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Conscious Choices
Sometimes Food fills needs that cannot be filled with Food!
And if One can get a handle on what it really is that yyou are craving then one may decide in favor of that thing- or another-or food..Conscious Choices
Date: 8/15/2005 10:10:05 PM ( 19 y ) ... viewed 1831 times Check In with yourself..The message for my week...Get in touch...
I also am a food
> addict and compulsive overeater and hope that kundalini yoga will help
> with me heal this. I am anxious to learn and practice.
> Sat Nam!
There are sets in Kundalini Yoga to help correct your metabolism. You may
look there.
Also, I find that Kundalini Yoga will help me confront my habits by giving
me higher awareness, but it won't usually make the decision for me. At
some point I have to make a decision with the higher awareness I have.
So one thing is to keep remaining aware throughout the day of what we do
that may go against the yoga that I try to practice.
There are 2 kinds of food cravings:
1) My body is warning me that it has not received specific nutrients it
needs to function properly. Say I am hungry and I crave for chips. What is
it about the chips that my body's functioning depends on? I feel it
inside of me. Sometimes it might be that I have not had enough pure oil in
my system. So then I take a spoonful of the cleanest purest oil I have
available. I wait to see if my body still "craves" the chips. (By the way,
drinking pure olive oil also helped restore the lining of my stomach so I
could digest better: alcohol, fried foods irritate that lining and
bacteria then invade the body with for result... body odors and such...)
2) My emotional system seeks comfort and my body really does not starve
from any lack of nutrients. If I crave desert, do you think my body needs
more sugar? Likely not, I have had fruit and other foods with sugar in
them!
I remember craving sugar, craving sausages, raw meat,... (before my
vegetarian days)... I knew it was not due to a physical deficiency so I
made a deal with myself: I will first meditate on what my craving is
really about and when I know, if I still want it, I'll give it to myself.
I realized pretty soon that my craving for sausages was related to
feelings of emasculation (does it sound funny?), my desires for raw meat
were linked to inner anger and I wanted to tear something apart with rage
like a lion or a tiger might. Sugars were always related to wanting to
soothe down some agitation... and guess what I wanted after sugar... a
nice cup of coffee... and the agitation was back in a hurry... plus the
crash after the sugar rush... The awareness of what I truly needed and the
awareness of what I was doing with food to appease my cravings led me to
know myself differently and to want to care for myself differently. It
takes discipline but in the end I got self-love...
So the idea is to give yourself a chance to be aware of what you truly
need and do the best to support that... and see what happens! Awareness
gives one incredible power! And the decisions that are supporting you
become easier to make.
It is the same with any change we want to bring to our lives. We need to
do it with awareness and a lot of love. Nobody else can do it for us.
Kundalini Yoga can help restore a balance in our body if we also support
that balance with our other daily decisions.
Does this help?
Blessings,
Awtar Sing
Rochester, NY
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