Baby steps and zoom meeting offer
Okay, so I wrote these 2 pages/posts about best nutrition and getting started with growing your own food and I got one comment something like: “can you take me by the hand and use baby steps?” that I am responding to. It might even get a little personal in the process.
I suppose that that is where a lot of people are actually at with growing your own food, inexperienced and maybe even reluctant and a bit clueless on how to actually go about it (more posts WILL follow on that) as well as becoming aware of how crucial it actually is to both love your body and being as well as provide it with sustaining nourishing and energizing nutrition. Those two will go hand in hand eventually.
Then I look at my schedule and my inner neurological wiring and don’t see how I can honor that request other than acknowledging it.
So here’s a statement/blog post regarding that topic in a general way, which is not to say there won’t be more specific baby step posts.
I am in my sixties with a super full schedule in a challenging environment. I grew up with healthy food. Then I moved to the United States during my medical training and my diet (the food I ate) went to sh*t for about 25 years. Sorry if language like that offends you, but it was, only then I didn’t know or consider it, and maybe in the 1980ties and 90ties, it was not as bad as it is today.
The year 2016 was a low and turning point for me.
Our bodies, many of them, are more forgiving when we are younger, but abusing it will eventually catch up with you.
Remember also, physical nutrition is only one of the nourishment pillars for your physical vehicle, the temple and expression of the Absolute, “God” in this realm. The human biological machine meant to be used as a transformational apparatus.
So I learned some things the hard way, which brings me to the
Two ways of learning:
We learn and transform (move to a higher level of awareness, a higher stage) by two mechanisms
One is PAIN
The other is INSIGHT
We all have had a lot of painful events in life that shaped us and learned lessons that way. I know it is true for me.
Or we have exalted experiences, or expose ourselves to continuous learning through study or self observation and gain insights that make us move to a different level.
In regards to nutrition, you don’t’ have to wait for the pain to start, the illness to show up.
You younger folks can study and learn, then look at your beiefs, and install new habits
What rules do you believe about eating?
Where did those rules come from?
Are your beliefs still serving you?
A change in belief, conscious or unconscious may be needed.
Beliefs are replaceable.
You need to take responsibility for your beliefs.
Look around at the things that already have changed, as in calorie counting, forget about it, not needed.
And then, install a new habit, embody your new belief and change how you do day to day things. You can start eating differently.
Apply your self directed learning.
MAKE A SMALL CHANGE towards healthier eating, and incorporate it into your life. Do it now, get yourself set-up with good living habits before you HAVE to.
For example: there is enough known about the deleterious effects of a nutrient deficient sugar and processed food based diet to KNOW that it will affect you negatively later on.
Simple first action steps to dietary change could be:
- visit a farmer’s market and buy fresh organic produce (let us just assume it is not just produce bought and resold)
- buy produce from the organic food section in the supermarket
- establish an all plant based food day every week
- gradually decrease your soft drink habit
- cook one meal per week, then two then three and so on
I literally could go on almost indefinitely….
and here is another thing
YOU know what you actually eat and drink every day, how your life is structured and what your goals are.
Transformation and change requires your interest and some work, among other things, your willingness to do some internet searches on relevant nutritional topics.
Your courage to look at your beliefs about food and your body and change them.
There are specialists for everything – you can learn from them and sometimes you have to actually start doing something to get some experience to be able to tell if someone is just bullshitting you.
From the get go, whatever I have to offer, requires your active participation to be effective. There is no way around it, even though just getting exposed will do its slow work on your body-mind.
Projecting authority onto a medical professional is not actually a good thing. It gives your power away. It makes running a practice easier, and there are some things, naturally, that I , or other professionals, do know because that is what we studied and do, but never to be blindly followed, always with observation and input from the client and/or patient, taking into consideration their “Umfeld”, their surroundings, the living conditions as well as the internal milieu, and, in the United States, the monetary situation too (sad).
Yes I have some knowledge you might be missing, some experiences you can’t have had yet, but YOU are always in charge of your own health, you can listen to the inner voice of your intuition, your common sense, your self observation and only YOU know exactly how you feel. You can enlist support.
In fact, in growth and transformation it is required to come out of a zombie state and move from an unconscious habitual existence to a conscious intentional creative way of living and being.
In that process, don’t pretend to still be a toddler, as tempting as it may feel, I have been there.
To enlist the help of someone else is great, and it works best when you assume responsibility.
Are there times to trust…yeah, like if you are in an accident and need emergency surgery….oh man, expert help is very welcome. And as I said, there are experts in everything. But YOU are going to be the expert in YOU.
I hope this made a lot of sense to you.
One of the reasons I sometimes come across tough is: I literally cannot and will not be burdened with an unconsciously dependent and needy energy field. I am aware of it, I don’t judge it, but I will not take it on. This is an entirely energetic consideration.
My boundaries in that regard are strong, even to the point of being what is called hyper-boundaried. This is a consequence of where this (my) body-mind came from.
The only context in which it is permissible is in the specifically agreed context of a particular therapeutic relationship.
Clarity works.
Sometimes in order to care for ourselves well, we need to do some awareness work, some healing work, not because the expression of you as an expression of what IS is not okay, but because our awareness of who we are and our limiting belief systems are keeping us from expressing more in alignment with the higher vibrational frequencies, our higher intention or soul’s purpose.
You don’t have to evolve, learn or change or grow up. It is something that your inner you wants to do, and when the time is right for you, you will go on that journey.
For those of you who have attended the weekly Distance Energy Healing that I offered every Friday on gorebaggtv for the last 3 years, you know that we recently, this summer, changed format.
I still offer the Distance Energy Healing (DEH) hour every week, Friday morning at 11am PST, free of charge.
This event works with a balance between planning and set intent on one side and being in the moment and responsive to what arises in the field with the participants attending that week on the other. This means the exact content is never known, just the general direction is.
It is very much experimental and a collaborative event.
The DEH event moved to zoom, and registration is required every month to get the new meeting ID and passcode for that month.
I will be putting the offer and more information in the IDHHB newsletter, and you can sign up via the IDHHB contact form.
All are welcome.