need 2-3 liters of liquid/day.
• Unless very hungry, do not eat for 3-4 hours before bedtime. That way the nightly fast
  can be prolonged considerably. This gives the body more/adequate time and energy to perform the
  countless nightly tasks that are so essential to good health. (Rather then digesting the
  just eaten meal)
• Eat only when hungry and do not overeat regardless of food. I found this to be among the
  most important of all health promoting habits.

Good sources of protein:

• any meat that comes from organic, free range animals that are fed their natural diet (hard to find)
• when not organic: lean poultry meat (high fat cuts are high in polyunsaturated fatty acids which oxidize readily during cooking and in the body; toxins accumulate in the fat)
• beans
• fresh, soaked or sprouted nuts and seeds
• raw fermented milk products: sour milk, kefir, cheeses, etc (hard to find)
• wild game
• eggs

Most commercial meats including pork and beef, unless organic and not fed corn/grains/beans,
contain antibiotics, hormones and too many polyunsaturated fats - thus should be avoided.

Good sources of carbohydrates:

• vegetables
• fruits
• whole or minimally processed fresh and mold free grains: rice, oat, amaranth, millet, barley, wheat, etc.
• beans
• potatoes

Good sources of fats:

• avocados
• butter
• fresh, soaked or sprouted nuts and seeds (mostly source of omega 6)
• coconuts or coconut oil
• full fat raw milk products (cheese, milk, cream, etc) from pasture fed cattle
• olives or first cold pressed (extra virgin) olive oil

Shopping

I always try to find organic foods to avoid harmful substances like hormones, antibiotics, pesticides, etc.
The most contaminated fruits are: raisins, cherries, peaches, strawberries, mexican
(winter) cantaloupe, apples, apricots, Chilean (winter) grapes. And the most
contaminated vegetables are: spinach, celery, green beans, bell peppers, cucumbers,
cultivated button mushrooms, potatoes and wheat. Lean poultry is probably the safest meat
to eat if not organic.

Meal examples

What follows are weekly meals that closely resemble my diet at the time of this
writing. When planning meals, the key idea is to have variety in diet and to rely on
food combinations that agree with ones digestion.

TBS = table spoon
tsp = tea spoon
/ = or

• any fruit eaten alone
• 0.5L sour milk, 300g potatoes, fennel
• 0.5L kefir, 50-100g oatmeal, 25g raisins
• 0.5L plain yogurt, 300g grapes/2-3 bananas
• 50-100g oatmeal, 1-2TBS honey, cinammon
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