I love Joni Mitchell and have so much respect for her as an artist, and I absolutely love her new album Shine - God Bless the Grammy's for bringing her album to my attention - and go Joni!!! Wow, you are still doing it!!!! Anew! Check out a song from her latest album here!
Her focus is the environment. It is her passion. And she chain smokes. Is there a link there? Is she a reflection of the environment and is the environment a reflection of her? Because she must be dying of the smoke, is she totally tuned in to the Earth dying of our smoke. Is this why she had to be a chain smoker - to zen with the Earth and bring us this message?
Is there a parallel truth here that can show me why I'm focused on the raw diet and could this truth heal me? Maybe I hurt myself with food so I could find the raw diet and bring in some messages too. But I'm still hurting myself with food - Is it because I see people hurting themselves, and I want to zen with that? I do. I see people choosing things that hurt themselves.
I should accept that I hurt myself with food and that this helps me to see what is going on with humanity hurting itself. The journey will unfold.
Friday, February 15, 2008
Monday, July 23, 2007
Gluttony is Human Nature
Hello. My name is Jinjee Talifero and I am the co-author with my husband Storm of the eBook The Garden Diet and 11 other eBooks about The Raw Vegan Diet. My friend Faith Paul emailed me today an article she wrote about Gluttony saying how important it is that we get rid of this vice, and asked me what I felt about her writings. This blog is my answer to that question.
My first thought is that gluttony is human nature. And yet it is also one of the seven deadly sins. And so of course most of us die of it. Yes, most people eat themselves to death sooner or later. If anyone reading this is free of the sin of gluttony let them comment and advise us on their success. Even skinny people are guilty of gluttony, just not as often.
And so it is my goal to help you to learn how to control your gluttony. I do not believe we can ever completely get rid of our gluttony. That would be an unrealistic goal and therefore cause much frustration. But we must simply not be gluttonous as often. Our goal should be to be able to say "I am not as gluttonous as I used to be". Of course we don't really use the word gluttonous in conversation much these days. We call gluttony "pigging out".
So, getting to the point - how do you control gluttony?
1. try, try, try
2. never give up
3. don't beat yourself up when you are gluttonous
4. think positively
5. play tricks on your own mind
6. exercise
7. plan what you are going to eat
8. keep a food journal
9. realize that emotional eating is a good thing
10. visualize yourself in your ideal body
Yes, realize that emotional eating is a good thing! I know, you've been told so often that you should not eat to satisfy your emotional needs but rather only when you are hungry. Well, that is a very nice concept but not at all how humans operate or were programmed to operate.
From birth we are programmed to be comforted by food! Mother's milk has opiates in it that Mother Nature put there to calm us when we are scared, hurt, or frustrated.
And as adults we still eat for comfort. And that is a good thing! Realize that you need to eat. It is important for you to eat three to five delicious nourishing meals each day. You are important. You are a miracle. And you deserve the best food in the world. You deserve to get up from your meals feeling ready to take on the world. So make the best food you can. Sit down and eat it in a beautiful place, taking time to really enjoy your food.
When you eat you are communing with Mother Nature. She enjoys nursing you as a Mother enjoys nursing her baby. A Mother enjoys nursing as much as her baby does. It is forming a bond of love between the two. When you eat, Mother Nature is loving you, comforting you, energizing you. She loves you so much, - more than you can ever imagine!!! Do you know how much you love your newborn baby? That is nothing compared with the love The Mother Spirit has for you! You should be totally blissed out when you get up from the table, drunk on her love. And the good feeling of the food in your tummy should give you energy to do great work in the world!
This week when you sit down to eat, focus on your eating, taking deep breaths between mouthfuls, savoring your food. Realize that you are eating the perfect food for your body, the food that is grown on this earth for your optimum performance. Enjoy the color, texture, smell, and flavor!
Next week I will talk about some of the other ways listed above to end pigging out, abate gluttony, cut down on out-of-control eating, and stop bingeing.
Meanwhile for raw vegan recipes and transition advice order my eBooks in my store!
Until then,
Jinjee
My first thought is that gluttony is human nature. And yet it is also one of the seven deadly sins. And so of course most of us die of it. Yes, most people eat themselves to death sooner or later. If anyone reading this is free of the sin of gluttony let them comment and advise us on their success. Even skinny people are guilty of gluttony, just not as often.
And so it is my goal to help you to learn how to control your gluttony. I do not believe we can ever completely get rid of our gluttony. That would be an unrealistic goal and therefore cause much frustration. But we must simply not be gluttonous as often. Our goal should be to be able to say "I am not as gluttonous as I used to be". Of course we don't really use the word gluttonous in conversation much these days. We call gluttony "pigging out".
So, getting to the point - how do you control gluttony?
1. try, try, try
2. never give up
3. don't beat yourself up when you are gluttonous
4. think positively
5. play tricks on your own mind
6. exercise
7. plan what you are going to eat
8. keep a food journal
9. realize that emotional eating is a good thing
10. visualize yourself in your ideal body
Yes, realize that emotional eating is a good thing! I know, you've been told so often that you should not eat to satisfy your emotional needs but rather only when you are hungry. Well, that is a very nice concept but not at all how humans operate or were programmed to operate.
From birth we are programmed to be comforted by food! Mother's milk has opiates in it that Mother Nature put there to calm us when we are scared, hurt, or frustrated.
And as adults we still eat for comfort. And that is a good thing! Realize that you need to eat. It is important for you to eat three to five delicious nourishing meals each day. You are important. You are a miracle. And you deserve the best food in the world. You deserve to get up from your meals feeling ready to take on the world. So make the best food you can. Sit down and eat it in a beautiful place, taking time to really enjoy your food.
When you eat you are communing with Mother Nature. She enjoys nursing you as a Mother enjoys nursing her baby. A Mother enjoys nursing as much as her baby does. It is forming a bond of love between the two. When you eat, Mother Nature is loving you, comforting you, energizing you. She loves you so much, - more than you can ever imagine!!! Do you know how much you love your newborn baby? That is nothing compared with the love The Mother Spirit has for you! You should be totally blissed out when you get up from the table, drunk on her love. And the good feeling of the food in your tummy should give you energy to do great work in the world!
This week when you sit down to eat, focus on your eating, taking deep breaths between mouthfuls, savoring your food. Realize that you are eating the perfect food for your body, the food that is grown on this earth for your optimum performance. Enjoy the color, texture, smell, and flavor!
Next week I will talk about some of the other ways listed above to end pigging out, abate gluttony, cut down on out-of-control eating, and stop bingeing.
Meanwhile for raw vegan recipes and transition advice order my eBooks in my store!
Until then,
Jinjee
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