foods that don't heal.

My favorite quote which I will use often is according to Chinese Medicine:  The body is only as healthy as the blood is clean.  The blood only follows where energy leads.  

This means that we need to start with cleaning our blood.  That my people comes from what we eat.  The whole foods or the junk will determine the cleanliness of our blood.  Supplements, water, balanced nutrients are all important to our blood cells and our bodies ability to follow the road of health and prosperity.  

Often people in life fill their holes of disappointment, sorrow, heart ache or emotional stress with food, substances and or sugar.  This provides a temporary relief to the pain and the hurt.    The ones I see the most is soda, the diet variety so there isn’t the guilt of the sugar, or energy drinks.  

Come on!  I get it!  I am a mom of 4 crazy busy and active kids.  My husband doesn’t get home from work until 10-11 pm.  Meaning to feed him dinner and visit with him at the end of his day puts me up super late.  Kids sleep in until about 8:00, so for me to have me time and do my morning pages I have to wake between 7-7:30.  Anything under 6 hours of sleep for more than 1 night a week is not enough and can wear on your overall health.  This means I am screwed!  Yup!  I am flirting with my health by my current way of living.  So do I think of a pick me up?  Do I turn to something that provides relief from the tiredness?  Sometimes.  Yes I have been guilty of a few swallows of a caffeinated drink to keep my eyes open for a few hours longer.  But mostly I give in and take a nap!  Novel Idea I know but such a huge risk and sacrifice.  I sacrifice getting something done like the mountain… Yes mountain of laundry in my bed room.  Risk…. Yes I place the kids in front of the TV meaning their brains turn to mush and I know their obedience level cuts at least in half by every 30 min of the box!  (Not at all scientific just what happens to my kids through my observation).   Huge risk Huge sacrifice.   And that is just from stress and lack of enough sleep. 

Sugar becomes our cocaine that we really struggle to pull away from.  Not only does it respond the same in the brain but it keeps us coming back from more.  What can we start doing to cut the sugar (diet drinks may not contain the same sugar but the sweeter in it is worst than sugar is for the brain and body, its even more of a neurotoxin).

Emotional distress?!?  Most turn to eating, they munch all day long and still eat a full meal.  As long as there is a physical substance in their mouth they feel stimulated and better.  However most of the time they are stress eating meaning their body is still in the fight and flight mode of the sympathetic nervous system response mode and not rest and digest of the parasympathetic.  So…. all that munching and eating is actually not getting used for fuel for the bodies cells!  But that is double dose bad news.  Not only do the cells not get the fuel so you constantly are left wanting more but what you do eat has to go somewhere.  If its sugary toxic yuck you start feeling mentally cloudy and numb to the emotional pain, which makes it easy to push yourself beyond what you can handle and sets up for emotional collapse.  Well and the body also tends to pack on that extra calorie intake in the form of fat.  So… not such a great idea.  

Me?!?  I tend to not eat.  I get to looking at the clock and realize its 8 PM and I fed my kids but I hadn't eaten all day.  I have gotten into periods of time in my life where depression was severe and my eating non-eating has gotten just as severe.  My 5’4” frame of typically 120 lbs has gotten down to under 100 lbs simply because my anxiety got bad and my depression took over.  Well, I did eat a candy bar that day so I had something.  My mental state was that if the knot in my stomach was because it was hungry, it was something I had control over,  if I ate and it wasn’t from that it meant something was wrong and I didn’t know how to control it.   Who was I kidding?  But I honesty believed that lie.  How many lies do we believe to make us feel better about how we treat ourselves in just how we eat and how much sleep we get and how we manage our self care.   Note again it has been over 7 years of not having any anxiety or depression in my life so this is no longer the same problem.  I now do more of the munch all day long rather than not eat.
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I hear so many times of parents who bring in their extreme athlete kids to have a massage for peak performance but have chronic back pain they have quietly suffered from for decades?  Why do we put everyone and everything first before we take care of our own health and bodywork?  Why do we have to feel we deserve a massage before we book the appointment?  Why do we think so little of ourself to knowingly treat our bodies with little to no real care by eating or drinking things we know are not healthy?  Why is the busy of our lives screaming so loud that we don't have time to make time for our health and happiness?  

Any insights?  Please share your comments below because we are all searching for balance in our lives.

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