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As we all know, there is an overwhelming amount of information available about food, nutrition and diet.
Much of this data is not presented with a 'here, try this to see if it works for you" attitude. Instead, it is stated as "THE WAY."
Just when we think we've plugged into the perfect routine, we find some new information that claims there are flaws in our routine or that we need to add new items to be complete.
We often try to find patterns that give us information on how to live properly for now and always. But notice how it never works. Every time we think we've found the perfect system the rules change.
Example: One leader of the North American vegetarian movement claimed in her books that we had to combine certain foods at the same meal in order to get a complete protein profile in order for our bodies to utilize the protein. A few years later, in another book she goes on record saying that she made a mistake. In fact the proteins do not have to be combined at the same meal in order to be utilized.
Example: We have had many people claiming the glories of vegetarian diets. Some people did well on these diets while others didn't. Years later, a theory arises claiming that individuals suit diets that correspond with their blood types. It claims that some people suit vegetarian, some need added fish, while others need red meat.
One day the praises of a particular food is sung from the roof tops. Weeks, months or years later we might be told that the same food causes cancer.
Foods and nutrients that are promoted as some of the best you can eat may be great for some people but are in fact allergens to others.
A particular diet may work well for a person for a time and then, for whatever reason, the body needs something different.
Over and over the changes and contradictions arise.
What if it is the divine plan of the universal life force to constantly change the rules? Not only rules about food and nutrition, but about everything we deal with? That means it wouldn't serve us to fall into a pattern and go to sleep. What a wonderful way to lead us towards staying present with the only reality there really is - this moment, now. The benefit of staying conscious to the present is that there is more "juice" here.
If we really look at existence, we see that the only constant is change and that freedom is experienced through flowing with change. What if we were willing to live our lives being constantly open to change? This means being willing to be open to a position of 'I don't know' in relation to what is coming in the future. This means being open to a willingness to empty our mind of its attempts to figure out the future. This creates space for life to give us the knowing of this moment.
If we have labeled something as "perfect", it sets us up for going unconscious. If we think we have found "the thing" we may give ourselves permission to go to sleep rather than staying aware moment by moment.
Life will tell us what is totally appropriate for our maximum potential in this moment if we are willing to let go of our controls and attempts to structure life the way we think it should go.
The only way to learn to trust that life really is always on our side and available to support us, is to practice letting it in - in this moment. From this place we tap into the perfect diet. A diet that is unique to us as individuals. We will be informed of exactly what to eat or whether or not to eat if we stay aware and completely in the moment. If we stay unconscious and eat out of habit, out of patterns, or by what someone, or some book tells us, we numb out to the most important ingredients in any food - consciousness. Consciousness leads to gratitude. Gratitude nourishes the soul.
My guess is that one ice cream cone eaten because the moment called for it, each bit savored with total consciousness, all of it eaten in full gratitude, will nourish the spirit, mind, body and emotions far more than a thousand bowls of tofu and brown rice eaten out of an unconscious controlling pattern brought on by the idea that life won't look after the natural flow of things.
