Food correlation with Thoughts

Our body needs to be fed with energy; in order for our body to survive and that is through our food intake.

Our mind needs to be fed with spirit; in order for our mind to survive and that is through our thoughts, beliefs and ideas.

So essentially, we are our body and our mind.

Our food intake is a fantastic mirror of our thought intake: It will tell us things about us.

Food intake and thought intake are two highly correlated functions:
* the way that we choose to eat and essentially filter our food in order to get energy and pleasure
* will indicate and reflect
* the way that we choose to filter our thoughts to establish our thoughts, beliefs and ideas.

As far food is concerned we are all aware what is
* a healthy source of food and what is not that healthy
* a quantity is ideal and when is not
* a taste and item that we are familiar with
* a taste and item that we are not so familiar

Food can be the source of energy intake but also food can be a source of pleasure or displeasure. By eating a tasty and appealing dish, all our senses are satisfied and that is not only for surviving purposes and is not only to satisfy our energy needs. We are all free to make our own choice in which substance will enter our body to be absorbed as an energy and/or as a pleasure:
* a balanced or imbalanced nutrition intake
* a healthy or unhealthy nutrition

The way that we choose to eat our food indicates and reflects the way that we choose our thoughts. Our thought system receives influences from our external environment but is up to us to filter those to satisfy our spiritual needs. We gather beliefs about ourselves in our whole life: past experiences, past memories, beliefs, ideas... We are essentially made up of everybody else s influences and our choice of how we let those influences to affect us. Whether we gathered rotten flowers or aromatic flowers, that will be framed and decided based on our internal core system. The interesting bit with thoughts, is not that we have them but is that we believe them: thoughts create feelings and feelings create actions. We are not our thoughts but we are a product of how we let those thought affect us.

What we think inside us, is what we feel. Behavioral symptoms such as eating less or more can indicate that the body balance is distorted and therefore that a mind imbalance exists. This imbalance will signify a disconnection of a healthy functioning body as well as a disconnection that the mind does not receive healthy thoughts by the form intangible obstacles or blockages which exist in our mind. Imbalance such as over-eating or under-eating,  will distort self-worth, self-esteem and good feelings such us happiness, love, efficiency, trust and creativity while body will not be able to function at the optimum level.

Both are signs that there is an emotional disconnection from ourselves and others. Disconnection from what is good and healthy for our body as well as a disconnection from our personal values, beliefs and/or needs. Disconnection may result from too many unpleasant experiences or too many pleasant experiences that we have gathered from our so far life journey. Disconnection or imbalance will signify that we are not completely happy inside us, that something that we are doing action/habit/thought influences us negatively and that something is missing. What is missing is inside us and in our thoughts. The only way to change it is to take action doing something aligned with our qualities. This will automatically make us feel more happy and alive rendering the food intake just right for energy or pleasure consumption. And then food overdose or under dose will cease to exist.

Prevention is better than the cure. We are in control to decide whether our food intake will be a near term indulgence/austerity that will lead to a long term torture. We are in control to decide whether irrational and negative thoughts will harm us and avoid thinking about them.  How to cope with cravings of food intake or behaviors and allow them to pass. One does not have to be perfect but one has to make smart decisions when one is the position to do so. We are all valuable human beings and our motto should be set to make the right choices for us doing always the best that we can. Choose healthy food to have a healthy mind and maintain a healthy mind to eat healthy food.

With ♥ for philosophy,
Ziuζs