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Colorawdo girl
03-06-2009, 03:18 PM
Will start by saying,I love cooked food. LOVE IT,love it,love it. I love it because it brought me here,to raw living,eating incredible foods with amazing flavors,living and loving life in vibrancy and abundance,in love and compassion. It showed me what I do not want. I share that with you here.(I also love every experience I have had in life,even those that appeared hard and bad,for this same reason.)

What are you addicted to? Addiction=Spending our precious life energy,chasing what we do not want and never getting enough of whatever it is.

Well we must fight and conquerour addictions! Right? The first thing we can do is to disappear those words out of our vocabulary. The only way we can convert an enemy into a friend is through love,not hatred or fighting.

Do we get results from fighting the things we hate? The war on drugs,the war on terrorismthe war on cancer,obesity and hunger.
Quite the opposite. Our thoughts of hate,violence and fighting will generate hate,violence and fighting. Our thoughts of love,peace and acceptance will generate those.

It has been said that the cure of all blunders,the cure of blindness,the cure of crime..is love. Addiction surely constitutes one huge blunder. Why is it a blunder? Because it demands more and more and more of something your body despises.It takes you farther and farther away from all you desire and it is destructive in its path and aftermath.Your beginnings were whole and clean and vibrant well being. Addictions rob you of that.

Why is love the cure? because love is where you came from at your very beginning. Love really does cure,the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. As you apply love,for yourself and others too,you will feel balance coming back to your life.

Set your intention to come into well being. And then do not go for what you do not want. Do butterflies chase bees.No.Why? Because its not what they want. Draw what you want-well being.

Addictions are our teachers. Alcohol in excess teaches us we do not want that experience again.Drugs..ut oh.Cigarettes,painkillers...Cooked food clogs our bodies and our minds and brings disease..etc
These led you here. If you hate them,hate weakens you,then you are weak and go get some. Drive through here I come!!!!.Rather love them for all they have taught you and where they have led you. Say I love cooked food! It then loses all power and you are the one empowered.

Love for yourself will be the balancing factor and force that causes your transformation from a life of addictions to a place of love and well being.
I love the body I have been given. It is sacred and the place I dwell. I am so grateful for how it works,the blood that pulses through my heart and my veins,the cells that make it all possible.

Making a mistake using an addictive substance(cooked food etc) is not a mistake at all. It is merely something you did that produced results. That teacher again.I do this,I get this result. You evidently had to go through all that to get here and may still have some learning to do. Shame and blame and guilt will only bring you back every time,to a place of imbalance and veering you off course from what you want and eating more and more harmful food.

What are you addicted to? Embrace it with love for all it has taught you and giving you clarity about all you do not want. Now you know what you want and you know those choices will take you away from that. So see them,embrace them,wish them well and send them packing. If you "mess up" then its more school for you. Say a silent prayer before you do this. And if needed,afterwards to release it and move forward. It is the way of the raw life and a journey only you can make for yourself.

Stephen28
03-07-2009, 02:47 AM
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Addictions are our teachers. Alcohol in excess teaches us we do not want that experience again.Drugs..ut oh.Cigarettes,painkillers...Cooked food clogs our bodies and our minds and brings disease..etc
These led you here. If you hate them,hate weakens you,then you are weak and go get some.Drive through here I come!!!!.Rather love them for all they have taught you and where they have led you. Say I love cooked food! It then loses all power and you are the one empowered.


I loved what you said here. I've been addicted to alcohol in the past, drinking to get to sleep and having up to 50 shots of alcohol when I was out in a club or at a party. I stopped drinking for eight months and then began again, not quite as much though. Recently I've had two personal disasters that happened whilst drinking, and because of them, I've realised I really do not like the person I am whilst drinking, and so have decided to do my best never to be drunk again, and if I can help it, never drink again.

You're so right about addictions. The feeling you have after being clean of something is intense, as well. I never want to lose that.

marie713
03-07-2009, 10:55 PM
I have been lurking on this site for over a year. I had to come out of hiding for this post though. I have been trying so hard to be raw since 2007. I vary from 20% some days to 90% others. I also went through a huge, huge crisis and I know that the raw I was eating was so important in helping me get through it. Anyway, yesterday I was thinking about my life and the struggles I've been having and I came to the conclusion that maybe I should start doing the opposite of many of the things I've been doing, and your post really clarified the diet part for me. I've been hating myself daily for having a muffin or eating a cooked dinner. I've been getting so dissillusioned. This week I just about gave up. Actually, I told myself that maybe I would just take a break for a while. Well, reading your post has shown me that maybe I've been going about this wrong. I know what I want, I know how I want to eat. I need to focus on the good food I eat and stop hating myself after I eat something cooked. I'll give it a good try again tomorrow. Thanks again.

selina_k
03-07-2009, 11:20 PM
I wasn't ready for this post the first time I ran across it. I'm ready for the message now.

thank you! good one!!!!!

Jenifae
03-07-2009, 11:55 PM
Exactly what I needed to read right now. Thank you for the reminder of What we put our Minds upon we Bring Upon.

I want to Bring upon Empowerment with Raw!

:)