The Food you Eat is a Reflection of Yourself

We live our every day life completely immersed with daily tasks, routine and endless things to do. We get used to doing the same thing day after day, keeping our mind busy with what’s going to happen next.

We become numb and start living the life of a robot without taking a moment to examine our lifestyle, our life purpose or if even what we are doing is truly meaningful.

Our relationships with others is often being valued through our personal gain, our relationship with our fellow creatures is completely taken for granted and most importantly our relationship with ourselves is out of control.

How can we lead a balanced, loving and truthful lifestyle?

It all starts from within. We start first by examining our relationship with ourselves. How do we treat our body, how do we react to our emotions and how do we connect to our deepest essence?

Our body is a temple; it is sacred and blessed. The way we use it, what we feed it is a reflection of our relationship with ourselves and others.

For example: we know that eating meat every day could cause a lot of diseases and mostly heart or colon cancer. We continue eating it because we enjoy its taste. We also know, wanting to be in a relationship where love is not mutual is very hurtful yet we keep trying to make the relationship work because drama is exciting and our ego does not like the idea of losing and not being wanted.

Unhealthy diet is as hurtful as being in an unhealthy relationship and both cases miss self-love and a healthy balance. Dr Tamra Sattler, Therapist and PHD in East-West Psychology said: “We can find our life balance when we are 100% true to our deepest self and if our outside matches our inside.”

The same concept is also applied for every task we do, for our daily jobs and routines. Focusing so much on one thing is an indication of attachment towards this object whether it was spiritual, physical or emotional and will only lead to suffering and an unbalanced lifestyle. 

Just like the breath for example in Yoga: if our inhale is often longer than the exhale, we tend to be constantly energetic and if the exhale is longer than the inhale then our energy is often low. As much as they are both so useful and needed based on each individual case, our goal is really to have the inhale and exhale be equal.

What I found to be a great tool to maintain a balanced life is to find a common ground to what I am really doing: First turn my attention to my heart and ask myself: is what I am focused on in the moment (spiritually,emotionally and physically) meaningful to me?

Why am I focused on it? and constantly remind myself to ask the question how is what I am doing serving me or / and serving others?We may hear so many internal voices pulling us in so many directions and sometimes we may need to flow with these voices and flow with life until we connect on a deeper level with our heart and these voices become one.

This is where we can find our middle ground and be truly awakened.