Self-Love is the Key to Health and Balance with Food

There are probably more forms of medicine, therapy, and nutrition, both traditional and alternative, in the present day than there have been at any other time in human history. They often have different aims, and various track records of success. Many are effective for some people and not for others. But if you look beneath the surface trappings of all of these approaches to healing, whether they are intended for the body, mind, or spirit, you might find that they most often succeed when the patients in question somehow learn to love themselves and start believing that their lives are worth living.

This is how miraculous reversals occur in the medical profession. On the other side of the token, it is also the reason why all the willpower in the world seldom suffices to keep an addict clean when he or she hasn’t found the wellspring of hope inside. When love can enter into our hearts and lives, when we can allow it in, then our innate life-giving energies can rally and overcome all kinds of physical and mental maladies. Without love we’re likely to continue to feel unwell despite the best diets and medications that modern practice can offer.

A good dietitian must do more than just address a patient’s outward symptoms of poor health or nutrition. He or she must appeal to a patient’s sense of self-love, hope and love of life. If this change of outlook never occurs on the inside, then even if the person recovers from one form of illness or loses weight, she is likely to soon be afflicted by another issue or the weight returns. Medical procedures, diets, and drugs can combat the manifestations of diseases but not their underlying causes. When people who are suffering choose life and love, however, this can prove potent against even life-threatening and debilitating diseases and habits.

Oftentimes illnesses and weight gain can be brought on by various kinds of emotional repression. Pent-up anger, for example, can wind up being directed inward so that it attacks the physical body. The same can be said for unfelt pain. Throat problems can be caused by blocked communication and heart problems by unexpressed affection. But when we learn to love ourselves then we can more easily allow our emotions free reign – because we accept them, rather than fearing or judging them. Going with the flow of our own nature benefits not only our minds but our bodies as well. Again, self-acceptance can heal what drugs, traditional diets, and medical procedures cannot.

There is no discounting the fact that modern science has wrought a lot of medical wonders that address all kinds of physical ailments. But unless individuals become convinced of their underlying worth and value as human beings – unless they can develop self-love – they will keep falling back into patterns of illness or excess weight rather than health. Vitality lives within us all, but we can only draw upon it if we are of a mind to allow ourselves to be nurtured. For as long as human beings have been around, they have been punishing themselves with all kinds of ill or unbalanced health. Without self-love, all the remedies that have been invented to combat those diseases will only go so far.

Self-love is the core to finding clarity with food and/or weight difficulties.   Time after time in our various supportive roles as practitioners we see real and lasting success with those who find the key to self-love. When our clients combine self-love with the food knowledge we teach, the results are long lasting and one might even say miraculous. 

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