1991/05/01

How food governs consciousness

"How do you feel? No, really feel? Take time to reflect.
"Are there a lot of things buzzing around in your mind? Know where they come from? — your belly. What you take into you has an enormous effect on your ability to hear your inner voice. The nerve endings in the stomach govern what the consciousness can assimilate. They control your body’s perception of itself. What/who you believe yourself to be is based on bio-feedback responses from the self you have created by your choice of nutrition.
"Dullness, perpetually feeling ‘one under par’, inadequacy, nameless anxiety, dread, hyper-activity, insatiable over-achievement: many of these sensations/impulses can be traced to diet. Seek advice. Experiment with, and govern yourself by, a reasonable one. The search is itself a way of discovering dimensions you were previously unaware of. Finding dignifies both the finder and what is found.
"To accept a diet suitable for the human body is part of your internal process of reconciliation. Respect all creation, and all creation will respect you. Find out what makes you feel good, longterm, and reward yourself with it. All flora is given you for your needs, but reliance on stimulants -which have a proper place- leads to dependence. Your goal is independence within a framework of interdependence. If you rely on something else to prop you up, then if it falls, you fall, and everybody falls.
"Accept yourself as you are. If you feel horrible, accept yourself feeling horrible. Look at what ‘horrible’ really means, don’t slam the door. There may be a terrible beauty in it, pull yourself along the fraying guide-rope of your mind till you can work yourself by degrees to an identifiable feeling that is ‘least horrible’. Ask yourself what it means to you, why you have it; then cherish it in love and consciously let it go.
"Keep moving deeper. As you release individual hang-ups you must progress both inwards and outwards simultaneously — inwards to address the hurts which have festered and grown cancerous, outwards to see yourself more and more fully as a whole human-being. The result must be balance, concentrating exclusively on either process is like growing arms of different lengths. Blend the inner and the outer, and so you will find your entire personality irradiated by light. Remember tho, you become what you eat. If you wish to be released, release others."

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