[impaul99]

I had the same question last year, and I wrote a post about it on my old blog. I'll re-post it here:

In my last post I spoke about how my beliefs broke my diet. There are basically two parts to the challenge I’m encountering and today I figured out one part.

How Spirituality Affects Diet and Nutrition

Is a slimy cheeseburger dripping with fat bad for you? Does it harm your body? Or is it only bad for you if you believe it is bad for you?

Common sense tells us that eating crappy foods is bad for you. However, spiritual teachers such as Dr. How Len and Deepak Chopra as well as many others have made references to the fact that the foods themselves might only be “bad” for us if we believe they are bad for us. If you believe in a purely subjective reality model of the universe, this would obviously make total sense. Since in a subjective reality model we create everything we see, the food we eat doesn’t even exist, it is all just energy. It is only our beliefs and expectations that cause the effect. In this model it is only because we think chocolate cake makes us fat, that it makes us fat.

This line of thinking has been somewhat messing with my head lately and I know it’s at least partly to blame for my inability to stick to my 98% Diet and Fitness Plan . Today I found a logical solution.

Let’s assume for a moment that we do in fact live in a purely subjective reality model of the universe. Everything we see in front of us is purely created by us, by our subconscious beliefs. If so, does that mean then that we can eat whatever we want and as long as we believe that it is good for us we will be ok?

Yes and No. The challenge, as always is belief. In a subjective reality model yes you could eat whatever you wanted if you could somehow replace all of your subconscious beliefs and totally eliminate all reference to certain foods being bad for you. Practically speaking though, that is not easy to do.

For myself specifically, I realized that I have beliefs such as these already present in my conscious / subconscious mind:

* There are some foods that are good for me and some that are bad
* Some foods that are bad for me are …
* Some foods that are good for me are …
* When I eat foods that are bad for me, I am essentially slowly poisoning my body
* When I eat foods that are bad for me my body stores fat to protect itself from the toxins I ingest
* etc.

Because of this, when I do eat something that I know intellectually to be unhealthy such as a sloppy cheeseburger dripping with fat I will suffer, my body will suffer and a simple “Oh cmon, it can’t be that bad for me, it’s only bad for me if I believe it’s bad and I don’t really believe it’s bad” is NOT going to work (not for me). Yes, hypothetically speaking to a purely enlightened being food does nothing, but such a being can also drive nails through it’s hands and still be ok.

So, I’ve concluded my thinking on this with this simple experiment you can also do for yourself at home:

Step 1) Ask yourself - “Am I far enough with my spiritual studies that I can consider myself fully enlightened where I can do cool stuff like walking through walls and raising myself from the dead?”

Step 2)

If you answered YES, it is probably ok to eat cheeseburgers all day long. If you die, just raise yourself and keep eating.

If you answered NO, then you are probably not enlightened enough yet to be able to get away with eating whatever you want, therefore refer to step 3.

Step 3) If you want to be healthy and save yourself from years of pain going through countless debilitating degenerative diseases, eat healthy and continue your spiritual studies until you can answer step 1 with a YES.