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Changing unhealthy habits can be challenging because we
have invested a lot of energy in creating them, both in this life
and past ones. To change our habits and overcome our com-
pulsions, we have to change our way of thinking about them,
and we have to redirect God’s energy flowing through us. Both
Attachment to
take conscious use of our will.
The seat of our will is physically located in the Christ
Center, or Spiritual Eye, in our frontal lobe. As we work to
change our eating habits, it is useful to think of acting from this
FOOD
Center and referring/relaxing all our actions back to our Source
through this Center. When confronted with the desire to eat
more than the body needs, consciously draw energy in through
Understanding how our habits and compul-
the medulla (at the base of the brain), reminding yourself that
sions keep us from realizing our Highest Self this energy from God is what truly sustains you. Feel or visu-
alize that fresh energy expanding throughout your body and
and from realizing God.
releasing the tied up knot of stale energy around your desire for
more food. Let that released energy flow upward to the
Spiritual Eye and out to the universe.
VER THE YEARS I have become aware of my attach-
Additionally, you can use an affirmation, such as “I am free
ment to food and my general oral compulsion. This
from the desire for food” to reinforce what you are doing with
Omanifested as a craving for the intensely satisfying
the energy. Make sure you are using your will in a relaxed way,
sweetness of candy, especially chocolate, and a gag reflex to
as opposed to tensing up as we often do when we try to exert
the texture of fruits and vegetables. But finding balance in life,
ourselves.
like balancing a teeter-tooter by oneself, is achieved by coming
This exercise can be adapted to deal with any habits that we
to the center, rather than running from one extreme to another.
want to change in our lives. The more we develop and strength-
By giving up desserts and overcoming my gag reflex to
en our will in such a way and open up to Divine Energy, the
fruits and vegetables, I began to realize that what I thought was
more we will live in tune with our Source. Joy and peace to
eating until I was “full” was actually eating until I was stuffed.
you.
I suspect that many of us do this, easily passing by the subtle
cue from our body that we’ve eaten enough, feeling the need to
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joy can truly fill us. It is God’s energy that sustains our bodies,
guru, Paramhansa Yogananda.
10 Whole Living Journal May-June 2008
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