rawpriestess
05-14-2005, 02:26 PM
I posted this in another thread but was asked to start a new one, so here you are.
Are you slightly involved in the Raw and Living food Lifestyle?
Or are YOU TOTALLY COMMITTED?
This is one of my favorite analogies.
In ham and eggs, the chicken is involved
the pig is committed.
So a commitment means, NO OTHER OPTION.
Where involvement, means you can take it or leave it anytime.
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Some people can make a commitment, and that is it, this is when we totally change our beliefs. We just aren't tempted any further.
Other people become involved in different things, and they swing back and forth and back and forth, aren't they committed? don't they care?, maybe they just are dealing with the cooked food addiction.
And the need for addictions don't go away immediately.
I know coffee takes about 4 days to get out of my system, and yet, 7 years after I quit drinking coffee, I started up again, what was that about?
Well, somewhere in there, there was a "need" for the comfort that drinking coffee brought me, who knew why or what, but it was there, now understand the "need" wasn't for the coffee, so the addiction was gone, it was for the "feeling" that drinking coffee USED to bring me.
Many people who are committed, say, "just be prepared."
Now how could I have been prepared 7 years later? I hadn't touched coffee or wanted it for 7 years. But Victoria Boutenko talks about this in her lectures.
Just because you have decided to be 100% raw, and you've eaten raw for years, doesn't mean that you won't be tempted some weird time in the future, something we see, or something we hear may trigger an emotional response in us, and all of a sudden we want that familiar feeling of the past, maybe even 20 years past, but we want it.
So, was I simply involved? or was I committed?
Well, I would say I must have only been involved, although you would think 7 years was a pretty good judge of commitment LOL.
You see, when I quit smoking, I have NEVER in 28 years been intersted in a cigarette. So, I'd say I'm totally committed to that.
I quit eating meat, and no matter where I am, no matter how hungry I am, I would NEVER eat meat, ever, for any reason. It would simply make me sick. Again, totally committed here.
However, with the cooked food, I've been slipping myself lately, so I must be only involved.
So, I don't think I need any more ideas, or suggestions, or books to read. I don't need any more recipes, or help in my kitchen, I know how to prepare the foods, I have no packaged or boxed food in my home.
So, how do I become totally committed, instead of merely involved?
By changing my beliefs about food.
I can change my environment, and go to a retreat and eat only raw food, but when I come home and start my regular life, I'm back where I started, so an environmental change won't work, (this is why prisons don't work)
I can change for a period of time, just to "see" what will happen, like If I had a disease, I could "try" 100% raw and be totally committed, for a few weeks or months, until my disease was cured, or gone, or I was thin enough for my class reunion, or upcoming event. But again, this motivation would only last as long as my commitment to that "other" event was going strong. When I get back home to my regular life, it might end. (this is why diets don't work)
Or I could change my beliefs at the soul level, I could get in touch with my inner knowingness, and really connect with spirit, God/dess, the Universal Consciousness or whatever I choose to call it, and meditate and totally embrace my food issues. I could really marry my choices, I could, if I really wanted to, BE a raw foodist.
By "being" a raw foodist, I would have no other option, because I wouldn't associate myself with anything else.
How do I do this? The same way I've been a vegetarian for years. There is no "doing", or "trying", there on "IS".
Now how to be prepared, just in case I have some food issues, or triggers, or feel nervous, or frustrated, or tired or hungry:
I will ALWAYS, have some truly tasty foods with me, or in my car, or know where to get them.
I still have a choices, to eat my food, or the cooked food that is available, sometimes knowing that I have choices, helps alot.
So, the kinds of things I will pack with me each day, and take in my car, are a baggie of flax crackers, I can add almost any type of veggie and have a mini sandwich.
I can keep almond butter in a small tupper ware container, just 2 T or so.
I can keep some raw greek olives in a small baggie. (this is nice for a super salty treat, and again tastes great on crackers, but can be a good addition to a rather dull and boring salad at a restaurant if I can't find any fresh lemon to squeeze on.
Walnuts, one of my favorite snacks.
I can keep some hot peppers too, this is nice to add heat to a salad, or just to munch on, anything to me that has a really high amount of flavor, can help with my cravings, it's not so much I want volume, I can always eat an apple, or banana for volume, but I usually want some really tasty intense flavor, when I'm struggling with food cravings.
So, there you have it,
cruncy & dry - crackers,
smooth & wet - almond butter
and the 5 tastes:
salty - olives
sweet - almond butter
spicy - hot peppers
sour - lemons
bitter - walnuts/pecans
You can almost always find lemons anywhere that tea is served, so there is my sour, or I can always take some with me.
So, there I have my prepared "care package" to take with me, although when I'm going anywhere, I could probably get any of these items in a store, except maybe the raw almond butter, that can be a little more difficult to find, but for the sweet, I could eat any type of fruit, and alot of veggies.
So, I can be prepared with my food. I just need to make the commitment, and there will be no stopping me.
So, are YOU slightly involved?
or Totally commited?
Are you slightly involved in the Raw and Living food Lifestyle?
Or are YOU TOTALLY COMMITTED?
This is one of my favorite analogies.
In ham and eggs, the chicken is involved
the pig is committed.
So a commitment means, NO OTHER OPTION.
Where involvement, means you can take it or leave it anytime.
************************************************
Some people can make a commitment, and that is it, this is when we totally change our beliefs. We just aren't tempted any further.
Other people become involved in different things, and they swing back and forth and back and forth, aren't they committed? don't they care?, maybe they just are dealing with the cooked food addiction.
And the need for addictions don't go away immediately.
I know coffee takes about 4 days to get out of my system, and yet, 7 years after I quit drinking coffee, I started up again, what was that about?
Well, somewhere in there, there was a "need" for the comfort that drinking coffee brought me, who knew why or what, but it was there, now understand the "need" wasn't for the coffee, so the addiction was gone, it was for the "feeling" that drinking coffee USED to bring me.
Many people who are committed, say, "just be prepared."
Now how could I have been prepared 7 years later? I hadn't touched coffee or wanted it for 7 years. But Victoria Boutenko talks about this in her lectures.
Just because you have decided to be 100% raw, and you've eaten raw for years, doesn't mean that you won't be tempted some weird time in the future, something we see, or something we hear may trigger an emotional response in us, and all of a sudden we want that familiar feeling of the past, maybe even 20 years past, but we want it.
So, was I simply involved? or was I committed?
Well, I would say I must have only been involved, although you would think 7 years was a pretty good judge of commitment LOL.
You see, when I quit smoking, I have NEVER in 28 years been intersted in a cigarette. So, I'd say I'm totally committed to that.
I quit eating meat, and no matter where I am, no matter how hungry I am, I would NEVER eat meat, ever, for any reason. It would simply make me sick. Again, totally committed here.
However, with the cooked food, I've been slipping myself lately, so I must be only involved.
So, I don't think I need any more ideas, or suggestions, or books to read. I don't need any more recipes, or help in my kitchen, I know how to prepare the foods, I have no packaged or boxed food in my home.
So, how do I become totally committed, instead of merely involved?
By changing my beliefs about food.
I can change my environment, and go to a retreat and eat only raw food, but when I come home and start my regular life, I'm back where I started, so an environmental change won't work, (this is why prisons don't work)
I can change for a period of time, just to "see" what will happen, like If I had a disease, I could "try" 100% raw and be totally committed, for a few weeks or months, until my disease was cured, or gone, or I was thin enough for my class reunion, or upcoming event. But again, this motivation would only last as long as my commitment to that "other" event was going strong. When I get back home to my regular life, it might end. (this is why diets don't work)
Or I could change my beliefs at the soul level, I could get in touch with my inner knowingness, and really connect with spirit, God/dess, the Universal Consciousness or whatever I choose to call it, and meditate and totally embrace my food issues. I could really marry my choices, I could, if I really wanted to, BE a raw foodist.
By "being" a raw foodist, I would have no other option, because I wouldn't associate myself with anything else.
How do I do this? The same way I've been a vegetarian for years. There is no "doing", or "trying", there on "IS".
Now how to be prepared, just in case I have some food issues, or triggers, or feel nervous, or frustrated, or tired or hungry:
I will ALWAYS, have some truly tasty foods with me, or in my car, or know where to get them.
I still have a choices, to eat my food, or the cooked food that is available, sometimes knowing that I have choices, helps alot.
So, the kinds of things I will pack with me each day, and take in my car, are a baggie of flax crackers, I can add almost any type of veggie and have a mini sandwich.
I can keep almond butter in a small tupper ware container, just 2 T or so.
I can keep some raw greek olives in a small baggie. (this is nice for a super salty treat, and again tastes great on crackers, but can be a good addition to a rather dull and boring salad at a restaurant if I can't find any fresh lemon to squeeze on.
Walnuts, one of my favorite snacks.
I can keep some hot peppers too, this is nice to add heat to a salad, or just to munch on, anything to me that has a really high amount of flavor, can help with my cravings, it's not so much I want volume, I can always eat an apple, or banana for volume, but I usually want some really tasty intense flavor, when I'm struggling with food cravings.
So, there you have it,
cruncy & dry - crackers,
smooth & wet - almond butter
and the 5 tastes:
salty - olives
sweet - almond butter
spicy - hot peppers
sour - lemons
bitter - walnuts/pecans
You can almost always find lemons anywhere that tea is served, so there is my sour, or I can always take some with me.
So, there I have my prepared "care package" to take with me, although when I'm going anywhere, I could probably get any of these items in a store, except maybe the raw almond butter, that can be a little more difficult to find, but for the sweet, I could eat any type of fruit, and alot of veggies.
So, I can be prepared with my food. I just need to make the commitment, and there will be no stopping me.
So, are YOU slightly involved?
or Totally commited?