Saturday, 8 December 2007

Hunger signals - Losing weight

For the first time in my life, I feel wholly satisfied, deeply content.
For the first time I'm getting all the nourishment I need - to be myself integrally.
I've been through years of craving, yearning, wanting food, of filling myself to the brim and yet I was never full......now I realize that in spite of eating every time I felt hungry, I was actually starving!!

Whenever we feel hungry, it is simply the cells in our bodies signaling a need for rich nutrients so that they can do their job to the best of their ability, to keep us alive and functioning in a healthy way, with a sense of well-being.......
But I was ignorant, most of the times I responded to their call by feeding them with nutrient-empty dead foods.........then I felt empty myself so reached out for more - of the same.....and so the cycle continued.....as that was how it had to be then......

To function optimally, which is the way the body is designed to function - it needs clean, life-giving fuel.
And when it begins to get that - this wise intelligent body immediately responds and right away there is a shift within.

Actually, its more like a paradigm shift.
Yes, the form changes - but it goes beyond the form, it becomes transformation........and it includes all of yourself......

One tweak, big or small and all other levels are impacted.
You bring alignment in one place and a flower blooms in another......

The extent and power of this impact on other levels, depends upon your ability to bend and adapt - it depends on how rigid, crystallized you are or then how supple and flexible......this suppleness, souplesse, is the key to all transformation. It is an attitude, a way of being. The more supple you are......the higher is your capacity to receive and be impacted.....
And this souplesse can definitely be developed, but thats another story for another day.

I've been flooding my insides, bathing my cells in green juices and like the flower, I'm beginning to bloom too.......

From a very young age, I'd always heard my grandmother say, your body is your temple, keep it clean, take care of it.....and I thought I'd understood, because I did keep it clean. On the outside. It didn't even occur to me to wonder what I was doing to keep it shining on the inside. That is like washing and giving a new coat of paint to the outer walls and structure of the temple and totally neglecting the inner sanctuary where the Divine resides. Its like caring for the exterior walls, roof and garden of your house and turning a blind eye to what is inside it. Or rather treating the inside like a trash bin, filling it up with all kinds of junk and ugly things - instead of creating beauty and harmony........

And when the inside begins to rot, the outside begins to crumble too......because both are part of the same structure....
Its ONE - two sides of the same coin......terms of relation not reality........
I knew it intellectually and now I'm beginning to know it in my body too.......and I'm beginning to understand the meaning of the word - embodiment..........

I feel like I'm shining, inside and out - and boy does it feel good !!
I am genuinely listening to and paying attention to my hunger signals now, feeding my body with Nutrient rich foods......I no longer need to overeat, no longer have any sugar cravings, I am free and I am flying - feeling lighter, losing weight, looking great :-)

Thank God for Hunger signals....... Thank God for Green Juice..................And Thanks so much for the pain and problem I ran into a few months ago that shook me awake......

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